I’m out of town…again. I sure feel like I have been on the road way too much this year. I even told my boss that I was traveling too much. He agreed, but didn’t have a good answer for me. Unfortunately, we are still short staffed.
For some reason, we just can’t seem to find anyone that meets all of our qualifications and lives where we need them to, or is willing to move where we need them to. For that reason, I may start traveling up to Montana even more. I love MT, but I’m just sick of traveling. I had to work out a few details before I’d agree to start going up there. Looks like I am going to have to do 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. At least until we get someone else trained to take over the position – I figure that will take a few months.
One of the conditions for me to start going up there again was no travel on the weekends. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that this was a major problem for me last time I was going up there all the time. When I agreed to stay with the company one of the stipulations was that I would no longer travel on my time unless there were mitigating circumstances – regular work does not qualify.
Surprisingly enough the company asked if I’d meet them in the middle and travel on one of my weekend either going up or coming back. Basically, would I be willing to ignore our current agreement and forget the fact that I have been traveling my ass off this year, and forget that I am trying to do them a favor. I can see where they are coming from, but I’m not willing to give that up and said as much. Strange.
I hope we find someone soon. This is going to be tough….
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