Ask to see the list of paid holidays you receive. If the number is exactly equal to (or less than) the standard list of Federal Holidays, run screaming in the other direction. Otherwise you find yourself in the situation wherein (hypothetically speaking, of course) you work on a site that will be closed for Columbus Day. But Columbus Day isn't a holiday they had planned on giving you. So, upon realizing that you won't be allowed in the building and because the contract forbids you to work on the contract if the government is closed (because all work is to be done on site), rather than sucking it up and just giving you an extra holiday, they take away another holiday so you can have Columbus Day.
The day they take? The day after Thanksgiving. No, technically not a Federal Holiday, I realize, but the only nice thing the company had managed to do.
And of course they tell you this on a day where you spent 90 minutes in traffic (traveling 16 miles all told) trying to get in to work. Just a little bit of icing on the cake.
5 days ago
Oh girl that is so not right! The day after Thanksgiving is for resting until you're able to move from all the food you ate the date before :)
ReplyDeleteI can say that where I work...we are very blessed. I have bad days..who doesn't but overall...it's a great place to be employed!
MMmmmm...cake.
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