Bush Issues Executive Order-Federal Employees Off December 24

The White House ^ | 12-06-07 | George Bush

[steve86]

Sent you a PM

[fortheDeclaration]

Now, if we can get him to issue a decree giving the gov't employee's off for the rest of the days of the year we would be great shape!

And that includes Congress!

[snugs]

Normally our company works Christmas Eve but only up to midday.

As it falls on a Monday and it is economic to heat the place up for just 4 hours our company is closed but it comes out of our holiday.

We shall not return until 2nd January but we have to allocate 4 days of our annual leave for this purpose.

Next year the way it falls it will probably be 3 days and the company will give us a half day off on the Christmas Eve. Its swings and roundabouts as I see it.

[snugs]

In Britain we normally have delivery up to and including Christmas Eve but then because we celebrate Boxing Day and that is a public holiday the postman gets 2 days off anyway.

[snugs]

We have to fill the days in between Christmas and the New Year and it is written into our contract of employment that the company has the right to nominate 4 days of our annual leave which is used for this purpose depending on how Christmas falls each year.

This year we had to allocate 4 days and what our company does is announce this just before Christmas of the previous year and when we return in the January take the hours off our annual entitlement and so we immediately know how much we have got left so we cannot “forget” to allocate the days.

[JohnnyZ]

It's the federal government....

... It’s not like any work would get done anyway...

Besides, Christmas Eve? C'mon.

[Don Joe]

Didn’t receive it. [??? server glitch ???]

[Churchillspirit]

.....does this effect the Post Office?

Excellent question.

[AmericaUnited]

I hear not taking time off makes one cranky...