I did say what I was expecting & what is wrong. Dont need Dumper because I seperated out my hashs to ease trying to debug this. Like I said I think that my 4 sorting routines are messing the hashes up but I dont know how.

As for pulling a smaller code chunk out.... You cant you need it all to have some sort of context to the issue. Hence I will to explain more concisely what the issue is. Saying
$p_list_weekends{$a} <=> $p_list_weekends{$b};
$p_list_weekdays{$a} <=> $p_list_weekdays{$b};
ect. Is replicationg into all my hashes means nothing without seeing it in context.

To expound on my explaination:
%p_list_holidays: should return nothing but names => 0
%p_list_fridays: all the values added together should be 52
%p_list_weekends: all the values added together should be 104
%p_list_weekdays: all the values added together should be 209

Look at the following it is easy to see that
1 they are all the same
2 are not following the above math
3 the hash %p_list_holidays is NOT accessed once but is populated with the same data as the rest.

OUTPUT
======================================================
WEEKDAYS
======================================================
        >>29: curly_joe
        >>30: jack
        >>30: jill
        >>30: larry
        >>30: shimp
        >>30: curly
        >>30: moe
======================================================
WEEKENDS
======================================================
        >>29: curly_joe
        >>30: jack
        >>30: jill
        >>30: larry
        >>30: shimp
        >>30: curly
        >>30: moe
======================================================
FRIDAYS
======================================================
        >>30: shimp
        >>30: curly
        >>30: moe
        >>29: curly_joe
        >>30: jack
        >>30: jill
        >>30: larry
======================================================
HOLIDAYS
======================================================
        >>30: jack
        >>30: jill
        >>30: larry
        >>30: shimp
        >>30: curly
        >>30: moe
        >>29: curly_joe
weekdays:209
weekends: 104
fridays: 52
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