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Did anyone ask for Christmas off yet? - 7thchild

Posted: Nov 29, 2013

I was just wondering if anyone requested Christmas off yet? I tried to request it the other day and it wouldn't let me??? It kind of has me worried.

It let me request - new but old

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It let me request it. I have worked every holiday for the last few years and I worked Thanksgiving so I hope they let me. I have not heard back yet.

I'm not positive, but......sm - LoveMT

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I was always told that if you were scheduled to work on a holiday, then you were required to work it. It probably wouldn't let you request it off because it's considered a "blackout period." When I took my vacation last year, I had requested it 3 months in advance and was approved via email and Webclock, but I had messed up on some of the days and needed to correct it at the last minute. It just so happened to be during one of their "blackout periods" where no one is allowed to request time off (holiday or not as I understood it), so my TSM had to override something in Webclock in order to correct the mess up I'd made when requesting my time the first time around. I was still allowed to take my vacation because they hadn't "blacked out" that particular timeframe until about 2 weeks prior to the dates.

Anyway, I'm scheduled to work on Christmas Day too, and I hadn't even tried asking for it off because I figured I'd be told no since it happens to be one of my regularly scheduled work days. You might contact your TSM and see if maybe you could swap hours or even days with someone on your team who might want to work that day and have a different day off. I know that there have been times in our family when we celebrated Christmas on a day later or even earlier so that everyone could be together on the same day. Maybe someone would be willing to trade off with you and your TSM could approve it. It's worth a shot. :)

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