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21-12-2006, 02:53 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Lincolnshire
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Hi all, just wondered how many of us will be actually working on Christmas day. Well I for one will be working right through the Christmas and New year period. The job I do is a 365 days a year process and if your normal shift falls on Christmas day I'm afraid you have to work it. We do get compensated in money terms, but I would rather be at home.
Anyway, working or not, a Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year to everyone at WAB.
Roger |
21-12-2006, 03:07 PM
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I have Christmas day off but have to work Boxing day and New years day
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21-12-2006, 03:08 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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Sorry to hear you are working... hope it is peaceful day for you.
jaki
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21-12-2006, 03:46 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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I'm not, but my youngest son is going into a local hospice Christmas day afternoon as a volunteer. I'm very proud of him doing that. 
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21-12-2006, 04:07 PM
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Sorry to hear that Roger. I'm working xmas eve and new yrs eve. If i stayed working for dairy crest I would have to work xmas day. Obviously emergency services etc have to work but I think shops etc should be shut for longer.
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21-12-2006, 04:57 PM
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Since taking early retirement last year its no longer a botheration for me, but I do commiserate with those of you who do have to work through the festive season.
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21-12-2006, 04:58 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
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I offered to work as I am on my own anyway but am not needed. Huzzah.
One of my colleagues, a really nice young lady, invited me to hers for New Years Eve to go out in Glasgow. It was completely out of the blue and a nice surprise. |
21-12-2006, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie  I am on my own anyway but am not needed. | We NEED you! I'll be on the boards to chill. Christmas day does my head in sometimes! 
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21-12-2006, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by honeybee Sorry to hear that Roger. I'm working xmas eve and new yrs eve. If i stayed working for dairy crest I would have to work xmas day. Obviously emergency services etc have to work but I think shops etc should be shut for longer. | The problem is cows produce milk 24x7,didn't dairy crest close up shop?
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21-12-2006, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Ollie Hi all, just wondered how many of us will be actually working on Christmas day. Roger | Is making a huge Christmas lunch for all the family classed as working? I think it is.
However, I won't be glued to a computer as I usually am all day.
Jenny |
21-12-2006, 06:21 PM
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I'm working I've worked every Christmas for the last 21 years - since I was twelve! How time flies.  Happy Christmas everyone, have fun |
21-12-2006, 07:52 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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Originally Posted by Tormentil Since taking early retirement last year its no longer a botheration for me, but I do commiserate with those of you who do have to work through the festive season. | But there are different perspectives. When I was a lad I worked all winter holidays that I could - got time off in lieu which I could use in the summer when there was a good reason for a holiday. Also got me out of the tedium of 'christmas celebrations'. And I did work in the health service so it was useful work, I think. But it does all depend on your viewpoint, and the important thing, really, is that people should have the choice ... unfortunately no longer an accepted truth: health workers, police, some transport people were the exception, now compulsory holiday working is approaching the norm .... 
Hope that all enjoy their holidays, whenever they get them .... |
21-12-2006, 08:01 PM
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Santa Claus works every Christmas day and you never hear him complaining |
21-12-2006, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by nightshade The problem is cows produce milk 24x7,didn't dairy crest close up shop? | It is an evil place that never shuts!
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21-12-2006, 09:13 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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Thankfully tomorrow is my last day at work until 2nd January . I am off to the Scottish Highlands on Saturday for a short Christmas break .
Merry Christmas to one and all where ever you may be and what ever you will be doing .
Richard |
22-12-2006, 07:09 AM
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Technically I'll be working, but in reality I hope to be having a great time, as I accompany a group bird + mammal watching in Ethiopia, assuming I can get out tonight through fog!
I'll be back for traditional New Year though! |
22-12-2006, 03:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Milton, Hampshire
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Good luck Aeshna. Hope you enjoy it. |
22-12-2006, 03:53 PM
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Roger
sorry you have to work, I am off till 2 january, hope you manage to fit some fun time in during the day.
Have a good one pal
Mick
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22-12-2006, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by canonman Roger
sorry you have to work, I am off till 2 january, hope you manage to fit some fun time in during the day.
Have a good one pal
Mick | Cheers Mick and all the best to you also and all others who have responded to this thread, and not forgetting the gallery editors and moderators and Stu and all other admin who do a fantastic job. Without them there would be no WAB so a special thank you to them, and have a great Christmas and New Year everyone.
Roger | |
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