If your office opened after the holiday, did it need to be? Or has it been a waste?

[Anonymous]

Absolute complete waste.

[Anonymous]

I work for an investment firm. we were open last week and extremely busy. My team worked until we were finished on Friday, until 5:30pm.

If you have to work, make it productive. Work on projects to make your organization better. Work on system and productivity enhancements. Work on streamlining. Work on updating process manuals. I never understand people who say they have nothing to do at work. To me that says you are very overstaffed or unmotivated.

If you are a government employee, there are several productivity enhancements you all should be working on to bring your departments up to modern day corporate standards.

[Anonymous]

Work for a government contractor and we have been slammed. An RFP dropped unexpectedly the day before Christmas and it's been 12 hour days ever since (we did all take Christmas off thankfully). Today I was up at 8:00 to get on a call for over an hour and then worked until 4PM. Tomorrow will be more of the same and forget the New Year's holiday. Everyone in my group will be going into the office just like any normal Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We close between Christmas and New Year. It’s part of the vacation package. We also don’t get Presidents‘ Day and Veterans Day and the day she Thanksgiving off. As a dod contracting firm except for a few overhead staff everyone is on direct charge so it costs money to close the office and pay everyone and it comes out of profit. Corporate decided it was worth it a long time ago and they have been doing it for 20 years.

Sounds good. Do you mind saying what contractor does this? I need to be working with you.

Oh we are a small company (less than 400 ppl) in a technical niche firm. Granted I’m in the same boat as one of the PPA and an ego dropped and I’ve been working some anyway. But that’s a management only problem.

[Anonymous]

I work in a chemo infusion setting. Losing one day makes the other four brutal. So lather, rinse and repeat for us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work for a government contractor and we have been slammed. An RFP dropped unexpectedly the day before Christmas and it's been 12 hour days ever since (we did all take Christmas off thankfully). Today I was up at 8:00 to get on a call for over an hour and then worked until 4PM. Tomorrow will be more of the same and forget the New Year's holiday. Everyone in my group will be going into the office just like any normal Monday. [/quote

I feel there’s a special place in hell for the Contracting Officers that do this. Load that fool up with 100 ridiculous bidders questions and have your sub as ask the same ones but worded differently. Wait two days, then start asking when they’re going to answer questions and, since they haven’t because they’re enjoying a holiday break, demand extensions.

15 Year’s worth of proposals has turned me into a CO’s nightmare.