Poll: Wind up or wind down for Christmas? (Work)
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I'm lucky, I don't work over Christmas.
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absolutely a wind-down 
EDIT TO STATE: I mean wind-down as in we get time off. Up until we broke up we were still working at the same intensity, right up until the moment we finished. This will only continue once I get out of training.
This is my 2nd year in my current career at christmas, this year I get 2 weeks off; last year i had 4 weeks off.
Before that I was working in retail and i was working what seemed like all day-every day
EDIT TO STATE: I mean wind-down as in we get time off. Up until we broke up we were still working at the same intensity, right up until the moment we finished. This will only continue once I get out of training.This is my 2nd year in my current career at christmas, this year I get 2 weeks off; last year i had 4 weeks off.
Before that I was working in retail and i was working what seemed like all day-every day
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Not really a wind down with the way stuff is booked in work, more or less just standard up until your off and then it suddenly stops more or less. I guess it kinda winds down slightly as the dress code relaxes and we have the christmas party, christmas jumper day and a team lunch on the company.
Generally wind down here, but we've got three fit outs going on at the moment which keeps us occupied.
The thing I hate most about my current employer is their lame, pathetic approach to Christmas. Tomorrow at 11am we get to go to the manager's open plan office for a "drink and some nibbles" which entails standing in an office where other people are working, the "nibbles" are some crisps and nuts in plastic bowls on filing cabinets, the "drinks" will be a coke or whatever from a plastic cup (those crap ones from water dispensers) and the small talk will be that awkward just-to-kill-the-silence crap. If past experience is anything to go by, the manager's kids will be running around too (7 and 10 years old).
It's embarrassing, cringeworthy and insulting to evej waste our time doing that. Rather do nothing. Everyone hates it yet we have to do it every year to keep the peace. Eurgh.
The thing I hate most about my current employer is their lame, pathetic approach to Christmas. Tomorrow at 11am we get to go to the manager's open plan office for a "drink and some nibbles" which entails standing in an office where other people are working, the "nibbles" are some crisps and nuts in plastic bowls on filing cabinets, the "drinks" will be a coke or whatever from a plastic cup (those crap ones from water dispensers) and the small talk will be that awkward just-to-kill-the-silence crap. If past experience is anything to go by, the manager's kids will be running around too (7 and 10 years old).
It's embarrassing, cringeworthy and insulting to evej waste our time doing that. Rather do nothing. Everyone hates it yet we have to do it every year to keep the peace. Eurgh.
Boring if I'm honest. When I was working in the Public sector, we would have pretty much 2 weeks off. This was due to the fact the clients we supported were all in the same building and they didn't work either.
Where I am now however, some do and don't work over Christmas/New Year and while I don't mind working this time round, I do wish I had the annual leave to take the whole 2 weeks off. Next year I will make sure I do.
Where I am now however, some do and don't work over Christmas/New Year and while I don't mind working this time round, I do wish I had the annual leave to take the whole 2 weeks off. Next year I will make sure I do.
