If You're off for Christmas

[Foxes157]

Not to brag. Essential services are working.

Non Essentials like retail, events and hospitality are working.
We get it you have 2 weeks off. Please have some respect.

When you use your annual leave at other times don’t mention it to others then ? What a load of poppycock

Ive two weeks off starting now. Whooo hoooooooo! Fucking get in.

I’m off work from Xmas eve to 2 Jan, I will catch up on my sleep and spend more time with DM who has Alzheimer’s and is facing 2020 as a new widow
Need strength to face what 2020 brings

I've saved my annual leave, booked really early and worked my arse off to get 3 weeks ahead of my workload because it doesn't get done if I'm not there.

I'm not apologising to anyone or feeling bad that I have 3 weeks off.

I don't get it. You chose to have a child, did you not? You chose your job too. Surely, you must have known you'd end up having to work over the festive period? Or did you assume that you'd be given the whole period off because you have a child?

Have you never said to anyone else a, ‘I’m on holiday now for x days/weeks-yay’ type of comment?

Personally I saw plenty of people posting holiday pics during the year while I was stuck in work.

It never would have occurred to me to feel entitled to offense because... hang on what-the-actual-fuck-on-a-stick why would anyone feel jealous of someone else having time off their job when they have it.

I think this comes down to Fakebook bragging - the solution to that is either delete it or just delete the culprits.

I have two weeks off as I work in a school. However, I’m not a teacher so that time is unpaid. I can manage that, but I should think there are others who are financially less secure who would happily work for all or part of that time. I don’t ‘brag’ about my time off, it’s the reason I took a significant drop in salary as it suits me to have the holidays, but it comes at a cost. Different choices for different people.

Oh do fuck off op

Odd post i'm afraid. People are allowed to be happy.

Working hours are a primary consideration when deciding what job to pursue. I decided as a teenager working retail that I wanted a job that meant that I never had to miss out on weekend events. And I'm pleased I did because I still feel the same.

However, DH is in the emergency services and so works all sorts of shifts meaning that he does sometimes miss out on social stuff. Nevertheless, he really values his days off during the week when things are quieter and at times, i am envious of him, as I am unable to take any annual leave when I choose. Everywhere has it's pros and cons.

No trains on Christmas day or boxing day! No buses either and none on 1st January. We're off to Germany where these operate normally!

Teacher here: this is the first year in many many years that we have a full fortnight off.
In that time I have medium term plans, lesson plans, resources and curriculum lead (which I don’t get paid any extra for) stuff to get done.
My house looks like it exploded as I have been at so many school events over the last few wks rarely getting home before 9.00pm.
I haven’t had a Sunday without a day of work to complete since August. I’ve made costumes, scenery, given up my evenings and lunch breaks prepping narrators, bought presents for kids in my class who will get nothing next week.

I spent my daughters birthday in A&E with a child from my class with suspected meningitis (she’s on the mend, it was a different virus) as her parents got held up in the transport issues in London this week and couldn’t get back. My daughters birthday was a wash out.

I deserve every blinking second of my hols....
why do people have to rain on the parade of others. Everyone has it tough. And I’ve seen zero people crowing about a few days off on soc media so not sure the point of your post other than make people feel bad.

Hahah I’m off until 6 Jan. Bring it on!

I’ve got three weeks off because I’m a teacher. I love being a teacher and I love having three weeks off. I work bloody hard, like many people in many jobs. If you think your life would be better being a teacher, become a teacher, otherwise, let me enjoy my time off in peace.

I work for a corporate company doing corporate bullshit where they think everyone will die if we dont go in so we are in xmas eve and straight back after boxing day and on call for xmas day and boxing day. That's just life. I do believe that no shops need to be open boxing day

I've done years and years of working over Christmas in the NHS and then covering the Boxing Day sports matches in my business. I was the childless one who got dumped on year after year.

Now I'm nearly 50, Have elderly relatives who aren't going to see many more Christmases or even next Christmas and I'm damn well having my two weeks off and other people can work instead.

Pff! I have 2 weeks "off" because my kids do! Unless I'm expected to leave a 7 and 3 year old in the house all day by themselves. I cannot afford that amount of childcare. I can't wait to get back to work after!

I used to work in an industry where for many yrs I worked through both xmas and new year, including xmas eve, xmas day, boxing day, new yrs eve, new yrs day. It was a 24/7 365/12 emergency service. I didn't have kids so was either rota'd to work or guilt-tripped into swapping shifts by someone with kids.

So, last year I changed my job.

I went self employed and now benefit from being able to choose my own hours and my own holidays. I've worked bloody hard to build up my own small independent business, taking very little time off over the last 12 months.

This year I'm having 2 weeks off for xmas and new year.

I don't feel bad and I don't care who knows and thinks I should 'be respectful' if I dare to be happy about it. Those people can, quite frankly, kiss my arse! I've done my years of facilitating everyone else's happy xmas. I have a child now, it's my time to finally enjoy a decent xmas break and be bloody-well gleeful about it!

Change your job if you don't like the xmas holiday terms of your contract.

There are SO many provocative threads at the moment, it's getting very boring.

Hi.
NHS worker here: YABTU.

It's not bragging, it's conversational and other people are allowed to live their lives as they see fit or are as lucky to do so and feel happy about it.

I've worked almost every Christmas and new year for 20 years until I ended up in a desk job (back surgery) and this year I get an unprecedented 5 days off...I even offered to work and my boss said no.

Just as an FYI: when I was a teenager my parents took us to Disneyland (sold some shares), it was the trip of a lifetime and I was super excited only to be told by an adult to "stop bragging". I was heartbroken and it stayed with me my whole life that I was not allowed to be happy or proud of an exciting event or personal achievement and all because an adult who was clearly jealous and should have known better made a shitty comment.

I'm sorry you have to work but I'm not sorry I don't so stop being a shitty adult.

I am sorry that you are working. I haven't bragged. But I have worked bloody HARD and I am not going to let you make me feel guilty over having two weeks off.

I worked every Christmas for years. Like many previous posters, I took a substantial pay cut a few years ago in order to change careers for a better work/life balance, including working term time only. I've now managed to climb the ladder having worked my arse off for the last three years and am back to where I was salary-wise despite still being on a term time only contract so not being paid for holidays. I love my work but it's mentally and emotionally draining, with a high level of responsibility for some very vulnerable young people so I won't apologise for enjoying my time off. I am extremely grateful to staff in essential services who work over Christmas to keep us all safe. But when I was one of them I would never have complained about working Christmas or resented others who don't have to because it was the life I chose.

I don't 'get' 2 weeks off. I get 3 days. And I use the rest of my allocated annual leave for the remainder. I assume you get annual leave but just take it at a different time of the year. Also nursery is closed for a week of that so I'll be running around after a toddler for most of it