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Man that isn't fun! Do you work retail? At my last job, I told them on my interview the only day I wanted off was BF. Hey, they asked if I had any vacation plans! LOL And for the 4 years I was there, I got BF off while everyone else worked!
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Black Friday is a company holiday for me, so I should be off, this year we also have Christmas Eve.... It makes more sense because people are less likely to call in sick (and we're not a hospital, fire or police department where people are needed to work on those holidays...).
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I work in primary care pediatrics and there are 9 other pedis we cover for so we all take turns. The offices are open 365 days a year for somebody to cover from 8a-8p...it really sucks :( I may try to go before work if there are any deals too good to pass up.

 

I said earlier Christmas will be small this year as we are leaving for a cruise on 1/3/10 and will be sure to spend lots of $$$ then :rolleyes:

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I don't shop on BF but our offices are closed. I have worked that day in the past.

 

If Christmas Eve is a work day we close at 3pm.

 

I always turn in my vacation schedule in Jan for the following year to make sure I have 1/2 day Vday & Halloween for the kids parties. Then always schedule 12/26. I do shop the day after Christmas.

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Unless something drastic happens, we'll be off the entire holiday season. My wife has taken up travel nursing, so if ya don't wanna work the holidays...don't take a contract then! It'll be the first Christmas in a while that we don't have to worry about how work will screw up our plans again (they always liked to pull the "everyone has to work a half shift on Christmas" routine, vs rotating).
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I work on a corporate offices and we always have BF and X-mas eve off. They also close the last week in December (we get pay for that week).

I got those days off too (though the week in Dec. was taken as "mandatory vacation/office closure" so we got 6 days Vac. the rest of the year instead of 10 :( ) but we just got bought out by a bigger company and no longer get those days off unless we use Vac. time :(

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