Strangeite
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You mean a "service industry" like childcare?
I laughed out loud at that.
You mean a "service industry" like childcare?
Your local dentist office is probably closed on holidays, but he doesn't charge his patients for being closed. I bet the dental employees are paid. His insurance is the same. The due dates on the loans for the equipment are still due. The rent for the office is still due.
How would you feel if your dentist sent you a bill, even though you didn't go in, just because it was Thanksgiving?
You want to know something funny. Lawyers and Bankers don't get Black Friday off with pay. It is a normal business day.
I guess we aren't "professionals".
Yes, there are about 20 days during the year that they're closed, but I'm not necessarily paying extra for them since my tuition is based on the 240 days.
I am assuming that you are contracted with your daycare on a monthly basis, meaning that it costs the same every month. That's the way ours was...they based the tuition on 4 weeks per month, 5 days per week, so 20 days per month x 12 = 240. Maybe yours is the same? .
There are A LOT of people who have to work those days. Is it just Laywers and Bankers who use Day Cares and have those days off?? What about Hospital workers? Anyone working in Retail? Service people? Small business employees?
Want a lot of paid holidays off, be a bank teller.![]()
We have paid days off for Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving (the only job I didn't have this day as PTO was when I worked for a stock brokerage firm) every year.
This year 4th of July was on a Thursday, so we had the 5th as a paid day off as well.
Christmas is on a Thursday as well so we have both the 25th and 26th as paid days off.
We also have January 1st and 2nd as paid days off.
My dh has the same days off as I do and he works for a law firm!
I would concur that MOST people have the day after Thanksgiving off. Unless you work in a service industry where you are considered essential. Most offices are closed these days.
My former employer actually closed down between Christmas and New Year's each year....totally paid! It actually cost them MORE to keep the building open with a skeleton staff (since it was REALLY slow and not much business was done) than it did to just send everyone home and save the heating and electricity bills!
ITA. I would highly doubt the "majority" of workers get all those days off and paidEven if in your area a lot of ppl. get them off for whatever reason, I'm sure it's more towards a 50-50 then a 90-10 as to who gets them off, so that's A LOT of ppl. the daycare center is not only inconviencing, but also making them pay extra money. I can see getting paid for the actual holiday, but anything more I think asking too much.
Nope. We pay based upon a weekly rate. That is why those weeks they are open only 2 days seems like a rip off.
Not all people have Black Friday, Xmas eve or the day after off. There are A LOT of people who have to work those days. Is it just Laywers and Bankers who use Day Cares and have those days off?? What about Hospital workers? Anyone working in Retail? Service people? Small business employees? My dh works for a VERY LARGE automobile dealership, and they are open every single one of those days. And our day care is closed every single one of those days.
We did get a list at the begining of the year, however they added xmas eve off in October.![]()
I guess i see it as......that is the employment position you choose. If you desired to be a manager at Walmart, chances are pretty darn good that you knew you would not be having the day after thanksgiving off, and as most walmarts are open 24 hrs, you would probably be working on xmas and xmas eve. Well, as a Day Care Worker, chances are good you don't get the "extra" holidays off either. Want a lot of paid holidays off, be a bank teller.![]()
Most daycares are not staffed with professionals. They hire babysitters with some early education units. And most people work very hard at their jobs. That is why it is considered a job. To think you work harder than someone in retail, are more deserving, etc., is quite snobbish, in my opinion.
Over the years my kids have been in many daycares. All charged for the holidays. The trick is to find a center that doesn't take too many days off during the year. The place I used the longest was great-they closed Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years Day, 4th of July, Labor Day and Memorial Day. Any other day was business as usual and I was very pleased about that since not all jobs give you off for the minor holidays or sometimes even ALL of the Federal ones.
Oh my!! I only get 2 weeks vacation, plus 5 days holiday pay!! So if I were at your day care center, i'd have a week's worth of days that i would have to take off work unpaid because daycare was closed! You can count out any Disney trips out of my future than!!
OP, If it bothers you that much, find another situation; otherwise, stop nickel-and-diming minimum wage workers who are doing work with your child which you have chosen not to do. And hope that neither the workers taking care of your child nor your child ever reads your comments here and learns of your opinion. Good luck in the future-you will have an interesting time adjusting to the innumerable schedule changes, vacations, in-service days, conference days, and closures in any school system, whether public or private (and no, they don't refund your tuition in private school for closures, nor your taxes in public school). It is all part of parenting.
Holidays are included in those 20 days, and the other days off kind of follow the public school calendar.
Just wait until the daycare years are finished and you have to figure out what to do with the kids...
Our public schools are closed for:
1-2 days for Rosh Hashanah
1-2 days for Yom Kippor
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veterans Day
2 days for Thanksgiving
8 days (12/24 - 1/2) for "winter recess"
MLK Day
5 days in Feb for "mid-winter" recess
5 days April for "spring recess"
Memorial Day
Not to mention the 1/2 days that end at 11:30 am for conferences, in-service days, etc.
Yes, but back to the original point/question, he won't be paying his public school for his child not to be there plus someone else to watch his child, because it's closed- yes, yes, everyone pays taxes, but that's a whole other subject- and everyone- whether they have kids or not pay for those taxes.