| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas 15:20 - Dec 1 with 459 views | KeithHaynes |
Away, elsewhere, in a different place ? |  |
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| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 15:29 - Dec 1 with 439 views | CountyJim |
Lots of times working in Steelworks unfortunately Coke ovens can't stop worse Christmases where those I was double back night's onto afternoons
All other areas of a steelworks can stop but it would depend on the order book situation
It's very hard when you have young kids and Dad's in work in 15 years on 8 hours worked 13 Christmases
Now I'm working for NHS I'm in this Christmas day as well but off boxing Day |  | | |
| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 16:39 - Dec 1 with 395 views | Boundy |
Belfast 76 , other than that I've always considered my self lucky but then again home is where the heart is |  |
| "In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master." |
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| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 16:58 - Dec 1 with 385 views | Flynnidine_Zidownes |
I got sunburnt to buggery on the slopes of Mont Blanc one Christmas Eve. | | | |
| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 18:49 - Dec 1 with 355 views | Catullus |
| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 16:58 - Dec 1 by Flynnidine_Zidownes |
I got sunburnt to buggery on the slopes of Mont Blanc one Christmas Eve. |
How did the sun get all the way up there?  | |
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| Times when you haven’t been at home for Christmas on 21:10 - Dec 1 with 294 views | majorraglan |
Never been “away” for Christmas, but over the last 30 years I’ve found myself working about 20 of the Christmas's. When I was single, I’d usually end up with a morning shift, a night shift or an evening shift 6pm/2am shift and I’d usually be happy to let the guys with little kids have the shifts off and I’d try to get the Boxing Day off.
When our first little fella came along, my first Christmas was nights on Christmas Eve and afternoons on Christmas Day. When the kids were little, I tried to avoid a morning shift on a Christmas Day so I could be there for the opening of the pressies, but it didn’t always work out. Lots of people including emergency services personnel, steel workers as County Jim highlighted have to work while others enjoy themselves. | | | |
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