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AIBU?

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to expect a whole weekend to be included in a week off.

13 replies

EccentricaGallumbits · 26/05/2012 23:01

Its not really fair is it?

Worked today. Finished at 10pm. Then my week off. Back next sunday at 7am.

Nice to have a week off but still would be nicer to actually have a saturday and sunday off to spend with my famiky even though they are mostly stroppy teenagers

OP posts:

Lougle · 26/05/2012 23:39

Umm..no. A week is a week. If you have worked today, then you have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday off. Which is a week.

If you want two Sundays off (ie. tomorrow and the following Sunday, so that you have a whole weekend off, then that is 8 days).

scuzy · 27/05/2012 00:22

yep agree with Lougle you have a week off.

ENormaSnob · 27/05/2012 00:24

Is it a weeks annual leave?

If so,yanbu.

IAmBooybilee · 27/05/2012 00:27

i think what OP means is that she would hav preferred to finish on friday so she had sat and sun together off and start back next sat.

BackforGood · 27/05/2012 00:28

Have to agree with the others - you have one of each day of the week off, which equals a week. Is this a shift pattern or some annual leave ?

IAmBooybilee · 27/05/2012 00:29

although thinking about it. when i worked full time a week off meant i finished on a friday at 5 and then had 9 days of no work until i started back the monday of the second week following.

Loopyloveschocolate · 27/05/2012 05:52

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BackforGood · 27/05/2012 13:56

Presumably though, if everybody felt it would be better to run the shift pattern 'Fri-Thurs, or Wed - Tue come to that, then staff could get together to petition the managers / owners and get it changed. There's no reason to do things 'just because they've always been done that way'. Company would still have the same number of staff in, but it would be a happier staff as they felt they were listened to and valued.

upahill · 27/05/2012 14:04

I work in a residential care setting in Wigan and 24 hour care is needed every day.
We therfore work a weekend on/ weekend off. So If I want a week off I would finish on the Friday night have Saturday and Sunday off and then have Monday to Friday off that equals 37 hours leave (1 week) and 2 rest days.

So if your patten is something similar to mine then if you wanted additional a/l you would need to apply for it or swop a shift with someone.

WhiteWidow · 27/05/2012 15:54

I'm so glad this can't happen at my workplace

If we work the weekend we get two days off in the week, so they can't make us work the weekend without paying us double for the two days (because obviously we're already off)

WhiteWidow · 27/05/2012 15:56

Upahill, I used to work in a residential/Emi place in Wigan

agedknees · 27/05/2012 16:01

I know what the OP means, although she has a week off she has not got a full weekend off.

Whoever did the offduty was a bit mean giving you a late before your annual leave and an early after your annual leave, YANBU. Did you request any days off before/after your annual leave?

mumeeee · 27/05/2012 22:53

You do have a whole week off but if you wanted next Sunday off couldn't you have requested it, I]m a support worker and work shifts but we can request weekends of at the beginning and end of our annual leave weeks and usually get them.

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