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"Shut-down jobs"

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  • 29-12-2007 2:01am
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    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭


    I went back to work today.

    Most people [I know all my mates do] seem to have `shut-down` jobs - where their office closes around December 21/22 and doesn`t re-open until January 2 or sometimes later. It means they`re forced to take holidays at Christmas whether they like it or not.

    Where I work I just get three days off - December 25/26/27 - if one or two of these days falls on a weekend then I get the next working day/s off. Naturally I can take other days off if I want - out of my annual leave allocation. This year I had six left so I stopped work on December 14 [took 17/18/19/20/21/24 off].

    This forced Christmas break is somewhat excessive in my opinion. What`s even more annoying is that my local Centra had no hot food available today [I couldn`t get a breakfast roll] as they assumed there wouldn`t be the demand. Likewise the deli I frequent for lunch is shut until 2 January.

    You really notice it on internet forums where traffic is far quieter - a symptom of people mostly posting at work as opposed to home.

    Anyone else think the break is too long?


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    AlmightyCushion
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    I got christmas day off. I'd have killed for more time off.


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    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    I can take my holidays whenever I want thanks.

    Mmmmmmmmmm holidays. But yes I am off till the 2nd.


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    CantGetNoSleep
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    The lack of breakfast rolls today was my equivalant of living in famine time

    All gone back to Polski land id say


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    alan4cult
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    So will we cancel Christmas next year and all eat toast?


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    nlgbbbblth
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    Forky wrote: »
    I can take my holidays whenever I want thanks.

    Same here - within reason - as we need around 40% of the staff working on days like Christmas Eve and the two before New Year.

    It's the widespread shutdown or closure of places for almost a fortnight which is a bit galling.


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    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    alan4cult wrote: »
    So will we cancel Christmas next year and all eat toast?

    You're missing the point Alan.


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    Rb
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    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    Anyone else think the break is too long?

    Nope.

    If I could get the rest of my life off work and paid for it, I'd do it in a heartbeat.


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    alan4cult
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    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    You're missing the point Alan.
    There is a point?
    I find the break long but I look forward to it but the discussion of hot food with regard to taking days off does not merit a thread.


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    Nightwish
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    I have a "shut down" job - the sole perk of working in the public sector, and I love my christmas break. I spent 7 years in retail, where I got 2 months of aggro from customers coming up to christmas, 2 days off and then another 2 weeks of aggro over unwanted/broken toys.


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    Dord
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    My office was closed the 25th and 26th but I took time off either side and I'm not back in til Wednesday next week. :)


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    [Deleted User]
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    rb_ie wrote: »
    Nope.

    If I could get the rest of my life off work and paid for it, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

    +1

    I mean, yes I agree.

    <.<


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    nlgbbbblth
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    alan4cult wrote: »
    There is a point?
    I find the break long but I look forward to it but the discussion of hot food with regard to taking days off does not merit a thread.

    Ignore the reference to hot food then. It's only a side issue.
    Take it up with the moderators if you feel the thread is not merited.
    Although I'd interpret that as a particularly humourless course of action to take.

    The point was alluded to above.
    wrote:
    It's the widespread shutdown or closure of places for almost a fortnight which is a bit galling.


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    JohnCleary
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    I'm a student and work for myself on the weekends/any time ive free so take holidays as I feel... I'm not going to even think about work until at least the 2nd week in January... sure it's what Christmas is all about


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    Andrewf20
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    I was in work for 12 hours Christmas day last year. Brilliant.


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    Senna
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    This is the busiest time of year for me, so i only take 25&26 off, i'd give my right nut to have more time of for Xmas.


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    admiralofthefleet
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    i was meant to have last monday til today off but had to cover inept staff after stephens day. to be honest i was glad to work to stave off the boredom. xmas is she-ite


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    Pherekydes
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    I've been on holidays since the 18th August 2003. :p

    However, in 1979 I worked 6 straight 24-hour shifts from the 23rd December.* So being off at Christmas is nice, believe me.






    *If you're trying to get your head around this, it means I turned up for work at 9 am on 23/12 and went home at 9 am on 29/12.** This is officially why slow coach is mad [sometimes].***


    **This is true.

    ***This may not be true. But it's my theory.


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    daveirl
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    nlgbbbblth
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    daveirl wrote: »
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    A break from work is welcome yes - that's what I use my annual leave allocation for. The regular three days I get off at Christmas are not part of this allocation.

    I have no desire to work in a US-type culture either. The point I have been trying to make is that it is great to be off over Christmas - I was off for two weeks but it was voluntary, not imposed upon me.


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    monkeyfudge
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    I agree completely.

    I'm pretty much the only one back in work this week as I didn't see any point wasting my annual leave at such a miserable time of year.

    Too bad the central heating is turned off and there is no where to get lunch.

    I'm lucky that I can choose when to take my leave though. I'd be really pissed off if I was told I had to take 2 weeks out of my annual leave in order to celebrate the birth of the baby jesus... surely there would be a discrimination case there?


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    pid()
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    I was off from the 14th to the 28th, and I'm in from the 28th to the 4th. I was forced to take holidays before the end of year as they wouldn't carry over - I didn't want to be off from the 14th to the 28th. We close for 2 days a year, xmas day and new years day, yet i was working both this year. I was on call for 6 hours xmas morning, 5am to 11am. I'm on call from 5am to 5pm on new years.


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    Kintarō Hattori
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    Senna wrote: »
    This is the busiest time of year for me, so i only take 25&26 off, i'd give my right nut to have more time of for Xmas.

    Same here. I'd have liked a week off so I could have spent it with the missus.


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    nlgbbbblth
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    For people who work in such places that close down for almost a fortnight over the Christmas period.

    - do these days off count as part of your annual leave allocation?

    Surely the bank holidays [25/26/1] don't?


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    daveirl
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    nlgbbbblth
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    daveirl wrote: »
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    Pretty much the same as my employer - shuts a half day Christmas Eve, 25/26/27, all the bank holidays and Good Friday. Have 25 days leave after that.

    But that wouldn't cover you if you wanted to be off until January 2 as December 28 and 31 are working days so that would be two days off it already. Plus more if the company finished up on December 19 or 20 [like some did].


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    Nightwish
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    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    For people who work in such places that close down for almost a fortnight over the Christmas period.

    - do these days off count as part of your annual leave allocation?

    Surely the bank holidays [25/26/1] don't?

    I took 2 days out of my annual leave - Friday 28th and Monday 31st so I could have 12 days off. The other days are not affected by annual leave.


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    nlgbbbblth
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    Nightwish wrote: »
    I took 2 days out of my annual leave - Friday 28th and Monday 31st so I could have 12 days off. The other days are not affected by annual leave.

    Your choice I presume?

    Nothing wrong with that.


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    Nightwish
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    Oh yeah totally my choice. I could've worked yesterday if I wanted. I did it last year and it was so boring. No phone calls all day and most people in other areas that I liaise with as part of my job were all off til the New Year, which meant I sat in the office going mad.


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    Sonnenblumen
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    I agree completely.

    I'm pretty much the only one back in work this week as I didn't see any point wasting my annual leave at such a miserable time of year.

    Too bad the central heating is turned off and there is no where to get lunch.

    I'm lucky that I can choose when to take my leave though. I'd be really pissed off if I was told I had to take 2 weeks out of my annual leave in order to celebrate the birth of the baby jesus... surely there would be a discrimination case there?

    You're employed but you can always change employment?

    Employers should be more discriminatory.


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    daveirl
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