Didn’t leave the house.
I worked retail/food service for years. Going to places on Christmas tells employers that they need to be open those days, and that their employees don’t need the day off.
Frankly i find it inconsiderate to the social contract to go out on holidays, and sometimes around them.
Its frankly why i always found Black Friday and the “scope creep” of this festival of consumerism partially so repulsive. I mean its repulsive on its own just in the way people act, but doubly so in that it runs right through a national holiday.
I don’t have a problem on religious holidays with going out to a place run by people who don’t celebrate it. I was craving Arab food Christmas Eve which was fine because it’s just another day for them. I would never visit during their holidays as they would never go to a Christian store during ours.
I lost years of Thanksgivings with family due to the scope creep of black Friday. Some years family could work around it, like we would have dinner at noon so I could be at work by 6 - but even then you feel terrible for forcing that.
To be fair, not everyone celebrates Christmas. As long as employees are getting a certain number of holidays in a year for whatever tradition they follow, I think it’s fine to be open on Christmas. But not to force anyone to work on Christmas, only if the business can sustain itself on non-Christmas-celebrating staff
that’s fair, but my experience was unfortunately the latter. Retail was very much “we need you to work today”, and any response other than “okay” was pretty much a reprimand. “Show up or don’t show up again” was said to me when I wanted to have Thanksgiving with family. Now I avoid anything non-essential on holidays.
That’s awful.
For me it’s like any other day. I wouldn’t mind working for the double holiday pay.
My step son is a chef. I think it’s insane he was only paid double, given what they’re charging for a meal.
After many years of shitty Christmases … I refuse to leave the house on Christmas Day or any time from Christmas to New Years.
Y’all crazy and insane out there and I don’t want to meet, talk or see any of you in person during this time of year.
I’ve prepared my home base and I can live here with enough food for a month and enough entertainment for two lifetimes.
Where I’m at almost everything except truck stops, a handful of fast food joints, even fewer liquor stores are closed.
My work is an outlier as we are in grocery distribution. We do shut down for major holidays, but a day earlier. So rather than getting the 25th off, I get the 24th off. We load the groceries on the trucks Christmas night and the trucks arrive at their destination early on the 26th. And yes, we are paid well.
haven’t left the house all day 💅
All the pubs where I live, I think both the petrol stations. There’s Co-Op up the road that saw a sign on saying it is open 5 til midnight “including Christmas Day”.
Husband and I stayed in all day. We watched football and played video games. I made waffles for breakfast and spaghetti for dinner. Neighbor gave us a box of chocolates so we had some of that too.
No because I have COVID :(.
Oof, get well soon!
Ran out maybe 500 meters for beer. Otherwise, we stayed in our humble abode and ate. The holiday was the day before with family, so Christmas was the small-but-mostly-traditional Christmas dinner my wife had planned.
Open: stores whose primary business is intoxicating in some way.
Closed: most other stuff.
I overate turkey (cutlets, cause turkey is a pain in the ass when cooking for two), mashed, noodles over mashed, and green beans w/ bacon. Had a couple beers, and a damn good night of sleep.
I’m easy to please, and struggle with sleep, so the whole thing was lovely.
The previous day, we all had breakfast for dinner. I married into a pretty awesome family, but humans are still exhausting so we both wanted to take it easy on the actual day.
Back to work today, but plenty of leftovers and work is just a few steps away thankfully.
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I haven’t left the house in months.
I sincerely hope that you’re OK.
I’ve barely left the house lately, that’s a habit that very much predates the pandemic, but I’m the odd duck who is good with that.
If you want to chat - about minimizing exposure to society or anything else - @_@m.djw.li
I’ve carefully curated a life where things come to me instead of vice versa, but we are outliers. Some people thrive this way, but certainly not everyone.
Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn’t as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup “Merry Christmas” and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol
Seriously, how many of us lemmies live somewhere else? I’m in Rabat atm, there’s zero assassinated pine trees covered in brightly coloured plastic shit in sight. And everything is Business As Usual here.
live somewhere else?
somewhere else in regards to where?
I checked all the replies before replying here, and but for this “here in China” one, nobody seems to live / be / exist outside the catholic sphere ?
I’m just curious where you think we all live.
That was yesterday in my timezone. Yes, I spent Christmas Day with family a significant drive away.
Almost none; gas stations, some restaurants and dairies. Most were closed.
Thankfully we had rain all day, a nice change back to traditional rainy and humid Christmas Days.
At the risk of sounding stupid, what are dairies?
Where milk is produced and sold, sometimes along with other groceries.
I had covid (and still have it), so no.
Stayed home most of the day except to go to my daughter’s house for supper, about a 1/4 mile away.
The closest business that would have been open today out here would have been the gas station about 16 miles (25km) away.
Didnt leave the house today. I work retail, so Im glad to not be at work today, since were closed.
But my old man did go pick up some burgers from Jack in the Box, so apparently they were open. I hate people going out shopping on a holiday like this, as a retail worker. It means theres incentive for the companies to open during holidays, regardless of how morally correct it is. Having said that, Im thankful Jack was open, as were having a pretty rough Christmas this year, and most of my family couldnt make it due to sickness and a death. This was our Christmas dinner that my dad and I shared.
My wife and I always wake up at her parents’ house on Christmas Day and head to my mom’s. This year her parents had to head out early this morning, so we were on our own for breakfast, and thankfully we found a mom and pop taco place open on our way down. While I agree that everyone should have the day off, if a business wants to get that one off business and provide that service, power to them.
