Now that the annual DST thread has been closed down (until March next year) and seeing the calendar, it's time to get a new edition of the "Are you working Thanksgiving?" thread. This time I'm beating ZLoth to create it :sombrero:, he almost forgot to do this last year.
And as always, the fourth Thursday of November is a normal work day in Spain. There's no fixed date for a de facto Thanksgiving, but what is sure is that is earlier. A large group of towns celebrate it on August 15th, others on September 8th. Both dates are linked to Mary, mother of Jesus: August 15th is the Assumption and September 8th is the Nativity. They are commonly known as the "Virgin of August" and the "Virgin of September" (and not long ago I found the first village which holds their festivals explicity in honor of the Virgin of September). But anyway this is too religious for this forum, which like politics is a toxic topic. The question is as always, who is working Thanksgiving this year? Of course, the people working at the arenas/stadia where the following matches are scheduled (Times per my forum time which matches that of wherever Big Rig Steve is now, and since he is taking a few days off in Rochelle IL they are Central. They are 24-hour too):
11:30: Bears @ Lions (NFL)
15:30: Redskins @ Cowboys (NFL)
18:30: Mississippi State @ Ole Miss (College [American] Football)
19:30: Falcons @ Saints (NFL)
Various College Basketball games
No NBA or NHL games
Previous editions, all started by ZLoth: 2017 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21620.0), 2016 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=19145.0), 2015 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=16895.0), 2014 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=14048.0), 2013 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=10941.0)
I don't know whether I'm scheduled to work it or not, but I already told my boss not to have any big plans for me that week, because I won't be there no matter what schedule she posts.
Not working, over at my fiancé's Dad's house for the day.
I am not. I was going to work the day after Thanksgiving, which is not a company holiday, but I just learned I have 7 additional PTO days I need to take before the end of the year that I haven't accounted for anywhere.
Nope, I took Black Friday off as well. Had to work Black Friday last year and it wasted my morning, did absolutely nothing to only be paid a half day.
Both Thursday and Friday are annual company holidays, so I will not be working.
Not unless there is some sort of inclement weather or other emergency-type situation that requires me to work. Thursday and Friday are holidays for me.
Not working Thanksgiving, as far as I know. I'm more like office staff than field service nowadays, so my schedule usually follows that of "the ladies up front". Even though I've been covering a different position on Thursdays for a co-worker who has been taking that day off, it won't matter: she's taking Thursdays off to use up some PTO, and she can't claim PTO on a day she's entitled to holiday pay anyway.
Short answer: no. I will be in Massachusetts visiting family & friends Nov. 21-25. Taking the 21st & 23rd as paid vacation days.
I am not, but I am not sure if we are doing a household Thanksgiving on Thursday or not. We have a family get together, but that is scheduled for Friday.
I asked off once again this year. The past two Thanksgivings I had asked off but was begged to work early morning shifts, which I accepted.
I'll be staying home, unless one of the local eateries is serving dinner'
No, but I'm still being paid for working that day.
Your NFL slate for that day, since the OP didn't include it:
11:30: Bears/Lions
3:30: Redskins/Cowboys
7:30: Falcons/Saints
Also have plenty of college basketball and the CFB Egg Bowl between Ole Miss and Mississippi State at 6:30.
GF will be in L.A. visiting mom & older sister; she invariably ends up performing nursing and/or physical therapy duties for both, so it likely won't be a fun trip -- one that I'm thankful to miss! I'll close down the store for the day and cook up my usual Greek-spiced brined turkey breast with cornbread & wild rice stuffing for a bunch of friends and reopen for the so-called "Black Friday" the next morning. Hope all you posters out there -- and your families -- have a good holiday weekend! :cool:
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 08, 2018, 11:53:22 PM
Your NFL slate for that day, since the OP didn't include it:
11:30: Bears/Lions
3:30: Redskins/Cowboys
7:30: Falcons/Saints
Also have plenty of college basketball and the CFB Egg Bowl between Ole Miss and Mississippi State at 6:30.
Since I haven't done research. I'm amending my OP. I assume times are Eastern, so I'm substracting one hour per my current forum time.
I'll be on vacation from Fri Nov 16 through Tuesday Nov 27 so nope, not working Thanksgiving.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 09, 2018, 03:46:55 AM
Since I haven't done research. I'm amending my OP. I assume times are Eastern, so I'm substracting one hour per my current forum time.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 08, 2018, 07:31:12 AM
10:30: Bears @ Lions (NFL)
14:30: Redskins @ Cowboys (NFL)
17:30: Mississippi State @ Ole Miss (College [American] Football)
18:30: Falcons @ Saints (NFL)
Nope. What you posted is Mountain time (the best time zone, IMO).
Ouch. I thought TheHighwayMan394 used Eastern as it's the most used for sports events across the USA, but he actually used his time zone (and thus the time my forum time is currently set to).
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 08, 2018, 11:53:22 PM
Your NFL slate for that day, since the OP didn't include it:
11:30: Bears/Lions
3:30: Redskins/Cowboys
7:30: Falcons/Saints
Well.... that's a pretty NFC heavy slate of games, or to say
totally NFC heavy.
I'm supposed to work on Thanksgiving, but as I'm on medical leave right now I don't know if I will be back to work before then.
Quote from: Mr_Northside on November 09, 2018, 03:10:14 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 08, 2018, 11:53:22 PM
Your NFL slate for that day, since the OP didn't include it:
11:30: Bears/Lions
3:30: Redskins/Cowboys
7:30: Falcons/Saints
Well.... that's a pretty NFC heavy slate of games, or to say totally NFC heavy.
I've noticed since the NFL relaxed the AFC = CBS and NFC = FOX rules that Thanksgiving has been overwhelmingly NFC-heavy since they haven't had to shoehorn an AFC team into the afternoon games anymore.
Fun fact: the AFC North would never have played on a Thanksgiving afternoon at Dallas or Detroit under the old TV format. Their every-four-year matchups with Dallas and Detroit always coincided with years which FOX had the rights to that respective game.
I don't know, but probably.
NFL? What's that? The "No (American) Flag League?"
Haven't watched a down this year, except if a game's been on when I've been changing channels and I accidentally saw it. I used to be a big Bengals fan, but started watching NASCAR on Sunday afternoons more than 20 years ago and haven't gone back. I still hate the Cowboys, Redskins, 49ers, Browns, Steelers, Browns v 1.0 (Ravens), Titans (the former Oilers) and the Cheatriots, but have no use for the NFL these days for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who knows me. Haven't watched a Super Bowl since the the last time the Bengals were in it (1989?).
Ah, NASCAR: The Only Sport More Boring than Soccer™
or
NASCAR: Because Turning Right Is Hard™
NASCAR can be interesting if there is an accident or a car catches on fire. I like fire.
Note: I do not wish for the drivers to be hurt in any way.
Quote from: ce929wax on November 11, 2018, 02:57:39 PM
NASCAR can be interesting if there is an accident or a car catches on fire. I like fire.
Note: I do not wish for the drivers to be hurt in any way.
NASCAR usually provides enough "white noise" to put me into a good afternoon nap, if I don't feel like watching the race that day.
And no, TENNIS is by far the WORST sport to watch. Golf is enjoyable as they can keep switching the action around from hole to hole, and even if the action is "tape-dalayed" by a few minutes, it doesn't affect the overall flow of the game.
The worst "sport" to watch on television is online poker. If you're limiting it to competitions that involve a degree of athleticism, probably UFC/MMA and the like.
Quote from: hbelkins on November 10, 2018, 03:12:42 PM
NFL? What's that? The "No (American) Flag League?"
Haven't watched a down this year, except if a game's been on when I've been changing channels and I accidentally saw it. I used to be a big Bengals fan, but started watching NASCAR on Sunday afternoons more than 20 years ago and haven't gone back. I still hate the Cowboys, Redskins, 49ers, Browns, Steelers, Browns v 1.0 (Ravens), Titans (the former Oilers) and the Cheatriots, but have no use for the NFL these days for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who knows me. Haven't watched a Super Bowl since the the last time the Bengals were in it (1989?).
Want to know why Kentucky has no football team?
Then Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Illinois would all want one
As always: No.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on November 10, 2018, 03:32:19 PM
Ah, NASCAR: The Only Sport More Boring than Soccer™
Uh. Golf?
The only sports with more standing around doing nothing than golf are baseball and football.
If I ever willingly watch soccer or golf, then there's something very wrong with me.
I love baseball, but haven't watched MLB since 1994 and never will again. As I've said many times, the strike ended it for me. The national anthem deal has pretty much done the same for me for NFL.
Thanksgiving TV does often feature the first seasonal airing of "A Christmas Story," so it has that going for it.
Quote from: hbelkins on November 12, 2018, 02:19:52 PMThanksgiving TV does often feature the first seasonal airing of "A Christmas Story," so it has that going for it.
I don't really care about this now that I can just stream it on Amazon Prime whenever I want. I don't get TBS anyway.
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Black Friday is a retarded "holiday" anyway.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on November 12, 2018, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Black Friday is a retarded "holiday" anyway.
Steely Dan was right.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on November 12, 2018, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Black Friday is a retarded "holiday" anyway.
Stock market has half a day, but the bank has a full day.
In a similar vein, the bank was closed today, but the stock market was open. I left early, but I still had to come in today.
I dig the Steely Dan reference, but the real Black Friday is two days before Easter.
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:42:12 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on November 12, 2018, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Black Friday is a retarded "holiday" anyway.
Stock market has half a day, but the bank has a full day.
In a similar vein, the bank was closed today, but the stock market was open. I left early, but I still had to come in today.
I dig the Steely Dan reference, but the real Black Friday is two days before Easter.
I forgot that Black Friday is another name for Good Friday.
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 12, 2018, 06:54:50 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on November 12, 2018, 02:19:52 PMThanksgiving TV does often feature the first seasonal airing of "A Christmas Story," so it has that going for it.
I don't really care about this now that I can just stream it on Amazon Prime whenever I want. I don't get TBS anyway.
I don't have live TV at all (which is ironic, considering I work for a cable company), so waiting for live shows is just not something I do anymore. The only times we break out the rabbit ears and $1 Wal-Mart digital box (remember those?) are when there's a tornado coming or when the Olympics are on.
Quote from: kevinb1994 on November 12, 2018, 07:53:54 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:42:12 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on November 12, 2018, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 12, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
I work for a bank broker/dealer, so that means I get Thanksgiving Day off, but work a full day on Black Friday.
Black Friday is a retarded "holiday" anyway.
Stock market has half a day, but the bank has a full day.
In a similar vein, the bank was closed today, but the stock market was open. I left early, but I still had to come in today.
I dig the Steely Dan reference, but the real Black Friday is two days before Easter.
I forgot that Black Friday is another name for Good Friday.
Is it really, though? I grew up in a liturgical church, and my father is a pastor, yet I've never heard Good Friday referred to as Black Friday except in error.
It's been about 50 years since most of the Roman Catholics called it that. Maybe some traditionalists who go to ad orientum Latin Mass use the term. I don't know. I'm also not sure about the Orthodox or Protestant churches.
I was trying to find day-by-day historical Dow Jones data, specifically 10/25/1929 and 11/01/1929. It doesn't seem like either of them can be called "Black Friday". From what I can tell, 10/25 went down very little compared to 10/24 (Black Thursday) and 10/29 (Black Tuesday), and 11/01 went up, although it was very hard to find what I was looking for.
I don't work, for now.
LG-TP260
I'm off all week, so I'll be spending the holiday in Chicago...again!
It's now clear that Big Rig Steve will be working Thanksgiving. Being a trucker it would be strange for him not doing so. He has also rolled past where the Hypotenuse would begin twice in the last few weeks.
Nope!
Quote from: 1 on November 12, 2018, 08:16:09 PM
I was trying to find day-by-day historical Dow Jones data, specifically 10/25/1929 and 11/01/1929. It doesn't seem like either of them can be called "Black Friday". From what I can tell, 10/25 went down very little compared to 10/24 (Black Thursday) and 10/29 (Black Tuesday), and 11/01 went up, although it was very hard to find what I was looking for.
Call it Green Friday since we're supposed to give all our green money to Walmart and JCPenney ;)
Even though I live in the US, I work for a Canadian company. To keep things simple with my team, I follow Québec's holiday schedule.
I'm working Thursday and Friday of this week, but I got a three-day weekend back in October.
As a Federal employee I'm always off on Thanksgiving. My wife is a respiratory therapist at a hospital and her shift is 10p - 630a. She has to work at least one of Thanksgiving eve/morning, Christmas eve/morning or New Year's eve/morning. She chose Thanksgiving.
My wife works for an insurance company and she somehow managed to get the day after Turkey Day off as a holiday. How generous of them.
Quote from: Rothman on November 21, 2018, 02:14:30 PM
My wife works for an insurance company and she somehow managed to get the day after Turkey Day off as a holiday. How generous of them.
It is - I haven't worked for a company that considered Black Friday a holiday in 7 years.
And it gets worse - a friend of mine works in the law department of a prescription drug insurance company, and since their pharmacies are open 365 days in a year,
no one in the company gets
any holidays (presumably they compensate for this by giving more PTO than their employees might receive otherwise, but still).
I get 10 holidays and two floaters a year, if my interpretation of our calendar is correct. Still have to use one of my floaters for Black Friday, though.
I usually have two or more floaters a week. A second flush takes care of them most of the time. :-D :-D
I get 11 1/2 holidays a year. Two each for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. Sometimes the calendar works out, depending on the timing of Jan. 1, that some calendar years are only 10 1/2 and others are 12 1/2. Other holidays are MLK Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day. The 1/2 day is for Good Friday, as we get the afternoons off. Every four years, Election Day is a holiday for the presidential election. Why the state observes the presidential election as a holiday but not the elections for state offices is beyond me.
In my line of work, a floater is a field tech who is scheduled to work but not part of our company's quota; he picks up the work that other techs might run late on.
A couple of years ago, we had a dispatcher whose mother works in CSI; he told us, "At my mom's work, 'floater' means something very different."
Quote from: kphoger on November 21, 2018, 04:34:00 PM
In my line of work, a floater is a field tech who is scheduled to work but not part of our company's quota; he picks up the work that other techs might run late on.
A couple of years ago, we had a dispatcher whose mother works in CSI; he told us, "At my mom's work, 'floater' means something very different."
Could also refer to a bowel movement.
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 21, 2018, 05:15:01 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 21, 2018, 04:34:00 PM
In my line of work, a floater is a field tech who is scheduled to work but not part of our company's quota; he picks up the work that other techs might run late on.
A couple of years ago, we had a dispatcher whose mother works in CSI; he told us, "At my mom's work, 'floater' means something very different."
Could also refer to a bowel movement.
Uh. Yeah. That was implied in the post immediately before mine.
Quote from: kphoger on November 21, 2018, 05:55:48 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 21, 2018, 05:15:01 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 21, 2018, 04:34:00 PM
In my line of work, a floater is a field tech who is scheduled to work but not part of our company's quota; he picks up the work that other techs might run late on.
A couple of years ago, we had a dispatcher whose mother works in CSI; he told us, "At my mom's work, 'floater' means something very different."
Could also refer to a bowel movement.
Uh. Yeah. That was implied in the post immediately before mine.
So it was. I just skimmed the post and didn't notice.
Quote from: US71 on November 21, 2018, 01:09:13 PM
Quote from: 1 on November 12, 2018, 08:16:09 PM
I was trying to find day-by-day historical Dow Jones data, specifically 10/25/1929 and 11/01/1929. It doesn't seem like either of them can be called "Black Friday". From what I can tell, 10/25 went down very little compared to 10/24 (Black Thursday) and 10/29 (Black Tuesday), and 11/01 went up, although it was very hard to find what I was looking for.
Call it Green Friday since we're supposed to give all our green money to Walmart and JCPenney ;)
I'm giving a good chunk of my green on Black Friday to the Colorado DMV for license plates for both of my vehicles...$60-something for my older Civic, but $600-something for my new SUV -- first years' license taxes are the killer!!!
The good thing is that the line Friday morning should be short/non-existent as everyone else will be shopping or sleeping!!!
I used to work in the warehouse that supplies 7-11 in Western Washington and Portland. They have shipments every day of the year, and I worked Friday - Sunday, and every other Thursday. Every year, the Thursday off fell on Thanksgiving, though I still had to work Christmas and during the first Seahawks Superbowl game, a good game to miss.
Quote from: Rothman on November 21, 2018, 02:22:53 PM
I get 10 holidays and two floaters a year, if my interpretation of our calendar is correct. Still have to use one of my floaters for Black Friday, though.
Is there a difference between vacation time and floaters (I've never heard this term before)?
I'm of course working today and tomorrow because I already had my Thanksgiving a month ago :).
Quote from: 7/8 on November 22, 2018, 07:33:53 AMIs there a difference between vacation time and floaters (I've never heard this term before)?
Practically speaking, no; they function the same. A "floater" (in this context) is a vacation day given to an employee who doesn't get a particular company holiday off. For example, I've worked for various law firms that had employees in states that don't recognize MLK Day, and the office was open that day, so they got an extra vacation day in lieu of having MLK Day off. Subject to the operational needs of the firm, they could use that day on MLK Day, or on any other workday that year.
Quote from: 7/8 on November 22, 2018, 07:33:53 AM
Is there a difference between vacation time and floaters (I've never heard this term before)?
In terms of my company's implementation, the difference would be that floaters can't be carried over to the next year, whereas up to 5 days of vacation time could be banked for future use. (I say "could" because they're now catching up to the rest of the industry and offering "unlimited" time in the hope that employees will forget to use it and so they no longer have to pay it out if someone quits.)
"Unlimited time" is a crock and probably results in people taking less vacation time than they would otherwise. I'd rather be told I can take X days per year and take X days per year. I like a good rule.
Also, it means the company doesn't have to pay you your unused vacation time when you separate from the company.
I was promoted into a salaried management position at the hotel where I work on October 1. As a result, I no longer get paid extra for a holiday. Instead, I get to take an extra day off for the holiday, and I chose to use that for today. I'm also using a personal day for Friday, so hello four-day weekend. I'm spending most of the weekend with my grandma; her 89th birthday is Monday, so it's important for me to be here.
I asked my staff to indicate their scheduling preferences for the holidays, and the first two responses I received were from people who volunteered to work specific shifts today.
Quote from: bulldog1979 on November 22, 2018, 04:54:31 PMI asked my staff to indicate their scheduling preferences for the holidays, and the first two responses I received were from people who volunteered to work specific shifts today.
They were probably thinking they would rather work today than on Christmas.
I get extra days off because I have to work on Columbus and Veterans Day. HR calls those "floaters,"
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 08, 2018, 07:31:12 AM
Now that the annual DST thread has been closed down (until March next year) and seeing the calendar, it's time to get a new edition of the "Are you working Thanksgiving?" thread. This time I'm beating ZLoth to create it :sombrero:, he almost forgot to do this last year.
Guilty as charged. For 2018, I had just accepted a relocation opportunity the day before Thanksgiving, and by Sunday, I was packing and sorting for a move to Texas. I had worked Thanksgiving that year.... fortunately from home!