Office Christmas PartiesMy office this year is having Christmas lunch. In the office. On some desks we are going to clear the monitors off. The computers underneath will keep running as we are behind on some deadlines and need to keep rendering.
OK, so some people aren't getting anything, but how Scrooge-like are your bosses when it comes to Christmas?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 14:42)
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Panto seasonFor the last 20 years I've been working panto, not as an actor but as a lighting tech. Luckily the days of working a show on christmas day are long gone.
However, we do only get Christmas day off and have two shows on boxing day and also a show on New Years Day. Not the best if you have a family.
You would think the management would be sympathetic to two decades of this. Not a bit.
This year they tried to dock a number of staff a days pay as the Theatre is shut on Saturday as it is Christmas Day, we told them no and then they have tried to get us to use the lieu day from the next weeks public holiday which we haven't even worked yet!
This type of behaviour is par for the course and only thanks to having a strong union membership do we actually have most of our legal rights protected from this onslaught of madness. We do get double time and time in lieu for public holidays but even then we have to make sure it is calculated properly.
They of course are free to have a decent amount of time off every year.
Never seen a xmas bonus and the xmas party has to be paid for by those attending and it is held on the one night we get to spend at home. Only recently do we get any kind of hospitality on the first night.
(, Sat 18 Dec 2004, 21:19, Reply)
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