I was really only curious about the holiday pay just because of the low pay for the first year. My husband would not call in sick on a holiday if he was not sick whether on probation or not and Hoss, you are incorrect in assuming I would be a psycho wife and pressure my husband into getting the holidays off. That is the furthest thing from the truth. He is more concerned about it than I am. I have already said we can celebrate it when he is home and I could care less if it is on the 25th. The only reason I asked about calling in sick on a holiday is that one of you said "save your sick calls appropriately". I assumed he was saying save your sick calls for something like the holidays and I was just wondering if people do that, what happens...not that I would encourage my husband to do it. And Autopilot....my husband can't be bothered to look at his own pay registers and he could care less if I look at them ...after all, I pay the bills and should know how much I am working with!.