{"id":2075,"date":"2010-06-29T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2010-06-29T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:34:10","slug":"dilemna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Dilemna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know how to spell* D-I-L-E-M-M-A. About 40% of the time on Babycenter the word gets misspelled as &#8220;dilemna&#8221; and it always makes me cringe. Where do these dingbats get an &#8220;N&#8221; sound???<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I have a dilemma. At my new job, I will have 2 weeks of vacation a year (plus sick time and my birthday off). I start the job on 7\/19. Gene still wants to go to Germany to visit his friend and his family. How on Earth do I ask for a week off less than two months into starting a new job? What if they say no? And say I can&#8217;t have the job after all? And then I end up with zero jobs?<\/p>\n<p>I know the answer is I should call the HR director at the new company and talk to her about it but I am so very scared. When I had an interview with another company in March, they made it clear that I&#8217;d be lucky to have 5 consecutive days off anytime in the next year. New Employer seems more laid back than that but am I pressing my luck?<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<h6>*More horrifying, I tried to spell the word &#8220;spell&#8221; as &#8220;spelle.&#8221;<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know how to spell* D-I-L-E-M-M-A. About 40% of the time on Babycenter the word gets misspelled as &#8220;dilemna&#8221; and it always makes me cringe. Where do these dingbats get an &#8220;N&#8221; sound??? So anyway, I have a dilemma. At my new job, I will have 2 weeks of vacation a year (plus sick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certifiable-undeniable","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}