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    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Nov 10 06:51:16 2021
    Daryl wrote --

    Same here. One guy has enough time built up that he can be off from Thanksgiving Week until after New Years Day.

    Marshall University has a good idea.
    Employees work on minor holidays others take off (Columbus Day, Veterans
    Day, etc) and roll those into Christmas week. From around 23 December to
    the first work day after New Years, the university is shut down tight.
    Every office closes, etc.
    There is a skeleton crew in case something happens. One person in IT,
    one in maintenance, one in housing, etc. Mostly they come in and warm a chair for the day. But 99.9 per cent of the employees are off.
    This is on a volunteer basis. Never mind they are making like time and a half those days.

    However, my being posted at a university I took six weeks a year off.

    Is that an unpaid vacation??

    Of course.

    Being retired (and still working) I can refuse and not a lot the company can do about it. :)

    I thought you were going to retire and turn in your uniform in January.

    Its looking less and less likely now.
    I used to joke with the current police dispatcher when she worked in the parking office I would be there forever, using a walker to get around
    campus. That may more truth than I expected.
    Joe
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  • From Ron Lauzon@1:275/89 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Nov 10 08:23:00 2021
    JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

    This is on a volunteer basis. Never mind they are making like time
    and a half those days.

    Back when I worked at General Motors, we normally got the day before Christmas to the day after New Year's Day off. But for hourly workers, if they had to work that week, got overtime plus holiday pay - effectively triple time. So for 1 week's "work", they got 1 month's pay.

    They used to play the strangest games to align themselves to be able to get work that week. (There's a bunch of Union rules about who gets asked for overtime.)


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Nov 10 14:38:00 2021
    Joe,

    There is a skeleton crew in case something happens. One person in
    IT, one in maintenance, one in housing, etc. Mostly they come in and
    warm a chair for the day. But 99.9 per cent of the employees are off.
    This is on a volunteer basis. Never mind they are making like time
    and a half those days.

    Volunteering for time and a half??

    I used to joke with the current police dispatcher when she worked in the parking office I would be there forever, using a walker to get
    around campus. That may more truth than I expected.

    Just add a flashing blue light bar and siren to it, and you'll be all set.

    Daryl

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