‘It's messed up': Employee gets pressured by family to call in sick instead of working on Christmas Eve, she refuses to risk her job in favor of a family dinner

Although nobody likes to work on Christmas, some of us find ourselves landing jobs that require us to work during the holidays. It's not fun, but that's having a job in a nutshell, and there is not much we can do about it. If we value our job, we have to accept that sometimes we make sacrifices for it, including working on Christmas.

The employee in this Reddit story (OP, original poster) was hired as a seasonal worker, so she knew from the start she would be required to work during the holidays. Even so, her mother was not pleased to learn that her daughter was scheduled to work on Christmas Eve, and would inevitably miss the family dinner. Mom then starts to pressure OP to call in sick on Christmas Eve, so she would not have to work during the dinner. OP, on the other hand, knows that if she does that, she will not keep her job for long…

Keep scrolling to read what happened next on this family dispute between a mother who wanted her daughter for Christmas, and a daughter who wanted to keep her job. After you are done reading this story, check out another about a mom who refused to host some family members on Christmas.

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