Working Christmas

Mobius 1 · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:09

antar, that sucks. you must be pretty important. lol

MiNxYyY · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:12

Working xmas eve, xmas day, boxing day and new years eve and day.

Money was just too good to turn down.

Mr-White · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:14

Not me, I'm currently taking 3 months off work

MW

chipperhead · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:16

I don't start work till 6pm on Christmas Day this year so at least I'll get most of the day free and as a bonus when all the good stuffs finished like opening pressies and pigging out, I'll disappear when all the tidying and washing up starts.

Zairs · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:33

i have to work up till midnight xmas eve, then get a couple of days off

Viper² · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:38

I'm off 25th-27th and 31st-3rd.

apeZ · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:57

In retail, but store is closed Xmas day/Boxing Day and New Years Day, so 3 days off

Craig321 · 12 Dec 2010 at 00:58

No chance! I've got 20th Dec-4th Jan off. I'd have to be paid a lot to work on Christmas.

Pestilence · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:19

Craig321 said:
No chance! I've got 20th Dec-4th Jan off. I'd have to be paid a lot to work on Christmas.

That's a nice continuous break! What do you do, if you don't mind me asking?

cheets64 · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:20

Worked last xmas, was quiet and had to work, never again, pointless, more to life than money. Shame some business's feel the need to open while the owners/bosses have xmas off.

tbh perfect xmas would be finish xmas eve at 3pm go back on 29th
then finish 31st at 3pm till 3rd

Viper² · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:41

cheets64 said:
Worked last xmas, was quiet and had to work, never again, pointless, more to life than money. Shame some business's feel the need to open while the owners/bosses have xmas off.

tbh perfect xmas would be finish xmas eve at 3pm go back on 29th
then finish 31st at 3pm till 3rd

Depends where you work. Most businesses can survive without bosses for a few days. If they want to take a few days off, then you aren't really in a place to argue.

Morba · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:45

What an odd statement cheets. Some businesses have to take advantage of the Xmas business, doesn't mean senior management need to be in though.

Feef · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:47

Working in the pub christmas eve and boxing day, plus all the days around them, but have new years off. Kind of gutted not to be working christmas day itself this year, double time and a pint off of almost every customer who came in made last time pretty good

Doohickey · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:49

Working nights over Christmas, working till 2 a.m. over New Years. Meh.

Fuzz · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:52

Finish on the 24th, Back on the 4th.. I suspect

Gimpymoo · 12 Dec 2010 at 01:57

Am working Christmas day, 18.00 - 22.00.. I am working from home though so does that negate my right to have a moan?

cheets64 · 12 Dec 2010 at 02:58

Morba said:
What an odd statement cheets. Some businesses have to take advantage of the Xmas business, doesn't mean senior management need to be in though.

Working xmas day, not really unless its a vital service, and then its only one day of the year.

They have 364 days to make money.

Ironic Namesake · 12 Dec 2010 at 03:56

I'm going to be in Macau for Xmas even, and Hong Kong for Xmas day. Hope I can find christmas dinner there !

Will be working the other days though.

matthewhotdude · 12 Dec 2010 at 04:13

Finish the 22nd, go back the 7th

Rotty · 12 Dec 2010 at 05:02

cheets64 said:
Worked last xmas, was quiet and had to work, never again, pointless, more to life than money. Shame some business's feel the need to open while the owners/bosses have xmas off.

tbh perfect xmas would be finish xmas eve at 3pm go back on 29th
then finish 31st at 3pm till 3rd

If some of the systems I look after crashed then maybe a mobile phone network would go down, a major broadband provider, banking and credit card systems

while I agree re corpoarate profits the general public wouldn't be impressed