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Happy Memorial Day ... now get back to work! - CaliMT

Posted: May 28, 2012

So, today, while all of my family is heading over to my sister's pool party, I am stuck at my desk waiting for work to (hopefully) trickle in. This is so discouraging, especially knowing that EVERY holiday will be like this, unless I want to use my PTO time, of which there is precious little.

I could deal with all the other changes here at Nuance, but this one is the worst. It is so demoralizing to know that we aren't even worthy of that one little benefit that most Americans are enjoying today.

My nephew works as a bagger at the grocery store and he is getting paid TRIPLE-TIME to work today ... think about that for a minute!

As soon as there was no work, I would punch out, - go to party, and tomorrow...

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File for unemployment!

There is no way that I would sit for the duration of a shift, unless of course they are paying me time and a half of my average pay to do nothing.

Seems easy enough, but ... - CaliMT

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I'm actually making decent money right now. Unemployment would only be a little over half of my paycheck, and I can't afford that.

Getting out isn't an option for me, as we're trying to pay off my husband just changed jobs, we're trying to pay off student loans, and hoping to buy a house sometime in the next year. I need the job and I don't complain about much, but this holiday stuff is just too much to take.

At Webmedx, we made double-time on the holidays we worked and at least got a few holidays off a year without having to dip into our own personal PTO time. Looking at a future of working EVERY SINGLE DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK with no break is just heartbreaking.

Yes it is heartbreaking. sm - I Miss the Old Webmedx

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We worked hard, but at least we were rewarded quite well.

Yes, it really is discouraging, and I LIKE Nuance - Agree with you

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It is really upsetting to me to think that we aren't even considered worthy of a paid holiday. People need holidays, period. No one else working a full-time job has to use PTO for holidays, they just don't. It is truly ridiculous.

I actually like my job at Nuance, like my manager, and like you, don't have much to complain about, but this is very upsetting. I actually cried when I found out about that particular change in policy. I just felt so hopeless about it.

when was this changed? - nuancemt

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I was hired 7 months ago and I swear that when I asked about holidays, she not only named them but said they were paid and bragged up the 25% increase if you work a holiday. Ticks me off royally. Just another reason why I'm looking to get out of this MT BS.

Go ahead. Make my day. No paid holidays? - Annie Oakley

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Now that they have taken away our Big 5 holiday pay, I feel invaluated and demoralized. To add fuel to the fire, my account has no dictation on the holidays. So not only do I lose the pay, I lose the pay and 1/4 we are supposed to be paid if we do work the holiday. I made no holiday plans on Memorial Day and sat here with no work. This and other companies with this policy should be taken to their knees. I am getting the hell out of Dodge.

perhaps your nephew - can get you a job

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than at least you'd be getting paid triple time to work today.

Those were the good old days... - Old Timer

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Back in the day you got paid for NOT WORKING on the big 6 holidays and only worked for the extra $$$ as a volunteer. Where I work, you have to take PTO on the holiday or work - paid holidays are a thing of the past.

Nobody I know outside of MT world is being forced to work a holiday or take meager PTO to cover it. NOBODY!

Meanwhile, those who are unfortunate to be scheduled for Monday are slaving away, getting nitpicked for how long we're taking to complete a job.

Fun.

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