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Anyone else working this Christmas Eve?

Anyone else on-call on Christmas Day?

Today I'm pretty much on my own in an office which normally houses around 1,500. There are a few others (security guards, etc), but the place is a ghost town.

Thinking how to spend my time - any suggestions?

Raid stationery cupboards? Set up elaborate practical jokes?

Time for a new aftershave, Icy?


lil xx

Maybe I'll get some tomorrow

Only if you get new aftershave

And a Merry Christmas to you too! So you're not spending it at the but and ben this year?

Nope. Christmas with the bairns and grand-bairns this year.

I'm still in work. Currently 15 minutes between calls.

I want to go to the pub!!!!

FB

Sitting in a tax paying coffee shop while SWMBO does some last minute shopping.

I hope that everyone who is working on the public holidays doesn't have to do too much and is well compensated for it

That would depend on how much people drink and what they do *after* drinking. I'm thinking of medical people like Dr. Z, who probably won't appreciate having to treat too many accident victims .

I legged it before the trains start running down. It's Russian roulette after about 5pm on Christmas Eve.

So still here, no calls coming through (and nothing we could do even if they were) and nobody anywhere near me.

My name never seems to come out of the hat. Last time was Xmas Even 2001, co-incidentally I took my first job as a shop steward a few months later?





FB

comes out of the hat for working or being off?

Actually I think it's terrible. I have always supported our lot letting at least one person in each team take holidays from the last working day before Christmas Eve to 2nd January (because for us nothing, but nothing, is allowed to interfere with month end... ) but when it was allowed in my team, all the bosses favourites got to do it, and I (only one with children) didn't and it cost me an arm and a leg for the childminding I needed.

But then, most of us have someone we want to spend Christmas with so it seems churlish not to take turns in not working.

I always used to volunteer to work when I was in the army. There was always a fab lunch provided by the s and it was served by the officers and senior ranks in their best mess dress.

Yes, the police do that as well. A friend of mine's been served their Xmas lunch by a couple of Met commissioners.