Work vacation time fairness.?

Does anyone find this rather unfair?

Situation:
My boss (a dentist) has two dental offices. A main one (7 operating rooms with 3 associate docs and 10 employees in staff) and a branch (4 rooms total with just the main doc and 4 employees in staff).

I work at the branch.

The doctor went on a full week vacation with his family.

The manager closed down the main office but made us, in the smaller office, come in all week.

The manager's logic is that we need to take incoming phone calls from patients.

But the MAIN office gets on average 20 new patients a week while we get around 4 new patients a week.

Since I'm moving in 6 weeks and trying to earn up every which way I can, I took it as a "earn wage without doing much work" type of week.

But of course there are the three others in the office that would have preferred a vacation and spending time with family.

What's your take? Should this have been reported somewhere?

To add: This company won't have another official vacation break until end of December.

The small office would just be staffed without any patients coming in in the week. No doctor.

Since you are moving in 6 weeks , i assume you will be changing jobs as well ?
It seems this was the standard at this job from the beginning so why complain now ?
Next job be sure to go over benifits , before you accept the job.

Fair, maybe not. Legal, yes - unless you have a written contract that you get paid vacation, there is no legal requirement for the employer to give it.

If it is clearly stated when company "holidays" are supposed to be, I dont think you can report anything.

Most likely you work in an "at will" state, which means the employer can close down anything he/she wants for any reason at any time. Same goes for hiring and firing.

I would imagine that the 2 "branches" are set up as 2 entirely separate entities with separate ownership of each, and that is why one closed down while the other didnt.

It may be unfair, but it isnt illegal.