# How busy is your job at the end of the year?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-busy-is-your-job-at-the-end-of-the-year/565575>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 28, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-busy-is-your-job-at-the-end-of-the-year/565575 "2010-12-28T04:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-busy-is-your-job-at-the-end-of-the-year/565575/1 "2010-12-28T04:18:19Z")

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My current job at a brokerage firm is incredibly busy at the end of the year. However, I’ve worked in places where the entire office was on auto pilot and only a skeleton crew worked the last part of December.

Is this true at your work?

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-busy-is-your-job-at-the-end-of-the-year/565575/2 "2010-12-28T04:19:45Z")

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I report the my OP to have it locked, I’ll repost with a poll attached.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-busy-is-your-job-at-the-end-of-the-year/565575/3 "2010-12-28T04:24:10Z")

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Locked.