To be fucked off with friends asking why I haven't 'broken up' from work?!

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Went out for drinks with friends last night , friends acted utterly aghast that I'm still at work and react with comments like 'Oh poor you, I can't BELIEVE you are still at work!' complete with sad faces.

My non-working best friend has asked me about three times when I'm 'breaking up' from work and keeps phoning me during the day - and was amazed that 'the Friday before Christmas is a working day'!

WTF? It's a normal working week! Why the sympathy? I don't resent it and love my job.

It's like there is no understanding that most companies still have deadlines and that most people don't have enough holiday to just chuck in an extra week before Christmas.

Anyone else have this??

Lots of my friends work for companies that completely shut down over xmas and new year. Keep seeing FB statuses of "finished work for 2/3 weeks". Bastards . Wish DH had that (I only work part time so it is not too bad). He is off this weekend and Boxing Day but that is it :(

why are you fucked off, minor no????

I am working Christmas eve, Christmas day, boxing day, NYE and NYD

Me, DH and my mother are all working over Christmas this year! (Retail, hospitality and care home assistant)

I have finished work but I had holiday to use up or I would lose it since we can't carry it over. It's a normal business day today, just like any other Friday so I can appreciate you getting a bit hacked off if it's over and over!

I break up xmas eve and go back boxing day... thats retail for you

brighthair I'm workig a night on new year, and there is a cut through between two clubs that runs down the aide of the house I work in, so I get to hear people get progressively merrier, then more drunk, then puking, then hungover . Makes me feel virtuous for not joining in!

I don't mind, usually quite a festive atmosphere at work and my job is 365 days a year. Although NYE is not my favourite night to work

I'm at work until 5.00 today and it's quite nice to be in a (relatively) calm place while the Christmas madnesss continues outside the building. Lots of my friends are teachers or work in schools and they're all amazed that I haven't 'broken up' too. I could have 'broken up' last Friday like them if I'd taken a whole week of annual leave. I kindly let dh take annual leave this week instead and deal with the highs and lows of spending the lead-up to Christmas with the dc. :)

I'm taking leave this week but Am beginning to wonder if working at this time of year is the easier option- loads of people here seem to have plenty of time for posting

Am beginning to wonder if working at this time of year is the easier option- loads of people here seem to have plenty of time for posting

Definitely, there is a lovely holiday feeling at work - and then you fuck off on holiday in miserable, grey, wet Jan or Feb

Sorted :)

I have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off this year (nursing home). Only off today because I've come down with the lurgie and boss suggested I stayed away, otherwise I'd be there.

Is nice there over Christmas. We have sweets, biscuits and cards everywhere, nice dinners, is very warm, have at least four Christmas trees and Christmas dvds on loop. Excellent!!

Did a nightshift over NYE last year. We played board games and drank non-alcoholic wine. Far beeter than being out in the cold and queuing for an hour to buy an over-priced drink.

Do agree about (some) non-workers though. I suppose for them Christmas starts when their kids get home from school on the last day.

I have had this quite a lot from various people over the past few years. They always ask when you're working until and when I say whatever day it is that's nearest to Christmas they make 'oh how awful for you!' noises. I don't have children; I'm not sure how much annual leave people think others get but if I'd been off work this week I would have been sitting around the house doing nothing, so why would I bother?

To be fair my commute has been very quiet these past couple of days so I think a lot of people are off work now.

callmemrs before children that's why I always worked during the Christmas period (not public holidays) , the office was always quiet, we went in at 10, played computer games, left at 3. It was a technical environment and if nothing was going wrong it was the time of year there wasn't much else to do. We were on call anyway and could solve problems at home. I saved my holiday for when I wanted to go away.

My current contract finished just before the school holidays. I've wohp and been a sahm, but would assume that people couldn't just "break up" over the Christmas period, and they'd be juggling child care. Maybe people are trying to make chit chat when they say such things.

I thought you were going to say your friends were all teachers! :O

:o

I'm a teacher and have been off all this week, which is lovely. But I'm not so thick as to be unaware that other people will still be working.

Having said that, the majority of my friends are off today having either booked leave, or their offices being shut.

I've worked in retail so am very sympathetic to those having to work right up until Christmas day (and those in caring/medical/other roles who work right through).

Alot of people I know have finished work now but have to go between christmas nad year haha! DH is at work today, DB (brother) is at work today and tomorrow and has to make up sundays hours or lose pay as his suposed to work but because its christmas day they are shut no idea how thats his fault but you know jobs a job right now!

For 10 years before I had DD, I always ensured I broke up the day before Christmas Eve and went back 2nd/3rd Jan, but even I had sense to know that not everyone can/or chooses to use their a/l before and after, Christmas. So UANBU

Alot of people.

DH has taken a couple of days off this week and his place seriously encourages them to be off till new year. I think they can get in their offices, but there's no heating or food. He will vanish into the study and do work work at some point I'm sure
And book holiday/ working from home accordingly.

DSIS will be working a large number of people don't get paid if she isnt

It's a normal working day for me so will be here till 5pm and then back on Wednesday. My DH is horrified we dont shut down for Christmas but we are an international company and most of our clients dont celebrate Christmas and so we have to be here.

Personally (ssshhhh), I am quite glad to get back to work so soon after, otherwise I would be sitting on my ever growing arse watching shite tv eating quality street!

Lots of people work on Xmas day itself..ALL DAY! So to anyone who uses their services on Sunday, be extra nice to them all

NEWS FLASH

I am 'breaking up' from work at 3pm today - woo hoo!!

Again, am so glad I'm not the only one that gets this absurd question every year and feels incredibly irritated by it. I think it's also the lack of awareness and not seeing past their own noses that annoys me.