Who Is Working United States Thanksgiving XII? (2024 Christmas Creep Edition)

Started by ZLoth, November 02, 2024, 06:51:04 PM

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ZLoth

It's that time of year again where some turkey in Texas starts up that "Who is working Thanksgiving Day?" thread again. Lets see here, we have the Original (2013), II (2014), III (2015), IV (2016), V (2017), VI (2018), VII (2019), Coronavirus (2020), IX (2021), X (2022), and XI (2023).

The original thread was created over a decade ago because people were complaining that "the retailers were open and making the retail workers WORK", not realizing that other people were also earning a paycheck during the United States Thanksgiving holiday. Plus, we have the following sports (All Times Eastern):
  • 12:30 PM - NFL on CBS: Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions
  • 4:30 PM - NFL on FOX: New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys
  • 6:30 PM - College Football on ESPN: Memphis @ Tulane
  • 8:20 PM - NFL on NBC: Miami Dolphins at Green Bay Packers (Miami played on Black Friday last year)
  • Friday @ 3:00 PM - NFL on Amazon: Las Vegas Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs
  • No NBA or NHL Games on Thursday, November 28th
NOTE: The Detroit Lions host the Green Bay Packers the following Thursday. Cowboys host the Bengals on the following Monday.

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ZLoth

For the first time in years, I am taking the entire f-ing week off.
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Max Rockatansky

We open at 7 AM on Black Friday.  At this rate it isn't too far removed from being just a normal day.

mgk920

I suspect that a large number of those in the service industry here in Wisconsin will be working this Thanksgiving.   :nod:

Mike

Rothman

Took the day after off this year.

Last year worked it so others could take it off.
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elsmere241

I get Thursday and Friday off as paid holidays.  I wanted to take the whole week off, but I'm taking a couple of weeks off before then.

Scott5114

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CNGL-Leudimin

Just another regular day over here, so that is what I'll be doing.
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1995hoo

I have Thursday and Friday as paid holidays. Supposed to have Veterans Day as well, but the guy I work for was making noise about demanding we work November 11 to "make up for" the day after Thanksgiving.
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commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
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Rothman

Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 08:28:57 AMI have Thursday and Friday as paid holidays. Supposed to have Veterans Day as well, but the guy I work for was making noise about demanding we work November 11 to "make up for" the day after Thanksgiving.

What a great employer.
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1995hoo

Quote from: Rothman on November 03, 2024, 08:29:55 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 08:28:57 AMI have Thursday and Friday as paid holidays. Supposed to have Veterans Day as well, but the guy I work for was making noise about demanding we work November 11 to "make up for" the day after Thanksgiving.

What a great employer.

In general, he's fine, but for some reason he has what I deem an utterly irrational dislike of holidays, any holidays.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Rothman

Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 08:32:18 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 03, 2024, 08:29:55 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 08:28:57 AMI have Thursday and Friday as paid holidays. Supposed to have Veterans Day as well, but the guy I work for was making noise about demanding we work November 11 to "make up for" the day after Thanksgiving.

What a great employer.

In general, he's fine, but for some reason he has what I deem an utterly irrational dislike of holidays, any holidays.

In the meantime, my employer refuses to make the Day After Thanksgiving a holiday, rather making Election Day a "floating holiday," which many use to take off the Day After Thanksgiving anyway, while those who actually work the day in the office really don't do anything other than wait for calls to do work that never come.
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1995hoo

I don't much like to use the trite, overused word "epic," but the guy at my office threw what I can only call one of the most epic tantrums I've ever seen when June 19 was made a holiday a few years ago (although a major part of his complaint was the fairly legitimate gripe that it was done with less than 24 hours' notice). He complained that it will completely change the summer travel season because people will want to take their vacation between then and July 4. To which my response was, so what? If they have to take leave time to go on vacation, it makes eminent sense to do it then because having another holiday at the other end gets you extra time off. Look at next year: June 19 is on a Thursday and July 4 is on a Friday. So someone could take ten days off and effectively go 18 days between workdays (last day before vacation June 18, first day back July 7). That's just smart planning to me.

Now, this guy at my office was talking about wanting us to work on June 19 next year and instead we would just be closed July 3 for a four-day weekend. I'm happy to make that trade next year because June 19 is on Thursday and we would not have Friday off. In 2026, however, July 4 is on Saturday (so we get July 3) and June 19 is on Friday. That year I would push back against trading days because I'd rather have two three-day weekends than one four-day weekend.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Rothman

Less than 24 hour notice that a holiday is...tomorrow?  Weird.

Need a real holiday between Presidents' Day and Memorial Day, too.
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elsmere241

My upcoming vacation is built around Election Day and Veterans' Day.  Not that I don't have oodles of vacation time anyway, I'm p to six or seven weeks a year now.  We started getting Juneteenth off a few years ago, but we've lost two holidays this year: the first Monday in February as a separate Lincoln's Birthday, and Columbus Day.

The odd thing is, we get only half of Christmas Eve off, unless the County Executive gives it to us as a bonus.  (We did  July 5th as a bonus this year.)  Most of the time we do get that extra half day, but we don't always.  It usually depends on the Executive, and his mood that year.

1995hoo

Quote from: Rothman on November 03, 2024, 11:39:20 AMLess than 24 hour notice that a holiday is...tomorrow?  Weird.

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I certainly agree with that. Biden signed the bill making it a holiday into law on June 17, 2021. It took effect immediately. Because June 19 was a Saturday that year, it meant June 18 was a holiday. Some parts of the US government nevertheless didn't observe it that year for practical reasons—for example, courts that had hearings or trial proceedings scheduled for which counsel had already traveled such that rescheduling would have been unreasonable or posed a serious financial burden.

I was surprised because when they made Martin Luther King's Birthday a federal holiday, the law was enacted in 1983 but the holiday was first observed in 1986. Gave government agencies, private sector choosing to observe it, etc., time to plan for it. Even a one-year delay makes a lot more sense than signing it into law in the afternoon to begin the next day.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

tdindy88

Well I'm flying to Japan on Thanksgiving Day and spending the next nine days out there into the first part of December.

My employer anyways always gives us Thursday and Friday off plus the weekend. It's the Christmas schedule that's more interesting this year. We have to work Monday and Tuesday (Christmas Eve) and then we get Wednesday-Sunday off with Christmas and Dec 26 paid. Then we have to work on Monday and Tuesday (New Year's Eve) before getting just New Year's Day off before heading back to work on Jan 2.

In general we get New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas as the only paid holidays.

GaryV

Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 08:28:57 AMdemanding we work November 11 to "make up for" the day after Thanksgiving

When I worked at Chrysler / DaimlerChrysler / Cerberus we had a floating Veteran's Day holiday. It always seemed to fall on the Friday immediately before Deer Season Opening Day.

vdeane

Quote from: 1995hoo on November 03, 2024, 11:28:25 AMHe complained that it will completely change the summer travel season because people will want to take their vacation between then and July 4. To which my response was, so what?
He was probably used to the existing rhythm of how many people are in the office when and had things set up around that which would need to be changed.
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US 89

I will be working Thanksgiving same as any other Thursday. We can either choose to get paid extra for that day or to take the holiday at some other time that is convenient for the company that can be scheduled in advance. I'm trying to get a few days off around New Years, but we'll see how that goes...this company is very picky with taking off work in winter.

vdeane

Quote from: US 89 on November 04, 2024, 03:51:58 AMI will be working Thanksgiving same as any other Thursday. We can either choose to get paid extra for that day or to take the holiday at some other time that is convenient for the company that can be scheduled in advance. I'm trying to get a few days off around New Years, but we'll see how that goes...this company is very picky with taking off work in winter.
I mean... it doesn't get any more scheduled in advance than "the 4th Thursday of November every year".
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hbelkins

Thursday and Friday are paid holidays for me, but I'm on call 24/7 so if we have bad weather or some other crisis in my little corner of Kentucky, I'll have to do some work. Otherwise, I'm off but have no travel plans.
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Coelacanth

It's a paid holiday for us, but I'm working. I get to take a future day off in lieu.

All of this is fine by me since I'm not working the whole day and I enjoy the work anyway.

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Henry

I plan to spend the four-day weekend in San Diego, so there's my answer.
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