The Super Bowl is once a year you miserable self-centered fuck. Evidently you work with fans willing to take one of their few sick days to fully enjoy the revelry, I’m sorry there is nothing more important in your life than work.
Suck it up, douche bag.
Really? In my experience, only schools, banks, the PO and government offices are closed on MLK. As far as I know, most office jobs have roughly 8 paid holidays a year. These are usually these major holidays:
New Year’s Day
President’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
The day after Thanksgiving
Christmas
“Minor” Federal Holidays, like MLK, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, etc. are usually not given. Sometimes particularly generous companies have a ‘floating’ holiday’, to be applied when Independence Day, Christmas, or New Year’s Day is on a Thursday or Tuesday, to make a 4-day weekend, or to be available for employees to request a day off of their choosing. Sometimes in that case, President’s Day, the most “minor” of the major holidays is sacrificed.
There’s taking one of your paid days off ahead of time, and there’s waking up at 6:30 am, saying “Fuck this” to your alarm clock, and calling in sick. Sure it’s only one day of the year, but at least if you take the day off in advance, everyone is aware that they’re going to be short-staffed and plan accordingly. I suppose everyone knows there will be a wave of “sick” people the Monday following the Super Bowl anyway, but the latter method is more douchey.
I prefer to think of it as being served with extra douche.
I’ve never seen anywhere (non-retail etc) not give the basic 6, which is the ones you list minus Presidents’ Day and the day after Thanksgiving.
Now, I am at a law firm - we tend to be very dependent on when the courts are closed. I just checked and we are closed as an office on:
NYD
MLK Day
Presidents’ Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Friday after Thanksgiving
Christmas Day
Though if you came to the place on Good Friday, you would be hard pressed to believe we were open.
Somebody wasn’t very enthusiastic about celebrating the Packers’ victory. What are you, some kind of fucking terrorist?
Twice recently I’ve gotten sick at the end of a vacation and had to take off work. Every time my manager makes a smartass comment about it I want to punch her in the mouth. Yeah, really, you dumb bitch, I absolutely *loved *spending the last day of my boyfriend’s visit vomiting up everything in my stomach.
You don’t know nearly enough people, then.
Some workplaces can’t use that as fodder against you. I know where I work, if I call in sick (assuming I have sick days to use,) that’s it…no ifs, ands, or buts. If I called in this past Monday, my boss wouldn’t be allowed to say,
“I don’t care if you’re hungover from the game, get your ass in or you’re fired!”
Some people still have separate vacation & sick time (I know I do, and have a shitload more sick time than vacation at the moment), and would likely get a :dubious: if they scheduled a “sick” day ahead of time.
The firm I’m working at now (part time) is closed on MLK day. I never thought of that as a “minor” holiday. Though the fact that it is seen that way in the south is definitely creepy to me…
Depending on how your company prioritizes paid time off, they may not care why people call in. So why do you? My company doesn’t separate personal time from sick time, it’s all lumped together as paid time off. We can call off 7 times a year without any consequences whatsoever. And most people where I work value their personal choice more than the happiness of their coworkers. wahhhhh
When I was working as a croupier, the number and occasion of sick days most certainly was one of the factors considered when looking at you for promotion. (whether “officially” or not though I am not sure).
If you called in sick on the “tradtional” hot days, depending on your history the boss may have asked for a medical certificate.
My company’s legal department has decided that our management is neither allowed to ask for, nor look at, doctor’s notes. Love it. Attendance policy is set in stone. Only downside is, they don’t care if you used up all your pto days in February and get acute appendicitis in November–an absence is an absence (though of course if you qualify for FMLA, you’ll get it–unpaid).
But if you hadn’t wasted your days early in the year, it wouldn’t be a problem.
I suppose. In my State they can fire you for not wearing shoes that match your purse, or because God spoke to the boss that morning after her quintuple-latte and seven morning glory seed bagels, or any non-Federally protected reason. When people don’t show up after things like Superbowls or the NCAA games, I can hear the tongues wagging in cubicleland through my office door, and then the VP will pop by and say something like “Tom’s not here, huh? Huh. Superbowl last night, right? Hm. Hmmmmmmmmm.” And you have to know it makes a difference.
I’m not defending it, just acknowledging the reality of my situation.
It must suck to work in a place that presumes to micromanage your personal life to this degree. You have the option of looking elsewhere, you know.
I’d hate to be the person who genuinely gets a case of the trots the day after Superbowl…even if they weren’t doing any Superbowl-a-brating!
Ahhh, the benefits of being a well-known sports hater. I have once or twice been sick the day after a major sport event. No one ever questioned my reason for being out because everyone knew beforehand that there wasn’t the slightest chance in hell it was sports related.
I once worked for a corporate cafeteria. Our head chef told me that he’d be taking the day after the Super Bowl off. He said it was a religious holiday and he’d be praying to the porcelain god. Being 19 at the time, a non-drinker, and a sports hater, I had no clue what he was talking about. When I got home, I looked up porcelain god on the internet and finally figured out what the hell he was talking about.
I have worked many retail and office jobs. I have never had MLK day off. My boyfriend used to get it off when he worked for PBS. Other than that, I’m not aware of anyone I know who works outside of a school who gets the day off.
I did once have a customer get pissed at me for the fact that our office was semi-closed on Patriot’s Day (one person per department on phones and that was it). He said something to the effect of, “Your stupid football team finally wins a Super Bowl and now it’s a state holiday?” :smack:
So you consider MLK day to be on the same standing as New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas?
President’s Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day are also varying forms of minor. I’m sure there are probably some people in the South that don’t like the holiday because it celebrates some uppity negro’s birthday, but most of us don’t consider it major simply because it isn’t.
That sort of a policy sucks donkey balls. If I suspect someone is lying to me I want the ability to call him or her out.
If I catch someone in a lie, they will absolutely be fired.
Sick days are not for enjoying revelry. They are for being sick.
I’ve pre-ordered the Nintendo 3DS, which comes out on a Friday. I could easily claim that I’m sick that day, as I’ve built up good will with my bosses. Instead, I’ve booked holiday, because that’s what a responsible geek does.