tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post8393200267949521226..comments2023-12-14T11:26:51.959-05:00Comments on Life After Jerusalem: This Bothers MeDiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03856750834804127824noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-43623151068198866592009-08-24T14:50:10.102-04:002009-08-24T14:50:10.102-04:00I agree absolutely. Every time I've gone to a...I agree absolutely. Every time I've gone to a new consular section, I have to twist arms to get the JOs to claim OT or CT; they too have been led to believe that it 'isn't done' and doesn't reflect team playership. Well, hogwash. As you rightly point out, that's the only way to document chronic understaffed-ness and besides, it is a benefit to which they are entitled and it was given for a reason. It's in the FAM, and to encourage JOs to not comply is unfair to those who are allowed so little leave, as well as setting a bad precedent for FAM flouting in the future.Madam le Consulhttp://theconsulsfiles.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-18276293096693625002009-08-22T09:55:06.415-04:002009-08-22T09:55:06.415-04:00Any idea if the rules are the same for AID? I kee...Any idea if the rules are the same for AID? I keep hearing that JOs can claim comp time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-14864419762617743492009-08-21T09:23:56.231-04:002009-08-21T09:23:56.231-04:00I agree with all of you. As a JO, you get two week...I agree with all of you. As a JO, you get two weeks of vacation a year. Comp time, especially now that it doesn't expire as quickly, gives you some extra leave. And we all may think we are indespensible, but really, at the end our your tour, they will send you somewhere else, where you will drink from the fire hose all over again and put someone else in your slot. We are all exchangable. So don't give up your life.<br /><br />And we are in such cool places, often in proximity to other cool places. Go there and see them. Don't live for the work.<br /><br />I also had the experience of people offering me overtime because I could get it, as did my partner at her first post. And we have both done the same since becoming tenured.<br /><br />I really hope someone tells the new folks. Because we do need them.Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03856750834804127824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-21475472051760440182009-08-21T02:19:16.638-04:002009-08-21T02:19:16.638-04:00Furthermore, JOs SHOULD at least request comp time...Furthermore, JOs SHOULD at least request comp time because of the whole "annual leave" limitation. When you're on your first tour, you simply don't have the balance of hours to make the most of your time off. Thanks to comp time, I'm going to be able to travel and see the rest of the region and not eat up my annual leave.<br /><br />A fellow FSO gave me great advice on this: take your time off when you can get it. Your work is never so earth-shattering that you can't take a weekend here and there -- the only caveat is something like a presidential visit, of course! Besides, you don't know when you're going to be in Country X again.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17455216761748821764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-70348207784908710212009-08-20T20:43:29.133-04:002009-08-20T20:43:29.133-04:00I agree. No one at my first post ever tried to dis...I agree. No one at my first post ever tried to dissuade me from claiming overtime. In fact, I was sometimes offered extra work just because I could claim OT when others couldn't.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612655569684561961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417199.post-27490048987398169332009-08-20T16:24:40.960-04:002009-08-20T16:24:40.960-04:00Exactly! At my last post we regularly claimed ove...Exactly! At my last post we regularly claimed overtime because there is no way the job can be done properly with the number of people we had. It got so bad that my boss would randomly call phones at 9 PM to see if any of us answered, then tell us to go home. We just laughed and kept working.hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14664942400486395078noreply@blogger.com