If they tell you well in advance so that you can set that day aside then you really have no comeback.
If you're new and weren't made aware of it when you submitted your holiday request, then you should be able to get around it....depending on your supervisor.
I ended up having to cover Xmas eve and Stephens day to let the country staff travel. Naturally
Re. Country people going home:
I had to work Christmas day once in a job in Dublin because a Dublin woman wouldn't swap with me. I'm from the west of Ireland, was 20, homesick and lonely....I can't even think about it now without getting depressed.
Why should she swap with you? Is she not entitled to her leave too? Surely a fairer way to decide is on service and/or a rota?
Because it was Christmas and it would have been a nice thing to do. I would have done it if the tables were reversed. She gets up, sees her kids, has her santy time, drives into work, comes home to her family, has her cosy family Christmas dinner.
I got up in a cold damp bedsit, with nobody to wish me a happy Christmas, no friends or family in this strange city, walked the 4 miles to work because there was no buses and I was a kid in first job so no car or money for taxis. Went home, sat in my cold damp bedsit and cried my eyes out with lonliness, thinking of my family all gathered together for Christmas.
It was the millenium, so I had offered to work New Year's eve, 1999, for which there was no extra cash or anything like there were in some work places, if she would do Christmas for me. I thought it would have been a fair swap really. I was prepared to miss the millenium celebrations with family, just to spend Christmas with them.
Her actual argument was similar to yours "you want to see your family on Christmas day, and so do I, so I'm not swapping". She failed to notice that she would see her family that day, whereas I couldn't. We only had to do a half day too, for which I lost all of Christmas.Didn't blame work at all. They needed the cover, and on the weekly rotation I was rostered on. My manager was shocked that I couldn't get the swap.
Because it was Christmas and it would have been a nice thing to do. I would have done it if the tables were reversed. She gets up, sees her kids, has her santy time, drives into work, comes home to her family, has her cosy family Christmas dinner.
I got up in a cold damp bedsit, with nobody to wish me a happy Christmas, no friends or family in this strange city, walked the 4 miles to work because there was no buses and I was a kid in first job so no car or money for taxis. Went home, sat in my cold damp bedsit and cried my eyes out with lonliness, thinking of my family all gathered together for Christmas.
It was the millenium, so I had offered to work New Year's eve, 1999, for which there was no extra cash or anything like there were in some work places, if she would do Christmas for me. I thought it would have been a fair swap really. I was prepared to miss the millenium celebrations with family, just to spend Christmas with them.
Her actual argument was similar to yours "you want to see your family on Christmas day, and so do I, so I'm not swapping". She failed to notice that she would see her family that day, whereas I couldn't. We only had to do a half day too, for which I lost all of Christmas.Didn't blame work at all. They needed the cover, and on the weekly rotation I was rostered on. My manager was shocked that I couldn't get the swap.
Take it to Letting Off Steam perhaps?
But you choose to work on the other side of the country. That's hardly her problem.
But you choose to work on the other side of the country. That's hardly her problem.
Jaysus, have a heart....
A little learning is a dangerous thingIndeed. The wench from work isn't the only Scrooge around it seems.
Believe me, I'd be back in the west as quick as a flash if only there was a chance of a career for me. One of the biggest unspoken about tragedies of this generation is the fact that thousands of people who availed of the free 3rd level education now find themselves hours from home and family, mortgaged to the hilt on a shoebox, and facing a dismal prospect of settling down in over crowded urban areas, when they always saw themselves back at their rural roots. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing really.
It's ironic that education can trap you sometimes, rather than set you free....
I normally dont post in LOS but have to say I find this comment ridiculous and would think it a friday afternoon attempt at trolling if I hadnt read the build up to it.It's ironic that education can trap you sometimes, rather than set you free....
Sorry Trafford - but I think u have a few issues here - there is nothing really stopping u from jacking it all in in Dublin and moving to the west, there are oppertunities there and businesses, though you probably would have to take a cut in salary...
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