In years past I worked on Christmas as a ski instructor, it was actually a very good day to work, crowds were down, tips were up, it was a fun time and I love the work so much it’s not work to me.
As a firefighter I am on call, and can work on Christmas. We have had calls on Christmas, but nothing serious or long.
The owner himself was a bastard who saw the situation as a means to rake in a few extra bucks.
Yes. I mean, when it’s not on the Sabbath.
Like many a journalist, I will be working Christmas Day. But I have come to value Thanksgiving over the years way more than Christmas, so it’s not really a huge deal. Plus, I’ll almost certainly be working from home, and there’s never a lot to do on Christmas anyway, so it’ll feel a lot like a day off outside of the minimal attention I’ll need to pay to the paper.
Way back in my late teens and early twenties when I worked retail, I didn’t mind working it for the same reasons. 
I think many of us without small children have. Overall, it is a lovely, lovely tradition. Bonus that it is American in origin. (Yes, I know the truth about it, but I still cherish the annual reminder to say thanks to friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc.)
It used to be a tradition of mine to stop by a hospital or police/fire station and drop off some Christmas treats. Covid put a stop it it but maybe in cold January or gray February I can send flowers to the staff of a care home instead.
Yep, I’ll be working. I make subtitles for TV programmes and we’re scheduled to work one weekend in three and can never book weekends off because there aren’t enough staff scheduled to cover it. Unfortunately, this year that means I’m working the entire Christmas weekend. I’ve managed to get half days on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (still ten hours on Christmas Eve) but would prefer to have those days off - it’s going to be a difficult Christmas.
My shift has accidentally ended up working every single bank holiday this year, plus Valentine’s Day. It’s a genuine coincidence but it does feel a little unfair.
(We don’t get any extra pay).
@SciFiSam That bites. There’s no way around it. When I worked in a supermarket for 7 years, I was always the closing cashier the night before a holiday. The manager reasoned it as my parents lived only a couple of miles away so I could always bunk at their house (after I moved out). No extra pay either.
The supermarket was a 24/7 store and it would close at midnight prior to a holiday (earlier for New Year’s Eve). Inevitably, there would be a few customers who were not willing to speed up their shopping, so sometimes I didn’t get out of there until after 2:00 a.m.
The only time I wasn’t scheduled to be closing cashier, there was a snowstorm causing me to arrive 2 hours late and then I was told that the closing cashier had called in and said “no way, no how”. Yep, I closed that night too.
Where I worked decades ago, holiday shifts were always populated by single employees. Married people with families never had to work holidays.
We work from home, at least. If we worked in the office I’d have those days off because in London there’s no public transport on Christmas Day, and I don’t drive.
I think that if my daughter were a child rather than an autistic adult they’d find a way to accommodate it, because managing Christmas as a single parent while working would have made it impossible for me to, realistically, work without ruining my daughter’s Christmas, and asking other people to work it instead of me would likely have got no takers. These days she’ll just sleep in all morning anyway. And at least - I’m fairly sure - none of us on this shift have young kids.