What is work going to be like for you on Friday, Dec. 23rd?

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Sluggo

Lifer
Jun 12, 2000
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Regular day, might try to finish up a couple of hours early since we have family coming to stay at our house.
 

duragezic

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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I'm ducking out. Taking a day of vacation.

I was planning on working because, oh well just another day, but I'm traveling with a friend so needed to take the day off. I could tell already from Thursday though that it was going to be dead.

Next week the company is shut down. Me likey. :)
 

VulgarDisplay

Diamond Member
Apr 3, 2009
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Counting my blessings because this is my holiday to work, so the other manager is off. Why this is good for me is that hospitals celebrate christmas on Friday and Monday, and this is his regular scheduled weekend to work LOL. Did I mention that Thanksgiving was his holiday to work as well? ROFL.

So I got Thanksgiving off and Christmas off. Hopefully he doesn't slit my throat on Tuesday when he's back in the office.
 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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Slow.
We already had our Christmas party on Wednesday(still :confused: on that) so i'm finishing up a repair job that might take an hour to finish. After that, if nothing comes out of heat treat i might get sent home, unless something magically appears out of thin air.
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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Last minute Christmas shoppers, "Oh, crap. I don't have any money. Christmas sneaked up on me."

Hopefully swamped with current customers. New applications will probably get coal.
 

Ackmed

Diamond Member
Oct 1, 2003
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Working, twice actually. Just got off a 2130-0700 shift, and do it again later today. Same for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. And same for New Years Eve, and New Years Day. Except I'll be on day shift for those.
 

Merad

Platinum Member
May 31, 2010
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So far it SUCKS. Our management, displaying their usual incompetence, apparently let too many people schedule time off.
 

SlowSpyder

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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Nice and easy drive in today with half the working world taking the day off. Otherwise a normal day at work that I'll likely leave a few hours early.
 

velillen

Platinum Member
Jul 12, 2006
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normaly its an easy day. We close down till Jan 3rd so today is usually just kind of cleaning up, throwing old food in the fridge away, unplugging things sort of deal. usually start leaving after 2-3 hours.

But of course emergent work came up so me and the guy i work with get ot rush through a job since itll involve 4-5 other people and we all want to go home! (though we get out of cleaning!)
 

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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Working, twice actually. Just got off a 2130-0700 shift, and do it again later today. Same for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. And same for New Years Eve, and New Years Day. Except I'll be on day shift for those.

What do you do?

MotionMan
 

Trey22

Diamond Member
Oct 31, 2003
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Hopefully today will be DEAD slow, and so far it is... I work from home as a support tech for access control systems. I figure total real work time today will be 1 hour. The main office will probably start letting guys go home at lunch.

We're all off on Monday, then skeleton crew on Tue/Wed/Thu, then a 4 day weekend (woot!).
 

NuclearNed

Raconteur
May 18, 2001
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Other than a couple of programmers, I'm basically the only one here. I'm senior level staff, so it's been kind of busy handling everything that usually gets handled by the other IT management folks.
 

Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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So... nothing productive going on, but pretty full house, surprisingly.
 

Wyndru

Diamond Member
Apr 9, 2009
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Regular day, Kids are still in school. Watching our bandwidth pegged all day though, teachers are using a lot of youtube in class.
 

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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Regular day, Kids are still in school. Watching our bandwidth pegged all day though, teachers are using a lot of youtube in class.

Where the heck are schools still in?!? My kids have been off since last Friday.

MotionMan
 

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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BTW, no traffic in L.A. today. I got in way early.

I half expect to get served with something today - attorneys are buttheads.

MotionMan
 

Saint Nick

Lifer
Jan 21, 2005
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Not very productive. Sort of hoping the supers (whats left of them) let us out at least a little early...i mean come on...There are only like 15 people online and usually I am seeing like 50.