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Hi everyone, call out in holiday can cause you trouble?

Specializes in Geriatrics.

You may not get fired but you sure aren't going to make any friends among your coworkers. I mean what are you, 4? Your birthday is just another day...happens every year. Same with Holidays in my opinion, celebrate on another day, it's not that big a deal.  

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Specializes in Med-surg.

It's a big deal bc besides be a holiday or not I don't have family with me and it's gonna be the first time in the last four year that I'm gonna have the opportunity to celebrate with them 

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

Hi, it depends on the organization's policy. Some companies will require you to make it up by matching the missed holiday by one of equal value (Major holiday to major holiday and minor holiday to minor holiday). Additionally, you will lose the holiday pay.

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BSNRN_ said:

It's a big deal bc besides be a holiday or not I don't have family with me and it's gonna be the first time in the last four year that I'm gonna have the opportunity to celebrate with them 

That's not at all what you said in your first posts. Your story keeps changing and you've edited at least one of them. This makes us skeptical. Regardless, you picked a profession that requires you work on days you'd rather not. You are going to need to come to terms with it. Calling out as you plan to do has consequences and not just to you. It impacts the patients and your co-workers as well. If you go ahead with this stunt you can be sure that, along with the institutional punishment you're likely to receive,  no one will be willing to cover anything for you in the future and your professional reputation will take a hit. The consequences of that happening can be long-lasting. I caution you to think long and hard about potentially torpedoing your career in that medical system over one day. 

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Specializes in Med-surg.

Don't worry guys, by the end of the thing my manager gave me that day off, thank you for everyone's help 🙃

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I'm glad they worked it out for you. 

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I think this is hospital specific 

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Specializes in LTC.
BSNRN_ said:

Bc it's at night, the holiday for night shift in my hospital is the night before, and my bday is the next day, I don't wanna be all day sleeping in my bday 

Welcome to adulthood. 

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For us, you get double points if you call in on a holiday. So those points add up. 

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Well we do work in healthcare and it's a 24/7 365 day a year kind of place. You really want to save your call ins for a rainy day. You never know when you might really need them. As for holidays, everyone has to take their turn. Given complete freedom of choice, no one would work the holidays. But again the hospitals don't shut down just because it's the holidays. Be fair to your colleagues and take your turn like everyone else. 

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If it's an emergency, but if you are scheduled to work and have advanced notice of this, then why not notify them before then that you cannot make it?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
delrionurse said:

If it's an emergency, but if you are scheduled to work and have advanced notice of this, then why not notify them before then that you cannot make it?

But if you have advance notice it's not really an emergency, is it? Emergencies aren't planned and anybody going to their supervisor/scheduler and saying they are going to have an emergency on a Holiday and can't make it that day would be laughed out of the room.

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