Vacation time

[542thruNthru]

why what is the issue

Two issues really.

We have PT cover drivers that cover vacations. When drivers work their vacations these cover drivers have no work.

When people pick vacations weeks and work them they are taking away from others that would have liked to take that week off. Like the week of Thanksgiving, week after xmas and summer weeks.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Two issues really.

We have PT cover drivers that cover vacations. When drivers work their vacations these cover drivers have no work.

When people pick vacations weeks and work them they are taking away from others that would have liked to take that week off. Like the week of Thanksgiving, week after xmas and summer weeks.

And if nobody is available is it okay then?

 

[Jkloc420]

Two issues really.

We have PT cover drivers that cover vacations. When drivers work their vacations these cover drivers have no work.

When people pick vacations weeks and work them they are taking away from others that would have liked to take that week off. Like the week of Thanksgiving, week after xmas and summer weeks.

not sure how anyone gets the week after Xmas off , it is still considered peak with all the returns

 

[542thruNthru]

And if nobody is available is it okay then?

If they have exhausted all options yes.

 

[542thruNthru]

not sure how anyone gets the week after Xmas off , it is still considered peak with all the returns

Not here.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If they have exhausted all options yes.

We was having this discussion at work. Some guys would rather have a sup go out so they can file on them.

 

[542thruNthru]

We was having this discussion at work. Some guys would rather have a sup go out so they can file on them.

Yeah but if they have tried everything they can to have someone else drive then they won't win is the problem.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yeah but if they have tried everything they can to have someone else drive then they won't win is the problem.

They do win them sometimes.

 

[Brownslave688]

not sure how anyone gets the week after Xmas off , it is still considered peak with all the returns

Wrong. I take it almost every year.

 

[Jkloc420]

Wrong. I take it almost every year.

i hope you go somewhere nice

 

[brownmonster]

November fills up here and then random
Weeks here and there. Letting drivers break up weeks has opened up a ton of weeks

Agreed. Guys now get a summer vacation in their first couple of years. I burned them on the single day seniority though.

 

[Analbumcover]

Guys now get a summer vacation in their first couple of years.

I'm pretty low seniority and somehow managed to snag a week in July.

 

[Poop Head]

Two issues really.

We have PT cover drivers that cover vacations. When drivers work their vacations these cover drivers have no work.

When people pick vacations weeks and work them they are taking away from others that would have liked to take that week off. Like the week of Thanksgiving, week after xmas and summer weeks.

Someday, I'm gonna get the week of Thanksgiving, and then work it. Hahahhahahah

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Someday, I'm gonna get the week of Thanksgiving, and then work it. Hahahhahahah

Because your wife made you...

 

[PASinterference]

Yeah, so they can stay home instead of giving themselves heart attacks shoveling their driveways.

Or, high seniority employees are more likely to be able to afford to fly to Cancun, Tahiti, Bora Bora, etc. and get out of the snow. The rest of us would like to take family vacations without taking the kids out of school for a week, or for more than a weekend. It's ok, I guess if our kids never get to take a long family trip, they'll never miss the memories they didn't get to make.

While all the above is true, I understand why the system is the way it is. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

I work with 35 yr drivers with grown kids that still take spring break. Pathetic. Sad thing is they don't have the backbone to file a grievance.

 

[542thruNthru]

Someday, I'm gonna get the week of Thanksgiving, and then work it. Hahahhahahah

@Future

 

[KoennenTiger]

So old drivers should take their vacations in 3 feet of snow?

They're all flying out to cancun anyway

 

[zubenelgenubi]

Oh you poor guy.

I can hear the violins now...

 

[KoennenTiger]

But like really what pt guy is staying *for ten hours!!!!!*

Gosh but it's been awhile since I was a preload slave and even longer since I was an unload slave. But hey it's 9 o'clock. I got to go home. "we need you to stay" says the drone that used to be a lazy fat ty preloader I always had to help anyway. Now he's mngmt.

Nope. I got to go. Bye.

Yeah that driver is fckrd bad. But yeah I'm going home. So I can go to my other job lel.

Stay ten hours?! Well do I want to be banking that sweet nothing garbage pay but 1.5 times it? Hmm well maybe I'll stay. But if I don't want to stay? If I didn't want to stay? What the Frick is some part timer sup going to say as I walk off to go clock out?

"hey I need you over here"

Oh yeah that sucks bye

 

[JL 0513]

I still have to pull my kids out of school each year for a vacation because ALL weeks that kids are out are taken first by high seniority with grown kids. It is what it is but still annoying.

My kid had to go to school several times while sick because she had maxed out absences from the trip.