This is the part
Oct. 8th, 2002 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynwhere I run through the hallways screaming 'no no no no no'.
Derrick my co-worker (yes, he spells his name like that, no, he is not a construction worker, no, he is not particularly tall nor is he gangly, no, he has nothing to do with oil, any more questions) came up to me just now with a piece of paper in his hand. "Camwyn," says he, "you like adventure, right? Wanna go on one?"
"What adventure? Where?" say I warily. I'm in the middle of adjusting a board member's record in the fundraising database and am assuming he means a fire in one of the uglier areas of Paterson or Newark, as it's well known I go on these things without fear.
"New Orleans," says Derrick.
AAAAAAGH. I think I set the record for use of the phrase 'I'm going to Canada' the most times in a two-minute time span in the course of my refusal. Interspersed with 'I already did my three weeks away from the chapter', of course, but the main thing weighing on my mind was I Am Going To Canada Dammit. They need our chapter's ERV down in the Isidore/Lili cleanup region and the DSHR (Disaster Services Human Resources) System mandates that at least two people have to go with each ERV, even if it gets reassigned when the driver checks in at the scene. It's known around the Chapter that I'm more than willing to accept dirty scutwork disaster assignments, whether it's computer related or puppeting at small kids or opening a storm shelter or whatever (dude, we're Red Cross, it's what we do), so I guess they figured I was a good one to ask.
I'm not going. I have my vacation coming. I did more than three weeks on the DSHR this year, first in Denver, then in Texas. The chapter's in an unhappy situation financially, like every other Red Cross unit across the country, and it would be grotesque of me to ask them to pay my salary for three weeks while I wasn't there. they only get reimbursed for my salary if I hold a DSHR rank of Specialist or better, and I have to take the DCO class for that. I might technically be ERV certified (I say technically because I haven't taken the mandatory defensive driving course yet, that's coming soon, I think) and I might be a DCO Tech verging on Specialist, but dammit - I can only ask so much of the Chapter, and even if I could ask anything, I'm going to Canada. I'm not giving up being foreign for a week, no matter how powerfully seductive the idea of 'sorry, can't take the midterm, I'm gonna be in New Orleans' might be.
*clutches Amtrak tickets tightly, retreats into corner until only glowing eyes can be seen* Precioussss....
Derrick my co-worker (yes, he spells his name like that, no, he is not a construction worker, no, he is not particularly tall nor is he gangly, no, he has nothing to do with oil, any more questions) came up to me just now with a piece of paper in his hand. "Camwyn," says he, "you like adventure, right? Wanna go on one?"
"What adventure? Where?" say I warily. I'm in the middle of adjusting a board member's record in the fundraising database and am assuming he means a fire in one of the uglier areas of Paterson or Newark, as it's well known I go on these things without fear.
"New Orleans," says Derrick.
AAAAAAGH. I think I set the record for use of the phrase 'I'm going to Canada' the most times in a two-minute time span in the course of my refusal. Interspersed with 'I already did my three weeks away from the chapter', of course, but the main thing weighing on my mind was I Am Going To Canada Dammit. They need our chapter's ERV down in the Isidore/Lili cleanup region and the DSHR (Disaster Services Human Resources) System mandates that at least two people have to go with each ERV, even if it gets reassigned when the driver checks in at the scene. It's known around the Chapter that I'm more than willing to accept dirty scutwork disaster assignments, whether it's computer related or puppeting at small kids or opening a storm shelter or whatever (dude, we're Red Cross, it's what we do), so I guess they figured I was a good one to ask.
I'm not going. I have my vacation coming. I did more than three weeks on the DSHR this year, first in Denver, then in Texas. The chapter's in an unhappy situation financially, like every other Red Cross unit across the country, and it would be grotesque of me to ask them to pay my salary for three weeks while I wasn't there. they only get reimbursed for my salary if I hold a DSHR rank of Specialist or better, and I have to take the DCO class for that. I might technically be ERV certified (I say technically because I haven't taken the mandatory defensive driving course yet, that's coming soon, I think) and I might be a DCO Tech verging on Specialist, but dammit - I can only ask so much of the Chapter, and even if I could ask anything, I'm going to Canada. I'm not giving up being foreign for a week, no matter how powerfully seductive the idea of 'sorry, can't take the midterm, I'm gonna be in New Orleans' might be.
*clutches Amtrak tickets tightly, retreats into corner until only glowing eyes can be seen* Precioussss....
