At the end of each year, we finally get to take the holidays we missed during the rest of the year (President’s day, Martin Luther King day , and so on). The shitshow does us a favor by saving our holidays for us and bunching them up around Christmas and New Years for us.
The truth is, for everyone that leaves the company before then end of the year, they get screwed. Oh well, it helps save money so I’m sure all employees are on board with this strategy.
The funny thing is, there is usually a couple of works days in the week before the holidays start. If Christmas in on a Thursday, we might get the 24th off but Monday and Tuesday are work days. Most people end up taking those days off anyways, so the people who stick around usually have lite work loads or can’t get anything done because Bob decided to extend his Winter break. Now we have people charging for 2 days of work but barely working.
So what does the shitshow do? Give us additional time off? Nope, the shitshow ask us to use our personal vacation time during these 2 or 3 days. Emails come from executives and flunktional managers begging us to take the time off to help reduce cost by not charging programs that are already running “tight.” It's actually pretty funny.
Well boys and girls we have the perfect opportunity to throw rocks here. I choose to work those days and charge overtime if I can justify it. Parking is great during those couple of days, I can actually get keep up with emails those days, and it’s a great time to do last minute Christmas shopping on the web!
Because I’m asked to take time off on certain days of the year and because I loose holiday pay if I leave before the end of the year, I throw rocks.
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