Anyone else working this Christmas Eve?

[combatcoastie]

I was lucky enough to have Christmas eve off and came in for the afternoon shift today (3pm - 11pm). We don't get holiday pay, but we get a "floating holiday." Basically, I have 8 hours of PTO that I can schedule whenever I want as a day off.

Very very quiet today so far, although I guess our morgue was pretty busy last night...

[sierra49]

Filled in for another officer on Christmas Eve. He has small kids and wanted to spend Christmas Eve and Day with the family. The wife and I don't have any children so I usually sign up to work this holiday as a favor to the family guys.

Assignment was a Walmart. Had to attend the front doors from 1930 until closed (last employee off the property). Then had to watch the exterior of the building and parking lot. Over 100 cars came onto the property between 2000 (closing) and 2200. Many were surprised, upset, or something in between that Walmart was closed!

[PolarDeer]

Filled in for another officer on Christmas Eve. He has small kids and wanted to spend Christmas Eve and Day with the family. The wife and I don't have any children so I usually sign up to work this holiday as a favor to the family guys.

The same thing, plus the extra pay. Our shift planner knows that I never complain about working on holidays so I get that a lot, the Christmas Day patrol shift I had was overtime too. Someone called in sick and the one to go instead of me would've been our lower supervisor who's spending his first Christmas with a kid, so I volunteered to go instead.

Having said that, it's been a peaceful Christmas. The eve mainly consisted of random customer service and all at my usual retail location, and my patrol shift yesterday was dead quiet. Almost no one around in my area for most of the day.

Anticipating an exact opposite with the upcoming weekend and New Year's Eve, though. Fun times.

[Jaeger]

I was very lucky and happy not having to work this Christmas eve and the days before like last year.

Granted I lose in extra pay over this, but just before my Christmas holidays I did a seven-day work week again as overtime since one of the sites had a regular call in sick.

If I would be single, then I'd happily work during holidays like these, but the fact is that when you're having someone waiting for you at home to spend time with Christmas shifts aren't all that interesting anymore despite the money.

My plan was not to work Christmas and New Year shifts this year, which seems to have succeeded so far. My scheduled six day break from work before Christmas was cut down by two days though, but the main thing was that I didn't have to work the days closest to Christmas. I just couldn't have hacked it this year.

[PolarDeer]

If I would be single, then I'd happily work during holidays like these, but the fact is that when you're having someone waiting for you at home to spend time with Christmas shifts aren't all that interesting anymore despite the money.

My plan was not to work Christmas and New Year shifts this year, which seems to have succeeded so far. My scheduled six day break from work before Christmas was cut down by two days though, but the main thing was that I didn't have to work the days closest to Christmas. I just couldn't have hacked it this year.

I'm single, so, yeah... overtime incoming.

As for the New Year's, after my regular retail site closes down I'll transfer to do an evening/night at a crowd control account of ours downtown immediately adjacent to the train station. Knowing the usual New Year's Eve behavior around here (booze, booze and more booze) I expect to have my hands full.

[Trunk Monkey]

I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas day. I got holiday pay for Christmas day and both days I was the only person on the site. It was nice and quite and as an added bonus all walking patrols (which is all of my patrols) were suspended due to extreme cold. So I got paid 8 hours of time and a half to sit in the office and read “A Christmas Carol”