To not be able to simpathise with those who complain about working boxing day?

[Workwiseitsrelavent]

I have worked the past 6 chrostmas days and will be working my 7th tomorrow in the hope of getting my 1st dc's first chrostmas off next year.
Step sis has complained that working in retail she's only getting christmas day off. Aibu to be irritated by her complaining I told her she should think he self lucky that she gets christmas with her family every year!!

Does everything have to be a competition?

Won't you be on maternity leave next Christmas?

Don't be ridiculous. It's shot working boxing day because people want to go shopping.

I never work the bank holidays but have the entire period off this year. Maybe you should have made a different career choice.

No competition I just find it hard to listen to her complaining about working boxing day etc when I'd feel very lucky to have christmas day off.

I actually think yabu. You don't say what you work at but I presume it's hospital type work that can't stop fir Christmas. But there's no reason for shops to open on St Stephen's Day and I think they should stay closed. People can wait one more day for their sale bargains.

And I say that as the wife of someone who has worked on most Christmas days of our 20 year marriage.

While I appreciate some jobs are essential and so people need to work Christmas Day, and I sympathise with you having done 6 in a row (what’s up with your rotas, by the way? That seems unreasonable) I think the attitude that someone should ‘think themselves lucky’ to be able to spend Christmas Day with their family is part of a horrible race to the bottom which we seem to be caught up in.
It’s insensitive of your sister to moan to you, but YABU in your attitudes too.

If you will be on maternity leave next Christmas you are going to find that no holiday.

Why do you see yourself as in competition with her. That was a very snappy and unempathetic remark.

I don't think shops should be open boxing day I don't blame her for moaning about working.My dh worked a lot of Christmas days when my dc were growing up it sucked.just because somebody has to work doesn't mean they want to and can't have a little moan about it.

Its rubbish for both of you!

But long-term I think I'd take working Christmas day in hospitality/care/medical work (or anything else) over boxing day in retail.

Hope you get your next Christmas off Op.

Dd is night shift over Christmas she isn't happy about it has moaned about it.

If people are working on 27th they can't wait one more day for their sale bargains.
I'm working on 27th and not planning to shop on 26th but don't see why people shouldn't.
Re the OP - I don't see why your work on 25tb affects the issue.

Some jobs are 24/7 jobs and there has to be someone working. I don't get bank holidays off automatically and I'm working Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year - (not health care or retail). But I do think if you've worked every Christmas Day for the past six years that's very hard - unless you've requested it like that. Are you guaranteed to get New Year's Day off in return, for example? Or maybe you get an extra payment for working Christmas Day that makes it worth it? I don't get paid more in my job, but some jobs may pay more.

It's not a competition.

I usually work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day too and whilst it’s a bit shit I would never actually moan about it to someone who is working Christmas Day as it would seem pretty insensitive. It’s all relative too, in mine and DH family I’m the only one working over the Christmas period so it’s a bit crap but it is what it is and only feels worse because it’s only me out of all of us.

My manager is giving serious consideration to opening our workplace for half a day on Christmas day next year.

How do you know you will be on maternity leave next Christmas? That's 12 months away which means either you have a super long pregnancy or you're not pregnant yet but hope you will be?

YABU - as othe r posters say, it’s not a competition

I’m working Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve (night shift) and New Year’s Day.

I sympathise more with my partner who has to work Boxing Day in retail.

I work in emergency services. That HAS to be available. I mind but I try not to moan as it’s important and life saving. Shops don’t need to be open. It’s greed in expense of other people’s happiness.

How do you know you will be on maternity leave next Christmas? That's 12 months away which means either you have a super long pregnancy or you're not pregnant yet but hope you will be

Op didn't say that I did based on her wanting her first dc's first Christmas off next year - the implication being she's currently pregnant. Timings indicate she is like to be on maternity leave next Christmas.

I think if you are going to moan about when you have to work you cannot be outraged at your sister moaning about when she has to work. People who have to work overseas and who won't get home at all over Christmas might think you have nothing to complain about but they would be being unreasonable to expect you to think yourself lucky and stop moaning.

I'm honestly not moaning I have swapped most of my christmas shifts in past years for those who have young families and I always said I'd want someone to do that for me if it was a possibility (I do understand this isn't a given and I don't feel I am owed it because I have done so many I'm just hoping to get lucky!).
I love my career and wouldn't change it for the world I also knew working christmas was a part of what the job entails it just irritates me when she complains about it everytime we see her this time of year. But no its no competition maybe I am being U

I'll also be due back to work before Christmas as I'm not able to take the full 9 months.

sooty. I literally will not ever use anywhere ever I am aware makes people work non-essentially on Xmas day. I think it's so sad that people on minimum wage get forced to come in and wait on people who can afford big bucks dining out.

As others have said it's not a competition. I'd sympathise with anyone working Christmas Day but quite likely they are in essential services or hospitality where it really is common knowledge that you'll likely have to do this. Doesn't make it more fun so I still have sympathy.

Many people working Boxing day are doing so because their employers want to sell more stuff and couldn't give a crap about their employees getting to spend time with family and friends. Generally, people are being squeezed harder and harder by employers demands and it has become so normal that some people are expected to work more in the run up to Christmas, Christmas Eve and Boxing day, often long shifts, late nights, early starts,so that they barely get a break at all. Of course the race to the bottom attitude of so many others is just to tell them they're lucky they have a job or to get into a competition about who has it worse while their employers are laughing all the way to the bank

Fwiw I'll be moaning when I'm back at work next week while most of my friends and family are off until after New Years.