Business As Usual--on Christmas Day

[Antisocial_Worker]

Tragically, about the only thing will close a hotel is either an epidemic, or a direct hit by a meteor, and so I've worked most holidays since I started working here. This upcoming Christmas will the first I've had off in four years, although I guarantee you whoever else who's scheduled to work will want off and who will get the call?

I'm wondering if I should refuse rudely, and laugh, or hem and haw and pretend I'd really love to but just can't, darn it all.

[Seanette]

Simply not answering the phone that day seems like a reasonable plan to me. Any *real* caller can leave a message and you can call back.

[SuperDan]

We are closed Christmas day and close at 6 pm Christmas eve. We re-open at the usual 6 am on the 26th. We will receive our holiday pay (6 hours of straight time for the part timers and 8 hours of straight time for the full timers) but since the store isn't open there won't be any time-and-a-half. Night crew will also have the night off between Christmas eve and Christmas day, also with the same holiday pay implications (last year they actually did have a small crew of four workers and one assistant NC manager come Christmas eve for a short shift to do some display changes and backroom straightening, I believe that group did get time-and-a-half.)

Two managers are chosen (or one if they want to do it twice) to come in once in the morning and once in the afternoon to check the cooler temperatures, but this can be done quickly via a monitor in the LP office. Otherwise, management is paid salary but gets a third off-day in a holiday week.

New Years is business as usual for us except sometimes (largely depending on what kind of mood corporate is in) we get to close early (9 or 10 instead of midnight) on New Years eve. One year we didn't open until 8 on New Years day, but it's usually the normal time of 6. New Years day is a paid holiday, so holiday pay for everyone plus time-and-a-half for anyone who works it. I usually volunteer for an afternoon shift that day.

I think I've already mentioned elsewhere our Thanksgiving situation--holiday pay and we close at 3. Our other three paid holidays are the three US summer ones (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day) and we are open the normal 6 to midnight on those days. We are closed Easter, but it is not a paid holiday.

[friendofjimmyk]

We're open and I have to work that morning from 6:30am - 3pm. I don't mind - it's time and a half if you work the holiday plus all full time employees get an extra day of pay for the pay period - so it's double time and a half really.

[wagegoth]

My husband works every holiday, but it's double time and he's off at 4 pm, and we've learned to work around it. We've established some of our own traditions.

I did work at a convenience store that was open every day of the year. I worked Christmas day. No kids, so not a big deal, I covered for another employee, who was a single mom with kids. Karma points never hurt. But I still wanted to smack the customers who came in. Several of them remarked on the store being open and it was too bad that I was having to work.

What I really wanted to do was b***hsmack them, then point out that if they weren't shopping the store would not be open. No customers, no business, no open.

[AirHostess]

We don't fly Christmas day

[BusBus]

We don't fly Christmas day

Last year, I flew out on an international flight on Christmas Day. I didn't even think about it until now-the poor flight attendants and pilots who were not with their families. I only flew out that day because it was $400 cheaper than the 26th (which was my original departure date) and I was too nervous flying to even think about that. I'm sorry

I remember working on Christmas during my retail days. I was a shift supervisor, so one of us had to be there. I was ok with closing, as my family didn'y get together until the eveing anyways, and the other supervisors had families with children or had to go out of town.

-BB

[AirHostess]

Awwww BusBus don't worry my love. When we sign up we know we can work 365 days a year. I only do short haul so no flights for me. I am on stand by though in case the flights from the day before are delayed. Unlikely *touch wood*

[Buglady]

This year I'm working at a school (secretarial). TWO WEEKS OFF, with pay! WHEE!!!!!

That's the first time since about Grade Nine, y'all. Twenty years I've had retail type jobs over the holidays and *always* had to work right up to, if not actually ON, Christmas Day and New Year's. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!