"XJDano" (xjdano)
01/01/2015 at 03:37 • Filed to: None
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"XJDano" (xjdano)
01/01/2015 at 03:37 • Filed to: None | 4
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I worked Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve. Today was a long day (19 hours)and I wrote an email to my boss that I'd like to be off next year. I have a way of being matter of fact sometimes. As my coworker and I were discussing how next year we would like to be with our families, I looked at calendar and fired off an email:
Subject: Requested days off
Thursday December 24, 2015
Thursday December 31, 2015
This should satisfy the required 2 week minimum.
Thanks,
Dan R
AM3R shamefully returns
> XJDano
01/01/2015 at 03:41 |
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I remember when I was in high school, I needed to get time off the day after my homecoming dance (because party and waking up for a 7 AM shift is a no go) but it was too late..
I ended up calling at 4:45 in the morning and saying I was "uhhhh.. Sick"
JustWaitingForAMate
> XJDano
01/01/2015 at 04:25 |
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We've got an excel spreadsheet set up as a calendar at work and we're expected to mark down who is on leave or on call over a holiday period roughly a year in advance.
For the past 4 years I've either gotten there too late, or I've had the lovely excuse from the other team members 'but I've got kids and need the time off' so I've been either on call over the Christmas-NY break, working over it, or both.
For next year, I edited the calendar, extended it out to 2016 and blocked out half of December and January, with 4 weeks of leave that I've accumulated from my stockpile.
It went down great in the last team meeting of the year when they ran through who was working during the break, saw the calendar went to 2016, and I'd already blocked out the days with 'unavailable - in NYC'.
I love when people try to use the 'I've got kids to take care of excuse'. To them I say, fuck you and your kids, I don't give two shits if you have to hire sitters, get family in, or grab strangers to take care of them. You decided to shoot them out of your vag, deal with it.
/rant
knelipot
> XJDano
01/01/2015 at 07:19 |
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Heh. When I went to work for a big ISP in '98, I worked every holiday the first year, voluntarily. Got some nice bonuses... Get this out of the way early is my opinion.
Today is Jan 1. I actually want to go to work today. I love what I'm doing but no one else will be in the office so most of my projects are on hold. grrrr. Most but not all.. May still go 'cause it'll be so quiet there that I can get some good stuff done. After an nice nap. Maybe....
blackchair
> XJDano
01/01/2015 at 10:22 |
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As a contracted position, I have to work. And since I'm the newest I get scraps. The senior guys get the good days I get... Flag day?
Katsumoto
> JustWaitingForAMate
01/01/2015 at 11:34 |
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I just hate people who use that excuse. So what, you had unprotected sex and it's my fault that you have kids?
Sorry!
haveacarortwoorthree
> JustWaitingForAMate
01/01/2015 at 11:36 |
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I have three kids. People who use their kids to get time off work at the expense of others piss me off. There are three major holidays within a 40-day period — plan in advance so everyone has some time off.
Renescent
> XJDano
01/01/2015 at 13:42 |
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I tell my employees to work it out between themselves to ensure adequate regional coverage.
If they can't come up with a good solution, I get to choose who gets what and, typically, none of them like it... so they usually work it out ;-)