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oldtanker

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Yesterday morning my son in law and I were going to use the Farmall 1206 with loader to unload a tractor cab from the back of his pickup. That's when we discovered the wash nest. I'm allergic to the darned things so I headed to the closest place that sells spray for em. It's a "Dollar General" store. I figured they would be open but with minimum staff. They had employees in there working freight. Guess labor day to Dollar General means that the employees labor......

So later in the day I got online and started looking at different stores and their hours of operation on a holiday.....Lot of em open for business with regular hours.

Kinda sad IMO.

Rick
 
Weekday holidays are good for many businesses people home an extra day doing odds and ends, home repair, things like that. Local
o'reillys is always very busy on a holiday, guess everyone uses that day to change oil on vehicles or repairs that they have put off. I
thought Labor Day was more of a union holiday, put into effect after a big transportation strike or something like that.

Joe
 
Full time employees should be receiving holiday pay plus at least straight pay for working the holiday (basically double time). The part time employees were probably SOL and only got their regular pay.
 
Starting this year the company I work for requires its employees to work the day before, the day of, and the day after every holiday. Failure to work those 3 days is termination. They also decided they no longer recognize holidays. So no extra holiday pay or time off. It's just a normal day with extra penalties for not being there. I was lucky they didn't do that last year. I came down with one of the worst cases of flu on Christmas eve I've ever had. Went home that day sick and called in Christmas day. I would've been fired on the spot.
 
Easier said than done. They're the only place around that pays decently. With their 12 hour shifts I have more actual days off and can get more farming done. Every other job in this area is minimum wage burger flippers.
 
Tons of folks around here closing up summer cottages, pools, etc. Add in the fact that many schools start today for the year, there was a crush of people around the business district yesterday. We plan ahead and stay away, far, far away.
 
(quoted from post at 07:03:31 09/05/17) Starting this year the company I work for requires its employees to work the day before, the day of, and the day after every holiday. Failure to work those 3 days is termination. They also decided they no longer recognize holidays. So no extra holiday pay or time off. It's just a normal day with extra penalties for not being there. I was lucky they didn't do that last year. I came down with one of the worst cases of flu on Christmas eve I've ever had. Went home that day sick and called in Christmas day. I would've been fired on the spot.
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I'd be getting online and checking state and federal law on that. I know some states require holiday pay regardless if the company recognizes a holiday or not.

Rick
 
I saw very few retail businesses closed yesterday.

Mostly government and factory type work are the only ones off.

Was surprised trash service ran, they usually never miss an excuse.
 
Local Farm and Fleet was closed yesterday... I was surprised, but thought it a good move for their employees. My crew (dairy farm) earned double pay yesterday.
 
That's one problem with working retail- the biggest shopping days are when many people are off work. They only close on the real "hard-core" holidays- Christmas and Thanksgiving, maybe a few others. Another problem with working retail is, well, working retail.
 
Garbage service here runs every day- they don't have any time or personnel or equipment to make up a route that they skipped because of a holiday. I think they get double time, so not many complaints.
 

If you give it a little thought, most businesses that do business with the public would be making many customers angry if they were closed. As coshoo said, businesses that run routes have a very difficult time to juggle things around to cover what was missed. Rick, your Dollar general has no owners in the stores. They are all workers.
 
Our trash day is on Monday, so with so many Monday holidays it gets missed quite often.

They don't make it up, we just loose it.

And bulk trash is the first Monday of the month. That rarely happens, even when it doesn't fall on a holiday. One time they missed bulk pick up 2 months in a row, tree limbs, trash everywhere! The solution, the city came around and put nasty notes on everyone's door, threatening a citation for trash.

I guess the mayors phone was ringing, next day it got picked up! LOL
 
Kansas4010,
You know where your company got that idea? China.

In the 6 years I worked over there, when there was a holiday, say 3 days in mid week, you were required to work the Sat/Sun the week before and the Sat the week after. Honest. It was not much of a holiday.
 
i use carb and choke cleaner it works better then the wasp and hornet stuff you get in the store
 
Before you get down on Kansas4010's employer, remember that there are other 24/7/365 operations besides farms that require people to be there working all the time.

I'm sure that you only have to work the holidays you are scheduled to work on, not every holiday.

12 hour shifts can mean 7 days on, 7 days off in a two week period (84 paid hours). You only have to work the day before, the day of, and the day after if you're scheduled to work.

What was happening is too many people were calling in sick or taking vacation on holidays, leaving the place short staffed and crippled. Some places can't be left crippled or people die, product spoils, etc..

If you're going to get down on someone, get down on the people who lack the work ethic to show up when scheduled, forcing the company to employ this policy.
 
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