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Mon Sep-07-09 12:46 PM
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Poll question: Labor Day Poll - Do you get a paid holiday today? |
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I'm sitting here at home, unpaid on another holiday that many many people get paid for. This year (like the last 2 years) I'm not getting a paid holiday because I don't have a full time job. My co-workers who work full-time get today off with pay, but I get to have a day off with worry that I'll be short this week on money, shorter than I normally am from being underemployed in the first place.
So I'm wondering what's up with my fellow DUers - do you have today off with pay?
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:49 PM
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:49 PM
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2. No. I'm paying my employees for the day off. |
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:57 PM
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7. Well, then, you're okay, Bossman! |
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Mon Sep-07-09 03:16 PM
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All my folks get the day off with pay.
They get insurance too, one of them gave me a nasty bug I've been fighting since Friday night. Looks like I get to use it this week.
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:51 PM
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3. Other. Self-employed, so not paid if don't work. Home with kids. |
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:53 PM
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4. Teacher- zero paid days off with the exception of sick leave or 3 personal business days. |
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I'm only paid for the days I am at work.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:01 PM
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I've never heard of teachers not getting paid holidays! I'm so sorry, livvy. :hug:
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:54 PM
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5. Self employed. If I don't work, I make no money |
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:13 PM
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12. self-employed artists/craftsfolks, we, so we don't get paid till we sell it |
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but as our work is what we love, it is our life, we will probably work today! no place on poll for SEs....
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Mon Sep-07-09 03:08 PM
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I really needed to put "Other" as a poll option. People who are self-employed doing what they love are the happiest of workers, overall. (Barring some kind of Van Gogh-like psychopathology, of course. :))
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Mon Sep-07-09 03:37 PM
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24. he would have been more miserable without being able to paint though....nt |
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Mon Sep-07-09 12:57 PM
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6. I'm retired, but every full time job I've had in the past gave paid holiday leave |
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including Labor Day. The few part time jobs I had gave the day off without pay. My husband's full time job for the state of Vermont gives all paid holidays, as they do some part time positions.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:00 PM
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8. I'm from New England originally, |
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where sane labor laws rule. It was quite a shocker moving to a so-called "right to work" state. Yes, you have the right to work your fingers to the bone for whatever peanuts they throw you! x(
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:00 PM
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9. I'm a contractor and don't get paid holidays - |
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the "permanent" employees I work with do get a paid holiday today...
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:06 PM
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Temps & contractors. Business can delude itself that you want the flexibility of temp or contract work, so no need to pay you for holidays. Obviously, you're independently wealthy and just doing that contract work for kicks so you're not sitting home bored all day. I was a temp secretary at a college for two years. (Yes, "temporary" for two years, and would have been longer but I quit.) They closed for the week between Christmas and New Years. My fully employed co-workers got paid. I got nothing--right when Chritmas and heating bills were upon me in full force. :( I feel for you, Friend.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:31 PM
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13. Nope, I'm working tonight actually. |
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:35 PM
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I've had Labor Day as a paid holiday for the last 6 years. Even when I worked at Six Flags in high school we received time and a half for working Labor Day, as well has Memorial Day, 4th of July....double time for working during the fall weekends and Christmas time.
When I worked at Starbucks it was time and a half (I believe, it's been a few years), the only time I didn't get paid extra for working on a holiday was when I managed an independent coffee shop.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:38 PM
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15. I never work Mondays. If it was a regularly scheduled day for me, it would be a day off w/pay. |
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Or I could have worked today and taken 8 hours of double time + whatever hours worked beyond that would be time and a half.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:38 PM
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16. I'm sorry for you..I'm part time and |
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getting paid for Labor Day going on the 11th year in a row.
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Mon Sep-07-09 06:22 PM
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27. I worked temp secretarial for a decade. |
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No paid Labor Days then for me either. That's what woke me up to the demise of labor rights in the US. You have my sympathies too, Friend.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:39 PM
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17. Air traffic controller. I work, but I get "Holiday Pay" (double time) |
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:39 PM
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18. I do, but I'll put in a couple hours of work anyway. |
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Try to get a jump on the coming week.
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:41 PM
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19. I did up until a few weeks ago. Economy has forced employer to drop paid holidays. n/t |
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:51 PM
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No guaranteed wage of any sort.
I own a mom and pop antiques shop and I'll be going in today to get some work done.
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Mon Sep-07-09 09:01 PM
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28. Kick for the people just getting home from work. n/t |
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Mon Sep-07-09 01:58 PM
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I have a paid holiday, my adult daughter is a CNA; she had to work but was paid time and a half
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Mon Sep-07-09 04:02 PM
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25. I'm one of the unlovely poor who had to work today. |
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Damn bus didn't run either.
Labor day. Yeah.
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Mon Sep-07-09 04:06 PM
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26. I have to work today. I'm a pet sitter, so it's a labor of love. |
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