In Which I am More Annoyed Than Usual at My Workplace

[jennythereader]

As a cost saving measure they've decreed that everyone will be given two specific days off in 2011. That is, other than essential personal, most of the company's offices will be completely closed on these two dates.

That's fine. I have no problem with extra days off.

The problem comes in because they are requiring everyone to use vacation time for those days. I'm sorry it costs you guys money when people are too stupid to use their vacation time up, but I'm not one of those people. Every minute of time I earn gets used.

I'm going to have to look at the calendar and figure out if I need to give up on a con or camping event.

Comments

[curlyeric.livejournal.com]

That's pretty screwed up since there are plenty of legal ways to achieve the same goal, but this particular one seems spiteful ( and possibly against NYS law ).

They should just reduce everyon's vacation by two days and be done with it, call it what it is.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I could work with just having less time. Or just force those people who don't use theirs up to take specific days off.

I'm going to talk to my manager about whether our department will have anybody on those days, and if I can be one of them.

[curlyeric.livejournal.com]

answering my original question, yes, it's probably legal; it still blows, but it's probably legal.

http://www.overtime-flsa.com/forced-vacation-legal-a-62.html

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Grrr.

[stefka.livejournal.com]

If you can manage to be one of the at-work people on those days, that does sound like a good way around it.

We just found out that working Christmas Eve will not, in fact, get us time-and-a-half. Only working Christmas Day. Which means a few of the people who work at the Eagle, and the circulation people who actually deliver. Dammit. I have to come in four hours early, to meet the deadline. And I get nothing for it?

This is also the first year in recent memory in which we will actually publish on Christmas morning.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I won't be able to talk to my manager about in until after the holidays.

Your schedule also sounds pretty sucky.

[stefka.livejournal.com]

Nature of the beast, to some degree. Holidays = early deadlines. And I have NYE off entirely. But it used to be that Christmas Eve was the holiday (because we didn't publish on Christmas Day), and people who worked the Eve (getting things under way for the 26th) got time-and-a-half.

Now, we're publishing on Christmas Day, so the Eve is a real workday, but deadline is almost six hours early. And no cookie.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Blah. You should all get cookies.