To ask my boss this?

[Joolsy]

Several times a year, when we don't have much work to do, my boss lets everyone go early. All the full-timers usually finish @ 4, so they would get to leave an hour or two early. This Friday is our last working day before Christmas and we are shutting up shop @ 2pm which means everyone will be finishing 2 hours early. I finish at 2.30 anyway so feel I should get to come in a bit later (by about an hour) so I get to benefit as well, after all they're being paid for the 2 hours they're not working. Or would this just be petty?

It's discretionary, I don't think you can ask for that. Sounds cheeky to me although I sympathise that you're missing out.

I think YABU. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I agree with Zillion that it just sounds a bit...cheeky.

Sorry as a fellow p/t to say this but YABU.

Our christmas do was on Friday lunchtime, the day I don't work - everyone else got to leave work 5 hrs early and go, I went on my day off ( although as there were two I asked to change days for the second one).
Sometimes as a part timer you just have to suck it up, this is one of those times.

It's a 50/50 chance your boss will say yes. Ask- you've got nothing to loose and may gain a nice lay in!

I wouldn't ask. It's a bit like saying 'thank you for your generosity, but can I get a bit more please' and if you ask for everyone to be exactly equal then you might find everyone has to equally stay for every minute they are paid for.

Sounds cheeky to me, you're getting 30 mins paid time off.

I wouldn't ask. It's just one of those things about being part time I think.

I wouldn't, it sounds a bit calculating and entitled. I'm a manager and I'd probably say no - it's nice to finish earlier and you get to do it everyday!

Benefits should be pro rata so full time staff should get more than part time.
You could get your calculator out and work out the percentage difference between the 30 mins you're getting and the 2 hrs the full time staff are getting according to your whole time equivalent salary but you'd look a bit sad and if I was your manager, I'd say no.

If the full timers are getting 2 hours off, then as a part timer you get a part of that. Its not fair for you to ask for 1.5 hours off unless you work 0.75 of a normal contract (which of course, you may do).

But really, either way its a bit petty and likely to annoy so therefore not really worth it. The part timers at our work moan when training days or go home early days or whatever fall on their days off. Moan yes, but not in the hearing of full timers. Its just irritating. Same as saying 'ooh its nearly the weekend....for me I mean' on a Tuesday afternoon. Fucking annoying.

Yep, cheeky, sorry.

At my work, Christmas eve is officially a normal day but tradionally the head of the office would come round and send everyone home at lunchtime, so it was an extra half day holiday. However if it didn't fall on one of my working days, it isn't in the calculation for holiday allowance that I get PRed and if anyone wanted the day off, you had to book a full day's leave (because it was dependant on all work being done, never in the firms history had the London office not closed at Lunchtime on Christmas eve, but it might not if it needed to stay open).

I finish at 2 as well and don't get any early finishes a few of my colleagues on the other hand do a 1-6 shift and get all of the benefits the thought of asking to come in later or finish earlier just doesn't sit right with me somehow.

Don't ask. I'm afraid it's just the way it works out. And it's not even necessarily unfair. The ftimers are getting 2 hours off a full day. You're getting 1/2 an hour off a shorter day. If you get 2 hours you're doing better than the full timers.

YABU. My work always sends everyone home on Christmas Eve at lunchtime. If you've booked the day off, it still costs a day's leave, not half a day.

I'm part time. I don't ask my work to make up the odd hours that my full time colleagues gain if we have an IT SNAFU and they get sent gone because they can't work. Likewise, I think it would be very petty for you to ask for this - you benefit from the additional 30 mins anyway, and this sort of discretionary bonus is a gesture of goodwill, not an entitlement.

Agree-cheeky. We used to gave a discretionary half day on Christmas Eve, but if people wanted to take it as holiday they had to use a full day. If something big came up, we had to stay and deal with it, hence it being discretionary..

No, it doesn't work that way! Wish it did! Same thing is happening to me on Friday as I usually finish at 1pm and work is finishing early at 1.30! My day off used to be a Monday & I never benefitted from Bank holiday. Same sort of thing.

Bank holidays different though MrsLouisTheroux as not discretionary. When Monday was my non working day the BHs were added to my annual allowance.

OK I see what you're all saying. Thanks all x

If someone has booked a day's leave on that day, will they get two hours of it back? Nope, thought not.

YWBU to ask and will come across as v grabby.

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I would think you were being cheeky too - it's not like your boss has said they have two hours off, they get to leave at 2 and so do you it just happens that you normally finish earlier than they do.

To ask to come in later would be taking advantage of your boss being generous

Yes, it is a bit cheeky imo although I understand where you are coming from.

I work part time (in a school) and sometimes the holidays work in my favour and sometimes not. A few years ago, I ended up with just over 3 weeks off over Xmas due to the days I worked plus inset which I didn't have to do.

This September however, I ended up working 5 days instead of 3.5. As we'd just 6 weeks off, I didn't complain!

YABU and it would be a bit petty. At my old job, we have part timers wanting to claim bank holidays back if they didn't work on a Monday.

to the extent that Christmas has some connection with Christianity, I refer you to Matthew 20:1–16

(the parable of the labourers in the office vineyard)