The Christmas tree is up, the present shopping has begun and really it’s just a shame that I have to go to work on Monday. I think I’m well and truly ready for a holiday, or else to change jobs. It’s hard to distinguish the difference at this time of year, because by Christmas I’ve had enough of everyone I work for and everything I have to deal with. It feels a bit like I’m sick of my job, but I’m pretty sure I just need a break from it.
This year has been hard because once again the issue of me taking extra time off has presented itself. I’m the only one who knows how to do my job, so if I’m not there the work doesn’t get done. Every year one of the salesmen (who also happens to be a company director) goes off his nut about the fact that I want to take an extra week of in January.
Who will do the work? He demands.
There will be no work for me to do that week, I tell him
But what if there is?!
There isn’t. There never is.
But there could be this year!
There won’t be. You bitched last year because I wanted to take it off, and it was fine. You bitched the year before because I wanted to take the time off, and it was fine. You bitched again this year and now I’m sick of it.
It’s not nice to constantly have to justify why it’s ok for you to not be at work for 5 days. 5 days in January, when all the schools are still on holiday, when all the councils are still working out their budgets. In January there is no one to sell to. In January, there is no work for me to do. In January, nearly all of the other people in the company will take leave that week and I shouldn’t have to show up to work just so you don’t freak out.
So it’s seven working days and counting until I can sit back, relax and forget about the constant nagging of a disorganized control freak who is bent on making my holidays difficult for me. Six days if I leave out next Friday which will be taken up by the work Christmas function. Six days and counting….
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I hope you get more than five days off a year! The only thing that keeps me sane in my job is the long holidays. Unfortunately, the Xmas/New Year break is not one of them. About two weeks off actual teaching, but with mountains of tests and things to mark, and grading to sort out, because we have only a couple of weeks back in January before the semester ends and the real holidays start.
I get a great holiday at Christmas - about a month of bliss with no work to do at all.
What you need is a job like my mum has - she works at a school but she's not a teacher, so she gets all the same holidays as the teachers with no homework to mark!
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