Finishing work early on Christmas Eve watch: have you got finishing work early on Christmas Eve?

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ReturnoftheJuddi Dec 2014 1:05pm, 4 Dec 2014 2,497 posts	0 ReturnoftheJuddi I will be 'working from home'
JingleDaBells (JD) Dec 2014 1:07pm, 4 Dec 2014 897 posts	0 JingleDaBells (JD) Oh yes, I'll be having finishing work early on Christmas Eve watch. Should be a half day. Exact time of half days has never really been defined. There's usually a buffet lunch with families invited and most of the rest of the company leave after that. Those of us in support, who could be dealing with people EMEA wide, are let go when there's no demand. What this actually means is hanging around til a manager says you can go, or being stuck on a call with a specific nationality that doesn't have the same holidays as us. Or looking round and realising at 3pm that all the managers have done one already and quietly sneaking off... OH in the exact same boat so we could be away at 1, or texting each other every 10 minutes at 6pm saying are you out yet...? Looking forward to it already...
GregP Dec 2014 1:10pm, 4 Dec 2014 75,518 posts	0 GregP Who was on early turn? You working 6-3, 7-2, 6-4, WithamB? TELL TELL TELL.
Wriggling Snake Dec 2014 1:12pm, 4 Dec 2014 8,037 posts	0 Wriggling Snake yes "they" usually tell us to go at 12.00
tulip Dec 2014 1:20pm, 4 Dec 2014 490 posts	0 tulip in work till 8pm (12 hour shift) followed by an 8am start (another 12 hour shift) on Christmas Day. But I'll be off next year!
Reinhold Messner Dec 2014 1:26pm, 4 Dec 2014 590 posts	0 Reinhold Messner We get the whole day off "at the discretion of the partners". But for the last 5 Christmases that's meant a day off. Presumably they figured that the costs of opening the office would greatly exceed productivity.
Nick Cook Dec 2014 2:17pm, 4 Dec 2014 21,873 posts	0 Nick Cook Booked the day as annual leave. Main jobs are: Pick up the turkey, pick up the mother in law, go to pub with mate, get drunk, get into trouble, wash up dinner stuff, put presents under tree.
McGoohan Dec 2014 2:20pm, 4 Dec 2014 13,425 posts	0 McGoohan Don't mix up what you are picking up and what you are stuffing
Ceratonia Dec 2014 2:34pm, 4 Dec 2014 1,885 posts	0 Ceratonia We usually get to sneak out after lunch at the pub. One of my best work-related Christmas eve incidents was seeing one of the company directors in John Lewis an hour or so before it closed, desperately seeking a present for his wife. As one of the company founders (we're now in the FTSE-100), he was worth 10s of millions of pounds, but I've never seen him so stressed.
GregP Dec 2014 2:48pm, 4 Dec 2014 75,522 posts	0 GregP Love that