My employers, in their infinite generosity, have given me Christmas Day off work!!!
Woohoo!
So I ought to get home at about 10pm on Christmas Eve, and then have a whole 34 hours in which to enjoy the festive spirit before I have to set off for work again on Boxing Day.
And the train company has decided that it’s not worth their while actually running any trains on Boxing Day at all, so I will have an 80-mile round trip by car, across London, to add to my post-Xmas joy.
Anyone else get stitched up over Christmas by their boss?
I will be working New Year’s, but not Christmas. We don’t get Boxing Day in the US, so I’ll be working Friday. However, I have no intention of working Wednesday, either, as my family beings celebrating Christmas on the afternoon of Christmas Eve (extended family, lots of separate celebrations.)
I am given to understand that people in the US don’t get so much time off over Christmas, but most of my friends over here get about two weeks off, so my one day grates a bit!
It’s not quite the same since I have choices, but…
I’ll be seeing clients on the 26th (self-employed), and I’ll be working at the university (syllabi and backlog) or doing university-related work on the 24th and 25th at home. When I work in hospitals or provide crisis intervention, I usually cover the “Jewish shifts” of the 24th and 25th.
I get to work on Christmas day! I have also been working on Saturdays and Sundays since the first of December. My next day off will be January 1st. My first day off in a month. I think that I will sleep in that day.
I’m Jewish; I too make my own schedule, so I don’t know if this counts. I looked at the schedule for the microscope I usually have to sign up for a week in advance, for a couple of hours at most, and rejoiced that this Thursday was wide open.
I worked shifts at a research laboratory and my job had to be manned 24/7. Got stuck with Holiday. Top dog (Director) came by my office and apollogized for me having to work that particular day. If it hadn’g been me it would have been one of the other three that rotated with me.
It come with the territory or at least some of them.
I’m working Xmas day, new year’s day and all points in between. For some strange reason, they won’t shut down my oil rig and let me travel 12,000 miles home and come back the next day.
Tuesday, the 23rd, is my last official work day until Jan. 2. I’ll be in and out of the office at some point between those two dates (upgrading the computer), but on my own schedule. Yay! for bosses who take a lot of time off.
Well, for me, working is a relative term. I don’t have to go into the office on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day, but I won’t be at home in Alaska. On a completely separate (and prolly uninteresting) note, I’ll miss Christmas and New Year at home by being here, and I’ll miss Christmas and New Year here by being at home! Georgia Christmas and New Year are celebrated two weeks later than my traditional holidays, and I will be leaving here the 7th of January - the Georgian traditional Christmas Day.
I’m working the day after Christmas solely because I’m new enough at my job not to get to use the vacation time that is accumulating on my behalf, but I’m told it will probably be a VERY short and VERY quiet day, occupied primarily by the few folks who are in the office goofing off en masse.
Papa Tiger, OTOH, volunteered to cover the Christmas Eve overnight shift at his place of employment so guys with younger kids could be home with their families that night, which I thought was sweet of him. It’s not like we do anything for Christmas except a small gift exchange, and this being a heavily Catholic community, it’s nice to give the guys a chance to go to midnight mass with their families.
Dr.J and I are both working Christmas day (he’ll get home about the time I have to leave, most likely), and he’ll be putting in a 30-hour day the next day (overnight call sucks, really). It could be worse, though; last year he was at the hospital from 7am till 10pm, on top of working full days the day before and the day after and having to go in and round on his patients at 5am the first day of his vacation before we could leave for our wedding.
Well, it looks like I’ll be working on Christmas too, we might have some sort of celebration at the Dining Facility here in Mosul, Iraq. I don’t know; however, we’ve scheduled meetings for Christmas.
Enjoy your festivities, folks.
Since W gave us the 26th as a holiday, I’ll be using the leave I’d intended for that day and taking the 2nd off. I’m leaving here at 11 on Weds and I’ll be back in my cube on Monday morning. I’m hoarding my leave.
One of my colleagues is covering Friday after Christmas, and I cover Friday after New Year’s. Two out of three of us have to be in the office on the 29th and 30th. Hate to imagine the pileup in the cooler if we didn’t.
I have TWO freakin weeks off without pay! That’s what I get for working for a school district in a low level position - staff assistant for those of you in the know.
However I will work Christmas Eve, New Year, Eve and New Years at the other job…Hell YES I am working to deliver pizza on NEW YEARS! Made 150 bucks over New Years two years ago…
couldn’t drive last year coz I had too many speeding tickets!
I will be working part of Christmas Day as well as New Years. (I also worked on Thanksgiving) This is a 24/7 facility, and the residents must be accounted for every day, holiday or not.
I will also be stuck at work until 5:00 Wednesday, because my boss is clueless. In fact, I can almost guarantee that she will want me to get a lawyer or banker or insurance agent on the phone at 4:30 Christmas Eve, and then be astonished that they are not still at work. And of course, I will be back at work on Friday.
