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Requesting time off - 7thchild

Posted: Nov 14, 2013

Does anyone else having trouble getting an answer to requests for days off? Sometimes they aren't approved and it's 24 hours before! Then I have to email and wait for an answer.... Holidays are a nightmare. I think I make about 6 dollars an hour (seriously) Is that kind of pay really worth missing a holiday with my family? So sad, so stuck.

Why - would

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you not just take the day off anyway? I would ask and if I don't hear anything, I take it anyway. Why are you making $6 an hour? If you are running out of work and sitting there waiting, just punch out and take the rest of the day off.

Sometimes holidays require a bit more planning - BZB

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than punching out and taking the rest of the day off. You can't just decide to go ahead and host Thanksgiving, or say "I'll be there after all for dinner" (unless it's nearby), etc. The holiday policy is an irritant to me. I mean lines-and-a half-sounds fair, when there are reports, but often there are not, and lines-and-a-half on nothing is just that (there are times $6 an hour would have been nice). It's good that our company can promise our customers holiday coverage, but it costs our company "nothing" if there are no reports. I feel holidays require basically an "on-call" hourly pay amount to cover being available. I know of no other business where you are not compensated for being on call.

Totally agree!.....sm - LoveMT

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I have the awesome luck of having to work Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day because those are my "regularly scheduled" days to work. We were told that we weren't supposed to request those holidays off if we were scheduled to work them. My TSM is very good about allowing us to "flex" time on holidays we're scheduled to work...like if an MLS wants to trade hours with another MLS and it works out great for both of them, then TSM allows us to "work around" as long as there is someone to cover during the specific hours.

Last year, my sister came in from out of state. Unfortunately, I was scheduled to work Thanksgiving Day, so when she came to visit I had about 30 minutes visit with her because my account was overloaded with stats! That was the first time in a very LONG time that I have actually had work (and stats at that!) during a holiday.

I agree that we should be paid an hourly rate on holidays because they are normally extremely slow and there really is no money to be made. Shoot, I've made better money on a regular work day at regular rate of pay than on holidays!

TIME OFF - Pollyanna

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We can't get time off even with earned PTO! I was surprised I was allowed to be off for my father's funeral. Forget a holiday or time away. I've reached an all time low on income with this industry in the past 2 years.

Absolutely do have trouble--sm - anon

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I do work most holidays and it is not too big of a problem for me. My shifts are split so I try to work with that. Christmas I only work until 3 this year so I will host a Christmas dinner at 4 and hubs will help get things in the oven. I will just do as much preparation beforehand.

For me the most irritating part though is when there are plans that are dependent on the time off. If I was planning to go out of town, I would need to know. I have a daughter who has quarterly doctor appointments for her diabetes, those are not easily re-scheduled, I need to know if the time off is approved or not. I know that my supervisor should have seen the request too because my PTO requests due to being OOW have been approved. I just hope to make it one more year and next year at Christmas and Thanksgiving, I may be broke but I will be happy to have no scheduling problems.

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