I begin to understand... no, I lie. I may never understand the US religio-political complex..

[commodorified]

So, let me get this straight:

You can't have abortions, contraception, or same-sex marriage, and people are still being jerks about female clergy, nevermind queer clergy, but y'all have to work Good Friday and Easter Monday and you don't even get time-and-a-half for it?

Ok, look. In the event that y'all ever do somehow end up with an Established Religion, may I just put in an extremely enthusiastic word for being ground under the merciless (Birkenstocked) heel of the Episcopalians/Anglicans/C of E?

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[commodorified]

Oh, solid, definitely. You deserve it. I mean, back when I dispatched I was young and single and so totally used to get stuck working the statutory holidays a lot, but the whole time-and-a-half, double-time-for-overtime thing was a considerable consolation.

[amberfox]

I worked for a company for a few lovely years who were open 24/7/365, but they took volunteers for holidays, and it was considered rather cushy; you got full pay for the holiday, plus you got time-and-a-half for coming in, so you actually made 2.5x your normal salary, and most of the time we only got a handful of calls all day. Some of the guys set up a Quake server and spent the whole day blowing each other up. I miss that job.

As the single girl, my sister gets stuck with the shifts no one else wants at her job. When she's going to be out, her coworkers fight viciously over who has to replace her. She works the closing shift, and someone absolutely has to be there until the last warehouse closes. No exceptions short of hospitalization. With traffic, this means some of her coworkers who live further out wouldn't get home til 9pm or so.