Judy, the long story is that Scott has a lot of banked time left over from when he worked in the lab last year and worked long hours up north at the mines. I desperately needed help in drafting, and since he is the only person around with drafting experience, he got put in the drafting department with me. Before we went to Vegas in June, he was told to go home for 2 weeks on banked time because I wasn't even 100% billable on my own. That time just kept stretching out and now it's 2 months later and they still don't want him back in drafting even though I'm pretty swamped
He was booked to go to another job just over an hour away doing lab work. He was going to work 10 days on, 4 days off, but they were very flexible on the time he needed off for concerts he already has tickets for, his grandparents' anniversary (they are both in their 90's and may not see another), the birth of his sister's child, etc. Well, those plans all changed when he came in on Monday and the managers told him to get packed because he's going up north for 2 weeks at a time until winter comes.
I told him to stand his ground, he was promised a job in the office, and the management just laid off lab people they could have used for this job. He tried standing his ground, and the manager that I can't stand told him "Well you don't have a choice. It's either this or you don't have a job with us anymore. You have an hour to decide." He isn't comfortable losing his job so now he's leaving either today, tomorrow, or the next day (they haven't even told him that yet), and he'll be 13 hours away with no phone service until the middle of August.