Hello Beyond77 and welcome to PC!

I really do understand your frustration and I wish I had an answer for you. I’ve always given my job 110% and I would get very frustrated when co-workers did as little as they could to get by. That being said, I worked to live, not live to work, my family is and has always been my first priority.

There is no way I could work at your place of employment. It sounds much too chaotic. Since you’re not paid overtime, you have to figure out another time to take off. Then what happens if something pops up then? Hard feelings because you’ve worked the weekend and are entitled to take those hours off during the week leaving your co-workers to handle what pops up?

Is this the first time this situation has come up? Is there a system in place to ensure that all employees are giving equal time to these off time events? Is there a minimum amount of notice that employees are entitled to prior to being forced to change their plans? Is there a system in place that dictates the minimum amount of staffing needed for events? Certainly your co-workers are familiar with the requirements of the job, but some things cannot be rescheduled.

My father was a ranking police officer and had to fill in for his employees when something came up. When he died he had 1000 hours of comp time and over a years worth of sick time coming to him. Granted that my brother and I are adults, but he died too soon and we would have liked to have that time with him.