A funny thing happened at a team meeting yesterday. My manager asked if anyone was planning on taking vacation during first quarter because she had to include it it in her project plan. ( We are swamped with work, at the moment). Casey mentioned that she would be taking some time off, but would be taking the red-eye back which would mean that she would be worthless on Thursday. Without skipping a beat, my manager asked "and we'll know the difference, how?". You should have seen the look on Casey's face. It took a lot of self-control not to laugh too hard.