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Do you or your partner have to work on Thanksgiving?

post #1 of 25
11/23/03 at 1:13am
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Anybody out ther have a family member that has to work on Thanksgiving? How do you still celebrate the holiday?
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post #2 of 25
11/23/03 at 1:15am
We're lucky Jerm doesn't work the holidays this year, but next year I think he works Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!
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post #3 of 25
11/23/03 at 1:15am
No, but we both have to work the day after...

Child care issue ! gotta work on that tomorrow !!
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post #4 of 25
11/23/03 at 1:19am
nope. We close the stores on Thansgiving and xmas and are only open til 4 on xmas eve.
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post #5 of 25
11/23/03 at 1:20am
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Stan will work 1st shift on Thanksgiving this year .. he works on Thanksgiving every year. We always miss dinner at my mothers .. but oh well what can you do. Atleast he makes over $45 an hour that day!
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post #6 of 25
11/23/03 at 10:33am
Mike is working midnights next week, including Thanksgiving. So he will be extra grumpy.
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post #7 of 25
11/23/03 at 11:36am
Only once has Court had to work Thanksgiving. I just went to my mom's without him and saved him some food. Once (the year I moved to Maryland) we were not together because I was moving on Thanksgiving and we just went to Denny's for dinner.
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post #8 of 25
11/24/03 at 2:27am
My DH has the day off and Friday also. I am a SAHM, so I don't get a break from my job!
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post #9 of 25
11/24/03 at 2:30am
Jason is off all holidays. I am like Lori and never off!!
Well, I take that back--I will be off Friday morning when I get up to go shopping.
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post #10 of 25
11/24/03 at 10:35am
Nope, Billy tries to take the week of Thanksgiving off.... Couldn't do it this year, so he's just off Thursday and Friday!
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post #11 of 25
11/24/03 at 12:10pm
DH will be home today and doesn't leave again til NEXT TUESDAY!!!
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post #12 of 25
11/24/03 at 12:33pm
Neither of us has to work Thanksgiving day.
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post #13 of 25
11/24/03 at 1:18pm
No, but I havew woirked it many times in the past. i guess that's one good thing about having MS, you get the holidays off.
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post #14 of 25
11/24/03 at 1:56pm
Not this year, thank goodness! The last 2 years I got stuck working Thanksgiving. However, instead of our nice "quiet" Thanksgiving just DH & I, I get to entertain the inlaws. Yipee.

Oh well, I'm going shopping Friday morning and to our hockey game on Friday night as planned.
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post #15 of 25
11/24/03 at 2:13pm
Tim generally works every holiday and has for the last 5 years but this year he regular days off are Wed-Fri so this year he is home for Thanksgiving and the day before and day after.

I am putting his but to work in the kitchen to help me with the pies and making the stuffing this Wednesday.
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post #16 of 25
11/25/03 at 9:50pm
Brian works until noon on Thanksgiving. BUt doing so now (with the new company) gives him an extra day of vacation becasue he's only getting regular pay that day.
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post #17 of 25
11/25/03 at 10:02pm
Nope we are both lucky but when we first got together and I worked retail or the nursing home I always had to work.
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post #18 of 25
11/25/03 at 10:55pm
Ok I was wrong...Court came home tonight and told me he has to go in for an hour on Thursday to greet people as they come into the chow hall....has to wear Class A's and everything (dress uniform).
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post #19 of 25
11/26/03 at 11:43am
I work everyday LOL My husband works for the county so he gets every holiday off including two weeks starting Christmas Eve until Jan 2 (i think thats two weeks) He will be off the day of and the day after thanksgiving. Thank goodness
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post #20 of 25
11/26/03 at 11:50am
I have worked my fair share of holidays...

Thank goodness I now have an office job that actually will be closed. Have not worked a holiday for the last 7 years!

DH doesn't work the holidays either!!


But that mothering is a full time job. Will be on call for that one!
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post #21 of 25
11/27/03 at 5:00am
Yup. I'm working now until 7:30.

Then I'm going home to sleep.
Then Chris will go with the kids over to Aunt Rose's house, so maybe I can actually get some sleep (unless I'm stressing over MIL being there and trying to convince Chris to let her take Brian - but not the other kids- to Houston to see her father. But that's a whole other can 'o worms.
I'll go over later.
Then I have to leave early because I should get some more sleep because I have to be back at work tonight at 11:30 pm, which is actually not bad because I will get OT pay PLUS a day off w/o pay each day for my thursday and Friday shift.

I know, I know... I'm and in dire need of
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post #22 of 25
11/27/03 at 9:03am
Go get some sleep LuAnn!
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post #23 of 25
11/28/03 at 4:04am
Well, I had to work all day today and I don't get overtime rates for it either , just joking we don't have Thanksgiving over here

However I did speak to the boss about xmas day and he said he will work Xmas Day so I can be home with the kids if I will work Boxing Day so he can go to the cricket test. He is not married and doesn't have kids so I am not doing his family out of his presence. But I will be working Boxing Day, New Years Eve Day and New Years Day, but never mind, I'm not working Xmas Day and that is the only one I was worried about.
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post #24 of 25
11/28/03 at 4:21am
I'm glad you were able to get Christmas off, Maree. I hope you're having a good day at work LuAnn and that your MIL chokes on her turkey.
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post #25 of 25
11/28/03 at 6:09am
Yeah, I should be so lucky, Lenora!
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