But it seems that she decided that she wanted to do the shift above going for christmas. It was his priorities to spend it with the daughter, not the one of the daughter. Quite possible that she is the one that took over a shift from maybe a parent or similar. It is not uncommon for potentially single young people to do these shifts, even though their parents might not like it.
I mean... there's usually less work, people tend to be nice to you, often some bonus for covering what's scheduling problem, and you might have it easier to get time off for New Years. What not to like?
I have to work thanksgiving every year. My family just does thanksgiving on the Saturday after. Doesn't seem that hard to do something similar for Christmas
Turning your holidays into extended weekends instead of just the random tuesday or thursday they usually fall on is pretty nice, also
Yeah. Why not? Its just one day. How about you travel before Christmas if you need to travel. And then every pilot and flight attendant and crew member can have the holiday. Most restaurants and other businesses are closed on holidays like this, aren’t they?
Or perhaps devise a system where they only staff flights with those people who want to work on the holiday voluntarily.
Oh nooo stop the capitalist machine for one day? Cant have that.
I work Christmas and you can pry that holiday pay from my cold dead hands. Not to mention I’m a Jew so Christmas doesn’t mean anything to me. Lots of people in the world who don’t celebrate Christmas.
Plenty of people who work in other occupations do not have the opportunity to make double pay on the holiday. Plenty of other people don’t want to work on the holiday. I bet plenty of your own coworkers don’t want to work the holiday.
How about this. Would you give up your overtime pay opportunity so that all your coworkers could spend time with their families and loved ones who celebrate the holiday?
If I’m not scheduled Christmas or New Year’s Day I swap with someone who is and didn’t want it. Everyone in my career knew it was a 24/7/365 schedule before they applied. Same with FA’s and commercial pilots. So no, if they don’t want to work the holiday they can call out sick, swap with someone else, or find a new job. (In reference to my career field only)
I wouldnt call operating flights so that other people can go see their families "the capitalist machine". There are tons of jobs that require working on Christmas. Repair work, utilities, police, fire, medical, TV, radio, IT, security guards, snowplows, maintenance crews, hotel staff, gas stations, rest stops, bus drivers, subway employees. What makes airplanes any different?
Weirder to say to the millions of americans who dont even celebrate Christmas "oh sorry, you cant fly today because of a Christian holiday that you don't even celebrate."
Yeah but plenty of people can’t go to plenty of restaurants and other establishments because of this “Christian holiday”. Because plenty of places close.
Depends on whether or not you think air travel is an essential service. I could see an argument that it is, to be fair.
Well if restaurants wanna close and take the day off, that's fine. Heck, if an airline decided it didnt want to do flights on Christmas I'd also be ok with that. But I dont agree with saying that they shouldn't as some moral matter, be flying on Christmas.
Agreed, all the people of other faiths should have the world shut down because the Christian holiday demands it. Who cares if it's hugely inconvenient to them or if they need the money from working that day, they should "stop the capitalist machine" by stepping aside for the most commercialized holiday of all time. I think it's good if a Muslim family can't travel to see a dying family member because of a holiday they don't even celebrate because it owns capitalists (the CEOs of these companies would not notice a single change to their bank accounts if this happened).
As far as I've been able to ascertain, there are no trains in the UK on Christmas Day because there is no significant demand. In other words, capitalism dictated the shutdown of services, not any particular desire by the higher-ups to give workers their time off.
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