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Working On Xmas Christmas day :(

CH4RLTON
CH4RLTON Posts: 2,618
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Just been given the bad news that I will be sitting an office updating web content for four hours on xmas day :( Cheer me up folks anyone else gotta to work on Christmas day?
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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    Why??
  • wickford
    wickford Posts: 863
    Announcing a secret takeover!
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    My son is working at the Weatherspoons in Greenwich which means I'll be doing taxi duty at 5 in morning
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Take suitable refreshments and a radio with you, plus if available a suitable companion with whom you can find something interesting to do on the Bosses desk.
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    edited December 2012
    Well I work in a muslim country, so Xmas Day is just another normal working day out here!!
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Red_Pete in Dubai said:

    Well I work in a muslim country, so Xmas Day is just another normal working day out here!!

    You should start a protest!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Demand the time off on religious grounds then complain that people not eating turkey offends you.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    As uncle Albert would say "During the war...
    I was in Iraq for xmas, the locals all celebrated the birth of jesus by
    downing Jack Daniels and playing with AK47's.
    It certainly made for an interesting day.

    Back on Civvy street I worked xmas day for the last two years.
    It was fantastic. Had the morning with my family and at about
    1pm when my 2 year old son was getting hyperactive and over excited
    I could hand him to grandma and go to work, where I got the best parking
    space, played office cricket for 5 hours on double time and snuck off
    home 3 hours early

  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,042
    CH4RLTON said:

    Just been given the bad news that I will be sitting an office updating web content for four hours on xmas day :( Cheer me up folks anyone else gotta to work on Christmas day?




    I'm intrigued to know what needs updating on xmas day? And is it not something you can do from home?
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    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    CH4RLTON said:

    Just been given the bad news that I will be sitting an office updating web content for four hours on xmas day :( Cheer me up folks anyone else gotta to work on Christmas day?




    I'm intrigued to know what needs updating on xmas day? And is it not something you can do from home?
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  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,412
    I'm not working Xmas day, but I'm in at 5am on Boxing Day. Luckily I've managed to get out at 10 so I can get to Charlton still.
  • CH4RLTON
    CH4RLTON Posts: 2,618
    dont have remote accsess sadly, just updated daily leaderboard files on the promotions page of the website :(
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,085
    CH4RLTON said:

    dont have remote accsess sadly, just updated daily leaderboard files on the promotions page of the website :(
    </blockquote
    Remember having just this conversation 4 years ago 24 hour media organisation.......
    If you are just updating/ a CMS system: which is based on templates they need to embrace technology, and have the ability to be able to do this. I assume you are loading images and text with a style sheet. Companies seem to want to sign up to 'hot desking' then, have people working in offices 9-5. Of course the fact that the rest of the world is on another time frame seem's not to have dawned on most so called managers?.

  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,056
    ken from bexley said:

    CH4RLTON said:

    dont have remote accsess sadly, just updated daily leaderboard files on the promotions page of the website :(

    I have no idea what you just said!

  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Yup, im working Christmas day, boxing day, new years eve and new years day, can't remember the last time I didn't, I work for the court service and it is a 24 , 365 day a year service.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,001
    ken from bexley said:

    CH4RLTON said:

    dont have remote accsess sadly, just updated daily leaderboard files on the promotions page of the website :(

    Was it the BBC Ken?
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    kin hell mate thats harsh , you must get a lunch break ?
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Shag said:

    kin hell mate thats harsh , you must get a lunch break ?

    can't leave the control room so sarnies and mince pies at the desk
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,055
    fadgadget said:

    Yup, im working Christmas day, boxing day, new years eve and new years day, can't remember the last time I didn't, I work for the court service and it is a 24 , 365 day a year service.

    They have court on Christmas ?

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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Yes, can be asked to open at a drop of a hat, Any time, day or night,
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Doing Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. And some of us don't get double pay :(
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,583
    Emergency Call Out, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Refused to do Boxing Day as footie comes first!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    EastStand said:

    Doing Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. And some of us don't get double pay :(

    you want double pay for working the day before a bank holiday?

  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    edited December 2012
    MrOneLung said:

    EastStand said:

    Doing Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. And some of us don't get double pay :(

    you want double pay for working the day before a bank holiday?

    I dont blame her. Night time in a bar, I would too. The amount of morons you have to serve and the amount the pubs rake in.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Didnt realise it was bar work - few extra tips though hopefully
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,300
    Thankfully retail closes for christmas day, got asked to do the overnight though, 10pm to 8am, seeing as it's central london I said no chance
  • Derek1952
    Derek1952 Posts: 779
    I am 70 and on a pension I would work Christmas day for extra cash.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,001
    You do realise being born in 1952 makes you only 60 don't you?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Derek1952 said:

    I am 70 and on a pension I would work Christmas day for extra cash.

    What are you like at cooking and entertaining in laws?

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