Now that the holidays are over, how hard are you working today on the 2nd of Jan?

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bluenosekev@reddit

I retired on the 19th December 2024..so a cup in tea in bed ,and a lazy day

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SIBMUR@reddit

Can't think of a better feeling than retirement and mortgage paid off. Just another 35 years or so for me to go.

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yeadanyea@reddit

Just need a mortgage first! And 34 is fast approaching. ☹️

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im 41 and just got my first mortgage, i even had to come down to 28 years from 30 because im that old! dont worry you have plenty of time yet and honestly its really not as scary as folk make out. retirement though, thats not for me, i just couldnt do it, maybe its the ASD/ADD but i need something to give me that structure and challenge, left alone im effectively useless and ill just drift into alcohol or drug abuse. another i always got told is "why dont you work for yourself? surely youd make a fortune, you do it for other people" i wouldnt, id have no drive and itd never get anywhere. im really good at a lot of things but i need someone to point me in a direction. but thers nothing wrong with knowing who you are and recognizing your limitations ive also always struggled with the idea of saving without a very specific goal, the i hate the idea that id be sort of waiting till im old and knackered to actually take time to enjoy myself, its because of that ive traveled to like 16 countries including the one i wanted to go to since i was 8, Japan, which seemed totally unachievable but i did it, then i did it again 4 more times! now ive gone even further, historically a person with abysmal credit history, all sorts of defaults etc i now have an excellent credit score and an actual bank gave me a card with a ten grand limit! (young me would have been booking flights immediately with that) and now an actual house till 30 life was pretty much min wage jobs and the dole for me, then suddenly things all turned around so dont worry too much, i think our generations become "adults" a bit later on in a way

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thisnextchapter@reddit

Can you elaborate what work you got into to break the min wage cycle? It feels inescapable

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gaspoweredcat@reddit

afraid that one likely wont help you, i started a min wage job at a place that processed mobile phone doing QC and other menial tasks, when given one particularly laborious one that should have taken all day i wrote a few scripts that completed the job in hours, while explaining how id done what id done to the floor manager another guy came over and mentioned that something couldnt be done, i piped up "yeah it can" and explained how. 2 weeks later i had that guys job and it turned out i was really good at it, from there i just kept learning and getting better

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thisnextchapter@reddit

You got where you are on merit as much as luck. Thanks for sharing. We need to keep an eye out for all opportunities

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gaspoweredcat@reddit

thanks, i guess youre right in a way but i was always good at stuff like that, guess the point is it just took finding the right person to recognize that and put their faith in me, so you kind of need ability and a little luck

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flippertyflip@reddit

I got mine at 42. You'll be fine.

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daern2@reddit

> Just another 35 years or so for me to go. Next year for me, the end is in sight! Now just need to work out how to afford to live afterwards and I can set a date...

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mrvlad_throwaway@reddit

get to Australia, go 'live' a retirement of true fulfillment!

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daern2@reddit

Yey! Old-age spent dodging man-eating snakes, spiders, kangaroos and women! More seriously, I think the entry requirements are a bit tighter than what they used to be. I think you need to have a fair amount of money, or an existing connection to the country, in order to get a residency visa.

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mrvlad_throwaway@reddit

yeah I've heard about it being more complicated to get down under too, everything is a rigmarole these days!

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daern2@reddit

I guess no country wants to get stuck with the cost of maintaining old people that never paid into their system to contribute to their care later in life. Seems a shame that no reciprocal agreement is in place, so that I can go to spend my declining years enjoying the sun in Melbourne, whilst Australian pensioners can come and spend their own final years in Huddersfield learning how rain really can fall horizontally. Oh, hang on...maybe I've spotted a flaw here.

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audigex@reddit

Retirement is arguably more of a financial state than a date, definitely make sure you can afford to do it before pulling the trigger!

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daern2@reddit

Yeah, it's a fine line balancing income, outgoings, kids (they've not yet left!) and, rather grimly, life expectancy. I'll probably inherit something at some point along the way though, which is another variable to chuck into the mix.

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notonetimes@reddit

We are 44 and paid off the mortgage on our (forever) home. I feel extremely lucky and it takes the pressure off. Won’t be able to retire early as my pension is awful, but ISA’s are (slightly below) average.

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JourneyThiefer@reddit

42 here 😍

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leachianusgeck@reddit

43 for me 🥳 only been working full time for 3 years and I'm exhausted already, idk how people do this for most of their lives

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RadioDorothy@reddit

I was 44. And I got a 95% mortgage when I already had a ton of other debt!

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ranchitomorado@reddit

Only 33 years for me. I feel blessed. Must be awesome being a boomer.

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chroniccomplexcase@reddit

My dad retired 6 times- he joked how amazing it was to laze in bed and 2 weeks later he was back at work!

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Stunning-Wave7305@reddit

Just the mere 25 years to go until I reach state retirement age. Been working FT for nearly that long already 😂

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notonetimes@reddit

UK retirement age or did you do well and get early retirement? Either way, well done and I am very jealous

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bluenosekev@reddit

Was 66 on the 19th Dec, which is UK retirement age, so I get a full state pension and my own private pension..not mega money, but more monthly than I got when working

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notonetimes@reddit

Congratulations! That is living the dream, for me.

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random_banana_bloke@reddit

Congratulations ... fuck you (its a saying in FIRE i mean it nicely!). amazing news for you though, the dream!

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M1dnightBlue@reddit

Yes! I was gonna say the Fuck you as well but I everyone was being so nice so I went against it haha

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One_Water_2323@reddit

I retired 6 years ago - let me just advise you, retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be - it’s SO much better than that. I wish you a long and happy new life.

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notonetimes@reddit

My parents were a happy couple when working. They were an ecstatic couple once retired.

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bluenosekev@reddit

Thanks

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devils-lettuce23@reddit

and you one for her

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CauliflowerHelpful60@reddit

Ha ha you lucky person.

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Embarrassed_Cap3131@reddit

You fucking had me there...a short panic until the last point.

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YouSayWotNow@reddit

One of my favourite colleagues also retired permanently on that exact same date!

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pegman55@reddit

Biggest flex I’ve seen in this sub. Enjoy retirement.

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Pen_dragons_pizza@reddit

I am glad for you but also dislike you. I’ll just carry on with my 30 more years of employment

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Overall_Prune_6920@reddit

Bold of you to assume our retirement age won't be changed in the coming years.

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bluenosekev@reddit

😅

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MarmiteX1@reddit

Enjoy!

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Glozboy@reddit

Congratulations!

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Jammastersam@reddit

Lucky bugger

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betterman74@reddit

Enjoy it all.

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Conor2704@reddit

You win. Congrats

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bluenosekev@reddit

Thank you

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Pyriel@reddit

Fairly easy couple of days getting back into it. A very short week. And avoiding the horrid Monday start many of my colleagues have got coming up shortly.

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secrethedgehog5@reddit

I went back today on the 3rd and it was nice and quiet lol

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OldFingerman@reddit

You guys are having time off for Christmas?

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

Today's the day I'm catching up on all that mandatory e-learning I've been putting off.

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MrPogoUK@reddit

The best/worst ones are the the “wellbeing” stuff that basically all means “We’re not going to stop treating you like shit, but you’ve been shown how to cope with that, so if you’re still miserable and stressed it’s your own fault”.

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h00dman@reddit

I "love" the ones about using correct posture while sitting down. I'm fairly tall but a lot of my excess height is in my torso, and the height adjusters for the monitors don't rise high enough for me to use them correctly "according to policy". The chairs also don't accommodate me properly as the arm rests don't rise up high enough for me, and if they did then the desks wouldn't be high enough for me either as they wouldn't be level with the arm rests. Whenever I choose "No" in those questionnaires when I'm asked "are you able to work comfortably in the office?" I just get directed to a screen telling me that I need to readjust the chair (which I've already done), and in some instances an email is sent to HR which leads to someone messaging me on Slack asking to do an in person assessment. The other issue is all the desks in the office are hot desks so I don't have the option to request special equipment, as it will inevitably be constantly used by someone else.

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MrPogoUK@reddit

Same. I’ve got a relatively long body, so the recommended positioning just isn’t possible, although I’m happy to continue slouching in a manner I’m sure jlll ultimately come to regret for now!

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

My old work had a "MH First Aider" and I had a big MH breakdown, where I went AWOL for a few days. I spoke to them, to make sure I didn't lose my job, and pretty much all it was, was giving me a list of charities that do MH stuff.

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Ukplugs4eva@reddit

Waves hands as got various MH qualifications..more then any wellbeing work enforced course or anyone in HR... Anyone who is going through a MH crisis, recieving therapy or some from of other therapy etc. Should NOT do work based wellbeing training You run the risk of being triggered and being set back in your therapy . HR cannot ask if your in receipt of therapy/counselling. So feel free to refuse all that wellbeing training . But be aware you can get in to trouble for refusing training if it's in your contract Its place is a tick box exercise. And yeah some people have learnt stuff . But pay and treat your staff right and the resilience will grow .

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

I'm convinced 99% of wellbeing issues can be tackled by paying people more, making them work less hours / stop overloading them with work, and by being seen to actually tackle bullying or 8ther nasty behaviour from seniors.

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MrPogoUK@reddit

Yep. I’ve never been able to take it seriously because I’d never heard of corporate wellbeing until I saw a comic strip (probably Dilbert) that went: Boss: we take your wellbeing very seriously. How can we improve it? Various employees: More money! More staff! More leave! Boss: Um, the budget is $5 per person. We thought maybe plants for the office? Then a few weeks later our place announced a big wellbeing program, beginning with giving us £40 to buy plants for the office.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Oh God. I've got so many of these I've been snoozing for weeks. I know the 2 hour GDPR one with all the trick questions is on my list 🤦🏼‍♀️ don't think I can face that today!

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ScriptingInJava@reddit

Had to complete all of mine before December 31st, guess who got a reminder 3 hours before he finished for Christmas on Dec 20th? Turns out you can't skip the training you've done before (every year...), need to watch the same videos and those bastard quizes in the GDPR one were also a nightmare.

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The_edref@reddit

I had to do mine before the end of the year, but finished work on the 18th and just couldn't be fucked staying late on my last day, so decided I'd log in for an hour or two at some point. Guess who ended up having to do work at 3pm on NYE when I was meant to be on holiday.

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VardaElentari86@reddit

Work seem to have cottoned on to this and there's a lot less 'skip to the test' type training now. They also figured out we'd just do other stuff while it was playing so now it auto pauses if you click away. But only on that same screen, so yay two monitors/screens!

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ScriptingInJava@reddit

same for us, only kind of relief we get is playing the video at 2x speed. Helps in some of the training but most of it has little interactive bits every 10 seconds - just long enough that its not engaging but not long enough that you can shift your focus elsewhere

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fost1692@reddit

I had to do these so many times before I retired that I'd answered just about every question in the bank. Took a note of all the answers so the last several years was just to get to the quiz as quickly as possible and check off all the trick questions from my answer bank.

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Tattycakes@reddit

One of our learning things had some ridiculous questions in it, the one about people asking you to hold open a secure door so they can tailgate you through it was hilarious, do you A: ask them to swipe their own badge to get in or B: comment on their laziness as you hold the door open Hmm tough one

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

I think we had the exact same test! And the fire safety one where one of the options is, on hearing the fire alarm I would remain in the building to use the toilet, make a cup of tea and slowly collect my belongings. We all know what the right answer is, it's quite insulting really.

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

I worked for a CyberSec company that had a whole fucking shitty acted movie about super-duper hackers. And how to combat them, was like 3 hours of 20 minute unskippable scenes. Was fucking bonkers.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

We had one about inclusively which was 'two to three hours' and also had the terrible acting. It had been filmed in our own offices in a very unprofessional way, no idea who the 'actors' were but presumably we paid a shed load of money for their services.

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Dualyeti@reddit

E-learning, I like how it’s the same at every company. All this corporate garbage we made for ourselves. Makes me want to join a small family business or start my own.

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GarrySpacepope@reddit

I work for a small family business. You bet we've got to watch exactly the same e learning shit. The fines for us not being gdpr compliant are the same as for the big boys.

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

It's all about compliance, you have the likes of Deloitte audit you and they say "You need to train your staff on GDPR". So they buy an off-the-shelf training product. Which is the same one most companies buy

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teerbigear@reddit

And they're right to say it, because when it all goes wrong the big company defends itself by saying "we made them so training but they still fucked it up, what can we do 🤷🏻‍♂️"

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HarryPopperSC@reddit

I work for a small biz and we have to do so much red tape bs just to sell to a large company we would rather not do it lol. It's craaaazy.

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teerbigear@reddit

Work at big company. Make you do all that shit. At big companies where they don't it's a _catastrophe_ .

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ComfortableAd8326@reddit

I've had to do e-learning at small family businesses too. All sorts of insurance cover is invalidated without a training record. e-learning is one of the more foolproof methods of making sure you have one.

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TangerineFew6830@reddit

Ah man, I took a day to do it, and did not actually do it, just took the day off. Now its been flagged, home office e learning material is some of the most depressing shit, happy new year, here is a 4 hour slideshow on honour based murders and terrorism

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Fjordi_Cruyff@reddit

Oh man you've just given me something to smile about. Been at my new job working for a small business for six months now and I've just realised that we don't need to do that nonsense here. Feels almost as good as retirement 😁

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sc00022@reddit

That’s what I did when I was winding down for Christmas haha

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ichirin-no-hana@reddit

Man I hate those training videos 😭😭 they just give the same stuff to all staff, tell me why I had to watch a video on how to secure a roof safely as a teacher just because the site team needed that training 😭😭

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mikeyyyy_@reddit

I mainly WFH and have had to do a fire safety one. Interesting stuff, definitley didn't skip over it

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

In lock down I had a letter signed by the Home Sec to say that I was permitted to travel and was considered "Essential Worker", a whole 3 people in the business were allowed into the building. I had to do a First Aid and Fire Safety course (which couldn't be done just booked in) just so we could check a box.

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Metrobolist3@reddit

Yeah, tell me about it. I get training in dealing with needlestick injuries and patient fire evacuation procedures on hospital sites. Good stuff to know if you're a nurse but I work for IT based in an office building nowhere near patients or hospitals, and I'm never on-site in my role. One size fits all.

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

IT Subcontracting I get a lot of that. If I move into working at say a bank, I have to go through hours of compliance training. As if I'm going to be taking bribes from teh Russian Government to launder funds through their AWS platform.

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gooner712004@reddit

I actually learn more from these types of videos than I ever did doing GDPR ones or finance ones

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mobilecheese@reddit

Same. Working on fire awareness right now.

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

I had to get my colleagues to help me on one, it was a 10 question quiz each question having multiple answers. And I would get 8/9 out of 10 every time. But they'd jumble the questions so I just never seemed to get a pass

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i_like_the_wine@reddit

Part of my job is to make the e-learning. Trust me, it's even worse when you spend a month in there.

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tubaleiter@reddit

I especially like it when I'm assigned the training that I wrote. Not sure I'm going to soak up anything new that I didn't already learn in the hours and hours of discussions that went into it!

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Leicsbob@reddit

That's tomorrow's job. I can't face it today

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daxamiteuk@reddit

I had several auto emails warning me the deadline is today so I need to do mine today 🙄

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Leicsbob@reddit

Fuck. I need to check my emails 😞

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ChipCob1@reddit

I'm saving my data protection training for a nice afternoon treat!

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dxbek435@reddit

Delayed gratification FTW

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PopperDilly@reddit

Im not, it's my birthday! (Cons; everybody is either working or has no money)

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Due_Figure6451@reddit

Shout out to the 2 January birthday crew 🤜 Worst day of the year for a birthday.

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xxktlou02xx@reddit

Also my birthday, and can also confirm it is 100% the worst date for a birthday.

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PopperDilly@reddit

I get asked every year if I wouldn't mind celebrating on a different day! Thanks Dad

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Amata69@reddit

Mine is on the 4th and my grandma once asked me if she could come over and congratulate me on 31st of December. I haven't forgotten it till this day. It already feels like this day kind of isn't that special as it's after all the other big holidays.

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Could you not have chosen a more convenient day to be born or what?

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

I actually asked if I could move mine to the summer as a late December kid. ("No.")

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Due_Figure6451@reddit

Mum may have had something to do with it as well!

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

I would argue that anytime within a week of Christmas/New Year is equally crap. (Mine is after Christmas, but before New Year).

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rd3160@reddit

Mine is the 3rd and I have the same issue. Nobody wants to do anything

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Organic-Hippo-3273@reddit

Happy birthday 🥳

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Automatic_Isopod_274@reddit

It’s mine and my partners birthday in the next week, we usually get to celebrate with…nothing. Happy birthday!

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PoliticsNerd76@reddit

Not very. Our place works us hard in early December specifically so we can have a very chill post-Xmas return

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

Im going back on Monday and genuinely dread it. I always feel so much better when im not at work. I genuinely woke up with a heavy feeling in my chest thinking of work on Monday. I will have a lot of work because they do fuck all when I’m off, it’s more the small things but they add up and I keep on top of it so there’s more time for big things (not like anyone appreciates it). Genuinely dread it all so much 😩

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boringdystopianslave@reddit

I feel the same. I'll be job hunting this January.

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Delicious_Bet_8546@reddit

I'm sorry work makes you feel thay way. Maybe it's time to look for another job? I was in a similar position a few years ago after 10+ years at the same company. I left and have never been happier.

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

I would love to if the market wasn’t so bad and if I had sufficient savings

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LordEmostache@reddit

People always underplay just how hard it is to find a job these days. I absolutely despise my work to the point I've even attempted to cause harm to myself just to get time off. "Find a new job" is all well and good but I've had no luck in moving from here in the 5 years I've been trying.

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SpecialUnitt@reddit

I’ve hated my job for a year or so and in that time have been looking for a new job. It’s brutal

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LordEmostache@reddit

It's awful man, I had what I now realise was a form of a mental breakdown a couple years back. I took out a £10k loan and spent it all in a day on Lego. I'll be paying it back for the next 30 years or so, but at least I can look at my sick UCS Millenium Falcon in between crying fits.

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Purple_ash8@reddit

I’m sorry to hear that.

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SpecialUnitt@reddit

I’m sorry to hear that. In December we had to have a real look at our finances. We’re 8k in debt, mostly because I was out of work or ill with my mental health. (No sick pay). I’ve had 2 weeks off and I’m not back until the 6th. I’ve literally never been happier

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LordEmostache@reddit

I hope things improve for you, I truly do. We need a total reform of how SSP works imo, it's absolutely shambolic how little SSP is.

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CandyKoRn85@reddit

The rate was enough to survive at one point, but definitely not now - you can barely afford food on it and it definitely won’t cover rent and bills.

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

Yeah people suggest finding a new job as if it’s not something people would think about constantly if they dislike their jobs. I’m always looking and applying for new jobs. But I don’t have the right savings or support to take any form of risk rn

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ALA02@reddit

People who say “find a new job” like its that easy are all boomers with 30+ years of experience, for whom the job market was a piece of piss back in the day. It may be easy for you, for the average millennial/gen z, even the most entry level or unskilled job takes fucking ages to get and you have to jump through 800 hoops, do 17 interviews and 47 assessments only to be told “unfortunately you weren’t successful”

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Curiousferrets@reddit

Even worse for gen X who seemed to have dropped out of the loop.

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ALA02@reddit

Gen X are lumped in with the boomers here, my dad is a Gen X and was immediately headhunted by a major firm in his industry upon graduating from a poly with no experience, no internships etc. Meanwhile most Gen Zs from RG universities with stacked CVs can’t even get an offer from 100 job applications for “entry level” roles

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Curiousferrets@reddit

Honestly, I'm 1974. Your Dad sounds like he did really well. In the Midlands UK from a working class background that would not be most people's experience. I totally agree that the jobs market is very difficult at the minute though! As a working class Gen X who wanted to go to Uni the reality was lots of student loans and parents who couldn't help. So similar to now in a lot of ways.

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Curiousferrets@reddit

I think we need to remember that if you're older like me and starting afresh, you're screwed.

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Delicious_Bet_8546@reddit

I'm an average millennial not a boomer... I appreciate that maybe I'm fortunate in the sector or role I work in. I know I pointed out the obvious, but I was just speaking from experience and sometimes people do get Stockholm syndrome from jobs and think you're meant to absolutely hate working.

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LordEmostache@reddit

Most of them probably still advise you to go knocking on the front door of all the businesses in town with a print out of your CV. Honestly it seems nowadays the only way to get into a field is to have trained for that job specifically since school, it seems next to impossible to totally change career paths these days, I wish I could go back and slap some sense into my younger self and gone for literally any job other than the one I've been stuck in for the last 8-odd years.

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CandyKoRn85@reddit

What’s your job?

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LordEmostache@reddit

I'm a call centre wanker

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tedstery@reddit

Yep, the job market for most sectors is horrid—best of luck to anyone trying to job-hop this year.

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m00shie1990@reddit

You should maybe look for a new job. I’ve had that feeling before and it’s cause I hated my work. There’s no point working somewhere that makes you miserable. Look for somewhere else while you’re still working at your job.

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

Like I said previously, the job market is tough, and my savings are not sufficient to take risks. I have tried to apply for jobs and only received 'we have moved on with another person'. People who hate their jobs know they can and should look for a new job. It's not as simple as that.

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m00shie1990@reddit

I know - that’s why I edited my comment to acknowledge this

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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

It just doesn't help to suggest something pretty obvious but out of reach, currently, for many people

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m00shie1990@reddit

It’s not too out there to suggest searching for a role - you don’t need to bite my head off, I’ve been in your situation before and I get it. Jeez. Good luck anyway, I won’t bother trying to help in future

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Euphoric-Feedback-66@reddit

I don't have any advice, but I feel exactly the same 😭😭😭

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HannaaaLucie@reddit

I just booked a 5 star holiday to Thailand for April 2026 and need to pay monthly installments for the next year.. so I guess I'm working extremely hard for the next 365 days or so.

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PandyAtterson@reddit

Not at all because I am chilling in a small town in Maryland USA. I booked today and tomorrow off because why tf do I have to come to work for two days? I came to USA on the 26th and I'll be home Sunday.

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annedroiid@reddit

Not going back till the 13th 😀

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beegesound@reddit

Don’t know why they don’t just make it the following Monday like they do in Australia

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beegesound@reddit

Don’t know why they just make it the 2nd Monday of January, like they do in Australia

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Where is everyone working that they have the option of working less hard when they want to?! I'm WFH but have a manager who monitors my Teams status 😬 and I'm covering for several colleagues who have taken today off. May take a break about 11am for my Baileys and mince pie! Roll on 5pm.

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Interesting_Try8375@reddit

Got an excuse for the teams status, I say I am testing something in a VM on my personal machine. Our processes are so shit but no one listens to me so I stopped trying and thus into the VM the problems go.

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Tattycakes@reddit

Really grinds my gears to see people complaining about not having any work to do. My work is never ending and we are up against the grindstone every month and still missing our deadlines, and every month that we fall behind and spend extra days mopping up work, we are eating into the following months hours so we get even more behind, we keep being told how valued and important we are but they also can’t afford to hire more people, I’ve been feeling burned out for months and going on holiday doesn’t help because there’s so much there when you get back. I’d give anything to have time where I run out of actual work and get to make my own fun reading and learning.

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RepresentativeLime3@reddit

I feel this, takes some of the shine away from taking time off when you know you'll be coming back to an even bigger avalanche of work than normal and have to push yourself even harder 🫠

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Haunting_Design5818@reddit

Sorry to hear that, it's awful being micromanaged like that. Also, Teams status is notoriously unreliable as an indicator of presence - I've lost count of the amount of times I've been actively working in another app and my status switches to 'away'.

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KayGlo@reddit

This, we use Teams for messages/files/team spaces but our calls are all still on Zoom in our company. Being on a Zoom call isn't recognised by teams as being at your desk and so after a minute or two it changes our status to Away 🤷🏻‍♀️ Means noone ever really questions your status though.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

It's so stupid because when I'm WFH I worry when my Teams goes to yellow for one minute (and yes it's usually when I am sitting at my desk in another app!) yet on my office days it will regularly go to yellow for ages just because someone's talking to me at my desk or I've gone to someone else's desk and no one bats an eyelid. So strange how our office culture has changed.

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mythofmeritocracy12@reddit

Buy a dongle from Amazon that wiggles your cursor every few seconds - god send!

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KezzaJones@reddit

Buy a mouse mover that plugs into the wall.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Did not know that was a thing!

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KezzaJones@reddit

They’re great although use with caution if you’re having a nap. There is a chance someone calls you out of the blue and you need to pretend you haven’t just woken up!

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LinzSymphonyK425@reddit

Good grief does the manager not have anything better to do? That seems like a most inefficient use of manager time

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VardaElentari86@reddit

As a manager, id go nuts if I was just watching teams statuses all day

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

I'm not sure if she is monitoring ALL the time. But I've heard enough comments about 'so and so has been on yellow for ages what are they doing', or 'I tried to call you but noticed you'd been away FOR A WHILE' (questioning tone), to know we are being watched to some extent. I have a team too, and I check their status in the a.m to make sure they are around, then that is it- I can see the work is getting done so have no concern if they're taking a bathroom break or getting some fresh air.

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gooner712004@reddit

If the work is getting done, who gives a fucking shit. Unless you work in something like I do like software that is an indefinite amount of work to be done, then she should just leave them alone instead of alienating them and increasing the odds of your company turnover going up... When I literally just started working, I had a CTO who would monitor my FILES I was working on, not even my submitted fucking work, and come to my desk openly to comment on what I was doing or email me about it and how it was wrong.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Horrendous, my work is so much quicker and better quality if I'm just left alone to get on with it!

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Funny_Professor3578@reddit

I had a colleague who spent her whole working day talking about football, we were allowed to work hybrid but she insisted on being in the office, then if her manager appeared offline on his wfh day she'd comment on it and start calling people on teams to ask if they knew why. I looked at her stats and she had done literally nothing towards the job queue. She just did the weekly reports that could've been automated and nothing else. Her whole existence in the office and in the job was unnecessary, but God forbid you were ever away from your desk or offline.

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scorzon@reddit

Can you stop bothering me with these Reddit posts, I'm WFH today and these cups of tea won't drink themselves. Now then, I'm sure there's a comfier spot on this desk to rest my feet on. Sorry what was the question?

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Interesting_Try8375@reddit

I hope your work doesn't get in the way of finding that comfier spot

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i_like_the_wine@reddit

Is that...me?!

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scorzon@reddit

Yes it is, hi you.

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LadyNajaGirl@reddit

I’ve worked all over the Christmas holidays - it’s just another day.

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Seraphinx@reddit

It's a bank hol in Scotland so I worked a 12 hour shift at time+88% It snowed today so some people didn't show and things were a bit chaotic. Holding the fort was good enough.

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Pengtingcalledme@reddit

I worked harder this year than I did last year

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Limp_Introduction_22@reddit

Bored, no business as most people are off 2nd & 3rd and returning on 6th

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Talking_Nowt@reddit

Today is one of my busiest days of the year. Finance people dealing with year end or month end will know what I mean.

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buginarugsnug@reddit

I'm so glad its not our year end - month end is hard enough today.

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hauntingruby1975@reddit

I used to work in a finance department that had a December year end. I worked so many NYE’s to make sure everything was closed and sorted for reporting. I eventually left and they changed it to a March year end

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ShutUpBaby-IKnowIt69@reddit

My month end has been bliss so far, everybody's off til the 6th and they've extended the deadlines by a day, I've had today and got tomorrow to get ahead of all my journals while nobodies in the hound with me questions which means I'll have a much more relaxed week next week!

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Indoril_Nereguar@reddit

December is always the busiest month in hospitality and retail. January is the much needed break month.

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JC3896@reddit

Same. Work in IT for a company that shuts down over Christmas so first day back is always a manic rush of lassoed resets, printers not working, etc. today and some time around summer tend to be the busiest it gets for me.

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Johnny_Gorilla@reddit

ah year end - when the "plan" reads WD1, WD2, NWD1,NWD2 - panic!

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Conscious_Cat_6204@reddit

I’m waiting for reports etc from people before I can start my month end stuff. Until then, I’m just wasting time as I can’t remember where I left off in December.

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Zaruz@reddit

I used to work in finance. Glad I don't have to deal with that any more!

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Automatic_Isopod_274@reddit

Oh crap you’ve just reminded me I need to do my credit card before finance come for me at midday.

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revolut1onname@reddit

Yep, company I support's finance package has swapped to 2026 and the swap back is failing.

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keeponyrmeanside@reddit

I used to work for a retailer that did really well at Chrtistmas, essentially made all their profit in Oct-Nov, and doing month end in January was absolute hell. Wasn’t worth taking any time off between Christmas and NY because it would be so awful you’d need to get ahead of things. Thankfully out of retail now into an industry that doesn’t have a Christmas peak (and doesn’t have any stock to account for!)

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Yep...1st of the month stress, plus trying to remember to use 2025 not 2024 on everything 😬

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FewElephant9604@reddit

I’m working A LOT today, but only to prep a lot of work done ahead of time, and then slowly release it throughout the month. This week is the best time to do it

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glitterstateofmind@reddit

Most people at my place seem to be off until Monday; I received two emails and three messages on Teams all day. Pointless wasting precious annual leave at this time of year!

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James_Bayley@reddit

I don't even have a job to go to or even how to work 9-5 and im 34 and sheltered with retired well off parents

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thisnextchapter@reddit

You live on pocket money from them?

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gymgirl1999-@reddit

Omg it’s only the 2nd of Jan 😑

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AutomaticInitiative@reddit

I was back in 27th December after 2 weeks off mostly ill still slightly ill then and I am now pretty much over it. I'm the only one who does my job so all my work paused but the work requests didn't, so I've been busting my ass ever since.

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withoutbroom@reddit

Not much, but it helps that most of the company is not working either.

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WT-RikerSpaceHipster@reddit

Out of the 46 stakeholders I deal with 8 were online Take guess.... Dog got a wash though

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major_tomm@reddit

I logged in today just to book another week of holiday next week.

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Chemical_Big_5118@reddit

I'm here. There's your answer.

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throwtheway52@reddit

I didn’t do any work. No one is in until Monday. bliss!

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puzzlecrossing@reddit

I ended up booking it off this week because my twat of an ex husband was so awful to the kids that they refused to go to his! So I’m still in my PJs now. I’ll probably have a quick shower and some clean pjs before bed… probably

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Zerly@reddit

Not at all, I’m in Scotland

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asttocatbunny@reddit

254 emails replied to

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Deekdmc@reddit

Im not due back to work till the 7th and have been off since the 17th of december its been brilliant

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PropertyNo593@reddit

I called in sick

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Sharp-kun@reddit

Office shut till the 6th because what's the point of opening this week.

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gaspoweredcat@reddit

its normally quite quiet for me first week but this year now my responsibilities have changed. im thrashing away on the beginnings of a new project so ive been running at full pace from day one, all wile also managing to handle the many phonecalls and emails etc involved in buying a house

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f8rter@reddit

January is one giant Monday

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affordable_firepower@reddit

Nope. January is 67 Mondays

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PrognosticateProfit@reddit

67 Mondays following a 1 day weekend.

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OldBathBomb@reddit

I have a broken ankle.. January is one giant Saturday! I really wouldn't mind being back at work, if it meant I could walk 🙃

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PrognosticateProfit@reddit

I drive wagons for a builders merchant. Given that 95% of the customers are self employed and enjoying the fruits of a very busy 2024, they aren't starting work until next week at the earliest. I spent 8 of the 9.5 hours I worked today stood with a coffee in the warehouse doing the square root of F all.

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Deanosaur12@reddit

Van didn’t start. Managed to get a jump start then did 3 small plumbing jobs and called it a day.

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daz1987@reddit

Currently sat at work trying not to fall asleep. Only a couple of hours left.

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Namerakable@reddit

I worked as hard as I did on 27th December, which means I was doing the work of 4 people while everyone else ate chocolates and did nothing.

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S4h1l_4l1@reddit

What I want to know is why some people work during their unpaid lunches? People where I work either work part of it or some even work ALL of it. You aren’t getting paid any extra you might as well chill for a bit.

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IcyPuffin@reddit

Any time I've worked on the 2nd January I worked just as hard as I did any other day of the year. Same applied when I worked new years eve/day or even Christmas day.

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jlelvidge@reddit

When you ask these questions, spare a thought for us that are not off. Not everyone is an office or factory worker. I have worked every day for two weeks in a hotel at 8 hours everyday. Police, NHS, hospitality, retail have to carry on. I am always so insulted by these narrow minded people who think its weekdays working and off at the weekends. How about, ‘you guys that worked all Christmas, when are you finally due any time off and how have the general public treated you during this period?

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Admirable_Holiday653@reddit

Relatively hard work today.

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DOPEYDORA_85@reddit

Speak for yourself I have another week

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HardAtWorkISwear@reddit

No comment.

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itsheadfelloff@reddit

It's like everybody's trying to make a point today. A lot of people very vocally highlighting others' errors and then getting the same in retaliation. It's not even busy!

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ThatChap@reddit

My heart's not in it any more. Same shit, different day.

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yecalP@reddit

Just like every other day, about 20% effort

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t-t-today@reddit

Not doing any actual work until Monday so chilling the rest of the week. All my team doing the same

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boosie-boo@reddit

I’ve done what I needed to do for this morning and what I should have done on the last day but didn’t because I knew my boss was logging on and checking for that specific job today. Since then I’ve had a bath, had chippy dinner, sat under a weighted blanket with a packet of peanuts and updated one cell of a spreadsheet every time Teams goes yellow. I had a call booked in but asked them if they wanted to put it back to next week and they agreed so just counting down the minutes till it’s a reasonable time to close the laptop.

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AdAggravating6730@reddit

I've answered a whole 1 email.

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pinksparklebird@reddit

I'm working from home, but to be honest waking up was such an effort this morning, most of the first part of the day was spent drinking lots of coffee and not much else. It's quite.generally - my team are chit chatting via Teams about Fantasy Premier League and sharing stories of their shittest Christmas presents. It will go mental next Monday though when everyone's back, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts tbh.

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Lottes_mom@reddit

No work today in Scotland. It's a national holiday here as we party harder at Hogmanay.

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NorthernSoul1977@reddit

Yep. But my shitty local authority that sends me wingless emails about mental health is making us go in tomorrow. I mean, would it have hurt to just say 'fuck it' and give us Friday off? That would have meant no work till Monday. Instead I'm sitting here feeling anxiety about going in tomorrow. Amittedly it's mostly self-inflicted as yesterday was White Russian Wednesday, but that's by the by.

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girlsparked@reddit

white russian wednesday sounds excellent

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Lottes_mom@reddit

I should be back tomorrow, but i took annual leave to take me through to Monday. Sometimes it's easier to start on a Friday because you only have to do 1 day before you get some more days off.

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NorthernSoul1977@reddit

That's what I'm telling myself. I doubt much will be achieved!

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catsaregreat78@reddit

It’s Thursday today? I’ve lost track of it all.

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VardaElentari86@reddit

Unless you work for a company that follows english bank hols :(

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Lottes_mom@reddit

:'(

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m00shie1990@reddit

Yeah I’m not working today either aha

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shadowpawn@reddit

Fried Mars bars for you!

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Buddie_15775@reddit

Except every company I’ve worked for has not recognised this as a bank holiday. The worst day to travel into work.

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Tinuviel52@reddit

I work for an English bank, I am unfortunately at work today

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Lottes_mom@reddit

😣

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Willy_the_jetsetter@reddit

A good proportion still working on the 2nd, company I work for just aligns with the rest of the UK.

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LionLucy@reddit

Same, I'm working. Don't mind tbh, I just want to get on with it

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square--one@reddit

I don’t start back at school until the 6th but yesterday I did 3 weeks worth of planning, set homework for the first week back and marked a set of year 9 books. Now just got 4 sets of exams and 5 sets of books to mark and then all I need to do on Monday is printing resources…

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FuzzyPalpitation-16@reddit

90% of my team are only back on 6th, including me 😁😁😁

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Aeysir69@reddit

Tea, two meetings, e-learning, backlog of emails, tea, clear the dog shit from the back garden, tea, sort out the spare room, half hour on zwift, shower, tea, Clash of the Titans (2010) on Netflix, tea, boil kettle for wife getting home, tea, Tea. So… Tea?

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random_banana_bloke@reddit

just checked slack, most the company is still off until the 6th Jan. I work from home. Read from that what you will

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El_Spanberger@reddit

Same here. Only person in my team in until Monday, and I'm only in today (4 day week). I've posted the obligatory signs of life in Slack and replied to some emails, making sure I copy everyone who could possibly care in. Left the laptop open and about to load up Civ 6 on my main PC. Tough life.

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Obvious_Flamingo3@reddit

We don’t have slack - don’t you have to move your mouse so you won’t be caught out on Teams etc?

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random_banana_bloke@reddit

Don't use it. I am a developer all the company cares about is my stuff done. Which it is.

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Indoril_Nereguar@reddit

Honestly makes me want to cry when I see how easy some people have it.

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El_Spanberger@reddit

If it makes you feel any better, I ground my ass off for two decades. I took big risks, got discriminated against for my neurodiversity, burned out numerous times, ended up in a resus unit of A&E as a result of all the stress I endured. I powered through and kept moving forward though. I reinvented my approach to work, embraced AI, and despite all the setbacks, my work was appreciated enough for me to land a director job in tech. Of course as soon as I managed that, my home life fell apart. My ex-fiance kicked me out just before xmas and I'm having to rebuild my whole life with no cash or assets behind me except the job. Lost her, her boy (my step-ish-son), all the money I put into her house, everything - and all because she's got bipolar and its my turn to be blamed for everything wrong in her life. I saw no one the past two weeks, too physically, emotionally, and mentally drained to do anything other than order deliveroo and hang out with my cat. I'm now in the process of quitting booze and shit food to start recovering from a period of deep turmoil that's been going on since pre-covid. Long story short, don't beat yourself up because you've seen a slither of someone's life on social media. We're all suffering in some way, my man.

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Indoril_Nereguar@reddit

Thanks dude. Life's really good for me, but my partner and I are pretty poor and want to have a kid soon. It's hard to find a way out of hospitality and hard to find the motivation to get a degree in something I'm not interested in just to get into a pretty well paying job in 5-6 years.

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El_Spanberger@reddit

Urgh - hospitality is the worst. Hate dealing with general public, lol. I was kinda lucky in that I knew I wanted to write from an early age and became interested in some areas that ended up being lucrative, namely tech and finance. Do you have any idea of the sort of things that might interest you?

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Indoril_Nereguar@reddit

Problem is I have AuDHD, so my passion changes every other week. One week something can be all I think about, then the next I just don't care about it at all.

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random_banana_bloke@reddit

Haha nice! Used this morning for some productive around my tech stack, might be a path of exile 2 afternoon though

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El_Spanberger@reddit

Yeah, I've done some mild prep work and such - got some big projects kicking off as soon as we're back back. Brain is still largely comatose though so that's about all I can do for now. POE2 sounds like an excellent way to channel the productivity.

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subhumanrobot42@reddit

My boss said I could leave early

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Gauntlets28@reddit

I've got a lot to do - but I'm pacing myself.

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DeinOnkelFred@reddit

I flat out refuse to go back to work until after Epiphany.

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DispensingMachine403@reddit

Booked 2nd and 3rd off as I worked the days in-between Christmas and new year. Decided to come to meadowhall... dittos have worked instead

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Flosstopher@reddit

I’m on annual leave but still have uni work to do. I’m 3/4 assignments done and this last one I just can’t get my head in the game for and it’s due Monday 🙄

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Soppydogg@reddit

At 0430 this morning I was freezing my balls off standing at my local station catching a train to Gatwick Airport. 2 hrs later I am going through security ready for another day of making sure your flight is prepped & ready to go still freezing cold. It’s only a 12 hour shift so it might get above freezing 🥶 It occurred to me that I might go the same way as Titus Oats “I am going outside, I may be some time”

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PleasantAd7961@reddit

Not over till I go back on the 6th

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OldManChino@reddit

the lights are on, but no one is home

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accidentalarchers@reddit

I’m gliding in slowly. At 9.30am I was asked what my project updates were and I pointed out that I don’t work while I’m on holiday, just like I wouldn’t give back part of my salary. Went down about as well as you can imagine, but I stand behind it.

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Accurate-Swordfish97@reddit

Not very considering I'm 20 weeks pregnant and was made redundant this morning 😔

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Sea-Metal-4082@reddit

Got a client booked tomorrow (I'm a PT).

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crazygrog89@reddit

I’m not, I always take 2 weeks off between Christmas and New Year so I’m back to work on the 6th

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Staceface312@reddit

I'm off today and tomorrow, back to work on 6th. My tech lead is on paternity leave then, so I'll have to cover for him until end of January when he's back, so doing my job and his! Dreading it... wish me luck

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Mundane_Revolution46@reddit

I'll be trying to sort out my email inbox for most of the day, and then come up with a task list for the rest of the month.

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Evo_ukcar@reddit

I broke up on 16th December and didn't go back in until the 9th January. Shift work has some perks sometimes.

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GeordieJumper@reddit

Lucky for you. Our plant runs 365 days a year, no Christmas shutdown. I was in last night and back in tonight.

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cavesnoot@reddit

making a half day job last the whole day. by order of the manager lol

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james_changas@reddit

Public Holiday in Scotland so I'm sitting about in my pants catching up on The World's Strongest Man, might shovel snow later for the missus coming home, no rest for some industries. Was in on the 27th of Dec though, fuck all got done that day by anyone in.

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jamesbeil@reddit

NHS has started referring patients so I'm calling them up to get them signed onto the programme, actual in-person work starts again tomorrow

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NoMoreDawdling@reddit

I should be but I'm.not. I've been ill with the worst cold and cough since the 22nd, so missed all my christmas break with it. Its not covid, unless I'm getting false negative tests, but I genuinely feel like death warmed up. Have to go back on Monday, hoping I can walk a bit without coughing my lungs up.

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alexanderbeswick@reddit

Alot of folk I know are going back on the 6th, Monday

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Spiklething@reddit

2nd of January is a bank holiday in Scotland

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sacharyna@reddit

On maternity, so working pretty hard tbh 💪

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Kaizer0711@reddit

First aid requalification full day today then half a day asbestos awareness and half day non-licenced requal tomorrow. Easy peasy!

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ThaiSweetChilli@reddit

Bank Holiday in Scotland and I'm working. BUT I get triple pay so can't complain. Helps pay for a wee bit of shopping.

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Apurvis90@reddit

postman here i worked pretty hard today felt great walking fast and getting heart rate up after all the crap food for the past few weeks.

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Weird1Intrepid@reddit

Eh, I got out of bed at about 11 and managed to cycle 0.1 miles to the café by 12ish. Just finished my coffee and I'm feeling tired.

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LateFlorey@reddit

I’m about to be induced to have a baby, so probably the second hardest working day of my life!

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Affectionate-Emu1374@reddit

I feel Monday is the real start to the week so I’m mouse wiggling and eating cheese a bit more

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HotRabbit999@reddit

Fucked - so fucked. Come in to waaaayyyy too much stuff to do. Feel bloated, tired and miserable as up early to get to work. Just all round bleurgh....

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Zee_has_cookies@reddit

Very quiet in the office today. Only 3 of us from my team of 7. I’m using it to do my month end reports from Dec, get some housekeeping finished and finally get some small ‘nice to have’ projects finished.

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ClarifyingMe@reddit

Holidays aren't over for me. I went for a walk.

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SuperCerealShoggoth@reddit

I've used my annual leave to give me an extended holiday. I'm doing fuck all.

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Old_Housing3989@reddit

I’m reading this Reddit thread sat in the kitchen wearing a onesie with a cat on my lap. Do I win at productivity?

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tracinggirl@reddit

Busy day for me honestly. Got a headache from all the coffees. Anyone working with deadlines/end of year wrapping up knows what I mean

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wdwhereicome2015@reddit

Quite hard. Sorting out loads of crap cabling in our network lab

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m00shie1990@reddit

Well I’m not back til tomorrow :D i live in Scotland and we get a holiday day on the 2nd :) but kinda glad to get back to a normal routine

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shanedj@reddit

Planning on cleaning and re-organising my home office which has become a dumping ground since the 20th December. Starting back on the 6th.

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Yamosu@reddit

Not very 😂

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Shiffty-@reddit

I'm doing the bare minimum, just to make it look like im working. So far so good, Ive done a risk assessment and played fortnite for an hour 😁

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HerbTP@reddit

In New Zealand, the 2nd of January is a public holiday. I think we need to follow suit 😅

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username_not_clear@reddit

Bank Holiday in Scotland, I'm in bed eating pringles.

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VardaElentari86@reddit

Doing pesky mandatory training and personal development stuff since it's dead. In-between being annoyed that I'm Scottish, in Scotland, and forced to follow English bank holidays due to working for a UK bank.

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JustAnother_Brit@reddit

I was fired on the 31st of December so recovering from that shock

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aspacemanlikeme@reddit

At home quietly catching up and doing some general strategy bits (in a very relaxed way). Colleagues closest to me are still off, so no risk of meetings. The Christmas break was the longest time I’ve taken off in this job so far, and for the first time in my life, I wasn’t dreading going back to work.

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Northernnotposh@reddit

My 3rd day off this week, so I'm doing nothing but playing videogames. Back to retail tomorrow.

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Distinct-Quantity-46@reddit

Well yes why wouldn’t you? Working in healthcare it’s same shit different day

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HonkyBoo@reddit

Today I’m giving at most, 11%

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gem2107@reddit

I only had Xmas Eve and Xmas day off but managed to book 2nd-13th jan as annual leave so this morning I am drinking tea and reading Reddit 😆

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Rossco1874@reddit

Laughs in Scotland with our extra day bank holiday

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Ok-Train5382@reddit

I will do about half as much as usual today and tomorrow id imagine. Then when everyone’s back on Monday work will pick up

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Better_Concert1106@reddit

I could have gone back to the office today but I purposefully booked off until the 6th, gives me a couple of quiet days after all the festivities to vegetate, plus it’s my Birthday Friday. Going back a bit later in Jan really takes the edge off as it’s a thoroughly shit month!

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Yeah, going back on the 2nd seems a bit like jumping in a pool of freezing cold water.

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beefcake79@reddit

I’m nightshift tonight

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No-Structure-8125@reddit

We don't go back to work until Monday, so we are still in bed at the moment

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Zoobar86@reddit

Just logging in now...I imagine I can get away with saying "I'm catching up on stuff" for today and maybe do some actual work tomorrow 😂

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

I am still waiting for several other lazy cunts to get back to me about stuff they should have already done, so I've sent them emails to give myself plausible deniability.

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DrH1983@reddit

I'm not back in until Monday, but I reckon I can extend "catching up" for a few days.

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NL0606@reddit

I work in a nursery so it's as full on as ever we do have less kids though as siblings haven't gone back to school yet.

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PKblaze@reddit

Not working till Monday. By choice.

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dgm67@reddit

Retired in November, would have been returning to work today but didn’t get out if bed till 11.00am , don’t miss the traffic one bit , time to make another cuppa I think , happy days

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CurvePuzzleheaded361@reddit

Im lucky enough to not work but my husband is back to work today and was happy for some routine again and was excitedly telling me what he would be doing. Very cute!

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rocketscientology@reddit

I am physically present in the vicinity of my work laptop. Let’s leave it at that.

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potatan@reddit

I had to work all the non bank holidays over Christmas so today and tomorrow are my only two proper days off. I got hit with a cold yesterday lunchtime, and am now facing four days of coughing and sneezing. Thanks baby jesus.

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Bad_Combination@reddit

At the risk of tempting fate, it's a quiet day so far. I'm expecting all hell to break loose on Monday, though, so for now I'm just appreciating the peace and quiet!

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x99kjg@reddit

I'm off until the 6th still, so lounging around, eating and drinking, going for a walk through the countryside is still order of the day for now.

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BabyAlibi@reddit

Yes. Even worse than normal. January is our busiest time of the year. When I arrived at 11am there were 35 calls in queues which is very busy for us.

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Sltre101@reddit

I work a 4 day week… When I seen I’d be in one day I booked that off right away.

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unlocklink@reddit

I'm not, I go back to work on Monday. No work this week

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carbonvectorstore@reddit

Harder. Been at it since 7:00 and just stopped to grab a tea. I've got holiday problems to wrap up, technical staff returning from the holidays (many of them still hungover) to fold into ongoing projects, a technical strategy I built before Christmas to start rolling out, and wildcard work from other departments being thrown at mine that I need to analysis, value and then either fold in or reject. Also, we are going into depression month, so I'm front-loading some of the more exciting/experimental bits of work to keep my department's moral high, but that means being ready to justify them when other departments complain about me rejecting the low-value requests they have thrown at me, so I have to get that shit ironclad this afternoon. If I'm lucky, I might get this all done by 6 tonight, at which point I may allow myself the luxury of a small technical task to remind me of simpler times when I was just a software engineer. I love it.

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muffinel@reddit

Out of 22 staff members, there's only me, a driver and my manager in (who is in a different office to me). I'm dealing with customers as they come (very few) whilst watching my ipad (The Bodyguard is my film of choice currently), browsing reddit and drinking coffee. Same tomorrow before everyone comes back and its business as usual next week. So no, i'm not working very hard at all!!

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davidoggloader@reddit

Off until I can be arsed to go back or I get bored around mid jan. I fucking love working for myself!

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gooner712004@reddit

What do you do for a living?

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davidoggloader@reddit

Decorator. Worked like a donkey all last year so I'm having a relaxed start to this year!

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ANorthernMonkey@reddit

I’ve drank a lot of coffee so far.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

Christmas finishes on the 6th Jan.

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aredditusername69@reddit

I'm at 10% at a push i'd say

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MotionDaggerSit@reddit

I’m at work but I’m just checking emails and doing the bare minimum today. I will be working properly from Monday.

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MA14U@reddit

I felt like a teenager again and slept through my alarm. Whoops.

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babaG2022@reddit

Back on the 6th! Guess I'm playing Slay the Spire and watching Squid Game till then 🤣

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Specific_Ant580@reddit

Not working, today is my birthday.

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Antergaton@reddit

Back to the grind. Aka, some work mixed with looking on ebay for after Christmas bargains. Checking sales...

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Goobernauts_are_go@reddit

I'm sort of working. Not doing a lot as my head isn't in the game yet

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KatVanWall@reddit

Kids still off school so not working until they’re in bed!

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staminaplusone@reddit

If that's you in disguise bossman 100%!

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bacon_cake@reddit

Woke up, checked the orders and we've had a seriously busy few days. Checked the schedule and we're a person down today but I was sure it would be fine. Got my son in the car to go to nursery, thought "Hmm, that's odd, there's a blob on the windscreen that won't go". Got to nursery, handed over my son, couldn't see half of his face. Half blind. That's my 30 minute migraine alarm. Spent two hours wanting to commit suicide thanks to the pain. And now I'm right as rain eating leftover pizza.

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Due-Tonight-611@reddit

My boss messaged us all at 10PM last night, seeing who was coming in because he "didn't want to be alone in the office". Fuck off!

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PinkyPeach1_2@reddit

I’m just taking things slowly. I have a bit of work to get on with but I think it’s so important to just slow down at this time of year. It all depends what job you’re in I suppose but it’s very easy to just burn out too soon.

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richyyoung@reddit

I’m Scottish so not at all as we are still off and it’s still a bank holiday.

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Awkward_Chain_7839@reddit

I’m at home. Taking down the decorations… I bloody hate doing it (I can’t wait to be done because I’m sick of them, but I wish I could just click my fingers).

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AdventurousTeach994@reddit

Holidays are NOT over in Scotland. 2nd January is an official holiday.

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BringBackFatMac@reddit

2nd of january is a public holiday in Scotland, and got tomorrow off too, so currently chilling ahead of my long weekend 😁

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redditisawokecesspit@reddit

Browsing reddit while high

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SomewhereFlaky2544@reddit

Working very hard but planning to finish early

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piratedataeng@reddit

Still December for me personally. January officially starts on Monday 6th.

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Nine_Eye_Ron@reddit

Still got a week off work so nothing yet.

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Downtown-Orchid-2257@reddit

Move to Scotland as most companies have today as a bank Holiday! I'm freelance now so have chosen to have today off However, I've always had the 2nd off throughout my employed life.

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sirfletchalot@reddit

I don't go back to work until Monday, and I'm starting a new job. Finished my old job on 20th December so had some quality time off over the festive period with family. I'm actually looking forward to starting, and getting back into some kind of routine. But for today, it'll just be me and my 10yo daughter, chilling at home. Maybe a movie and a couple of board games while we wait for mum to return home from work.

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E420CDI@reddit

I'm back on Monday so I have my feet up

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deerminitropolis@reddit

Severely fucking missing the feeling of “Idk what day it is” and going with the flow. First day back in work and my family are still on their Christmas holidays. Feeling sick looking at my computer screen. Have been browsing Indeed but every time I think about working instead of waking up without a care in the world of what I’m going to to today… I get anxious. I think what I need is to just be unemployed with income coming from some mysterious source. Oh, the dream.

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audigex@reddit

It's a normal day, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe slightly on the quiet side if I'm lucky, I get a few less emails (there are still some people who've taken Thursday/Friday off work and won't be in until next week) but there are also inevitably a couple of things that have gone wrong while I was off for the last week and a half, so it balances out as a pretty normal day Tomorrow will be similar, Monday back to normal

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Glozboy@reddit

I booked it off to preserve my sanity

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uaebetty@reddit

So far managed 3 emails and one small task on my to do list, I have limited enthusiasm to be working today 😂

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TheRosesAndGuns@reddit

I'm not working hard at all. I'm currently sat at the kitchen table in work, eating Ritz crackers and regretting getting out of bed this morning.

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DelectablyDull@reddit

I WFH and half of my company have booked today and tomorrow as annual leave, plus I can't actually DO anything on my projects because they're all dependant on colleagues or contractors who aren't back yet. Probably won't stop my micromanager whining, even though half of our small team are also off

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shadowpawn@reddit

Working?

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nfurnoh@reddit

I’m not, don’t go back until the 6th.

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melanie110@reddit

Today is catch up on my projects I left in the 18th. I had a quick scan through my emails last night and there’s nothing pressing or fallen over. The next 2 days will be gentle ease in nicely for the full week next week

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thedanofthehour@reddit

Ah, I miss POETS day.

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funkyg73@reddit

I hadn’t heard of that before, just had to google it.

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random_banana_bloke@reddit

Not heard that saying in a while haha

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melanie110@reddit

The only thing that’s keeping me going. Plus knowing that my boss is off for the next two days 😂

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Worried-Penalty8744@reddit

It’s amazing how many time sensitive and urgent emails I’ve had that need a response by the end of the week. Fuck that, if you can’t organise your own time to not send out last minute requests then you will get a leisurely response.

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MrBoggles123@reddit

Working my way through all the customer support emails from the last week. Most are nice and simple order update requests. Just a few being stroppy and kicking off because we've dared to give the staff some time off!

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Travels_Belly@reddit

As an international ninja assassin I rarely take days off. Yesterday I was battling the Fukiyakitashi clan. Today I am sitting on a roof watching my targets movements and planning out how I will take them out. I am happy it's not raining but this costume is very breezy.

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funkyg73@reddit

Today instead of working hard I’ll be working hardly ;) Many of our users will only be returning on Monday so it will be wiser for me anyway.

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Fontainebleau_@reddit

I work 24/7 365 days a year so it's just business as usual

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gsur72@reddit

So many people at my work are still off until Monday so I’m taking a relaxed start to the year.

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jr-91@reddit

4/15 of us are in the office today. The majority have booked these 2 days off but I figured it made more sense to save my leave and just come in for chilled days. Drinking coffee, my own music on in headphones, doing a few easy background tasks before tutorials later. Could be worse!

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aBlastFromTheArse@reddit

Quiet quitting is making a comeback. As someone who earns an average salary with zero future prospects and zero motivational reward. I do the absolute bare minimum I can get away with doing and it's absolutely great. I no longer leave work stressed.

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Imaginary_Crab_2994@reddit

Love my job but someone asked "This came through can you take a look this morning" I had fully intended to faff around for 2 days setting up calendars, organising notes etc. I will take a look and conclude I can't do anything until who ever is off until Monday comes back.

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skatemoose@reddit

Not very, mainly because there js not much to do as waiting on delivery, our 15mins break this morning has been extended to 30mins because of it. Not complaining, tomorrow will probably be the same.

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wandergirl92@reddit

I’m in Scotland so today is another bank holiday. Some light email catching up tomorrow but back to work properly on 6th

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chaipatti17@reddit

I have back to back meetings for some reason. Then have a friend on their way to my home from outside the country. I didn't want this chaos in my life right now but I need to deal with it. So in short I will be stressed and all the sleep I was not able to get yesterday due to being tensed.... Yay for me😭

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

My diary was pretty full of meetings, but the majority of them were regular ones of mine. I sure as shit am not going to be *that* person, so I’ve cancelled them all.

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Inevitable_Esme@reddit

Back to back meetings the day after a bank holiday? Ouch! Sympathies, that’s rough even without the friend chaos.

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Subject-Blueberry-55@reddit

Yep, this happens, especially when most of your colleagues are based outside the UK, like in APAC or AMER, where it's not a bank holiday today. And yes, it's back-to-back meetings for me, too. (Thank God, it is just remote!)

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Inevitable_Esme@reddit

It can happen, I’ve had it myself (same deal, I rarely work with folk in my own time zone) at other times of year when UK bank holidays don’t line up with other territories. This time of year seems to be different at my current place, though - it’s a more wholesale Winter break.

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DodgyDiagnosis@reddit

Back to work today and realised that none of the rest of my team are working until Monday. As my job depends on them completing pieces of work, I have no real work until Monday at the earliest.

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Jassida@reddit

Got more work to do than I can possibly do. It will go fast but it’s unsustainable

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Posh_Satan@reddit

It's my birthday, so I got given a day off work, but i have no plans so I might play a few games and read my book

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s_dalbiac@reddit

I generally find the first couple of days after Christmas are people gradually getting back up to speed. I'm expecting to be back to normal levels on Monday.

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anoamas321@reddit

well, I'm working at home, while I have my daughter at home. so of course I'm using this chance to have 1:1 time with my daughter and making cupcakes

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thatstoomuchsauce@reddit

I worked through the holidays and I'm actually off today, thankfully. I need to exchange some Christmas presents (wrong size) and go to the gym (I swear these two things aren't related aha - I've been working so much I haven't had a chance to go before Christmas), and then I'm meeting friends for dinner.

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polishprocessors@reddit

Doubt I'll do much of anything today/tomorrow, but most of my colleagues are still off until Monday, luckily...

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Jester7s@reddit

Holidays? What holidays? Worked everyday.

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GammaPhonic@reddit

Same as usual. Except I’m the only one in the lab today, so I’ve put a jazz playlist on. Currently working to Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge :)

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Kolo_ToureHH@reddit

No work for me today as it’s still the bank holiday for me up here in Scotland. I’m not even back to work tomorrow either hehe. Straight back into it on Monday though.

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I_always_rated_them@reddit

I was still awake at 4am this morning, i'm absolutely fucked. Non of our clients are around so hoping it stays quiet.

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winstonywoo@reddit

I'm a gardener, it's my quiet time, might go back to work next week, maybe the week after... Won't be too busy when I do anyway!

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SharpSuspect-89@reddit

I’m off until Monday due to school holidays but dreading it

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ThePolymath1993@reddit

I'm currently sat in our team meeting. There's 3 of us here out of a team of 8. Well 3.5 now I have a toddler sat on my knee. In short, I have half a dozen projects on the go for various parts of the business but only one outstanding task that has a person who's here this week and I can chase up about it. It seems most people took today and tomorrow off so they come back on the 6th

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wibble089@reddit

Off to the 7th, sight seeing with the kids in London today

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zjarekk@reddit

I worked 1st January:)

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MarvTheBandit@reddit

Two day hangover after three ciders and 2 glasses of Champagne. Feeling old, booked off tomorrow as holiday to mope and look into old man hobbies.

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Substantial_Age_1284@reddit

I’m going to be at 40% or roughly 3 hours of work

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need_a_poopoo@reddit

I have been online now for 1 hour and 10 minutes. The only thing I've done is check the HR portal to see what kind of pay rise I'm getting. It hasn't been updated yet. That's pretty much all I'll do today.

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Big-Parking9805@reddit

I'm unemployed, so my work involves finishing off what achievements I've missed off the latest Call of Duty.

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blainy-o@reddit

Been doing maintenance work that should've been done months ago (yay for the office lot that don't listen I guess). 3 hours in and I've broken the back of it, one more major thing to do then a lot of smaller bits once that's done. Roll on tomorrow afternoon though.

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Thestickleman@reddit

I don't go bakc to work until Monday a nice 2 weeks off that goes to fast. When I do go back to work I'm doing not alot first few days. Might do half day Monday

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InkedDoll1@reddit

It's been back to normal in the chemo unit since the 27th

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CowRaptorCatLady@reddit

I'm at work but have no work to do. We got up to date before we broke up for Xmas and waiting on stock so production can start. Mostly organising cleaning and browsing phone today.

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geezerebenezer@reddit

Ugly reality check that I actually need to work today and not just pretend to answer 5 emails all day

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PiperThePlanner@reddit

A little.

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CaptH3inzB3anz@reddit

I don't go back to work until 2nd Feb

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Certain-Trade8319@reddit

Easing back in - aggrieved that most people are off until the 6th.

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victory-or-death@reddit

We expected a load of January sales magazines but the mail has been so quiet it’s kinda worrying. Still loaded up with parcels though so I remain a busy postman

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YorkshireRiffer@reddit

I was saying to my other half that I've seen no hype or adverts around boxing day or new year sales.

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Beartato4772@reddit

That's because what was those sales now starts in mid-November and never stops.

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First-Banana-4278@reddit

Laughs in Scottish.

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Agitated-Tourist9845@reddit

I've been off since the 20th Dec, so I'm ploughing through emails and notifications like a demon. I should have everything covered off by lunchtime, then I'm going to relax.

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AKAGreyArea@reddit

I don’t go back until Monday. 😎

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Jorisfrombelgium@reddit

Well, I had a vasectomy on the 30th so I’m having a fairly chilled day of putting stickers on electrical items.

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Leather_Cake@reddit

I'm not back till Tuesday. It'll take me a few days to get back to normal working

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Tinuviel52@reddit

Im switching departments in 2 weeks so I am coasting until then

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mister_barfly75@reddit

All the work I need to do for the next week or so got done before the Christmas break so I'm currently trying hard to find ways to make it look like I'm not just twiddling my thumbs.

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manhattan4@reddit

I decided to postpone my return until next week. The construction industry won't really get moving until Monday and it's too cold here for concreting or bricklaying today so many of those who did plan to get cracking will end up holding off anyway, which means very few phonecalls or emails for me

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theholidayisover@reddit

Not working until 20th due to being on holiday in Thailand. I’m sure that day will be awful 😤

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Cirias@reddit

I'm going into month 2 of my 3 month notice before I start a new job so I'm chilling but still doing a professional job. I always find it's best to start as you mean to go on, so I allow myself a bit of Reddit in between working and catching up on some TV.

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

I was lucky enough to marry into money so paid employment hasn’t been a concern of mine for nearly 6 years. After I’ve helped on the yard I am intending to make some Stilton soup and bread though to try and get rid of some of the Christmas cheese.

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continentaldreams@reddit

Do you need a mistress?

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

Fine but you gotta lie and say you’re really interested in a 2 hour discussion about retro gaming systems … but you do get full access to the holiday villa in Greece to go over and scream into a pool …..

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Pegasus2022@reddit

I was suppose to be back today, but am at the hospital tomorrow so decided to have today off

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MisterD90x@reddit

Same as every other day of the year ... Not very

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Soggy_Literature_332@reddit

I don't go back till Monday so gonna run some eronds when I fell like getting out of bed

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Grim_Farts_Barnsley@reddit

I was due to start a big bit of contract work today but with the alleged weather the whole site is shut until next monday now.

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spacetimebear@reddit

It's 930. I'm sat in the kitchen in my PJs drinking a coffee and playing ace combat on my switch.

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bakedNdelicious@reddit

I’m going to give 40%. On the last couple of days of the break I came down with suspected Strep and scarlet fever so feel a bit pants but as I’m the manager needed to be back in the office today.

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frogfoot420@reddit

Annual review time, so it’s time to absolutely suck myself off. God I hate this process.

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revolut1onname@reddit

I work in IT and have come in to find that one of our main customers is unable to work due to their system being down, so I went straight to 100% as soon as I sat down. Sadly the day won't all be that busy.

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Top-Initiative7668@reddit

Shit!!! I have a job to get to. Thanks for the reminder!

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Whosentyounow@reddit

Best response so far 🤣

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Talking_Gibberish@reddit

So far an hour into my day I have sent one client email, wished everyone happy new year, booked some holiday and had two coffees. I'll get to the real work in a bit.

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Absentmined42@reddit

My husband had a cold over Christmas and now I’ve got it, so have called in sick and am staying in bed coughing and stuffing tissues up my nose to stop it running. Am immunosuppressed so these things always take it out of me.

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Daveyj343@reddit

I booked today and tomorrow off, so not working hard at all 😁

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TheMasalaKnight@reddit

Straight back into it. I made my to do list before I finished for Xmas. Feels like the break is a distant memory already.

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Mr-_-Steve@reddit

I've done one simple stock count, updated one report. now I'm sat on reddit... so far I'm working harder than i worked the last week before the holiday

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HenryFromYorkshire@reddit

I'm wishing I'd booked off today and tomorrow like every other bugger seems to have - I can't get much done because I need things from other people who sensibly did book these two days off! So I'm sending a few stupid little emails and spring cleaning my inbox.

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Boul_D_Rer@reddit

We’ve just finished our stand up and told to “catch up on emails and take it easy as the next sprint starts tomorrow”. So, alls good for today thankfully. Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

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fillip2k@reddit

I thought people were coming back in 2nd. However, it seems no one else is in... Thinking I might pretend I also took these days off and slink off in a bit... I could do with the extra two days to be honest! 😂

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movienerd7042@reddit

I was made redundant in April and will once again be working very hard on my job search starting next week 😂

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SlothfulCyclone@reddit

Today's the day I catch up on emails and spend the day setting up my new to-do list templates, which I'll inevitably ignore. I'm not gonna work too hard, but it's also quiet in the office, so free reign of the coffee machine is a winner!

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CdotHYT@reddit

Mentally still on holiday till atleast 17th, though I was working over Christmas period / new year.

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ConsequenceApart4391@reddit

Work modules need to be done by next Tuesday and I’ve been putting them off for months. I’ve done a few but that’ll be this weeks main task

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No-Sandwich1511@reddit

I have worked thought the full holiday season excluding the 25, 26 and the 1st.I have been working on back log enhancement requests we had and also all the mandatory elearning

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cmpthepirate@reddit

Any blockers?

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No-Sandwich1511@reddit

Oh many especially with no tester in or key people to discuss the requirements with but what's new

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cmpthepirate@reddit

Haha. Maybe time for some self development.

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impossiblejane@reddit

Moved here from NZ where the 2nd January is a public holiday. I begrudge having to work so I took today off. I worked over the Christmas week.

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EatingCoooolo@reddit

My contract ran out on 22nd Dec so I’m just chilling, have a job interview at 12.

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massie_le@reddit

I'm in my pjs, watching the sun rise and on holiday. Enjoy

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continentaldreams@reddit

I worked every day that wasn't a weekend or a mandatory bank holiday, so I'm fucking knackered. I just want a break :(

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172116@reddit

As I live in the civilised north, unlike you barbarians in England and Wales, it's still the holidays for me. Seriously, 2nd Jan bank holiday is the greatest invention ever. Even better, my office remains closed tomorrow, so I'm not back till Monday (although I have staff doing voluntary overtime who I'll check in with).

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creamywingwang@reddit

Max effort same as usual.

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Only-Magician-291@reddit

Bank holiday today but sadly I am working

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Wickey312@reddit

It's not a bank holiday today

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Wickey312@reddit

My apologies to the people of Scotland!

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sock_cooker@reddit

"Sorry you live in a dingey hell hole"

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Only-Magician-291@reddit

Ah sorry didn’t realise we were in r/askengland

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hunters_trap@reddit

It is in Scotland.

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mangonel@reddit

Scorland

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Suspicious_Worry3617@reddit

I got a fair bit done on the in-between days, so I'm waiting on responses from some others now. There's a lot to do so I'll probably be really annoying until lunchtime when I crash from the sugar and crisp withdrawal

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hattiejakes@reddit

I am online , WFH. Focusing on training that like most I have put off. I have one meeting in my calendar- it’s drinks at 5:30- standard Thursday. No one is around. I will start creating lists for next week. I wish I had taken off today and Friday

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whatmichaelsays@reddit

I'm catching up on lots of overdue e-learning courses, so not very.

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ButtercupBento@reddit

I worked over Christmas so yesterday, today and tomorrow are my days to do what everyone else does over Christmas (eat too much, watch movies and not do much)

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Crazy_Spite7079@reddit

My inbox is empty so far. I'm watching YouTube and drinking lots of tea

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thefooby@reddit

I’m an Amazon driver and yesterday was one of the very few days we get off, so probably extra busy for all the stuff that didn’t get delivered yesterday.

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osterlay@reddit

WHF today and tomorrow, sorting out my inbox, I’ll leave the heavy lifting for Monday.

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McLipstick@reddit

It sure is good to be Scottish! Bank holiday baby

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alpringin@reddit

I worked all over it- no rest for the wicked!

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Dranask@reddit

Seconded.

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dingiest_@reddit

Putting in all of the jobs that either I don’t mind, or people don’t understand. People see “Analytics” in my calendar and tend to leave me alone

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abgc161@reddit

First day at my new job today so definitely want to be working hard, but imagine I will largely just be sat watching training videos all day

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pencilrain99@reddit

Only had Christmas day off so no difference

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amusedfridaygoat@reddit

I have a sinus infection so have called in sick, so not working my very hard at all today.

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dprophet32@reddit

Very easy two days this week. The instructions left by the person who is off until Monday couldn't be any closer to "ehh..." than they are which is nice. Some very minor things to do basically.

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trainpk85@reddit

I don’t go back until tomorrow but my emails started bleeping on my phone about half an hour ago. I’m not even opening them. My out of office is on. Tomorrow is admin/catch up day. Start fresh with real work on Monday.

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smushs88@reddit

Returned to 190 odd emails. Hoping the majority require no action. Then slowly plan to work through those that do. Suspect (hoping) things don’t ramp up until Monday.

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Appropriate_Gur_2164@reddit

I’ve just made a brew and I’ll be blocking out my diary for “Focus session” until lunchtime and then again until end of day… I will be focussing on reducing the number of unread emails in my Inbox whilst making a list of things to do next week. Tomorrow I’ll do the annual ‘catch up on e-learning modules’ day as it’s a Friday.

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underwater-sunlight@reddit

We have contractors coming to the office to do some surveys and need someone to show them around. I'm hanging around until they show and then being tour guide for as long as they need it

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MadWifeUK@reddit

It's not yet 9 o'clock. I have cleared out my emails, prioritised the ones I actually need and am now scrolling reddit, will get to those email actions at some point. Business as usual

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aliceinlondon@reddit

It’s basically the weekend

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mattjimf@reddit

I'm driving home, so none. Although I have Teams on my phone, so it looks like I'm online.

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DarthScabies@reddit

Holidays?

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bonkerz1888@reddit

Given it's a public holiday, not working at all!

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thatscotbird@reddit

Holidays most certainly aren’t over here. This is my favourite day of the year. Watching you all go back to work

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Jammastersam@reddit

8:55 and still in bed, might roll out in 4 minutes

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hochiho923@reddit

Need to catch up on some emails but it's not too hard mate.

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who-knows9999@reddit

Bank holiday in Scotland so no work for me 😁

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Polz34@reddit

I'm back at work today, there's barely anyone here so assume a lot of folks have taken annual leave, but I didn't want to waste mine for the sake of 2 days where I'd probably not do anything. Been here 2 hours; responded to 3 emails, created 2 other emails, one short (15 min) teams meeting... As you can tell I'm really busy!

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Bobster2UK@reddit

I purposely left job tasks back that I could’ve easily done in the week before Christmas so that I’ve got them to keep myself busy over the next two days, although a couple of them have deadlines still well over a week a way yet so I may just limp through to the weekend doing sod-all like most people!

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D0wnb0at@reddit

Employees where I work get today off paid. I am a contractor so expected to work or I don’t get paid. Most of the departments are closed other than emergency lines. I logged on at 8 and been sat watching YouTube while scrolling Reddit. There won’t be much work done today. Just enough to show that I have done something.

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dronebox@reddit

I’m not.. the good lady wife and I are off for an amble around Tentsmuir Forest in Fife…

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Apple_Master@reddit

It'll probably be pretty quiet, but I have caught the whatever cold that is going around so that's ideal. It's gonna be a hectic year as usual, two days of slowness is welcomed.

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Success_With_Lettuce@reddit

I have 1 meeting in the afternoon, then nothing till next week - phew! Then it’s a bit of EH&S, an occy health check and the week after where I’m off to Italy to actually do something that generates money for them lol. So as it stands I’ve charged up the work phone, turned it on and am going to mess around on my new VR headset till the meeting or someone bothers me

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TomL79@reddit

I’m not. I worked between Christmas and New Year, so I’m off today and tomorrow. Then it’s my birthday next week so I’m taking time off for that, so I’m off until the 13th.

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ahoneybadger3@reddit

Going in for 10am. Will be leaving by 12pm. Whacking some holiday hours in as I've just carried 20 of them over.

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randomdemo@reddit

Back with the schools.

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kwaklog@reddit

Gotta close the year, it'll be a busy few days for us

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cymru78@reddit

As a self employed person in retail, I've not had much of a break anyway. But I'll be in my shop today with loads of stock to sort out for the shop floor and online. I REALLY need to make a start on it. Will I actually get any of it done? That's another question.

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Celery_Worried@reddit

Self employed here. I'm taking holiday until the 10th so am doing nowt!

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upturned-bonce@reddit

I wish, but I'm in bed because I took trains over Christmas and caught a lurgy.

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Roseanna-Moon@reddit

I don't return to work until the 6th so today I will doing housework and working on my own business

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Notagelding@reddit

Not working today. I do 4 on, 4 off. Back on Friday.

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iamabigtree@reddit

I'm not. The office doesn't open until the 6th.

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Crazy-Swimmer-3119@reddit

Pretty quiet in my job today- get to work half day today and tomorrow, so I won't be working as hard as I usually do 🤣 Also typically busses aren't running normal (how wrong was I to assume EVERYTHING goes back to normal from the 2nd) I'm Already late for work- and I'm really not that bothered- whereas I would usually be worried 🤣

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cgknight1@reddit

No simply because most people are not back until next week so I have very few meetings today and tomorrow.

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