Just wondering if anybody else is in the same boat? We have this every year. Come in on the last day and sit around doing nothing until somebody tells us we can go.
Every other bugger in my office booked today off, so I'm sat with Sonos on full blast having a Skype conversation with a colleague who's working from home.I'm waiting for one customer to place some orders before I go. I've never posted as much on here as I have this morning
We've already been told it is a 12.30 finish today.
TBH this is why I rarely book the last day before Christmas off - feels like a waste of leave when I can be home before lunch.
Not really.. i'm only here because i'm waiting for Swinley later with STwers. But i'm only sitting on the sofa watching Hammer Horror movie, not actually in the office.
We have just been told that we can finish at 12. So the wife will put me to work this aft.
Yes, we went out yesterday afternoon, then I carried on into last night. MD said don't bother coming in early, however I've a young family so a lie in is not an option, I was the first in the office, and I'll be the first out. Probably lunchtime.
Knocking off at 11:30, enough to do to keep me ticking over till then.
We have just been told that we can finish at 12. So the wife will put me to work this aft.
Don't tell her, perfect afternoon to go christmas shopping with the odd refreshment stop.
1430 for us
Sort of, we may, or may not have an early finish today - as ever it's out of my hands, it depends on the guys on the Helpdesk clearing all the jobs down. Last day is usually 12:30, but as the Boss reminded us yesterday, that's usually because it's Xmas Even and not "Friday".
Not that it makes much difference to me - I've not got much on - it's more of a sit around and wait for something to go wrong - I've got my Son with me today, he's in the office next door plaing Star Wars on the Boss's PC - I have to leave today at 11am to drive to Newport to collect something, back to Cardiff to pick up my Daughter and work from home this afternoon.
3:30 finnish for me, team breakfast, secret santa, then a wee bit of work to see me through till then.
sort of - boss closed yesterday night but I run a satellite office, so make my own rules. Everyone else is off but i came in as I have some paperwork to finish, and i need to be here for a guaranteed morning courier.
After which i too am running to Swinley to meet up with weeksy
Think our place are being told they have to work till 5 as usual. That will go down well... Luckily I don't choose for the rules to apply to me so am gonna call it a day about 2.
I've got some visitors coming in at 12 so I think after I give them a tour of the uni in this mental storm, that'll be me done 😆
You can see my boss is desperate to go "**** it, let's go!" but he's not that sort of boss. Not his fault, he's just waiting for someone to tell him what to do 😆
Thinking about it I should have taken the laptop home last night and avoided being here. 😕
Then again listening to my own music and not Funkmaster Jr's toddler choices is quite novel. I might stay all day 😆
Client mgr took yesterday PM off and today so I left at lunch yesterday and WFH today - mostly watching films.
Sat at work, but unfortunately we had a cheery email round from the boss to say that it's a normal working day. So I'll be here until 5. 🙁
like an fool I booked my car in for a service today
So after getting here* at the crack of dawn to get the car in as early as possible (the bloke looked at me and jokingly said "so your the idiot we have been cursing all week" :lol:) I am now waiting for it to be finished before I can leave
And they had better wash it 🙂
*our plant and fleet department are on the same site so they are doing the service
Hoping to be allowed out by 3pm, but boss is a workaholic who would happily keep everyone here until 10pm to prove a point if he was in "that" kind of mood.
So far, he's not.
The site teams are off at 11, so I'm outta here sooner rather than later
I'll start letting my team go from about 1300. Steady trickle out with me leaving last at about 1530 - 1600.
I can't leave until I have read fresh goods friday 😉
It's quite windy now, I wonder if I could get away with throwing a big branch through a window and declaring everything Too Dangerous?
Do it Northwind - even your forum name implies it should be so 😉
I'm sitting on the sofa watching "Castaway" which in some mad reference point is similar to your situation..
Oh, hang on..
I can turn it awf.
Endure your torture, it'll be over before you know it.
funkmasterp - MemberDo it Northwind - even your forum name implies it should be so
It's my mortal enemy, Southsouthwestwind.
Expecting to be told I can leave around 230-3, but no hard and fast rule
Nothing. To. Do.
Sat in the office - a few of the team here.
Christmas choons wafting around.
One of the team walks in, Proclaims a hatred of chrimbo. Asks for the music to be turned down!! (err...that'll be a no then!)
And (despite having plenty of space around us, and plenty of rooms to sit in - away from the racket that is xmas musak) she's on a call in the midle of us, raising her voice!!!
Scrooge!!
Oh well, a couple of us heading out for a Bucks Fizz or two in a short while
Working from home today. Boss on leave already but I have to hang around for......
Nope I'm done 😀
So after getting here* at the crack of dawn to get the car in as early as possible (the bloke looked at me and jokingly said "so your the idiot we have been cursing all week" :lol:) I am now waiting for it to be finished before I can leave
What if your car needs a part that's not in stock? Will you be working Christmas Day? 🙂
Yep - boss hasn't even turned in yet, so we'll probably be here till 5pm.
By the start of December I had just over half my annual leave allowance remaining (which is good going by even my usual standards).
So I finished work on Wednesday (at around lunchtime to have a final farewell lunch with my no ex-boss), and shall be returning in the second week of January.
I've had my first lie-in this morning since this time last year. Now time to get up and try to squeeze in all the Christmas preparations.
Yes - it's the annual 'can we/can't we' do-se-do your boss event 🙄
I've been on holiday for a week.. yet I've still spent every day working a few hours a day 😕 probably would have to if i didn't waste time on STW 😳
I'm the boss and yet I seem to be the only sucker actually at work ! Where did it all go wrong I ask myself....
5.30am for me but then I had worked my full shift.
I'm in the office - but even if I go early there are no fast trains till 16.40, so may have to go for a post work beer.
Camden Christmas today; 3 piles of sick between the station and the office and a bloke getting arrested at Costa just before 10!
1:00pm and I'm out of here faster than sh1t through a goose.
I've got a 2oclock appt to take a client to the gym, then I'm gone
1:00pm and I'm out of here faster than sh1t through a goose.
Me too. Woohooo!
'Normal working day' here too, just a few saddos have dragged ourselves in. Hoping to get the nod around 2.
Here till 5pm but not normal job, I'm helping out in my friend's shop in Hebden Bridge.
Pop in if you're around - it's Dynamite upstairs at Bridge Mill on the square and sells STW approved made in England clothes, belts and caps.
People bringing wine/coffee/whisky will be looked on kindly.
Am chucking everyone out by about 3pm. The few that have lasted that long... Pretty relaxed about rules made up at the centre of a big rule obsessed organisation, me.
Normal day today but hoping to get an early one tomorrow as I'm driving from Scotland to Hampshire to see the old farts for xmas.
I'm gone from here in half an hour 😀
No idea when I'm out of here, just been to the pub with an insurer so hopefully they'll send me home as I'm no real use now.
We usually go early when it is Christmas Eve, I need to decide when everyone can leave. Officially it is 5pm but I am hoping warehouse, customer services and finance will be all clear by 4pm and we can just wind up early. Engineering will be all done so I don't need to check with them.
The issue for me is that everyone should be done it is all or nothing.
Yeah! We leave at 3.30pm
Demob happy. Finishing Friday conveyancing. All my clients will have a house for Christmas. It may not be the one they thought it would be but at least they will have a roof over their heads.
We always used to get a half day on the last day of work before Christmas, but the arsehole office/admin manager (in charge of himself and one other person!) who was in the TA (logistics corps, pushing paper around a desk no doubt) used to make all of us (lab staff) hang on until the last minute otherwise we'd be 'in breach of contract', despite nobody doing any work at all. We all hated his stupid guts 😆
I'm self-employed now. It's lovely.
No sign of an early finish here, in it to the death. 🙂
It will be pub 'o'clock at 4pm so I'm told. This has moved from 1:30pm as decided yesterday. mmmm
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We always used to get a half day on the last day of work before Christmas, but the arsehole office/admin manager (in charge of himself and one other person!) who was in the TA (logistics corps, pushing paper around a desk no doubt) used to make all of us (lab staff) hang on until the last minute otherwise we'd be 'in breach of contract', despite nobody doing any work at all. We all hated his stupid guts
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Just been given the nod. Off for a pint.
Fancy having to work until your finishing time must be awful.
Still here... still nothing to do.
there's not enough active threads to keep my attention here until 5.15, I've gone through the daily mail and I have resorted to reading mums net. 😐
yeah still here ... until 9pm this evening... when Wall Street closes
Had a beer or two and about to crack open a bottle of bubbles.
Plan to walk out of here side ways 😀
Woohoo they're letting us go early!
Let the lads go at 2. Did my janitor duties and locked the whole site down. Just spent the last hour jet washing the patio in a gale and rain. Some part of me was thinking wtf!
Let the staff go. Got to hang around 'til 17:20 meself... bleurgh.
😆
Nipper99- pretty much!
😆
Clueless planners seemed to think that it was ok to have everyone on the go until around 10pm, team leader had other ideas, a puncture put paid to an early start and so I was home by around 10.30am, rather than pm!
Also, the holiday break that was only going to be the basic bank holidays has now become a break from today until Jan 2nd!
Result! 😀
Start a night shift at 10pm in social care,so mixed night in store for us till 9 am tomorrow.
Thou last night was full on so may be better tonight fingers crossed .
Our office closed all day today, having initially planned to finish at lunchtime.
I don't work on a thursday so didn't realise until I checked my email at 11:00pm last night. Lucky I did or I would have had a 100 mile round trip for nothing!
My Christmas leave finishes today I'm back in work starting tomorrow 🙁 kids aren't happy
Switched my work phone off 4 hours ago.
Now I'm off.
My kids never battered an eye Firestarter they were puzzled why some Dad's were off at Christmas.
It was 5pm when we locked up. There will be some WFH tomorrow to finish the website off.
Just finished work, back in for twelve.
Support your bar staff!
I should be out of the door by 0645hrs - not much of an early finish! Half an hour drive home, breakfast with Mrs White and the nipper, four hours kip, then up and 25 miles on the gravel bike to my parents house for as big a family Christmas as we can muster.
I got away at 230 took one look at the oil lake under my car and went back in and had a cup of tea and called the RAC
I finished at 1300 on the 20th. Don't go back until 0945 on 9th Jan.
Used up the remaining 2016 leave and took some of 2017's