<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

So I just started my new job last week. I will be taking over one of my team member's jobs and so I am trying to learn his responsibilities. I was there for 3 days before he left on vacation for 3 weeks so there's a nice load of stress. Anyway I come into the the office and my other team member makes a comment about how if I was a little more trained he'd be on a plane to Venezuela right now. I laugh out loud and say "Haha yeah!" thinking he was referring to going on a vacation as well. As I'm still smiling, he turns with a saddened face and tells me his step-father died and he wanted be on a plane to go to his funeral. I stutter trying to play my way out of my initial response but there was no way out. I wanted to fall through the floor into a separate universe. Fuck up number one.

Part of my job also requires that I complete a number of courses over the next few years to develop myself. I get an email mentioning a course that I need to enroll in and that if I can't find a local offering, to enroll in another area or wait until the next year in the local area (AFTER obtaining manager approval). I decide to check out the other areas and find the course is also offered in Texas (I live in Alberta). There's a link entitled "click here" beside the course name. I decide I want to check out the course details and click the link. Instantly I get taken to a page that says I am now enrolled. I think "shit" and click the drop button. A message pops up that says "caution, dropping the course within 365 days of start date will incur 100% of the course cost." I go back to the original email and see later on that it mentions as soon as you click the link there is no dropping or refunds possible. The course is 2 weeks long and costs my department $6,500 plus airfare and lodging. I guess I'm going to Texas next month...
<bot>: Lol'd at my team member's dead dad and irreversibly dropped thousands of dollars on a course on 4,000 kms away