Originally Posted by
noFODplease
Have you considered the fact that perhaps you are not entitled to the full story?
Let me get this straight: you are actually sitting at somewhere at your computer telling the OP that ACTUALLY her job was not really on the line, nor did she really need to be in LA? Ridiculous. The OP clearly made a mistake and needed some advice. Are you starting a witch-hunt?
If you are not willing to help, move along.
The OP obviously needed help. A number of us were simultaneously trying. Speaking for myself, I stayed up later than I intended last night in order to help and offer advice, particularly as the problem seemed to be both urgent and important in that the OP said that she might lose her job if she didn't get it sorted out. Collectively, we came up with a number of viable alternatives that would dig her out of a problem which (as many have said) it is possible to end up in from a lack of knowledge.
So first of all, please do not tell me to "move along" when you haven't even lifted a finger except to criticise those who did help.
Further, although of course we are not entitled to the full story, we are entitled to have feelings when our goodwill has been prevailed upon on the basis of what was obviously only part of the story, and then the OP's actions appear to undermine the credibility even of that part of the story - let alone the rest. We are entitled to feel used, if the OP gives us cause to feel that we have been lied to in order to get us to work on her behalf and to offer her advice. We are all volunteers here.
It may well be that that is not the case; but if it isn't, I doubt that I am the only person who would welcome a fuller explanation of what was going on.