If a Company Holiday schedule is posted all year long as closed on the following days:
12/23 Christmas Eve (observed)
12/24, Christmas Eve (official)
12/25, Normally closed Sunday
12/26, Christmas Day (observed)

Then I find out today, 11/15 that due to "business needs changes", (translation, we aren't hitting the budget because our resources are down 30% year over year and 35% against budget.) we will now be open on Saturday, 12/24.

I call BS. What kind of dent will one Saturday make in a budget deficit of $1.6MM?

Am I whining or am I justified?

Let me have it.

 

I'd say it sucks to be you. We're closed Christmas Eve.

What line of work are you in? And they were "paid" days off? Will you be getting OT or 2T or even 3T? The way you worded your post, I imagine you'll be working Monday to Saturday, correct? Sunday off, back Monday? or back Tuesday?

I know, it sucks, but lots of people actually do work Christmas Eve. My dad, actually, used to take that day off until he realized he could get paid for the whole day, and take off at 10 or 11 in the morning.

I figure the whole day is good, but I really only need the better part of the afternoon, before the liquor stores close.

At least it didn't fall on a Tuesday or Wednesday this year.

 

No, I'm salaried. So I get the bigger shaft. I normally don't have to work on Saturday. However, both my employees are taking there Honeymoons back to back and will both be gone that day. Soooo, If I can't find someone to train and work that day then I get to work it for NO pay.

Oh yeah, line of work... My one track mind can only think about working Saturday for NO pay.

I am in the personal coaching industry.

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So you can't take a day in lieu, in the new year?

Just call in sick then.

Honestly, do you think your "coachees" are gonna be calling on Christmas Eve?

Ha, I just checked your company website, and one of the benefits was paid company holidays.

 

Thta's what I said. And how many customers are gonna want to be called on Christmas Eve. A typical Saturday sales is $45,000 total. Just watch I predict $20,000 max. With all the overhead I bet we'll lose money.

 

When I worked at the hippie leather shop, we would always have a case of Champagne (and other things) on Christmas Eve. The corks would start popping about 3 P.M. and anyone that came in after that got a glass, too. Brightened the day right up.

 

So, work it. Or get a job in health care, and work evenings/nights, weekends, and holidays, every year.

 

when I worked for the local isp, we were open 24/7 365. holidays were paid 2x

I worked every single one i could (turkey day, day after, xmas, xmas eve, nye and nyd.

NOTHING like getting 25 bucks an hour and doing NOTHING since everyone thought ya were closed.

of course the salaried people got the day paid at 1x anyway, if no hourly employees were sacheduled, the salaried guys would have to do it...at 1x the pay.


If i were you, I'd call in sick

 

I guess I feel a little lucky in a way. My birthday is on the 24th. I have not had to work on my birthday for the last 12 years.

However, when I worked in the construction industry, I got one great surpirse one Christmas. We were in a major outage at a plant. It was one of those jobs that was considered critical as the plant was starting back up on January 2. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. Me and my crew got shanghied two hours before the shift ended. I think the GF forgot that my birthday was the next day. They had a weird pay arrangement. I guess it was because of shift differential. I had already worked 86 hours and was on triple time as it was. When midnite rolled around, it tripled what I was already making. I pulled that 24 hour shift and went into Christmas (on Sunday) which was an automatic double. Man, I was glad that the payweek ran from Monday to Sunday.

I walked out of that plant Tuesday evening (we were paid on Tuesday for the last week), job done, the bosses with ear to ear grins (they said we could not do it), with over $12K in my pocket after taxes. Now that was a payday. I would dare say that me and my crew took $60K from them for that three days work. They gave us off time until January 3.

When I got back, the personell director blew a gasket (We blew his budget). We were not supposed to work on birthdays or holidays unless we got special orders from the main office. I jsut smiled and walked out of the office.

 

its all about the stockholders and the bottom line

 

I have to ask because I've heard of this before in passing - what is the personal coaching industry? You mean people call you up to ask how they should run their lives?

 

I am a shift supervisor in a carpet plant. If scheduling decides we need to run on a holiday and it's my day to work, then I'm working. Last yr, we ran through Christmas. Luckily, I was off Christmas Eve and didn't have to go in until 8pm on Christmas Day. We are shutting down this year. We are adding equipment and have to get electricity, water, air and steam lines hooked up. This will give us at least 3 days off.

on edit: if I work a holiday I get an extra 20% on my check.

 

Well there is a flip side to some of this, I drive truck delivering to a UAW plant which means that they are shut down from Dec 23rd to Jan 2 (or the closest work day to it) but my job only pays us for Christmas day so I have 10 days off with no pay at all but the union gets paid for the entire time so I end up taking my vacation that week. Of coarse the advantage there is no one aurgues about when I take my vacation.
Some of hte drivers that work for this company will take brokered runs and such but I live 500 miles away from our main terminal, my trailer is always loaded, and I haven't been to the dispatch office in over 2 yrs so not an option for me.
You know though the above listed shut down, and pay schedual surely doesn't hve anything to do with why cars cost so much. lets see 100,000+ workers making who knows how much bieng paid for 7 work days without doing anything and that is just one company, nope can't see any reason that would have any affect on the price of our cars. BTW the GM plants that recieve exhaust from the company I deliver too also got a paid week off for hunting season.

 

We coach a couple of different products. Think of coaching as the missing piece from seminars. Coaching sets goals, holds you accountable, and has a very high success rate of implementation, and changing your life. I can give you more specific info if you want to PM or email me. I don't want to try and advertise in a post.

 

Very good point! I appreciate the reality check. I suppose everyone has to remember that it can always be worse, more difficult, etc...