... and where ?

Me - Yes :(
Royal Berks Hospital, Reading...

Gastro

Me too

Wandsworth Police. Have a good one if you can!! ;)

Hooray I am not alone :)

Oil platform in the North Sea, digging holes.

my dads working xmas day! :( Nottm prison! gonna b having a boring xmas day! :(

Dundee

Tayside Fire Brigade

Show me the money:D

not if theres a breakout or riot ;)

BB:)

triple time?

Triple time? Some chance!

I get the same money as per normal. Get a free Xmas dinner though.

We are having a specially made Xmas lasagne with all the trimmings.......assuming we dont get called out!!!

So be good people!! ;)

Xmas lasagne?! turkey instead of beef then!!!! :D

At work now doing some CCTV monitoring - well looking at ebay other sites, if I'm honest.

Triple time is nice, though.

I get my dinner at 23:30 tonight by the way. I will be sleeping my way through all that Xmas day stuff. I doubt that I am missing much.

What trimmings do you get with lasagne?

Some of that stinking sick/sweaty feet smelling cheese LOL

We miss the boredom by sleeping through it all ;)

Yes. I am also digging holes in the middle of the North Sea.

http://www.structurae.net/photos/sta...ullfaksb01.jpg

No public holiday here in Japan, so it's been a normal working day. But I did go out middy to an Indian restaurant for a Christmas curry lunch :D

I'm working in a hotel in Henley

Roll on 3pm!!

12 hour dayshift. :(

If I get called out its going to cost them a fortune ..so i am happy.

24 hour shift from midday today til same time Boxing day and resident in the hospital during this time.
No food facilities (vending rubbish only).
...and I get paid 80% of my normal hourly rate.

Bar humbug :(

Gastro


[Edited by Gastro - 12/25/2003 9:57:46 AM]

im on a supply ship, supplying gas platforms in southern north sea,

came in to Great yarmouth this morning and will be sailing back to sea at tea time!

On call til 6am Boxing day:(

Chip.

Best regards to you all, my heart goes out to you as I feel you should be at home with family and loved ones, mind you saying that this is the first xmas day my wife has to had to work, but she is in tomorrow.
Cheers
Colin

Just back on for my next shift. Will get my Xmas dinner at 23:30. No booze though :(

in wondering how gastro can do a 24 hour shift :eek:

just starting a 12 hour night shift

............keeping all your SKY tv progs working nicely :D

i'm working on getting pissed:)

fair play to you guys out there working, i don't even like working saturdays! think i'd kill the boss if he tried getting me in on xmas!

[Edited by hoskib - 12/25/2003 8:17:17 PM]

24 hr shifts are nothing..
12months ago - I used to 56 hour shift - non-stop (Sat, Sun then home at 5pm Monday).

Its so refreshing that the government deemed healthcare professionals should come into line with European working rules 2 years after they were set ;)

Gastro
only 14 hours to go..

Used to do one man jobs out on the rigs. had me up and awake for up to 48 hours at a time. Bloody dangerous! Kept falling down stairs. Stopped us doing it and quite right too. As for docs treating me after 20 hours with no sleep? I would ask for a 2nd opinion cos I know what it is like to be short of sleep.
No offence Gastro but it is just plain wrong!

being awake for long periods does send you off it. I can be up for about 36 hours some time if I do a night shift then dont go home to bed................I feel very spaced at that the end of it.........56 is just not right.

00:15 and I want to go home grrrrrrrrrr, mental note to self get new non shift based job

Not having a good day. Nearly total disaster but now retrieved now can't get some telemetry to work. Least I got my Xmas dinner and it was quite nice.