Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
Sometimes I really hate this company and this country. As you may know, I leave this evening for a vacation in Thailand. The director of the Training Team (who we report to) at LG, Jo, has told us we "can't go" because of SARS. Well first of all, we don't work for LG, so they can't tell us where we can or can't go. I suppose if they want they can impose the "stay away from work for 12 days" rule that they place on employees that have been to SARS-affected areas. Second of all, however, is the little matter of the fact that there is no SARS in Thailand! The WHO, CDC, etc. have all declared it a SARS-free zone. So we are banned from travelling there because the freaking ignorant idiots who run this place can't even figure out where SARS is. They're bigotted and assume that all other Asian countries other than Korea are back-waters and therefore rife with the disease unlike Korea (which, interestingly enough does have SARS cases).