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The friday after thanksgiving is during my deer hunting season. No chance in hell I'm working.
You've been at that company 12 years? That's impressive. My longest tenure with one company is 7. My current company I am up to 5 years.Me either, since I started working. I don't technically work in finance (all our clients are in finance, though), but we work that day too. We get New Year's Day, MLK, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Used to get 3 weeks of vacation and be able to carry over 2 weeks, but now I just get 3 weeks plus 3 "personal days" and we can't carry over any vacation. OT is expected and unpaid. I think I have another 3 years before I get an extra week of vacation (that would be at 15 years). Reading this, it kind of sucks compared to others.
I remember when I started, I said I couldn't see myself still here in 10 years, but I kind of settled in and realized I liked it and was good at it, so - still here. It satisfies my love of detail-oriented problem solving and my intense hatred of paperwork.
31 years and counting. Almost unheard of in the private sector these days.
It's not scamming the system. They have to compensate me for holidays that fall on my scheduled off stretch since everyone on a conventional schedule is either working the holiday and getting paid double or is getting a paid day off. Due to the low staffing level on my shift, it's easier for the government to simply designate one of my shifts as 'holiday worked' and pay me double than it is to give me a night off and cover it with OT (which would end up costing them more money than simply paying me double).As a taxpayer, I would like to thank you personally for finding ways to scam the system.
