Working During The Holidays

I just got my schedule for the next couple of months! .  Financially it’s going to be great!  .  But when it comes to relationships it sucks .

You see I’m scheduled to work at 3pm to 12MN this December.  It was ok.  Granted that I’d be at work this Christmas, but I’ll be out at midnight and I can still rush to go home on time to celebrate Noche Buena.  But I forgot that at 24/7 Customer Philippines Inc.  Schedules change EVERY FOUR WEEKS, not bad if you think about it.  I can definitely live with it.  But has faith would have it…  I’ll be scheduled to work from 7 pm to 4 am starting on December 29.  Yikes!  First time in all my call center life that I’ll spending New Year Eve at work.  I’ll be lucky to swap schedules ( yes!  we can do that) with someone because of the festivities.  I tried to avail a vacation leave for Dec. 31st.  But you have to qualify for it.  You may ask what’s the qualifications?  Nothing much but PERFECT ATTENDANCE from the date you started in the same year.  PERFECT ATTENDANCE which as all call center employees know is one the most very difficult thing to do.  No absences can be done by any sane person, but lates and tardy?  That I can’t promise.  I don’t know why, but only a handful of individuals can actually manage to get perfect attendances.  It’s not really that hard to do, but still…………………….

I already told my wife about it, and she’s not crazy about the idea but what can she do?  She knows that it’s a critical workday (workdays that Attendance is an absolute must!)  So there’s just no way around it.  Maybe I’ll get lucky and get some lowlife to swap with me.  But then again…..wishful thinking.

But I’m not losing hope!  Besides it will be an experience!