Who has to work the Friday after Thanksgiving?

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AmpedSilence

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Originally posted by: Deeko
I have to take a vacation day or come in...the office is open.

I'm probably taking off though. I work across the street from the 2nd biggest mall in the country (King of Prussia), and on the other side is a Best Buy/Toys R Us. I don't want to be anywhere NEAR this place on black friday.

hey i live behind the mall, but I'll be at my parents in Harrisburg for BF
 

Deeko

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Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Originally posted by: Deeko
I have to take a vacation day or come in...the office is open.

I'm probably taking off though. I work across the street from the 2nd biggest mall in the country (King of Prussia), and on the other side is a Best Buy/Toys R Us. I don't want to be anywhere NEAR this place on black friday.

hey i live behind the mall, but I'll be at my parents in Harrisburg for BF

Oh yea? I live not too far, just a few miles down S Gulph. I'm not so sure I want to be in this town at all on Friday, I'm going to my parents' house Thursday in Reading, I might just stay there...
 

batmang

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I wish I could get Friday off... but I cant. Got too many other people that took Friday off, I gotta be here to cover. :(
 

alkemyst

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I haven't had to work the Friday after thanksgiving since high school.

Unfortunately my wife is in retail and she will be at her store by 4am Friday and Saturday.
 

altonb1

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Paid company holiday - I'm not working, but it is also annual review time, so I may work on my self-assessment and peer reviews sometime over the long weekend so i can get some OT out of it.
 

oogabooga

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office is open, but I ended up with the day off due to some extra hours worked.

I don't know if there is any sales worth going to yet though.
 

maddogchen

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i volunteered, i dont' mind. it'll be a nice, peaceful, slow day. Make money, save me from black friday sales, all good.
 

Ns1

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first 4 day weekend of the year for me.

w00t x infinity

it's gonna be 7 hours of halo come 11/24/07 (or maybe 7 hours of rock band)
 

mattpegher

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Working thanksgivings, friday, saturday and sunday. I also have to work Xmas day this year. Thats the ER, 24/7/365 and they're 12 hour shifts. Get time and a half for the actural holliday but its not really worth it. Make it double time then maybe.
 

slsmnaz

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working Friday but I have a lot of testing to finish. Office should be good and quiet (plus no meetings)
 

MaxDepth

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First time in 15 years I do not either a) have to work that day or b) have to work longer hours earlier in the week because the site is closed and I don't get paid for it.

Bout damn time.
 

Blieb

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Staties around here get like 10 holidays ... and I think 3-4 weeks off depending on years of service.

My old lady has over 700 hours of accrued PTO ... insane ...

:|
 

zixxer

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The last place I work I had awesome vacation days - 12-14 days off a year (even small holidays we were closed half of the week) AND dec24th-jan2nd off... With 6 years of service I had 25 vacation days on top of that.


The new job is pretty sparse with company paid holidays... but I start out with 15 vacation days.
 

Kev

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Originally posted by: Blieb
I'm just used to taking it off I guess ...

My previous jobs, we just had it off ...

Last year, I got to put in some extra hours in the weeks before and just take it without docking personal time. Which was cool 'cause I actually put in the extra time --- everybody wins ... they also said you could use sick/personal time if you didn't want to dip into vacation ...

This year we have to use vacation time ... which is sparse anyways ...

*shrug* ... my brother is coming to town, so I'll take the day off no matter what. Family > * ... but I'm miffed about it ...

If they bill me out, and I put an extra 8 in ... no blood no foul ... @@

Just take a sick day at a later date when you would have taken vacation.