Paid Holiday?

The total compensation at Wally World isn’t too bad. What is abysmal is the holiday pay. Most people in the US get at least six paid holidays and nine or ten is becoming common. Retail and restaurants are the big exception. Paid holiday is a foreign phrase with no English translation.

Wally World has two holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving, neither of which are paid. Since overnights take off the night before the holiday, this means the Thanksgiving holiday is on my normal night off. This gives me a normal work week that week. Christmas Eve falls on Sunday this year, Tuesday next year, and Wednesday the year after that. I can use protected time off to get paid for the holiday this year, but I have to decide by Monday evening if I want to do so. If I don’t, I will not get a paid holiday until 2026. At least that year Christmas will be a three day weekend.

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