I perfected the art of balancing a folder so no one but me could see what I was writing… and getting SO much done during meetings. Doodling, writing… started a second career as a sketch artist and worked on a screenplay. All while glancing up occasionally and nodding so I looked like I was paying attention. Once I even read a comic book just to see if I could do it.
Seriously, if I HAD been listening in all those meetings I’d have done myself or someone else harm just to relieve the tedium…
So apparently this year Christmas Eve will be a business-as-usual day instead of a paid corporate holiday, but HR is offering free gift wrapping services?
I wish I could do this, but my coworker are very nosy! I can sometimes get away with checking out Twitter on the laptop if I sit in the right place where no one can see the screen.
One of my dear darling co-workers is working her last day of the year before she goes on vacation, and has pretty much decided she’s not doing any work today. She’s currently having a very loud speakerphone conversation regarding Verizon and Apple watches, occasionally bellowing for passers-by to offer their opinions.
I work as a discount store cashier, and one of our holiday temps has decided she only has to work when she feels like it. Last night I told her to open and she just walked away. I told the manager, and now said temp is mad at me for doing so.
Look, sweetie, you are here to work. Particularly this time of year. I explained to you that if there are more than three people on my line, you open yours. I shouldn’t have to tell you to do so, and you don’t walk away when I tell you to open.
Happy Fucking New Year! I just my new policy my company settled on where instead of operating the call center with a skeleton crew on holiday and let people bid for shifts they just fully staff everything business as usual and then randomly start letting people go home at random times because there are few if any calls coming and no other work to do. Everyone loves not being able to make any kind of plans. This is a great company to work for, not at all a total shitshow.
Income taxes are figured on your total income for the year, whether it is paid weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or an annual dividend check. And the withholdings taken from each check are also totaled at the end of the year, and used to compute how much refund you get (or additional tax you owe).
So it doesn’t matter what is on individual checks; in the end it is the whole year totals that determine the tax amount. You pay the same tax no matter what.
You are of course correct that, in the end, it makes no difference to the total tax bill.
It can affect the immediate take-home pay though. Certain deductions may not happen on a bonus check (401k contributions for instance), and my company would do a straight 20% Federal income tax withholding.
Good grief! Where I worked you had to bid into working a holiday; if you wanted the day off, you simply didn’t bid. Management always warned people might get assigned the day but never had to evoke it – with double time and a half, there generally were plenty of people bidding, to the point where not all bidders would be successful.
On the other hand, at one point about a half dozen of us top agents were cross-trained on taking Canadian calls. The Toronto desk was perpetually understaffed and the idea was if their queue filled, we’d start catching the overflow. Ordinary days this meant 10 to 25% of our calls were Canadian.
Then came Independence Day. All six of us had bid for working that day and wound up taking about thirty calls as compared to the non-cross-trained agents getting about eight. We went en masse to management, pointed out the discrepancy, and asked we be taken off of the Canadian queue for future holidays. “No can do,” they said. “No further bids,” we shot back.
After that, the only holidays we worked were the ones we had in common with our northern cousins: Christmas and New Year.
I got to leave at 2PM; my entire department got a grand total of 2 calls, on of which was me testing the line. Our client is closed, all our vendors are closed, and so is almost every doctor’s office and hospital insurance verification office in the country. Also forget to take my new Kindle Paperwhite to work.
My husband is a regional truck driver - meaning he comes home every night. Yesterday he had a THREE different deliveries to companies that were CLOSED!
He called back to the yard after the first one, and was told to just bring it back. He came back to the yard being unable to make the other two deliveries, as well as unable to make a return load - because he didn’t have room on his truck.
He got fussed at by his boss for not calling back to the yard about the other closures. My husband told him that maybe the dispatcher should have checked that the places were open! Turns out that his boss was the dispatcher, because the regular dispatchers were on vacation. The boss didn’t say much after that.
Where I work, a couple of weeks before the holiday, a sign-up sheet is posted. If you’re willing to work on any of three days (the holiday and the two days preceding). I don’t usually sign it, but I usually work holidays anyway, because that’s my shift (days off Wednesday and Thursday). At the Post Office, we get paid for the holiday regardless, with double-time if we work.
Imagine my surprise when I showed up on Christmas Eve and learned that I was scheduled to have it off.
Where I worked it was simply an email from the work force guys, “If you want X holiday off, reply to this message.” The names would be submitted to management who in a week or so notify those who were deemed worthy. All this was five or six weeks before the holiday in question except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year would be handled in a bunch in early October. As I said yesterday, I never heard of anyone being drafted into working the holiday.
Starting in 2008 the company was subsumed into a major bank which meant we were supposed to get all Federal holidays off. For those holidays with a negligible retail impact, like MLK or Presidents’ Day we would work while the ‘real’ bank employees got the day off. To make up for this we got Personal Leave days they did not. You had to ask for one ahead of time, like an ordinary vacation day, but if the hours were available you could put in a request as little as 48 hours before the day.
At my current workplace we have the federal holidays off, plus Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
My previous workplace was a hospital, so one worked their regular schedules, but got time and a half pay. And if you wanted, say Christmas off you could trade with someone if you could fine a coworker who would take it for you. I always wanted Easter off, so I’d work Christmas for someone, as most folks cared more about it.
I remember “buying duty” in the military over the big holidays. You’d pay someone to take your duty. It got pretty complicated if you happened to be on more than one duty roster.
I just got asked If our company is set up to pay the duties, taxes, and transportation to company X who is responsible for the duties, who is responsible for the taxes and who is responsible for the transportation? then she asked where are they authorized to ship from? I asked "do we have customers who can only ship from one distribution center and not the other? She answered back “no”.
I must be missing something in these questions. whoever said there is not such thing as a stupid question has never met some of the people i have worked with.
My company has Federal holidays plus NYE and Christmas eve plus usually three or so “floating holidays” so people can take MLJ day off if they wish. The powers that be have decided to give us Good Friday off instead of one of the floating Holidays. What the heck!? Since the rest of world is working that day, I will probably have to work from home anyway
First day of 2020 at work, and already my coworker is making me unhappy. That’s a new record, I think. I don’t like when people think they can do my job better than I can. I would like very much to tell him to do it himself if he doesn’t like the way I do it. Next time he wants me to work on something, I’m going to be “too busy” to help.