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If you worked Monday through Friday for over 10 years, your company got sold and the new GM told you you now HAVE to work Sat and Sunday would you be down or give a problem
I said no, I am not available, I am waiting to see what happens but I am pretty sure it will not be a good outcome

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Do you get any days off? But hell no I would be pissed off.

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That is horseshit, and I would not be happy with it.
I'd be looking for a new job.
They can do what they want as it's their company, and you really have no recourse, but yeah, no, that would not fly with me and my lifestyle and my family

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I would tell them no I can't do it but I would expect them to tell me either you do it or you can't work here. From there I may try to negotiate some kind of arrangement or I would look for a new job.

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No, that wouldn’t work for us bc DH does work most weekends already. We both can’t or we’d have no childcare.
However returning to the topic from a few weeks ago, if the company chose to terminate the OP, could she file for unemployment? Being that she was hired for a M-F job 10 years ago?

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Nope, I’m not down with working weekends. I will only teach a class here and there because it would 3 hrs and I’m done by like 12.

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i would very politely, and probably with a mousy tone, decline to work weekends.

then i would start looking for another job... only because i would feel as through i would have to be prepared for the other shoe to drop.

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Perhaps I'd compromise and say one weekend day, provided I had another day off M-F... but geez, I'd never see my DH again. Though it would save us the cost of a full day of daycare...

I don't think it's unreasonable for you to not want to work weekends. It's not like you're going from working "off" hours/days to a standard week. It's quite the opposite. But then again... they might have to let you go. I wonder if you could file for unemployment then.

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Personally- I would not be keen on working weekends, so I would definitely voice my protest- doesn't mean they will listen though lol. At the end of the day whether I would stay or leave if they forced me to change my schedule depends on how feasible working weekends would be and how much I really liked everything else about the job.

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Given that DH is retired, I wouldn't mind working on a Saturday and having Monday off to make a 2 day "weekend".

In your situation, I'd need more information, like why are the schedules changing, especially for established employees. Is the pay rate going to change for weekend work ? What other days will be offered in exchange for Sat-Sun ?

Depending upon those answers, I'd either stay or start looking for another position.
The new employer is not required to give severance, you should be entitled to unemployment if you are terminated, but not if you quit.

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Nope. Couldn’t do it.

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So they want you working 7 days a week?
Are weekends full days too? Or just A few hours? Once a month?

Did a foreign company buy them out?

I wouldn't go for it.
Even a hefty compensation would still be iffy. lol

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no way jose

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thanks for all the responses and advice
Its not 7 days, its two random days during the week off and then sat/sun
After all my time here I think its time to say goodbye, they are not willing to compromise and are saying I am not flexible. No shit!
so we had a talk and they offered me unemployment and to be honest I dont know what to do...my DH said wait it out let them let me go and take some time off, on the other hand I am like what do we really do on the weekends that I should leave a job I have a love/hate
its so overwhelming

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Would it be every weekend? Every other weekend? A weekend day here and there? Because if it's not every single weekend and you feel like you don't do THAT much on the weekends, it doesn't sound so bad.

I used to work usually 3 or 4 weekend days a month. It could be annoying at times but I really loved those days off during the week. It's amazing how much you can get done while most people are working. It's so much easier to enjoy things during the week since the crowd levels are much lower. Even just going to the grocery store is so much nicer! I miss my week days off.

eta- And not just errands, all types of things are so much better to do during the week. You don't need to waste days off for doctor apts, you can go to the city during the holidays without fighting crowds, you can go to the beach without sitting in traffic, etc.

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i'd bounce

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We have thought this might become a possibility with DH's.
If the weekend coverage rotated, it would be annoying, but manageable.

If it was every weekend, it wouldn't work. As someone said above, we'd never see each other. I am gone 8-8 during the week, and can barely function after dinner.

I'd be stranded at home on the weekends without a car & we'd never see my family ( who live an hour away, so we couldn't just stop by on a sat night when he got off work.)

I work weekends occassionally for events, and even when I get a comp day, it'' not the same, because no one else is home and I miss events on the weekends.

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I wouldn't stay.

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I would agree, look for a new job and say I am leaving effective immediately as soon as you find new employment.

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Message edited 7/28/2018 9:42:55 AM.

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