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Lilykind · Hermes

has anyone ever worked on christmas eve/day?

Hermes

back in the day, I waitressed on Christmas day. I was pretty much the server for another family's Christmas dinner. it wasn't my idea of a happy holiday, but I didn't have much choice in the matter. I got over it, and realized how Christmas is just another day - Christmas takes place on the day you choose to celebrate it. I also waited tables on Christmas eve and New Year's eve more than once. I did what I had to do to put myself through school.

in later years, in a professional setting, I have worked late on Christmas eve, and have been on-call on Christmas day depending on the projects I was working on (print advertising.) It sucks, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do...

Kitty · Hermes

My last job didn't even give Christmas eve off.

rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

Yup, when I was a courtesy clerk at a grocery store. I used volunteer to work on Thanksgiving too. I was young, living at home and wanted the extra money from working the O.T.

-- Edited by rosie_the_riveter at 18:01, 2006-12-15

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

I worked x-mas eve when I was in retail. Since I got out of retail I have worked it too, but at 3x my regular pay. x-mas day too in the early am, also at 3x pay.

-gd

shopgirl · Kenneth Cole

i work for a paper and i've worked fourth of july, christmas eve, christmas day, thanksgiving, easter and new year's day. The only major u.s. holiday that i haven't worked is new year's eve.

this year i will be stuck working boxing day.

luckylily · Gucci

I always work on Christmas Eve unless it's on a weekend. It isn't among the holidays we get off at my job. However, my family never did any celebrating on Christmas Eve so I always just consider it another day.

Eurodaisy · Dooney & Bourke

When I worked retail during college, I worked on Christmas Eve... twice. And at my regular pay, too.

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

Yep, I've worked both. I worked at a movie theatre, which doesn't close for sh*t. All I have to say is that being there with the customers that day, was hell on earth

Metric · Gucci

In the restaurant industry there is no such thing as a holiday.

Sandy · Kate Spade

I'm working Christmas Eve this year, from 5:30am to noon. I'm actually super excited about my schedule next week... I'm working Thursday night, Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday mornings. Working Christmas Eve at my work is actually a privilege; I work at a coffee shop and we generally get big, BIG tips in the few days before the holiday... not to mention the nice little envelopes my regular customers usually hand out. Christmas Day is optional, and I said no thanks.

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

I dont' really have a family, and I worked in a business that ignores most holidays, so I usually worked almost every holiday that people would want to spend with their family, in return for getting new years and st patrick's day off :)

small fry · Chanel

yes, I have worked many Christmas Eve's and Christmas days. Iam lucky that this year I get both of them off

Iam going to enjoy b/c it won't be like that for a long time

Claudia · Gucci

I work in retail, but I'm the only employee who got out of working Christmas Eve & the suuper busy days before and after . I personally talked to the my manager two months ago. I'll be in AZ.

lynnie · Chanel

i've worked christmas eve's day til like 6- i wouldn't consider that a holiday though. If I was working at night, yea i'd be bummed, but nothing really happens during the day. i wouldn't be opposed to working christmas day either- we always end up seeing movies anyway and i get bored. For our family- christmas goes from about 8 pm dec. 24- 11am dec. 25. And maybe a dinner later.

erin · Chanel

yea, the last three years in a row i worked christmas eve. fortunately, i was done by 6.

kittenheels · Coach

Not by schedule (I'm an attorney) but because of the nature of my job, I always seem to have stuff that's due after Christmas and need to work at least a little on Xmas. It makes me sad. This time I have two big briefs due on the Friday after Christmas, so I will have to work at least a little.

theotherjess · Chanel

This Christmas Eve I'm scheduled 11:30 to 6:30.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I've never had to but this year I have to work Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. Thursdays and Fridays are my days off so I lose out this year.

blink · Coach

About three years in a row I worked Christmas Eve, not Christmas. It is a big day for restaurants and I used to be a waitress. It was usually a pretty fun night to work, cheerful diners, though an extremely hectic dinner hour.

One year, while working at Outback Steakhouse, these mean little old ladies called me a "bad waitress" to my face. It was one of those days where the coffee pot would be emptied as soon as it was brewed and so they had to wait too long for that, then later my coworkers brought out their salad just as their steaks arrived early. ARGH. I sincerely apologized, but they didn't care, it was all my fault in their eyes. They complained to my manager and he told me about it laughing later that night.