Snow Day???

Cap'n Blackett

Cap'n Blackett

Tulipnik
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So when do jobs normally declare a snow day? Is it based on inches of snow or what?

Also, is it legal for my boss to not give me MLK day off on Monday, seeing's how it's a national holiday and all?

Also, Central Park looks like Narnia and the snowy mist is blocking out the view of all the buildings, so it looks extra real.

 
R

R and R

determined
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I grew up in New York and have worked here in many jobs. The only time there is ever a snow day (for school or work) is if there is a real blizzard that shuts down transportation which happens.....never. (Maybe once every ten years or so).

National holidays I don't believe are mandatory to have off unless you work in a government job.
 
Resnik

Resnik

Foxhole Athiest
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Snow days are declared when the employee starts thinking aloud about how awful it's going to be getting home in this weather.

MLK Day is totes a day off. No banks? No you at work.

Narnia is gay.
 
EthanK

EthanK

Prestige format
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Companies give days off at their discretion. Usually only government jobs or jobs with a union are allowed to demand certain days off. How many times have you gone shopping on a national holiday? All the people running the stores don't get that day off.
 
HairballofDoom

HairballofDoom

Bearded Daddio from Mars!
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I called up my boss last year during the one real snow storm asking if we were still going to be open, she told me the last time we closed due to snow was in the early eighties and to be careful walking in.

Connecticut, however, gave snow days like a mofo. Though my high school rarely did, well half of the school rarely got snow days. Since we bussed in kids from the surrounding towns on snowy days the kids from the outer towns (Voluntown, Colchester, occasionally Preston) would get days off or delays that those of us living within the actual school district did not get.

Every time it snows I always remember the AM radio dj Johny London's snow cancellation rally cry, "No school, no buses." Woe be the day when there was school but no buses.
 
Cap'n Blackett

Cap'n Blackett

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EthanK said:
Companies give days off at their discretion. Usually only government jobs or jobs with a union are allowed to demand certain days off. How many times have you gone shopping on a national holiday? All the people running the stores don't get that day off.
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While this totally makes sense to me, why the hell is it a national holiday, then?

Was Fred trying to say that if you are forced to work that day, then you get holiday pay?

I made a sad face when my boss was iffy about giving us the day off, so she is letting us have the day. It also worked later when she tried to reneg on the three weeks of vacation I was promised when I started this job - she agreed to the 3 weeks and also to 5 personal days (she tried to say today that the third week should be the personal days, but that was NOT what she said when she was trying to hire me). I don't know how long the sad face thing will work, but I plan on employing it from now on.
 
Cap'n Blackett

Cap'n Blackett

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Will Choy said:
The spirit of the holiday seems lost on you.
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Not sure what's wrong with hoping that everyone gets to enjoy a day off on a national holiday, but I'm glad you let me know what your keen insight into my psyche is. Your judgy post showed me the true meaning of the spirit of the holiday. You're swell.
 
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Fred Garvin

Active Member
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most places have a list of holidays they honor - and there are regional variances. Down here in Virginia, many people don't get Columbus day off. if you are forced to work on those listed days you should get extra pay
 
M

mikelibrarian

Lost in the stacks.
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HairballofDoom said:
I called up my boss last year during the one real snow storm asking if we were still going to be open, she told me the last time we closed due to snow was in the early eighties and to be careful walking in.
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Your museum should have gotten off more recently than that. A few years ago we had a severe snow storm and the mayor asked all non-essential personnel to stay home. I view essential people as the ploice, firemen and medical personnel and in the Brooklyn Museum's case the guy whose chanting pacifies the mummies.
 
HairballofDoom

HairballofDoom

Bearded Daddio from Mars!
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mikelibrarian said:
Your museum should have gotten off more recently than that. A few years ago we had a severe snow storm and the mayor asked all non-essential personnel to stay home. I view essential people as the ploice, firemen and medical personnel and in the Brooklyn Museum's case the guy whose chanting pacifies the mummies.
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Ahhh! My boss lies to me! Or it could be that both she and I live within walking distance of the Museum.
 
EthanK

EthanK

Prestige format
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Dunford said:
National holiday means that government institutions are closed. Anything else is gravy.

Gravy is, to be fair, delicious.
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There are numerous national holidays that you never hear about, yet they are still national holidays. National Day of the Cowboy is the first that springs to mind, that got a resolution in Congress, signed by W himself. The Fed doesn't get off for them, but I'm sure that if they wanted to be dicks they could find a national holiday granted for every day of the year. But they wouldn't take off for them.

I don't get Columbus Day or Veterans Day off. I didn't get MLK day off until I switched jobs last year. I also don't get National Tapioca Pudding Day, National Baseball Card Day, National Mole Day, National Day of Appreciation of Abortion Providers, or National Hot Dog Day. We don't get off for National Estuaries Day, National Mustard Day, Freedom of Information Day, or National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.
 
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Will Choy

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Cap'n Blackett said:
Not sure what's wrong with hoping that everyone gets to enjoy a day off on a national holiday.
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When all you seem to care about is getting a day off because some other people, that's wrong. There are more important things to think about on that day.

And thanks for calling me swell. It's always nice to be complimented.
 
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Cap'n Blackett

Cap'n Blackett

Tulipnik
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Sorry if it came across that way - I did not mean that was the only important thing about the day and I was feeling very cranky because I couldn't believe anyone would see my quickly dashed off post to mean that, but I can see how it read that way. And sorry for being a jerk to you, Will - it sucks to be mis-judged and I got defensive.
 
Resnik

Resnik

Foxhole Athiest
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Back on topic.

I believe if you show up on Monday in blackface, they have to give you the day off - with the option of extending that indefinitely.
 
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