Working on Thanksgiving
 

I just started my job at the hospital about two weeks ago. There really arent any people my age. I work with older people. Well since I was the newbie no one (even my boss) said that there was a sheet to sign up for holidays. They just told me yesterday.....I have to work 12-6 on Thanksgiving :(

But hey it was either Thanksgiving or Christmas....

Still I am a sad panda.......

Hey Panda,

Hopefully you'll be paid double time. I always did when working Thanksgiving. Plus you're off @ 6...not too late to still enjoy.

Do you want me to save you some turkey or my famous homemade cranberry sauce...yum! sorry, but think of all the ones that need your help...I would do the same. just think, when you reach the gates of heaven, st. peter's gonna let you in. make sure you bring your cd player and listen to alice. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!:xoxo:

Aw, I'm sorry, Jimmy. :xoxo: But just think, Christmas is right around the corner!

You'll be glad once Christmas rolls around. Hope it's not too bad for you and as I said in another thread to Curtis, there *are* people who appreciate you working the holidays. :xoxo:

Aww, I am sorry Jimmy. Just make sure that your family saves some dinner for you. Do you get paid time and a half? If you do then that is a bright side and if not at least you have a job that you seem to like.

Sorry Jimmy. Maybe you will have the same luck I did the one year I had to work Thanksgiving. When I was in college I worked the front desk at a high rise resort condominium in Coronado, California. There were 18 floors and about 10 condos on each floor. Everyone, and I mean everyone, felt sorry for me and I had more food brought down to me than I could have possibly eaten in a month. I never wanted to see another piece of pumpkin pie in my life! Have a great Thanksgiving anyway!

Terry

God...that was like 40 years ago wasnt it Terry? haha...j/k

Sorry about your luck Jimmy. I'd rather have Christmas Day off myself...oh well...at least you're not working any longer of a shift.

Listen you little whippersnapper! Not quite - just a little over 20 years ago!

Yea, I know how you feel. I have to work thanksgivivng. In fact I work all week.
Tomorrrow 2p-11p
Wed 8a-5p
THURSDAY 7a-330p
Fri 1p-7p

I would like to know how I got roped into that!?!?! Oh well, I guess it could be worse!

Ah, I know the feeling well! I'll be working too! It stinks, I know!

I'm a pharmacist. My husband is a cop. The "work place" never closes!:laugh:

Yeah Ill be getting pad 20 dollars an hour to sit and do homework for 6 houes but hey its thanksgiving. I want to see my nana go to work on those potatoes! :laugh:

I'll trade with you Jimmy!:laugh:

I have worked EVERY holiday - 12 hour days - for the last 15 years. After awhile, none of them have any meaning anymore. :shrug: You find you are more interested in napping then turkey at the end of the day.

I used to have to work Thanksgiving and Christmas, and every other damn holiday you could think of when I worked as an operator in the control room. The process at work just cannot be shut down for one day, so if it was our day in, we had to work. I'm real sorry you have to work, Jimmy... I know your pain, buddy.

I feel your pain. :distress:


Wed night I work 11p-7a....Thursday night, I work 7p-7a. No turkey day for me.

hahaha! just messin with ya Terry. =)

I have Thanksgiving off... I think I'd rather work. :(

Sorry, Jimmy! That sucks! At least you're getting well-paid, though. Hopefully, you can still enjoy the evening after you get off work.

Yes I expect a nice big plate when I come home! :D

I have the day off this year, thankfully.

I used to request to work Thanksgiving. If I worked 7a-3p, I ate later, if I worked 3p-11p I ate early. And I loved the OT. I don't have the option anymore, though, we're shut down Thurs - Sun.

Rather work on Thanksgiving...
 

than be coming down with bronchitis and/or the flu...Which it appears that I am.

I'll make sure to cough on annoying family members if I have the flu...Love spreading the holiday cheer around :thumbsup:

Yeah, i did not have that "choice". Since I am new they didn't tell me about this paper to sign to see what hours I wanted on a holiday. So after all the other people who had to work with me on thanksgiving wrote in the morning shift, they stuck me with the afternoon one.....assholes.

Aw, cheer up, buttercup! They'll get there's at Christmas. :nod:

My office is closed for the holiday and my schedule is such that (for now) I don't work on Fridays or Saturdays. We're always closed Sundays.

I worked Monday and Tuesday and I have to work today, but then I don't go back until next Monday. :woohoo:

ah .. :xoxo: feel better. :xoxo:

hey, it's not thanksgiving here. I have to work just like any ordinary day;)

Working on holidays sux. I'm sorry!! Yeah, hopefully you'll get quadruple overtime.

Can I work there? Pleeeeasssse? :p

Yes indeed, for all those working thanksgiving... or any holiday really, you ARE appreciated. I used to go see my patients in the mental institutions I worked in on those days even if I wasn't required, just 'cause :D And we'd do fun stuff and I felt much better than if I were wasting my energy on unappreciative, bickering relatives! :nod:

Sasja

Sure - you want to take an enormous pay cut? :)

As long as your spare room is free so I can mooch off you and Mark. :woohoo:

Oh yeah - ask Bikerchic how our spare room is coming along. :lol: It may be ready in the next decade or so.

Well my Thanksgiving turned out better than I thought. Work was dead while I was there so they let me leave 2 hours early!!! I got home just in time to eat with my family. I was soo happy! :blob2:

Hope everyones holidays were enjoyable too!

NOW ON TO BLACK FRIDAY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!