AIBU to be pissed that I am working all christmas and all new year for the second year in a row.

[deeplydepressed]

Posted exactly the same moan last year, and told be thankful ive got a job!

Working 23, 24, 25, 26 DEC and 31, 1, 2, 3 JAN. Only work 3 days a week!

Pointless complaint will go in. Nothing will be changed. No one will swap. Same as last year!

Hope you all have a lovely time though, but please dont phone NHS Direct as I will be like a bear with a fucking sore head

namechanged natch!

YNBU Dh works in a hospital and obviously not all of them can have a day off, they have a system where if you worked on christmas day last year then you don't this & the same applies to New Year's Day. Slightly different I suppose as their team are contracted out so can make up their own rules a little x

I used to be great at always getting to work Christmas. But we would swap it round, always, so that people were accommodated as much as possible, especially those with small children being off Christmas morning.
Pre children I preferred to work Christmas to avoid my extended family

I have run call centres and having to work 2 xmas and new year in a row is totally crap practice and a killer for morale. I think you have to suck up the first year but having no outlet for getting a better deal second time round is so poor. Time to press for a better process for your rota? They still have time to freeze the xmas rota whilst they review it for fairness?

I used to work shifts in one of the emergency services and if our shifts fell on Christmas and New Year we would tend to work one or other.

People with children tended to have Christmas off and work New Year.

So before children I always worked Christmas and New Year if they wanted me to .

Our shift patterns were worked out well in advance so we could plan and submit leave accordingly. Bearing in mind that Chrsitmad day etc was double time - lots to take your place if you didn't want to work it .

YANBU

If this is Rotamaster - and it probably is - it can and should be programmed so that nobody who worked last Christmas works this. And as kelly2000 family circumstances are irrelevant.

Kick up fifty sorts of stink about this. Of course if all the candidates for a change swear that they have made arrangements relying on the rota it may be too late. But in future your management can spread the burden properly.

If you have no DC it may be unpopular with those who do but you cannot legislate for that!