>>Additionaly, since those folks took time off I'm just not inclined to allow them to submit their late counts because I somehow feel sorry for them nor do I think it appropriate to reward them for laziness. They knew the deadline and when thsy chose to take time off IMO they voluntarily gave up their right to complain. Now, had they been working just as hard as they could of and had I been in the place of Ms. Harris (no, I don't think I'd look good in lipstick & a dress! <g>) I would have closed the office for a couple hours and gone out to a nice dinner, opening back up when I returned.
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>>Of course I'd have made the Dems pay for the dinner and it would have been nice. <g>
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>Hey, that would be no surprise to any Democrat... a Republican not picking up a check. *g*

At least when Republicans pick up the check, they do it with their own money <g>