- law dawg
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First of all, thank you to all of you who have served our county. We hope that you are able to enjoy a day off. Second, for those of you decision makers who kept the office open today: why? Finally, for those of you stuck at work today, here are a few items to discuss:
- U.S. Supreme Court to decide if states including Nevada can count late-arriving mail ballots. [TNI]
- NV gaming/tourism sided with Trump on shutdown, made sure Rosen knew it. [Nevada Current]
- Drunk driver who killed Arbor View senior gets 8-20 years. [RJ]
- Nevada widow’s quest: Lost records hamper late Army veteran’s recognition. [RJ]
We keep the office open because we give staff the choice of Armistice Day or Family Day. The choice every year is unanimously Family Day.
Why not give both? all the courts and schools are closed.
Seriously, it seems like such a small concession for the payback in staff morale. The lawyers will be working anyways to not lose out on billables but they don’t necessarily need staff around for that.
Some people trip over dimes chasing nickles.
Because we have a Holiday schedule that does not include 3 days in November; it includes 1 day in October (11 days ago) and 2 days in November (which could be today but for which staff has elected to have 2 days in a row 16 days from now). This notion that staff are worthless on days that the courts are closed is nonsense. Our staff morale is just fine having just had a day off less than two weeks ago.
You’re missing the forest through the trees, sis. The days off are heavily concentrated between Nevada Day and Presidents Day. Then, from Presidents Day to Nevada Day there are very few days off. You tell your staff to bill more from Presidents Day to Nevada Day so that you can keep letting them have Nevada Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Family Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas, a couple days after that, NYE, NYD, MLK and Presidents Day off. I seriously LOL at you guys who think you’re being generous by letting your staff pick days. Fuck that. I give them ALL the days off. They work harder and are more loyal to me.
No sis– what you are missing is that different people recognize different days off. For example we give them Administrative Professionals Day off in April. Do you? If you don’t, that is your right, and we do not judge you for it. But that is an actual day in honor of the people who you are supposedly honoring. The truth (sad or not) is that no one is really crying that they did not get to go honor veterans in our firm because (as the posts above recognize) staff members by and large do not view this as an important day to have off to do anything other than catch up on laundry. The faux outrage is silly.
12:12 PM here, sis. Am I being trolled? You are miserly, and refuse to give your staff ALL court holidays off, and your defense is “we give them Admin Professionals Day off”? Is this serious?
What’s wild is that it never occurred to you that CCSD doesn’t give that day off. So your employees can’t use it to travel with their family for pleasure, which you never considered.
We do give a day off in April- Good Friday. Another three day weekend. Sorry, you’re still not generous, and kind of a shitty employer. Your employees won’t speak directly, but they know.
Travel? You honestly use “So your employees can’t use it to travel with their family for pleasure” as your reasoning to give Veterans Day off? You think your staff is taking off a random Tuesday in November two weeks before Thanksgiving to go travel?
You are right– it makes sense to give Good Friday off because it allows a long weekend before Easter (same way moving Nevada Day to last Friday of October made sense). Giving a random Tuesday for Veterans Day off does nothing to facilitate travel. You undermine your own argument.
I am glad I don’t work for you.
BTW, you’re making less money because of this choice. Terrible choice. Shame on you.
11:58 AM here. Also, its useful for lawyers to have a day where they work, but the office is closed. I am working from home, no interruptions, gettin’ shit done. Staff has the day off and I hope they aren’t thinking about a fucking thing related to work. And they’ll get Family Day off too. The key is to plan on lower billables for November by having everyone bank a little extra going into the last two months. My employees will bill as much or more than 10:39 AM’s, but mine won’t quietly resent me for making them choose between veterans day and family day.
Do you also graciously allow them to decide whether they have saturday or sunday off?!
When they took the position, they were given a Holiday schedule along with really liberal PTO. Number of hours in a week are protected by statute; being required to give Armistice Day off is not. Frankly the staff are not crying over getting exactly what they bargained for. If you are enjoying a day free of your staff, good for you.
Great employers anchor the generosity of policy in statutory framework. *eyeroll*
You are *not* required to give your staff the day off when the courts are closed, but if you don’t, you’re kind of a dick.
But hey, they knew what they were signing up for, right?
Oh, and by the way, your staff is reading all my comments and silently nodding in agreement. SOLIDARITY!
1039’s staff knew they were working for an elderly English Lord based on his instance on using “Armistice Day” on holiday schedule and his medals from The Great War. Of course they knew they’d have to work holidays. Ha.
Nah, clearly a veteran of the War of Northern Aggression.
I am going to guess OP is over the age of 50 and doesn’t believe in work life balance.
Why ya gotta go after people over 50?
Boomer mentality
Exactly! I’m over 50 (barely) and close my office on Veterans Day, the day before and after Thanksgiving, day before/after Christmas, all court holidays both state and federal, etc. Makes everyone stick around as employees longer, even though I may not pay as much as other firms.
OMG the drama about Veteran’s Day. I have never gotten that day off at any job, whether at a law firm or a restaurant, but cheer up – I hear the post office is hiring. Give me a break. And I’ll bet this poster is Generation (pick one of the last two letters of the alphabet). You can eat your work life balance with a spoon when the Millennial et al entitlement crushes the last vestiges of American entrepreneurialism, and its economy is dwarfed by those in China, Brazil, and India, where kids still have to do homework and turn it in on time, without a gold star or participation trophy for doing so. Yikes.
Your misery means everyone else must suffer? I’m so sorry for what you went through, but you do realize it can be better right? The rules are all made up, so why not have your office closed on a day when the courts are closed? It doesn’t mean people who want this are lazy, it means they value things differently than you. If in anyone crushes American entrepreneurialism it’s going to be the billionaires who refuse to share the wealth at the expense of everyone else. Bottom line is if you want to work today, then do it, but give people a legit option to have both it and family day off without guilt and i think you might be surprised by how many people take off both.
If the billionaires would just give everyone else all their money then we could have every day off. Literally no one would have to work. Unlimited PTO, as I saw it put in a skit recently. It would be beautiful – until it isn’t. Fortunately, the alternative is not “misery.” Lol.
This makes sense. If I give my staff Veterans Day off, we will have to redistribute the wealth of billionaires, no one will have to work and society will collapse. Back to work, pleebs!
I am one of the posters busting your boomers balls. I’m 45. Not a millenial.
“I have never gotten that day off at any job,” Objection. Relevance.
Sustained.
Eww. I been SERVED! Sounds like we have a formidable estate planning lah-yer in da house who has watched some serious LA Law. You may be 45, but you are as self-congratulatory as someone half your age, so good on you. You’re fire not cringe, even if you might be over-estimating your busting skills just a tiny bit. You’re doing your best and that’s all that matters.
Blink blink.
Why the fuck are us EPs catching strays?
ok, 65 and over.
Which law firm do you run?
There is no way most of these comments are made by actual lawyers. Paralegal and staff, maybe. Not actual lawyers.
Veteran here, over 50. Everyone should get the day off and do whatever you want. That’s a big part of why we did it.
I agree everyone should have gotten the day off to prepare for that Northern Lights show last night, amirite?
If we can’t take time to celebrate Veterans, who should we celebrate? They made it all possible.
Made what possible? There are heroes who served in the military and deserve to be celebrated. I have some of those in my family. There are people who enlisted and did menial labor as their job. I also have some of those in family. They do not need a day to celebrate that they did their menial jobs. If you want to celebrate heroes, I have no issue. But to celebrate someone doing the job that they signed up and were paid to do is silly.
Way to denigrate service. So if someone signs up for service, and ends up as CS they are not worthy of recognition for service as one who holds a rifle? what if the CS is on a ship in hostile waters and the rifleman is at a base in Southern California? Where do we draw the line?
Precisely my point. We should honor those who do heroic things, not people who just do their jobs. One does not have to hold a rifle; the previous post mentioned nothing about firing weapons. Physicians in war-torn areas are heroes even though they do not carry a weapon; mechanics or even riflemen at Fort Irwin are not. The honor comes what they did, not who their employer was.
Many of those veterans did not sign up for the “menial” job they did. They were drafted and, unlike a lot of politicians and other benefactors of generational wealth, didn’t take a deferment or pay a doctor to come up with a silly excuse.
I actually agree with some of what you said as far as servicemembers of late who ask for recognition, not simply receive it, for a job that they did voluntarily sign up for. However, most people take jobs that don’t involve getting transferred every year or two or involve the possibility of killing people or getting killed. Police and firefighters may but they are far better paid than the average private who earns an average of $30,000/year. So, let the veterans have their day. It harms no one.