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AIBU to think this employee has no right to be complaining about 'working christmas'

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:09

One co-worker is muttering and huffing about 'working Christmas'. I use ' ' because working = 9-4 Christmas Eve, off Christmas Day and Boxing Day, in the interim days (9-4) off NYD.

To add, our business and industry is 24 hr 356 days per week and this employees department is the only one which operates on traditional office hours.

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LambinsideaDuckinsideaTrout · 03/12/2013 21:11

YANBU

Sleepthief · 03/12/2013 21:11

That's a long week Grin

darkdays · 03/12/2013 21:11

Do you work in care? You are right.regardless, that is the job when you enter a round the clock position.

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:12

Oops, pressed send too soon. So half the office are 'off for Christmas' (21st Dec-4th Jan ish), so the complaints are from those who dont get this.

Yet this particular employee is mutteribg and moaning to the rest of the business. Most of whom are actually in, as in physically at work, for Christmas Day. She is driving me potty.

How dare she!

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:12

haha 365 days per year

And not care. Hotels.

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SESthebrave · 03/12/2013 21:13

I'm not sure I'd go as far to say they have no right to complain (freedom of speech and all that Wink but it does sound unreasonable of them to complain, especially if other co-workers are working Christmas Day.

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:14

99% of those who are physically in the building on Christmas Day are fine about it - par for the course with this industry. Its just this, office hours, department who seem to be getting arsey. Yet they get a guaranteed minimum of CD and BD off.

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SummerRain · 03/12/2013 21:19

I'm delighted to be working all over xmas, more money and I get away from the craziness at home! The only day I care about being off is xmas day and if I were in a profession where that wasn't a given I'd find a way to cope.

Your colleague is being ridiculous, xmas is one day, not a whole 2 week period fgs!

sooperdooper · 03/12/2013 21:20

Tell her she should've used more j

sooperdooper · 03/12/2013 21:21

Grr, phone! Tell her she should've used more holidays and booked more time off if she wanted it?

HaBumbug · 03/12/2013 21:23

Ugh, there is no way I would ever go to a hotel over Christmas, and make some poor sods work for me on Christmas day. Ditto restaurants / pubs. Care / emergency staff apart, surely places can close down for a day.

ilovesooty · 03/12/2013 21:32

I'd be going to a hotel like a shot at Christmas if I could afford it this year. Having said that I'd be first in the queue to work on Christmas day if my workplace were open for business.

DirtyDancingCleanLiving · 03/12/2013 21:37

YABU.

'How dare she?'....er, how dare they have an opinion?

Just because others have to work Xmas Day doesn't mean this person has to be thrilled about being in Xmas Eve and (presumably) NYE, plus a good few days inbetween.

I would be gutted to have to work 9-4 on Xmas Eve.

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:41

Not dare to have an opinion. Dare to complain about something that is a given for those who have to endure it.

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Ubik1 · 03/12/2013 21:42

she'll get over it. Just ignore it.

I'm in nightshift on 23rd meaning I'll finish work 8am xmas eve and then 4-11.30pm xmas day, 4- 11.30pm Boxing Day.

Somehow I am going to have to try not to be too grumpy...

GalaxyDefender · 03/12/2013 21:42

YANBU at all.

My DP might be working Christmas Day, also working at a hotel. It's going to suck, but we really need the money so he's going to do it.
Whinging about working Christmas Eve, on which very few people actually do anything much, must ring hollow when you know you'll be working actual Christmas Day and not spending it with your family!

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MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 03/12/2013 21:50

Yes and its that she is using the expression "working Christmas". Erm, no, you are really not.

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curlycat · 03/12/2013 22:19

My dh is working 12 hours xmas day and boxing day. Then 12 hour night shift hogmanay and new years night - paramedic. Try organising santa round that!

DrHolmes · 03/12/2013 22:21

Bet she calls in sick!

RainbowCake · 03/12/2013 22:31

I've got some colleagues moaning as well whilst trying to sort the Christmas rota between us. The thing that is grating on me is that I was told that I "had" to work some of it, when I really don't as CE,CD,BD,NYE or NYD are not my shifts. I have offered to split shifts on a couple of them though.

If they were my shifts I would suck it up though, not sure if it makes a difference but I have a young family and the ones moaning are young and still live at home with Mum and Dad so don't have any of the mad prepping and sorting to do.

LimitedEditionLady · 03/12/2013 23:00

Im just happy to get christmas day off and not be working late christmas eve.I think I can cope otherwise,obviously it would be nice to be at home with my family more but I think along the lines of I have a job,a lot of people dont and wish they did so Ill suck it up and be grateful for a wage.

FutTheShuckUp · 03/12/2013 23:01

RC just because they don't have kids doesnt meant they don't have plans or the right to enjoy Christmas. You also sound rather selfish with this 'not my shifts' nonsense. If everyone did a bit it is surely fairer for everyone?

mumofweeboys · 03/12/2013 23:12

I'm odd. I love working the week between christams and new year. It's quiet and I can get so much more done (and I escape the madness of OH family for a wee while)

Musicaltheatremum · 04/12/2013 00:23

Gutted at working 9-4 Christmas Eve? (@dirtydancing) I am lucky in that I don't work the PH but I have to work until 6pm (from 8am)on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve so difficult to go anywhere. It is so quiet and we would love to put a rota in place to let people away by 4 but we are not allowed to. There are loads of professions that have to work on the public holidays and I am grateful to all that do.

lurkerspeaks · 04/12/2013 00:59

I also work in an industry where we work Christmas. I did the rota last year. It was tricky....I was so surprised at how many people requested All the public holidays and the middle weekend off....

The reasonable people offered compromises eg. One of my part time colleagues offered to work NYD which was not her normal working day to ensure she got Christmas Eve and day off.

I also had a laugh at the people 10years more junior than me bleating that they had "always worked Christmas"....all two if them since they started.

High staff turnover industry so can't do the alternate year strategy.

I don't have kids and have worked every Chridtmas bar one in the last 12 years. This year I requested it off as it is the first one since my Mum died. One of my colleagues got all judgy as "people with children" are having to work. I'm afraid I was less than tactful in my response. Not having kids does not diminish your other family commitments, sadly.

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