# Working on New Years Day- how'd that go?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-new-years-day-howd-that-go/776164>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 2, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-new-years-day-howd-that-go/776164 "2017-01-02T19:13:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-new-years-day-howd-that-go/776164/1 "2017-01-02T19:13:55Z")

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The warehouse I work at is open on Jan 1, so I went in yesterday. My dept. has 150+ people and we had fewer than 50 show up for work, and we had similar turn-out in other areas. Part of it is that with the start of a new quarter people get two sick days, but it seems pretty short-sighted to use one the first _day_, and depend on that one remaining day to get you to April, even with our four day workweek.

For others that worked the holiday, how was employee turnout?

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**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-new-years-day-howd-that-go/776164/2 "2017-01-03T02:13:22Z")

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Work at a power plant, everyone scheduled was here.