Scrooge!
September 4th, 2008I am 30 years old. And I have never spent a Christmas away from my family.
Today at work they told us that no one could take vacation at Christmas time. Now, if I wanted to have a restriction like that on a job, I would prefer to be schlepping clothes at Macy’s where at least I would get a friggin’ wicked employee discount. I mean I only expect two things at a job:
1. Good pay
2. Ability to take time off when I want
So the whole budget crisis in CA has screwed with number 1. I live paycheck to paycheck hoping that the next one isn’t going to be minimum wage. And now they’ve gone and screwed up 2.
I realize that we have a deadline, a big scary one, coming up on January 9th… But if I keep getting screwed out of the only two things that I need in a job, I’m not giing to want to stay through to the deadline.
I can’t even tell you how upset I will be if I don’t go home for Christmas. My grandma is slowing down these days and you can never be sure when that last Christmas with her will roll around. I even had Winemonkey on board for the trip to PA. I hope I can manage something.
That IS tough… but knowing what I know now… and having missed an occasion like you *might* miss because of your job/finances and such… since you have a little bit of time, I would do everything I could to be home for Christmas… seriously. It will mean so much more for you to be there than it will to your job if you’re not at work… you just have to figure out how to handle the cost. Good luck.
By Mark, on 09/05/08 at 4:47 amI completely agree with Mark. Family is everything - no job should get in the way. And by the way Lam and I are always here if you need any support with anything.
By Lisa, on 09/05/08 at 8:38 am