Originally Posted by
John_Carrick
Christmas TV is regarded as particularly terrible I think. People are generally fairly comatose after their lunch and families are probably happier playing games and eating and drinking unwisely.
The Christmas ghost story is another tradition, as is The Wizard if Oz, Casablanca, James Bond and Charles Dickens movies and series.
Mercifully for the English the shops reopen on 26th and there is football and other holiday activities in normal years.
Do folk in the USA take much time off work? In the UK and Ireland people seem to take 10 days to a fortnight off (not health care, emergency or retail workers).
It varies a lot by employer. When I was working retail in college I didn't get Christmas off with pay (the stores were just closed that one day).
My current employer gives us two paid days off and we even got two additional days as a bonus one year. I’ve seen construction companies that give their crews the entire two weeks for Christmas and New Years off and others that work through both weeks save the holidays.
So it’s really all over the place.
Last edited by FossilHunter; 29th July 21 at 09:36 AM.
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