12-26-2002, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Who had to work on Christmas day/night? How was it?
How about New Year's Eve? I had to/will work on both...Christmas was surreal, NYE will be hell on earth.. Share your pain... Edit: Dec 26th was also a public holiday here (worked) as is 1/1/03 (will work) Sigh [ 12-26-2002, 07:56 PM: Message edited by: Leonis ]
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12-26-2002, 07:55 PM | #2 |
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If we had recieved our material (lumber) we would have worked. It was wednesday for christs sake [img]tongue.gif[/img] *bad pun* But I have worked on christmas before
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12-26-2002, 08:16 PM | #4 |
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I had to work the day before and the day after Thanksgiving as well as Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I still got to spend time with my family, so all was well anyway...and time and a half doesn't hurt, either.
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12-26-2002, 08:21 PM | #5 |
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I guess it depends on how you'd define work. We went up to the cabin for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, but I did take the laptop and put in a few hours work in the evening after Ashley had gone to bed.
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I had to work Christmas Eve and today. Goes with the territory. I have often spent Christmas Day at the hospital and in the ER. Frantic, usually.
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12-26-2002, 08:35 PM | #7 |
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I had to work Christmas. The work load was pretty slow. I did get compensation though (triple time), but would have preferred the day off. My mother is in a rehab center, so I barely saw her for half an hour on Christmas eve (I worked nights on Christmas eve, then days on Christmas day). To make matters worse, I got there and found out that since there was a skeleton crew, she wasn't really cared for that well. There's other issues with that too, but I will hold off on that for now. I visited on Christmas day for about 2 hours, but she was so depressed that it wore on me really bad. The rest of the family is in North Carolina. If it wasn't for Becky and Pauline, I think I would have been totally depressed myself. Even with that, I didn't have time to devote to either of them because of the situation with my mom. She is a city above mine and I work two cities to the south. Lot of driving time even though it was all local.
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I'd been wondering how you've been since your accident. Hope you and your fam had a fantastic holiday break. Back on topic ... I had to work every day up to Christmas and then back on Boxing Day and I'm working up till New Years, get a day off there and then back the day after that for another week And the stink thing is that I don't get any extra pay - just a coupla days in lieu for working the public hols (Which isn't all bad but I'd rather have the day off).
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12-27-2002, 03:34 AM | #9 |
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I have to face up to a 12 hour shift on new years day - will have to be up and outta bed by 05:30 - looks like it will be an early one for me the night before
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