What should we get for losing the day after Thanksgiving??

[Brownslave688]

You only get 2 optional days???

Yes here we do. 2 and no sick days.

 

[Brownslave688]

The problem with option days is, just because you request a day off, doesn't mean you get it.

Yeah and now that we can split full weeks into single days it's impossible for younger guys to get a Friday or Monday off.

 

[rod]

Yeah and now that we can split full weeks into single days it's impossible for younger guys to get a Friday or Monday off.

sucks to be them but their day will come

 

[Brownslave688]

sucks to be them but their day will come

In my opinion option days should always trump single vacation days.

Getting Fridays off was always kind of rough but I could usually get the day off before we started allowing people to split up weeks.

10+ years in and it's harder for me to get a three weekend now than it was 5-6 years ago.

 

[rod]

In my opinion option days should always trump single vacation days.

Getting Fridays off was always kind of rough but I could usually get the day off before we started allowing people to split up weeks.

10+ years in and it's harder for me to get a three weekend now than it was 5-6 years ago.

I was under the assumption that everyone just called in sick like it was no big deal for a 3 day weekend now days. Am I wrong?

 

[oldngray]

I was under the assumption that everyone just called in sick like it was no big deal for a 3 day weekend now days. Am I wrong?

Doesn't everyone get the turkey trots on Friday?

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Doesn't everyone get the turkey trots on Friday?

Mondays are usually worse. Nobody wants to deal with the stupidity

 

[Bubblehead]

The problem with option days is, just because you request a day off, doesn't mean you get it.

It's all in how you look at it.

I always "get" my option days by operating under this one simple premise, that is predicated on an otherwise good attendance record and financial stability:

I tell my supervisors: "that option part is whether you pay me or not, because I'm not coming in either way".

After a couple of times, they now tend to pay me, so they don't have to endure the same scenario at a later date.

 

[Wally]

Why say you are going to lose the day? Man up!

 

[UnconTROLLed]

a turkey

 

[Bubblehead]

Why say you are going to lose the day? Man up!

We already lost the day (time off), but I agree, in a way.

Being "forced in" for the past 2 years, where I made 3 days pay in one, I used this day to take a different day off at my discretion, maybe two.
It only takes a quick phone call to facilitate it.

Now if they negotiate away the double time, then I want something.

 

[Wally]

Why assume we can't get what we want? Screw them. They are making billions. If you really want something, fight for it.

 

[Inthegame]

Yes here we do. 2 and no sick days.

Hold on there cowboy, in the Central full time employees also receive an additional week of vacation "in lieu of previously negotiated optional holidays and sick days" at 50 hours.

 

[Brownslave688]

We already lost the day (time off), but I agree, in a way.

Being "forced in" for the past 2 years, where I made 3 days pay in one, I used this day to take a different day off at my discretion, maybe two.
It only takes a quick phone call to facilitate it.

Now if they negotiate away the double time, then I want something.

I think that's what the op meant. Highly unlikely that we keep the double time pay.

So what day will we get off in return.

 

[Faceplanted]

I want another option day.... one that I will save for Black Friday.

If I'm not getting triple time I'm not coming in.

 

[NXA]

Doubletime for all hours worked on the new Saturday ground if it's a 6th punch and your regular schedule is M-friend, volunteered or forced.

Double time after 47.5.

 

[Brownslave688]

Double time after 47.5.

Why not just do daily automatic double time over 9.5?

 

[KOG72]

I'm surprised we don't get MLK day off.I'll take the day after the Super Bowl.Then I don't have to burn a sick day.

 

[NXA]

Why not just do daily automatic double time over 9.5?

I was thinking so sixth punch (like on Saturday) would be double time all day.

 

[Brownslave688]

I'm surprised we don't get MLK day off.I'll take the day after the Super Bowl.Then I don't have to burn a sick day.

MLK or Veterans Day would be the two obvious choices.