Christmas Holidays
 

When do you guys and girls finish for your Crimbo hols?


I finished yesterday 10pm until Monday 4th Jan! :luxhello:

I do have some appointments here n' there, and some admin, studies etc. to catch up with, but I shall mostly be chilling without having to keep with the usual work schedule. God, it feels great!

How about you lot? :)

Luck you :thumb: I finish on Xmas eve then back in day after Boxing Day until New Year's Eve :eek: no Xmas hols for me

Martin

Same here mate, my gaffer squeaks when he walks:lol1:

No 'Happy Holidays' for me either,finish around 4pm(if I'm lucky)Xmas eve and back to work 6am on Monday 28th.

Wage slaves :lol1:
I finished a week ago and I'm not starting back til mid January :D
I've a fair bit of visiting to do though so might have to book a couple of little jobs in :lol1:
Enjoy the time off you all get :thumb:

Finished last Tuesday back on the 4th Jan :banana:

I finished on Tuesday and will probably start back on 4th January but it depends if I get a call or not. With me being ill I've only done six days since June:thumb:

Finish on Wednesday and then back on the 4th Jan.
We normally quiet this time of year but the factory is rammed, so we going to open up between Christmas and New Year, first time we done this.

But the offices not be open :luxhello:

I finish Wednesday night and back in Monday
Years ago I use to have just Xmas day off

Technically I don't finish until Wednesday, but as it'll be so quiet I am working from home, will make a few calls and chase a few things, monitor my email but generally I will be doing stuff around the house and visiting previous colleagues hehe.

Working right through - first day off is 28th, back on the 2nd

To be honest with you, I might have technically finished on 18th, my job related work from home continues, but when and as I please; with me staying in my jim-jams. The luxury is that I can focus on the domestic matters more e.g. sorting and being there more for my family including my relative humans and my divine cats, wrapping gifts, food shopping, for the big day etc.

Another thing that is important to me is catching up with my sleep. I want to sleep a lot during this holiday. Finding it difficult, though. My body and mind seem to have got accustomed to 4-5 hours sleep a night, but my soul is in conflict with this arrangement. Hopefully, the trio will strike a satisfactory deal, sometimes during this break.

Do you get to come back home for your Christmas dinner, Felix? E.g. A couple of hours break on the Christmas day for it?

No - no break, I think last year none of us got a meal break other than a coffee at the start of the shift waiting for the cars to come back in from the previous shift.

It will be a 1700 - 0300 shift this year, so not too bad. Our family don't have Christmas dinner until 6.00pm ish anyway, so i will probably have a snack before i go and then have my Christmas dinner when i get back - cold sprouts and congealed gravy - yum

Ok. If it were me, I'd ask my family to have our Christmas dinner before 17:00, then. But perhaps your family prefer to have Christmas dinner without you. I'm only joking :D Anyway, enjoy the day, Felix. Hats off to your dedication towards your job duties. Very inspirational. :cool:

It was a suggestion, but the other in/out laws spend so much time with their other families and other friends arrive around 1600 and we have to get tidied up from the early morning chaos, that 1700 - 1800 dinner is about the earliest we can manage

Its not too bad - at least at 0330 in the morning i don't have to wear a hat and can have the remote control to myself.

I finished on 16th and am on leave until 4th. Had loads of leave left over that I've gotta use before April as we're not allowed to carry more than 15 days over into the next year.

Finished on the 18th, lunchtime. Back in on the 11th. :)

Mart :D

finished on friday.. back 4th Jan.

Building trade set holiday :)

Off 17th till the 4th go into lazy mode mostly due to the weather and a full fridge. Hate the way your work jeans seem to shrink with the cold.

the BEST thing about the holiday period is that a corner has been turned (today I think)

the evenings are getting lighter

just get over January - then a short Feb, then March and the evenings really start to get light, the garden comes alive - with the promise of spring

joy upon joy


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I was awake most of all night and morning. About 5:00, I could see through the window that the sky looked a tad lighter than usual dark and mysterious one; the one like The Dark Night.

yep , only another 6 months of total misery to wait until it gets as warm again as it is now

IF you don't mind the summer deluges :lol1: :freak3:

Anything given easily gets received for granted, you know. Bite size uplift makes you value those very few genuinely summery days in July. Find yourself lucky that you don't live on Shetland Island. Or, remain a typical British and slag the weather off minimum 5/7 days every week. :razz: :D

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My busy lizzies and fushias are still flowering. I've kept the yukka outside and had to mow the lawn as it's still growing :cuckoo: Was walking round outside in a t shirt yesterday it was that warm - and I usually feel the cold.

Anyhow, at work until Christmas Eve back after Boxing Day until New Year's Eve. Not a lot booked in though, I don't think so at least. I will not be happy if I get lumbered with a broken Range Rover sport as there was one in for diagnosic earlier this month; quoted at roughly £4000 to fix, I'm hoping they don't come back because I just know it's going to come back and bite me on the arse; Dreadful cars that are even more dreadful to work on.

4 grand?? :eek: Mind you, it is a Range Rover. I always find them fundamentally fugly to look at, I don't care if they're white or black with all the trims. Back to the 4K repair cost, I'm reluctant to pay just 800 quid to VW to fix my parking brake button fault.

Finished working on 5th November due to redundancy but start new job on 4th Jan so nice long break .

I have to admit I felt a little smug; it's only five years old but underneath it's clear that it's had a hard life. It was a £60k+ car when new just the people that buy them for £25k think they can run them on a shoestring. They are horrible to work on too; even with £4K of parts and labour I doubt it'll turn a profit as you can guarantee there will be a unforeseen complication. Id rather sub contract the work to a specialist, but the gaffer won't have any of it: He has this strange approach of taking on jobs without fully realising the work that it entails. I think he's paranoid that a competitor could fix it and turn a profit...I say let them; as when it goes wrong again (it will: it's a Range Rover) they'll be getting the bad reputation instead.

Finished lunchtime friday, supposed to go back on the 6th but have delayed that til the 12th. The Missus is signing a lease on another shop so have to go in on my 'time off' to gut and re-fit.