'Am I the [office Grinch] who stole Xmas?': New hire of only 4 months wants senior IT employee to cover his holiday shift since he doesn't celebrate Christmas, gets a big ‘NO’

Who hasn't had to work a holiday shift? It just comes with the territory. If you're a new hire, you have to put your time in and work some of the hard shifts. That's just how the cookie crumbles. You think you will get the holidays off before the more senior employees who had to give their holidays up years before you? I don't think so, babes. So the audacity of this new hire in this Reddit story is palpable. A senior IT employee usually works the Christmas break and never minded it since he doesn't celebrate it. However, the last Christmas break he worked was so chaotic and exhausting, especially since the team became short staffed, that he requested the next holiday off immediately—and got approved! However, now as we approach the holiday, a new hire of only 4 months wants him to switch shifts with him. His excuse is that he celebrates Christmas so it's only fair. The thing is, however, is that the company has Christmas day and Boxing Day (the day after) off, so he really just wants the days before the actual holiday off. It's baffling how this new hire can't see the entitlement reeking from this? Of course, the senior employee said no, but now he feels like the office Grinch. What do you think?

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