Working Holidays

my hospital has the same policy. good thing is, if you can find someone willing to switch a holiday (ie - christmas with thanksgiving, thanksgiving with new years) with you, it can be done without argument from management.

i have a heads-up to nurses with kids harrassing myself and other single, childfree nurses to work for them, or work/stay over extra so they can be with their kids on christmas morning. repeat after me - if you don't want to work weekends, nights, holidays, or a combination of those, go work at a bank instead, and stop freaking griping about it!!!!! ugh! while you're at it, be thankful you *have* a job to go to; you could have been laid-off or downsized instead.

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i have a kid, and i agree 100%!!! it's not just about kids. i have a problem with the first thing you said, though. if you can switch, yeah that's great. but what about the ones who can't? there are always people who seem to weasel out of their commitments, when it was indeed their turn to work it.

case in point: i work per-diem, and at my institution, i do not have to work holidays :icon_wink (lucky me!!). so i've had many offers to work for people on the holidays (you wouldn't by any chance want to work on xxx. would you?) one of my co-workers offered to work 12/31, and 1/1, as she wanted thanksgiving and christmas off. (the staff gets to request most and least requested days off). so she got it. now, she's trying to re-neg on it, stating "it's not the holiday i mind, but i usually don't work 2 nights in a row:" i had no sympathy for her, as she tries these things for every weekend and holiday. so if i would have agreed to work for her, she would have again gotten out of her commitment!!

i'm not bitter :icon_evil , it's just i'm never the one who gets away with stuff like that. and just remember, although i am per-diem, i get no paid sick or holidays, benefits, and they owe me no amount of hours per schedule.