Working Thanksgiving?

flbettyboop · ‎10-21-2010

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

Wish I could fill in for someone who has family and has to work. I've got nowhere to go, nothing to do.

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hockey mom · ‎05-15-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
Wish I could fill in for someone who has family and has to work. I've got nowhere to go, nothing to do.

If you lived closer you could come to our home for dinner.

AKgirl2 · ‎05-24-2016

@Kachina624 wrote:
Wish I could fill in for someone who has family and has to work. I've got nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Hi @Kachina624 ~ we are not the only ones My son spends Thanksgiving with his father and that side of family, and we spend Christmas together. I love Christmas and much prefer it to Thanksgiving, so that's just fine with me. There will be lots of good programs to watch on tv, or read, do some online shopping,

or just relax with our fur children. Wishing you a good Thanksgiving day🙋

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

God Bless my Mom - a family filled with public service workers who had to work Thanksgiving - she would be up at 4AM to make a full meal for those who worked evening shift to have before we went to work and then she would have another turkey in the oven for another whole meal in the evening for those who worked day shift. She did this every year for aboout 25 years. I had the world's absolute best Mom.

flbettyboop · ‎10-21-2010

A friend of mine did not like the bickering with her family on Thanksgiving so she volunteered for the church and servered meals to the needy. Very rewarding I think.

Boop

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

These people are, and will always be remembered in my prayers. For 16 years I was one of them, a hospital employee on the 11-7 shift, and after many years of being on the holiday schedule, you barely know there's a holiday.

There was no such thing as holiday rotation in my department; it seemed to be chiseled in stone that full-time employees worked M-F, and part-time employees covered every weekend and holiday shift. I was the only part-time employee with young children, and none of my co-workers ever offered to trade shifts with me so I could enjoy the holiday with my girls. Thanksgiving and Christmas were always the most difficult, as I did try to enjoy time with family, and still get enough sleep to work again that night. I worked many holidays when I was exhausted, and could have stretched out on the floor in my department and gone to sleep in a heartbeat.

I am proud of what I did to support my family, support my hospital department, and hospital family, but do not miss those days at all.

PinkyPetunia · ‎03-09-2010

Yes, some people do work on Thanksgiving, holidays and week-ends. We need them and my thanks go to them.

My brother is in law enforcement and has to work Thankgiving. My husband worked in hotels his entire career and often had to work on holidays, nights or week-ends. My DIL was a waitress/bartender and made more tips working week-end and evenings. It's something you accept if you take this kind of job.

I always worked at office/clerical jobs so I was a 9 to 5 Mon. to Fri. worker. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@RedTop wrote:
These people are, and will always be remembered in my prayers. For 16 years I was one of them, a hospital employee on the 11-7 shift, and after many years of being on the holiday schedule, you barely know there's a holiday.

There was no such thing as holiday rotation in my department; it seemed to be chiseled in stone that full-time employees worked M-F, and part-time employees covered every weekend and holiday shift. I was the only part-time employee with young children, and none of my co-workers ever offered to trade shifts with me so I could enjoy the holiday with my girls. Thanksgiving and Christmas were always the most difficult, as I did try to enjoy time with family, and still get enough sleep to work again that night. I worked many holidays when I was exhausted, and could have stretched out on the floor in my department and gone to sleep in a heartbeat.

I am proud of what I did to support my family, support my hospital department, and hospital family, but do not miss those days at all.

Where I worked we did the holidays off by seniority - though I had a lot of years in I was still lowest on the totem pole who was trained to be in charge so I would get stuck every Christmas on 7A to 7P - after 9 years of missing Christmas I said enough of that and a lot of other BS like being on call and changed my status to Emergency relief. I never had to be in charge, be on call , work a weekend , an off shift or a holiday again. Since by then I was only working for money to put into our retirement savings anyway,I didn't need the money, the benefits - any of it. If I wanted a few days to spend with my DH I simply did not schedule any days that week. I worked that for 10 years - Mon & Thurs 7A to 7P and tues 3 to 11. It had become time for me to finally have a life of my own. When ever anyone asks me about becoming a nurse I always say I do not recommend it - you will totally give up your life to it - you can be something like a physical therapist, a speech therapist or occupational therapist and still get to help people but not have to totally ruin your personal life to do so.If I had it to do over, that is what I would do - PT.

I will say though that you do develop a sisterhood/brotherhood with your co workers that is way more than in any other job. Esp. working in ICU because we were so isolated - we sorta lived in our own world - the top floor of our hospital had all the icus up there - medical , surgical, burn trauma,CCU & thoracic surgery. If you weren't going to ICU for any reason you would never go up there, so our staff were like sisters & brothers in our unit and then the other units were like our cousins - and that included our doctors too.

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

For some reason we are a family of health care workers from ER physicians, trauma surgeons, OR techs, EEG techs, Radiology techs, Radiologists, etc. Some years we would have Thanksgiving dinner on Friday or on the week-end whenever the majority could come but someone was always missing because they were working.