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  • #1

    It's Christmas Eve!

    I was hardly impressed when I got the instructions for this job. Christmas eve day, and we've got to do a BS run 200 km out of the city. This important job? Oh running some excess furniture to the storage at that out of town plant. There's absolutely no reason why it couldn't be during the week of the 28th; no reason except the customer wanted it done on the 24th. Fine, whatever, we'll put in an extra early start and hopefully finish early.

    We wind up finishing everything off by 1:00 go see the customer to say our goodbyes. But no, because we finished so quickly, she's got to see if there's anything else for us. Um no, we finished early because we started early, we'd like to get home to our families. That won't fly, she's got a few things for us, she just needs to call some people. We take a fifteen minute break while she makes these calls.

    We come back and see her with her nose twisted completely out of joint. With a tone of utter disgust she tells us: "You guys may as well just leave. Everybody's gone home already... hmmmph... just because it's Christmas eve they think they can leave early... it's just another day." We run at this first opportunity rather than giving her a chance to change her mind.

    What a pathetic little life this woman must live. I mean she has a husband and children, yet no apparent desire to spend time with them at this special time of year. It's not like we were on some mega-project with a year end deadline, it was all just BS make work crap. But I guess for some people, work is the only life they have.
    D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
    Quoth = Crossbow "EvilHomer, Irv, Gravekeeper, and Seraph: the Four Horsemen of the Dumbpocalypse."
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    Quoth evilhomer View Post
    What a pathetic little life this woman must live. I mean she has a husband and children, yet no apparent desire to spend time with them at this special time of year.
    Well, on the one hand, she may not celebrate Christmas (not even all Christians do) so it may not be a "special" day to her. But on the other hand, people should still respect a day they know to be special to others. Even on a regular day, it's rather sad she doesn't seem to welcome a chance to spend extra time with her family, though.

    I once worked for a small firm owned and run by a Jewish family. We had double holidays - they closed Jewish holidays because of their faith, and Christian holidays because firms they did business with would be closed. I was happy for time off and possibly a bit of extra family time whether it was for a holiday I celebrated or not.

    Merriweather

    Madness takes it's toll....
    Please have exact change ready.

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    • #3
      I guess you met the Grinch's sister.

      Or maybe the wicked witch of the East.
      Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

      Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

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      • #4
        Quoth depechemodefan View Post
        I guess you met the Grinch's sister.

        Or maybe the wicked witch of the East.
        She sounds more like Scrooge minus the changing his ways at the end.
        To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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        • #5
          Quoth Merriweather View Post
          Well, on the one hand, she may not celebrate Christmas (not even all Christians do) so it may not be a "special" day to her.
          I thought that too, but in talking to her, she does celebrate Christmas (or at least recognizes it). It's just that work is more important. Everybody should put in a full days work, regardless of the time of year.
          D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
          Quoth = Crossbow "EvilHomer, Irv, Gravekeeper, and Seraph: the Four Horsemen of the Dumbpocalypse."

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          • #6
            I was disgusted by the comments customers were making while standing in line on Christmas Eve:

            Sucky Customer: Why aren't there more cashiers! This is ridiculous!
            Not Sucky Customer: Because it's Christmas Eve. It's a holiday. They're spending time with their familes.
            Sucky Customer: That doesn't matter! Look at these lines! We need to buy stuff!

            The SC's have off from work for the holidays, but those that "serve" them, may not?

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            • #7
              Well, in their defence, maybe stores should give some advance notice that Christmas is coming
              D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
              Quoth = Crossbow "EvilHomer, Irv, Gravekeeper, and Seraph: the Four Horsemen of the Dumbpocalypse."

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              • #8
                Quoth evilhomer View Post
                It's just that work is more important. Everybody should put in a full days work, regardless of the time of year.
                Sadly, quite a few bosses are like that...mine included. Usually though, he'll either take the day off or leave early, and make the rest of us work a full day
                Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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                • #9
                  One of the joys of my current job is they shut down on 23rd December and re-open first Monday of January.
                  ludo ergo sum

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                  • #10
                    Quoth jjllbb View Post
                    The SC's have off from work for the holidays, but those that "serve" them, may not?
                    Of course that's how it should be, and not just holidays (accordng to the SC's - and SC's can be found even in retail).

                    I recall back in the 80's I lived in a seaside southern city. Many people were trying to get the local government to end the blue law (for those not in the south, especially, a Blue Law is a law that states all or some shops must close on Sunday - most go back a hundred years or more). They were trying to overturn it not on the basis of legality of the law itself, but of how it was now being applied (knowing once ended, it would never be re-instated). For instance, drugstores & groceries were exempt, so you could go to a mega-grocery or huge drugstore and buy toys books, even clothes etc. but not go to a toystore, bookstore, or clothing shop, as they could not be open on Sunday. Worst was that since we were a tourist town, "souvenir shops" were exempt from closing as well. A few small shops went so far as to stick a "souvenir of "our town"" sticker on everything in their store, then open in defiance.

                    But onto the point - the newspapers were of course filled with letters to the editor both pro and con. But one I will never forget is one woman who wrote a very long heart-rending letter stating her opinion the blue laws should be kept, because she worked retail, so if repealed, she'd have to work on Sundays. And Sundays were her day to spend with her daughter - going to movies, and having a meal out and bowling.

                    Yep, everything she listed as being why SHE should have the day off involved someone else working on that day. And you could tell from the letter, she was totally and completely oblivious to the irony in that.

                    Madness takes it's toll....
                    Please have exact change ready.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth evilhomer View Post
                      Well, in their defence, maybe stores should give some advance notice that Christmas is coming
                      Yeah, that sneaky Christmas, always moving around.....never can tell if it'll be December 25th or December 25th...
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                      • #12
                        Quoth RootedPhoenix View Post
                        Yeah, that sneaky Christmas, always moving around.....never can tell if it'll be December 25th or December 25th...
                        I guess the calendar was invented so people would have something to cover the front of the fridge with. . .
                        Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                        • #13
                          No, it's a way to baffle SC's in their own home!
                          Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                          • #14
                            Or a way for them to have an excuse for a pinup. XD

                            I still laugh at an SC who turned up on Christmas Eve one year after we'd closed the doors, and, cuz I refused to let him in, screamed, "I hope you're happy; you just ruined my Christmas!"

                            I live for ruining Christmas. It is, after all, my only pleasure in life.
                            People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life.
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                            • #15
                              back on my first ship they were considering starting "tropical hours" where you start work at 5 or 6 and you knock off at 1 or 2 pm.

                              we decided NOT to because knowing the command they would have probably held us to 3 or 4 pm anyway and we didn't want to have to work longer hours just because someone got upset at us getting "off work early"

                              (and our crazy chief probably would have done it too)

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