# When is your Christmas vacation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656 "2002-12-24T02:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foxfiregrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@foxfiregrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxfiregrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/1 "2002-12-24T02:32:56Z")
I’m a high school student, so I started my vacation this weekend. It’ll last for two glorious weeks – and I have no homework! However, today I was thinking, and I realized I didn’t know what sort of vacations working folk get. Both my parents are self-employed, so they aren’t very good examples. Where do you work, and what sort of Christmas break do you get? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/2 "2002-12-24T02:39:07Z")
My employer shuts down for a holiday break. Today the 23rd was a scheduled work day but most of my shop took vacation or leave without pay. 4 days this week and 3 next week are paid holiday and it is back to work on the 2nd. But we do not get another paid holiday till Memorial Day at the end of May. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/3 "2002-12-24T03:37:26Z")
My employer shuts the entire facility down over Christmas and New Year’s each year, so we’re off from 12/21 (counting the preceding weekend) through (1/1). I made myself a long list of projects to get caught up on during this time. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/4 "2002-12-24T04:05:30Z")
I’m in the TV broadcasting business. We work so you can watch your football games, parades and such on Christmas. Enjoy your vacations ☹ ---
**Author:** ![foxfiregrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@foxfiregrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxfiregrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/5 "2002-12-24T04:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVGuy \* > \*\*I’m in the TV broadcasting business. We work so you can watch your football games, parades and such on Christmas. > > Enjoy your vacations ☹ \*\* Major bummer, **TVGuy.** I think it’s important that everyone remember hardworking folk such as yourselves. Do you get any sort of extra pay for working on holidays, or, say, a vacation later, as a reward? Hope you have a good holiday, even if you don’t get a vacation. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/6 "2002-12-24T04:56:14Z")
My dad tells me that a CTV affiliate in Toronto went to someones house and filmed 5 hours worth of burning fireplace…They are going to play it from 5am to 10am, so that families can open their presents in front of a “fire” 🙂 They gave all of the employees the morning off to be with their families. You might want to suggest that to your employer, TVGuy. It’s a small vacation, at least! I’m a university student. My last exam this year was the 12th, and winter term classes start the 6th, so I get a good 3 weeks off this year. It was a little less last year. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/7 "2002-12-24T05:07:24Z")
I’ve got the 24[sup]th[/sup] and the 25[sup]th[/sup] off, as well as the 1[sup]st[/sup]. Then vacation days get me up to NYC for the MegaFest. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/8 "2002-12-24T05:34:10Z")
I’m in High School, and it lasts from December 21 to January 2. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/9 "2002-12-24T06:05:45Z")
It just started. We’re closed the 24th and 25th. Right in time, I’ve come down with the Cold From Hell. My vocal output sounds like the hellish offspring of James Earl Jones in a psychotic episode and a _very_ defective coffee machine. ::subterranean rumbles, wheezes, splorts, snorts:: Right now all I want to do is sleep. Until March just _might_ handle it. Ah, hell, I’ve still got lots of good eats and lazin’ around planned. Goin’ back to work between New Years, then another coupla days carefully orchestrated collapse planned. It’ll work out. Veb [sub]sniff, hrroooonk, koff, gasp[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/10 "2002-12-24T13:55:43Z")
We’re closed the 24th and 25th, and the 1st. My birthday is the 31st, so I’m taking a vacation day for that. I’m in publishing, and production schedules roll along 52 weeks a year. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/11 "2002-12-24T14:29:00Z")
Tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/12 "2002-12-24T15:12:59Z")
Right now. My employer gives us Christmas Eve and Day off, and I have 3 use-'em-or-lose-'em vacation days left. A week of peace and quiet. (yeah, right!) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-your-christmas-vacation/144656/13 "2002-12-24T16:16:50Z")
No Christmas holiday for me. I have to sit here and watch all of your internet datagrams buzz about the eastern seaboard.