Negotiation

Ok, so now we have a standoff. I can´t leave until the 1^st of April and I needn´t go to Australia after the 1^st of January. Right… now what…
Time to bring out the big guns: threaten to leave anyway and use my, oh so shrewdly saved holidays. After an uneasy moment my employer agrees to let me go the 18^th of January. Knowing my first day of work will be the 21^st of January: well; after 3 long flights, that should give me about 6 hours to find the hotel, sleep off my jet-lag, have breakfast and find my new employers office in Brisbane to start work… I'm gonna die!