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Post by donkeydo on Dec 11, 2009 21:27:38 GMT
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Post by sarah00000 on Dec 12, 2009 7:00:28 GMT
donkeydo - you have done the right thing to say no and whoever got the hump deserves a huge wake up call...........
Stick to your guns and have your xmas day off! xx
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Dec 12, 2009 7:12:23 GMT
Ye totally agree. Don't give in..you deserve a break too. When I worked in nursing homes it was always the same  xx |
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Post by donkeydo on Dec 12, 2009 13:26:34 GMT
I wouldnt have minded but I was already doing my share when some were only doing one night over the holiday period. Going to have a word with the one who got the hump and my boss!
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Post by sarah00000 on Dec 12, 2009 19:23:44 GMT
I would definately. I have given you a karma for your hard work and having to put up with thoughtless individuals!
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Post by donkeydo on Dec 12, 2009 19:26:04 GMT
Cheers Lovepink I am slowly calming down!
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Post by lucretia on Dec 12, 2009 19:27:44 GMT
It is awful having to work so many nights over Christmas and new Year. When I worked shifts we used to split it so everyone had something off and it was fair, Dont give in and enjoy your Christmas night off !!
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Post by ada on Dec 12, 2009 23:18:10 GMT
you are a star, karma on its way, Merry Christmasxxxxx
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Post by fayeandash on Dec 12, 2009 23:50:03 GMT
my mum is just like you, she will work all over christmas and new year, and never gets thought any better of, she just gets moaned at by her boss when she can't do a shift, she is an absolute star and so are you, without my mum helping out we couldn't afford our ponies, and ash wouldn't be able to do what she loves, i love my mum loads for what she does for us, and i'm sure your family think the world of you for what you do, you both are fab, karma on the way (can't give my mum a karma as she isn't a member on here, but i have packed her christmas bag full of goodies, i love her loads  ) |
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Post by donkeydo on Dec 13, 2009 9:30:30 GMT
Thanku. I have emailed my boss so will be interesting the reply when he gets in the office Monday.
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Post by Giddie on Dec 13, 2009 13:54:44 GMT
I would also stick to my guns if l am expected to work so many days over the Christmas period. Like most have said we have all been there and l within my job still am but it is expected that l work either Christmas or New year. Having worked every Christmas since 1975 and most New Year l thought l am this year going to have one of those periods off. So l am working Christmas Eve ..Off Christmas Day and Boxing Day and amazingly l am Off New Years Eve but working New Years Day..So l think l have got a good deal this year.
Generally in my career you are either expected to work Christmas period or the New Year period weather you have children or not !!
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Post by apple123 on Dec 13, 2009 17:20:34 GMT
my mum is just like you, she will work all over christmas and new year, and never gets thought any better of, she just gets moaned at by her boss when she can't do a shift, she is an absolute star and so are you, without my mum helping out we couldn't afford our ponies, and ash wouldn't be able to do what she loves, i love my mum loads for what she does for us, and i'm sure your family think the world of you for what you do, you both are fab, karma on the way (can't give my mum a karma as she isn't a member on here, but i have packed her christmas bag full of goodies, i love her loads ) Ahhh!!! I'll give you a karma for being so lovely about my Mum!   ;D |
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Post by emma3870 on Dec 13, 2009 17:28:42 GMT
i am working christmas morning hopefully if i feel better and not in hospital! love milking that morning. sometimes do new years morning as well - go home from a night out and get changed, quic cuppa an off i go. sleep the rest of the day though and then down to mums for tea
does gripe though when you put yourself out and others dont
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Post by bowditchblobs on Dec 14, 2009 16:40:52 GMT
Our night staff in our care home are all great we split it out evenly there are only six of us and we all get on. Management leave us to it, im doing xmas eve and new years eve, it's hard xmas morning all the residents all want to get up super early!!!
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Post by donkeydo on Dec 15, 2009 16:16:48 GMT
hmmm no reply from my boss from my email. But he did send me one asking if I minded an unqualified colleague having christmas eve off as she has babysitting problems, hmmm let me think! Of course I said no no probs with that.
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Post by proudwilliam on Dec 15, 2009 19:14:20 GMT
Before I retired I was the Senior Nurse of a in patient unit for people with a Learning Disability as management I was not meant to work nights [ never got paid for it[ but I usually did nights christmas eve and new years eve to give the staff the night off.
Ask the boss why they are not volunteering to work the shift?
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Post by nici on Dec 15, 2009 21:11:57 GMT
My OH is having Christmas Day off this year. In his current job, that's the only bank holiday the company observes. All other days are normal working days, and if they fall on your rostered days you work them, if they don't then you're lucky. As his rostered days off are Sunday and Tuesday, he will only get Christmas Day. He works 2am til about 10am, so goes to bed very early evening. Oh and he doesn't get extra pay for working Boxing Day, New Year etc as they're just normal working days.
However we're just grateful he has a job, after being made redundant from his previous job at the start of the year and being unemployed for several months. Our daughter and I will just have to get by without seeing much of him - at least he'll be able to share her excitement on Christmas Day.
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Post by donkeydo on Dec 15, 2009 21:24:27 GMT
Ask the boss why they are not volunteering to work the shift? Think that why he was so desperate as he'd have to do it! We had a pay cut not long ago but atleast I've got a job |
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