You're kidding, right?

[apocalypsos]

I called my brother to ask him if they were still making him work on Christmas Eve and my mother said that now they're also making him work on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Okay, either he's doing overtime and lying about it or something is seriously up.

EDIT: So what happened is that they asked my brother who's still in training if he wanted to come in on Christmas Eve, he said no because he had plans, and they ordered him to come in anyway.

Okay, I've been working in this place for a year, and my uncle's been working there for at least ten.

1. He's still in training. He can't do overtime, which holidays count as.
2. You can't order someone to come in on a holiday.
3. You have to ask someone if they want to come in on a holiday. If they say no, you can't sign them up anyway.
4. On a purely not-in-the-rulebook level, there is no work in that factory. NO WORK. There is no freaking reason why a trainee has to come in for twelve hours each on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, AND New Year's Day to work. None. It is not vitally important to any of us work on a holiday. WE MAKE CDS AND DVDS, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. WE ARE NOT DOCTORS OR POLICEMEN OR FIREMEN.

My brother's going into the boss's office to bitch tomorrow morning. Honestly.

Also, I'm going to ask what the hell is going on when I go into work on Tuesday night. Seriously, I've been there a little over a year, and I've never heard of anything like this.

Comments

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Not knowing the real structure there (managerial), I'd say it almost sounds like a case of "little dog barking", ie; someone with too much power wielding it badly.

Hopefully he can get the time off or at least the right kind of pay!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Christ, who's his boss, Bill Lumberg? 'I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day.'

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Something about this situation is fucked UP.

[lazar-grrl.livejournal.com]

One would think from a purely monetary perspective management wouldn't want the guy who's going to be twiddling his thumbs to be there collecting pay, holiday scale or not. On an entirely unrelated topic, is the factory unionized? Your rep may have words about this situation.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I volunteered to come in for overtime on Thanksgiving. I've got tons of experience and I ended up spending seven hours out of twelve in a warehouse making plastic boxes because they didn't have any DVD orders for us to assemble. They never once offered us the option to leave early even though they were basically paying us twenty-seven bucks an hour to do busywork. So I can't even imagine what they'd have for him to do on Christmas Eve that's so damn urgent.

And nah, it's not unionized.

[lazar-grrl.livejournal.com]

Christmas and both New Year's. Yeah, I agree with you. Sounds like someone either screwed up and won't admit it, or is letting his teeny-tiny management power base go to his brain.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Work... well, it's complicated. Good luck with finding out what's up.