[masraum]

Good deal. Take care of the employees. certain types of jobs just don't have the luxury, but I think 75-85% of the folks that have to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas have to work due to the greed of the person calling the shots.

I have to work, but then I'm in a role that supports business that runs 24x7x365. At least we get paid pretty well for holidays that we have to work (2.5x) and we do staff down a bit for the big holidays as well as working a slightly shorter shift (but getting paid as if we were working our full shift). What I give up for having to work the occasional holiday is that I'm NEVER on call (unusual for my line of business) and I work 4 days a week with 4 weeks of vacation on top of personal time, sick time, holidays (that can be used as floaters). All in all, I only work about 6 months out of every 12.