This is reffering to office employees, not the rest of us poor saps who actually have to work for a living.

I'm making my employees work on Christmas Eve, so I'm really getting a kick out of this.

/Really is
//The news doesn't stop

Oh, and Christmas too I should add.

Somebody has to put the paper out ...

SpinStopper: I'm usually a test engineer, which means that I break things so that they won't when you use them ;)

In that case, I want my money back since I have yet to own something I havent been able to break, sometimes on purpose, sometimes just because I have the power.

It seems like all the cool jobs these days require engineering degrees. Guess I should have paid more attention in high school physics.

Mangoose: Next time you get frostbite and have to go to the ER on Xmas Eve, make sure you tell everyone there about this article.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this thread is over.

G'night, folks - last one out, make sure you hit the lights!

Pointless? Double time and a half is hardly pointless.
I love working the holidays.

Frostbite in SF Bay area? Yeah, right. (it's why we pay the big bux to live here!)

If Christmas Eve wasn't on a Monday, I would be doing more than just eh standard three hours of work. But we keep the store closed on Monday, and just do ordering then. So I get to wish some cheer to my suppliers, request inventory, and then go back to bed.

/I plan on sleeping through Christmas, I already know I'll be dead on my feet by Sunday

This is the downside to living and working in Japan.

Night shift the on eve and xmas day. Plus 12 hour shifts on New Year's, 1st,2nd,3rd, and 4th.

Then again, someone's gotta keep the internet working.

Won't someone think of the Jews?

working on Christmas Eve is for the Devil :)

Lusiphur: SpinStopper: I'm usually a test engineer, which means that I break things so that they won't when you use them ;)

It seems like all the cool jobs these days require engineering degrees. Guess I should have paid more attention in high school physics.

Working in a cubicle and running tensile tests isn't all it's cracked up to be.

/Materials engineer

Because everyone celebrates Christmas around the world, there's obviously no need to support markets in Asia.

Headline isn't completely true. On Christmas I spend the night tearing drunk family members apart from each other.

Gosh, my boss is kind of awesome. We're off from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.

Oh, and that's paid...

Engineering .... cool? Only on FARK. Engineers are the most boring, mundane, white short sleeve shirt with coffee stains down the front, clip on tie wearing, $5.00 haircut having, stalled at middle management LOSERS on the planet. Engineers are white collar construction workers and half of them get laid off and wind up pumping gas every five year business cycle.

The cool jobs are in publishing, graphic arts, business and law.

irken623: Headline isn't completely true. On Christmas I spend the night tearing drunk family members apart from each other.

And I get to process those same kind of people after they get arrested for domestic assault.
Working Christmas at the jail is a sad, sad experience.

Working christmas eve graveyard shift here...

..."emergency 911 - all offices, fire departments, police stations and hospitals are closed due to the holiday, have a merry christmas!"


.yeah

-no really, understand the point of the article but jeez, its not like they are kids on the last day of school, they are grown ups....right?



...no

Personally, I think working is pointless. Doesn't really matter what day it is.

fishrockcarving: Growing up a service brat, and never having traditional family Christmas memories that are lampooned in movies, these are my best memories of Christmas.

Ditto :)

Look, I didn't read the article OR the comments, but let me say; for all the lonely people out there, I speak for YOU.

The Waffle House is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Tell me those waitresses don't deserve your money.

Why are people fighting this philosophy? Yeah, someone has to make sure the dams don't burst open and that people with lead pipes through their torso can make it to the ER, but for the majority of people who aren't in retail or essential services, Christmas Eve is the most useless day of the year to drag yourself into work. Every place I've ever worked has sent you home at noon, and you spend the morning chatting about your holiday plans. Just save everyone the energy of hitting the alarm clock and have a free day to do your last minute shopping and prep that turkey.

cdharding: Frostbite in SF Bay area? Yeah, right. (it's why we pay the big bux to live here!)

Only in July. Oh wait, the Giants don't play at Candlestick anymore. Never mind.

I work on a helpdesk, my shift is 10-7p MT, a majority of our staff are in CT or ET.

Thanksgiving eve every had to work their full shift or take paid time off. I sat at work for the last 3 hours and took maybe 3 calls and 5 emails.

I will have the same Christmas Eve and I will be on call, might just tell the boss that I am going home at 5pm, if anyone calls I will be getting paged anyway and I can VPN in from home for those 2 emails that might just come in.

I put in 2+ hours overtime every week for free and my on call weeks are normally 15 hours over time. I will probably be working all new years day anyway to update the call logging system too.

Cyno01: Pointless unless you work in retail... and if you do too, suicide pact?

Oh god yes!


No offense to all you people who go out shopping on Christmas eve, or even on other major holidays...but Fark you.

Fark you hard.


Stay home, I didn't want to be there working, but I need the money to get through college, but theres no reason for you to be there instead of home.

Work Christmas Eve? Ha! I haven't worked anywhere close to Christmas in two decades. I work in a manufacturing job and always have enough vacation time saved up to take three weeks off at this time of year. In fact I only have two and a half hours left to work and I'm off until January 6th. But I'm extremely thankful that the shops, stores, hospitals, snowplow guys, mailmen, cops, fire fighters etc etc are working. Where would we be without them?

Samsaran: Engineering .... cool? Only on FARK. Engineers are the most boring, mundane, white short sleeve shirt with coffee stains down the front, clip on tie wearing, $5.00 haircut having, stalled at middle management LOSERS on the planet. Engineers are white collar construction workers and half of them get laid off and wind up pumping gas every five year business cycle.

The cool jobs are in publishing, graphic arts, business and law.

Dood, your one crazy wingnut who probably believes in an invisible sky wizard and has a buckit load of crotchfruit running around.

What R U? Some sort of moran?

Theirs no reason why I would evar get into a debate with you on the interwebs as I am so much more l33t than you.

If I've learned anything from Penn and Teller, it's that you should be put into a cannon and shot into the heart of the sun!

/I think I got them all there :-)
//Apologies, Monday morning and I haven't had any coffee yet.
///DAMN SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN ALL CAPS

I'm in manufacturing, get double time plus the day, usually with no bosses around. I work a lot of holidays, but all voluntary.
Strangely though I do my utmost to NOT visit any retail establishments at all. Making non essential services work is just crappy.

I used to do all my xmas shopping on Christmas Eve. It was awesome, there was hardly anyone around, no queues, I'd get all my stuff within an hour stress free.

This year I've decided to try amazon. Which has worked quite well.

Bunnyhat: Cyno01: Pointless unless you work in retail... and if you do too, suicide pact?

Oh god yes!


No offense to all you people who go out shopping on Christmas eve, or even on other major holidays...but Fark you.

Fark you hard.


Stay home, I didn't want to be there working, but I need the money to get through college, but theres no reason for you to be there instead of home.

Sorry Bunny, but I do ALL of my christmas shopping on the 24th. So, if you don't want to stand there and talk me out of a suicide jump while I'm browsing beany babies or laughing elmo's or whatever it is kids like these days, call in sick.

I'm a chef. No extra pay, I'll probably show up late, and you bet your ass I'll be hammered.

Got xmas day off though.

Confabulat: I haven't had a job since like June.

The horror of this holiday season is I might actually have to get back to work soon.

Why oh why? Sleeping whenever you want is heroic.

Hey- I was wondering where you've been in another thread haven't seen you for a while. I thought you'd gotten a job or something.

Welcome back regardless =)

Emogeek
I'm a chef. No extra pay, I'll probably show up late, and you bet your ass I'll be hammered.
Got xmas day off though.

This is almost exactly what I was gonna say. I'm a bartender. Volunteered to work it. Quite a few regulars gonna stop by on the way home. We're gonna have little party. Not that I would ever drink behind the bar. That's a no-no.

/will put his beer on a table somewhere.

Aviron: Not that I would ever drink behind the bar. That's a no-no.

Huge no-no. My favorite bartender is working too, so there's a good chance me and some of the regulars will break out the beer pong table.

I have to go in to work Christmas Eve - it's when they're handing out the hot cocoa sampler boxes.