Now the biggest thing to deal with is I had to burn all my "emergency" vacation for that weekend (turned into 9 days for a 3 day course due to aircraft and DPE availability) and now I'm stuck on the road.

Current employer makes it about impossible to get time off with less than six months notice, because they are woefully understaffed, because guys leave, because it takes six months to take a day off.

I've worked 337 days this year. I'm currently on day 46 without a day off. If I hadn't taken the short notice vacation to go to AATPs, I'd be somewhere north of 100 days without a day off.