> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off. Speak for yourself. My job has gotten good value from the confer

> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off. Speak for yourself. My job has gotten good value from the conferences I go to but if the rest of you live like that that would go a good way towards explaining why my very reasonable requests always has to be defended :-/