I hate my CEO.

The BBQ Pit
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This asshole has decided this year that our financial institution is going to be open all day on Monday (New Years Eve). In previous years, we have closed at noon. He has only been with us for two NYE so far, and thinks he was “tricked” into closing early last year. He asserts that we never closed early on NYE previously. Yes sir, your staff lies to you, because the truth about things like that could never be proved. Dipshit.

I, being the instigator I am, searched through newsletters and pulled ones from 2002 and 2003 (well prior to us being saddled with him), both showing we closed early on this day. I gave them to my manager, who said, “well, this won’t change his mind at this point, but hopefully it will help out for next year.”

Basically, since he has already said we will not close, if he reneges now and says we will, he thinks he will come across as wishy washy. I think coming across as WW would be a hell of a lot better than coming across as a closedminded asshole, but hey, I’m not the CEO, so I’m not privy to these things.

On Friday, the great news came out that my manager is taking the day off. Fine, I have no problem with her doing that. She works a lot, and doesn’t take a lot of vacation time. The other manager is going to be there for a half day. fine with me, I wish she’s take it off, as I can’t stand her anyway, nor can anyone else. The best part is that the CEO (the only other management level official left) is – surprise – going to take the day off.

So, all us peons have to work, and he can say we were open all day, but the fuckwit doesn’t have to be there. Win-win for him!

Happy New Year, dickhead.

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Why shouldn’t the business be open for regular hours on new years eve? ‘Because we closed early in the past’ is a dumb excuse.

Maybe you should only be open for half a day on Friday because it is almost the weekend. Of course, by that logic, you should really only be opened for half the day on Mondays as well.

Maybe the CEO decided that maybe it is in the best interests of the customers to keep normal business hours.

I recommend that you keep your mouth shut, lest you look like embittered jerk with entitlement issues.

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“Because we closed early in the past” is a GREAT reason, if the only reason the decision makers give for staying open normal hours is “we never closed early before.” Providing proof that there’s precedent (and not a trick or a lie) accomplishes two things - proves that the employees are trustworthy on issues like this, and forces the person in charge to give honest reasons for their decision, or be exposed as a liar.

Personally, I like it when the people who make decisions for others are required to reveal their reasoning for those decisions; I feel that, especially in areas where petty territory or authority disputes are common, it leads to a better working relationship for everybody, in the long run.

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How about finding a friendly shareholder to ask an awkward question at the AGM? You know, something along the lines of, “You made the staff work a full day on New Year’s Eve yet you took the day off; do you think that’s good leadership?”

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It’s traditional for those in the financial services industry (banks, credit unions) to close early on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, because our service providers also close early. Can’t clear checks, do wires or western union transfers, fix ATM issues, you name it. Keeping us open is akin to keeping a gas station open that is out of gas. But hey, we didn’t close!

Besides, I am an embittered jerk with entitlement issues. What’s your point?

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I think that’s a splendid idea. Thank you, I’ll bring that one up directly the next time he comes in for work.

I know that sounds facetious, but I mean it sincerely. It’s a really good point.

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I’m always the one at work who asks why. One of these days, you’d think he’d offer an explanation for his decision when informing us of his decision. After all, he asks for an explanation from the rest of us.

But, A Priori Tea, that just ain’t gonna happen. He’s fixed in his ways. He still uses the phrase, “think outside of the box”.

Threadjack: Nice shapely buttocks, BTW.

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Commiserations, dude. I’m in the same boat. Last year I had the whole weekend off. This year I’m working NYE until 10:00pm and new year’s day until 8:00pm. I’m not even getting any extra money for it. Oh, to be as benevolent as a multi-billion dollar conglomerate :rolleyes:

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That’s why they are a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. Look, free work outta you! Profit!

10

Trade you both.

I’ll be working a 12 hour overnight shift on New Years Eve. 7pm-7am.

sigh

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Well, it does seem to follow the trend of banks being open longer and longer hours for the convenience of their customers. My bank has Saturday and Sunday hours and is open until 7PM Monday through Thursday, and 8PM on Friday. I know a check won’t clear on Sunday, but it’s still nice to able to deposit it if I’m out running around already on the weekend.

And it was very nice being able to find out why the hell my bank account was empty and file a police report the same day when my roommate stole my checks.

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Oh, boo-hoo. I was on duty at a military base on New Year’s Eve 1999 just in case civilization cumbled.

It didn’t, thanks to us.

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Oh, boo hoo. I was at work NYE 1999 to make sure your finances didn’t dissapear. They didn’t, thanks to us.

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We have ATM’s and night drop boxes for your deposits, so we needn’t be there. Not to mention there is the home banking system to see your account transactions. So all the normal bases are covered in our case.

Sorry about your roommate. I often get a call from a woman whose roommate steals her debit card and racks up charges on the Psychic Network. You think she’d see it coming.

No, really.

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That’s really the best point here. My bank is closing early on NY Eve, but not half-day early. I think I actually walk into a bank 4-5 times a year, everything I need to do I can do on-line, who needs people there?

Though on my first reading of the OP my first reaction was more along the lines of “oh shut up, quit whining and go to work ya big cry-baby”, I think you have every right to bitch a little about this.

A little, like adam yax says, you don’t want to be the one to carry the water on this, because on the whole, it is a pretty minor thing. Let a manager or another officer bring it to him, it’ll carry more weight and not make you stand out like the company Whack-A-Mole.

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Feh. I don’t mind playing Whack-A-Mole as long as I get the mallet occasionally. I don’t mind being the one to point fingers. While I trust my manager, I don’t think she grasps the seriousness of the issue and may assume it’ll all blow over. Which it would, until it surfaced again at the same time next year, unresolved.

It’s not really a big deal to me; it’s the hypocrisy of it all that irks me. I do not go out on NYE anyway.
However, my coworker with over twice my length of employment would like to go out, and has previously. Now she cannot, as:
1.) We were only notified of this on the 23rd
2.) She has to fill in for the departing (to party) management.

If we were notified of this in say, January 2007 or even December 1st it wouldn’t be as much of an issue. It’s the late timing, accusatory tone (the staff pulling a “fast one” on him) and him surreptitiously taking the day off. But we’re open for bidness!

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So it was your fault I had to keep on paying my mortgage and credit card bills in 2000?

Thanks a fucking bunch.

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Heh. I used to work for the opposite CEO. In addition to your (minimum) 2 weeks of paid vacation every year, and your (minimum) 1 week of paid sick leave every year, and your 12 paid legal holidays every year, our CEO also closed us down with pay for the approximately 2 weeks between Xmas and New Years, because he remembered how it sucked to work over the holidays.

If he wasn’t going to be there, then he wouldn’t make us be there. And yes, this was a big international company, largest in it’s industry in the world. He was just a really good guy. I cried the day I had to move away from that place… :frowning:

Now I work for family… so what is a holiday/weekend/day off again? :rolleyes:

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I’m sorry you have to work a full day - it does seem unfair but…
Firefighters
Police
Doctors
Nurses
Transit workers
Utility employees
Radio and TV station employees
Restaurant workers
Hotel employees
Gas station attendants
CSR reps for many companies
Ambulance drivers
Theater employees
and many more I’m sure I missed…
have to work their regular overnight shifts.

Think about them to make yourself feel a bit better.

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If it makes you feel any better, both me and my fiance have spent our Christmas vacation sick as dogs. We both caught the same serious, energy draining cold, the kind that tears your sleeppatterns apart by not allowing enough air to breathe, and making us get up every 90 minutes because of Severe Parched Mouth Syndrome. Add a gut-wrenching cough, and you’ll believe my fiance and I both have been walking round the house day and night like pale sneezing zombies.

I’d rather have been healty, and at work. This sure has been the suckiest Christmas ever.