So, yesterday I had nearly lost my voice, my co-worker Carolyn was over an hour late (because her son hit a deer, had his license suspeneded weeks ago, and she had to take him to work), I made it through my entire shift so I wouldn't get in any trouble, then Carolyn says,

"Starting Saturday our mandatory days begin."
"What?"
"The 10 days before Christmas with no off-day. Then the day after Christmas."
"No one mentioned that to me." (I had plans to meet a friend in Savannah but without 2 consectutive days off before Christmas, that will be impossible).
"Well, I guess you will be hearing about it."

Since I was so sick I just told her have a good afternoon and left. But I remembered this e-mail from my boss:

I will be bringing in a lady from the Winder store to start working next week(Thursday).She will work on Mon-Wed. and Friday with you Jill.If you don't want to work on Thursday then I will have her to work just let me know.Carolyn will continue to work the days that she can.This will help with things not getting beh ind since Carolyn is busy with Wal-Mart at this busy time of the year.