Checking in from work…and bored shitless.
So sorry you’re bored. If I knew any Sicilians I’d send them your way for a battle of wits. I’m sorry to say, the best I could offer is a low light scenario.
Damn, somebody actually works on Christmas in Portland? Most people here can’t seem to be coaxed into working on a regular basis even during non-holidays. And besides, there were seven flakes of snow yesterday, which usually means everything grinds to a halt.
Not yet, but I’ll be on the job later today, the ER is always open.
I’ll be working today, and I’m pretty content with the idea. I live too far away from my family to spend the day with them, and I have no party or other special event that is calling my name, so I’d much rather be at work where there are people I can talk to than by myself on a day when nothing’s open anyway. And working on Christmas is usually super-chill. The higher-ups are away, the workload’s light and I wouldn’t be shocked if I got to go home noticeably early. I just hope that they feed us.
I’m not working, but I’d actually be happy to be. I’ve had jobs in the past where I worked on Christmas, and I like it when it’s just another work day.
Also, one job I had paid double time for working from 6pm Christmas eve until midnight the 25th-26th. I worked all of it if I could, subbing for people who didn’t want to work on Christmas. Even after I got promoted to management so that I didn’t benefit from the double time, I still volunteered to take about eight hours worth of shifts so people who cared about Christmas didn’t have to work.
I’m more or less not working all week, but I have a project I need to finish before Jan 2 (I should have finished it on Dec 22, but well, I just didn’t and I can’t submit it until after the New Year now) and I figure I’ll work about 2 hrs each day and wrap it by Saturday. I don’t mind.
Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood atheist! 
Yep, working on the holiday as per usual. But I had a quick lunch with family beforehand and it is nice and quiet at work, so no big deal. Just sipping my spiced tea with my feet up on the desk, waiting for something to go wrong( which isn’t very likely ) :).
It’s Monday, isn’t it? Yep, I’m working. Ok, that’s a lie. I’m AT work, but I’m not DOING any work.
I asked for the day off as a vacation day, but I’d normally be working. The futures markets open for the 26 December session at 5 PM, Chicago time. I do try to avoid working major holidays as much as possible because public transit is usually a pain and there’s always something messed up with the systems at work on holidays. Thankfully, my coworker works most holidays since he wants the extra pay.
Work, work, work. Sitting here staring at this canary so that if it keels over, I get to call somebody up and ruin his Christmas. Fortunately, most of our apps break because too many people are using them so absolutely fuck-all has happened all weekend. Getting caught up on my Plants vs. Zombies.
Worked last night (they fed us!). And working again tonight in about 15 minutes.
Over here in Taiwan, Christmas isn’t a holiday or observed by many people. It was just another work day for me, and not even any holiday pay.
I did a volunteer shift cleaning cat kennels at the animal shelter this morning, does that count? I’m currently not working, and Monday is my usual day to pick up a cleaning shift anyway, so I went in and helped. The cats don’t know it’s a holiday, they just want their litter boxes cleaned.
So, you had a Meowy Christmas! 
Seriously, good on you!
I work every day, at least a few hours. I did not have a single day with no work since I went on a cruise in November 2015.
Not only is the ER open for business, we’ve been screaming cheetah wheelies all day.
I am retired now but back in the day I would volunteer to work Christmas and New Year’s Day both, one of about six people on that day. I was a CSR who worked with small retailers so as you can imagine, Christmas Day would be dead, dead, dead with maybe six to eight calls per person all day, most of them from motels. New Year’s would be a bit busier, ten to twelve calls, but still small enough to make me feel almost guilty taking the double time-and-a-half it paid. Almost.
My shift was 5am to 1:30pm to take care of the east coast so I would show up at my brother’s for Christmas dinner abut 2pm which was plenty of time for noshing and schmoozing before dinner which was served about five or six. Presents were opened on Christmas Eve so there was no short-changing in that department. I was happy.
On the other hand, I was one of a handful of people who could take calls from Canada as well. Their main center was in Toronto and in theory we would take care of only the overflow, to keep the time-to-answer metric within bounds. Unfortunately, Toronto was not well run which meant even on a regular work day, about a third of our calls were from Canada. On the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, which are not Canadian holidays, the machinery would try to keep idle time for both Toronto and Tempe the same so we would wind up pretty much having a regular day of fifty or sixty calls while those who were US-only would take the usual dozen or so. After a couple times, we Canadian-trained worker bees did not volunteer for those days any more.
What kinds of emergency cases does Christmas day send your way?
I’m at work. Best week of the year.