I'm going to be there with a bunch of serious buzzkills, and my boss is already giving me grief over spending $100 on a direct flight instead of one that bounces all over the US and goes from 4 hours to 12 hours of travel. If he keeps it up, I'm going to just say no thanks, have some bootlicker do it that will be happy with getting home at 2am after leaving Vegas at 7:30am the previous morning.
One of the people going is a manager that everyone dislikes. She is one of those sort that will do anything to get ahead, including throw everyone else under the bus if it got her even the possibility of an attaboy. She is rude, dismissive, unorganized, and will blame everyone else when things happen that were totally within her control. Her whole team worked 48 hours straight one time to get a big upgrade done, and she pitched a fit that her manager expected her to support her team on a sunday. Everyone else had worked 2 days straight, she shows up, is there an hour or two, and then starts screaming about how this was conflicting with her plans that she had and she had to go get her kid because she didn't have a babysitter. Crazy how everyone else managed to find child care and clear their plans for this months ahead of time.