My friend received a wedding invitation in the mail recently from her husband's friend... The wedding ceremony starts at "half past 5" on a Friday with a reception to follow.
She doesn't even get out of work until 5 and it isn't easy for her to get out of work early. Not that she wants to try to get out of work early for this. She often has to take off or get out early for her kids and doctors appointments and she doesn't feel this is important enough to ask her boss about. Her husband disagrees.
I totally understand that in some circles, weekdays are better than weekends, but in this case it just isn't and I got to witness a nice little blow-up today at their house over this.
Anyway, I'm just sharing this story about how it's kinda presumptuous of some people to think their wedding is important enough that the guests would leave work early for it. (Although I'd totally understand if you were close to the person, which these people really aren't.)
Speaking of not leaving work early, tomorrow is this same couple's wedding anniversary. They asked me if I would watch their kid for them and of course I said yes. Why not, I love the kid and they're my friends. They told me the movie was at 7 and they'd be home by 10. BUT now she tells me she can't leave work early, so if they want to go out to dinner first, they won't be able to make the 7pm and the next showing starts at 10pm... which means they'll be home closer to midnight. It takes me about 45 mins for me to get home. Then I have to be back again at 7am to baby-sit some more. They offered me a place to crash. I really don't want to stay over, but I said yes because I'm either really, really nice or a chump.
/endvent. But, no, really what do you guys feel about leaving work early or taking off from work? At your job is it not a big deal or does it have to be super important? Would you take off/leave work early for just anybody's wedding (or special occasion) or does it have to be someone very close to you?
