So there's virtually nobody at uni today. There was no notice about being given today off, which makes me think that people either mistakenly think today is a holiday, or are just being dodgy.

My mate who is a paid staff member has just decided to not come in, and when I asked why, he just said, 'Probably for the same reason no one else is there'. Shocking, IMO >.< Am I being a grinch?

I've been off since Monday!

Only two more hours then its beer time, loving it long time

f*** I'm obviously doing it wrong then. Here I was reading about the neural substrate of saccadic eye movements when I could have been chugging a beer at 9am.

All Day :(

I'm about to head into work now. Stupid work, making me work on stupid stupid.

O well, I also have to work new years eve late shift, yay for being at work during the countdown.

We also have this stupid time management system, that you have to log in and out with your fingerprint. So you cant sneak of home early even though there will be ZERO work. So instead we have to sit around the tea room playing cards, y a y.

yep full day of work here.

Why are you at uni now anyway?

Sif not work through xmas and new years, it's nice and quiet and bludgy and ya don't have to waste annual leave days!!

having said that I am an unemployed bum at the moment :D

what, can't you read and drink at the same time billy?!

f*** I'm obviously doing it wrong then. Here I was reading about the neural substrate of saccadic eye movements when I could have been chugging a beer at 9am.

That would be that whole time zone in another country thing, but yeah tomorrow I will be chugging beer at 9 for sure

I'm at work, most people are packing it in around lunch. Which seems like a good idea to me. I do have plenty of project work to do but i'm using today to fix up all the little jobs and stuff like Plot Parameter files and Title blocks.
Stuff that you cant really charge time to but need to be done to make everything else move smothly.
I spent 4 hours yesterday trying to fix the cluster f*** which is AutoCAD 2009 after ISS installed it. I dont know how they managed to f*** up so many of the settings (many of which are better off on Default...) and the 2009 install broke the 2000 DWG Template file which has worked with 2002, 2004 and 2006... but Thats AutoCAD's fault. It's still randomly crashing when you try to go into Options and doesn't want to recognise anyones profiles... but I think thats due to netword permissions and where the profiles are stored.

I start back on the 5th.

Already had a beer. Probably wouldn't keep in the work fridge over the Christmas break anyway.

working but only until 3pm

Sif not work through xmas and new years, it's nice and quiet and bludgy and ya don't have to waste annual leave days!!

This man speaks the truth, I've done nothing this week and will do the same next week and leave most days between 3-4

We are closed till the 5th no leave days at all and the boss is still paying us - call its xmas bonus

Sif not work through xmas and new years, it's nice and quiet and bludgy and ya don't have to waste annual leave days!!

Hell yes. Sif any actual work gets done around this time of the year. Why waste an annual leave day on xmas eve where the boss tells everyone to just bugger off halfway through the day anyway.

I'm off until the week after NYE

about to leave for a couple of little jobs, should be done by 12, then off to the beach, oh yeaahh

Me. For 1/2 a day or so.

I like working through Xmas (we don't close down, often are pretty busy with end of version development/testing). Rather take a week off in middle of the year.

Taking the first week of 2010 off to camp on Fraser and then taking just over 2 months (paid leave) off to go to Europe/UK in Aug/Sept.

1/2 the company is here with me today and next week (the 3 days).

Might raid the beer fridge at some stage later.

At work, but just got told we can leave at lunch time - woot!

Here Tuesday-Thursday next week too. If anyone is in the New Farm area, we will be getting into some xbox and possibly lunch at Merthyr Bowls. The more the merrier!

We're shutting down at lunch time. I'm taking everyone to the pub to wind down. Its been a big couple of months leading up to Christmas here. We're all stuffed.

finished yesterday thank christ.

go back on the 6th after NYE in Sydney + field day
going to be ridonkulous

yeh working today

Working today but have christmas/new years period off.

Still busy as ever though

1 last day of mail, going to be an absolute attack of express post.

f*** I hate Post at Xmas, absolute balls.

M...ah wait no I'm not haha

Me no workey today til toozday. Knowing that feels good!

Sif not work through xmas and new years, it's nice and quiet and bludgy and ya don't have to waste annual leave days!!

Umm.. annual leave days don't get used up on public holidays, it's paid for anyway. Unless you were talking about working through normal days leading up to xmas/NYE.

As for bludgyness, it's been like that for me for that past 2 months (evidently by my higher than average daily postcount).

Christmas Eve isn't a Public Holiday.
Neither are the days between X-Mas and New Years day.

I know that, so what's your point?

Working from home, don't take annual leave and so far today I have worked for about 1 minute.

and how much will you be charging for so? 4.7 hours?

I'm at work, but I wouldn't say I'm working :)

NOT ME
just got up wooo

Christmas Eve isn't a Public Holiday.
Neither are the days between X-Mas and New Years day.

No, but UQ shuts down between xmas and new years so you're not supposed to be there. But the other thing about academia is it's as cruisy as you want it to be. You might struggle to get another job/grant/funding/qualification/tenure etc. But you're not locked into a minimum (or maximum for that matter) number of hours or time of the day you should work (in most cases). 9-5 Monday to Friday means nothing, the best work way more than that, the worst way less and often get away with it in the short term. But it also means even for the hard workers you can take an afternoon off if you need to without justifying it to anyone. Not to mention in the cases of most of the biol labs around campus, if you’re taking a week and a half off you’ve had to wrap things up over the last week so you probably don’t have a lot to do right now (so the people you see today (mainly post-grad students and young post-docs) are probably the ones that will be there right through the 'break').

Edit: And to answer the question, I'm one of the young post-docs so I am working, but it's only 7pm on the 23rd here in the US.

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1 more hour!!!!!!!!

Christmas Eve isn't a Public Holiday.
Neither are the days between X-Mas and New Years day.

Unless you're a public servant, then the day after boxing day is a public holiday - public servants day.

I love working these days ... I can change things without change control :P ... cause no one is around to tell me not too!!!

I'd rather use leave to split up the boring parts of the year.

We're open this morning and I'm sending the staff home / to the pub after lunch.

i have buttloads to do but f***it, i'm gonna leave at 4.

not me

yeah I am
hope everyone f***s off early

Sadly I'm a contractor and get paid by the hour. Won't be leaving too early or that's a few hundred I don't get to see :(

i've been off work since last friday. sifn't combine public hols n rec. leave days for 3 phat weeks off! :D installed a new air-con unit in my aquarium yesterday... orrrjeh.

office closes at 12. However it's a leave when you've done everything that needs doing sort of day. so probably about 2pm for me.

might plan some classes for next year

Lolz in the middle of 6 week break

Was but finished now.

time to make trifle and clean the house.

ZOMG I AM SO EXCITED

I am, and I am kicking some major goals too, bitches.

I am. Not kicking many goals though. A guy from Canberra wanted to teach him some stuff (all afternoon) and I had a meeting this morning at 10am as well.

I actually already created a thread like this one but deleted it because I thought it was pretty lame. Should have gone with it :-P

Ahaha, no soon had I posted that when I received this email:

Hey Pinky.

Won't be able to make it this arvo. Still making revisions due today, have been a bit slack and slow with Christmas approaching. I'll have to come down in January when you're available and go through it. What do you think?

working 730-330pm today...but only cus i did 4.5 hours yesterday. Then I give blood on paid 2 hours of leave from 330 - should be home by 430 :)

work till 9pm tonight :|

The Director-General has approved a 1pm knock off time. Yay!

^ paid or flex?

me

Working from home today, taking regular PS3 related breaks :)

The Director-General has approved a 1pm knock off time. Yay!

Talking about yourself in third-person again *sigh*

Also, "Director-General", lol. Funny the things some people like to call themselves. Sounds more like a military rank.

Im finished with clients for 2009! Time to pick up the prawns and head home!

Working till 8:30pm then going to the Caberet club's xmas party :D
Working tomorrow too :(

I've just finished a pub meal and am on my way home from my day at work. In next week for the three days too. Seems crazy to waste paid annual leave this time of year.

As a contractor it's a good move, but for normal employees..

Rather be working than at home..

Least I get double time on sunday and triple time and half on monday :)

Yea well i get quadripple time and a half with your mum.

But i only pay her a a third of the agreed price.

omg pARODY

Details plz?

GF used to work there behind the bar and I helped out with security and mp3 monkeying. So we get invites to the parties. :D

yes "behind the bar"

it's more commonly known as a "pole"

i am not at work because i quit my job yesterday.

Director-General is the term for CEOs in the public service. Each department has a DG.

i turned up at work.. but i think i'm the only poor sod here.. might be leaving really early at this rate..

parody, whos ya misses?

If ya see sheree, tell her damo says hi. ha

GF's name is Ellen, Sheree hasn't worked there in ages if it's the sheree I know. :]

pic in case you don't know her by name. :P

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2684/121/77/667371109/n667371109_2283613_406940.jpg

last edited by pARODY at 19:47:25 24/Dec/09

Yeah, been sometime since she's worked there..but could be there.

that's one dirty





dirty





filthy





pedestal fan

yer im workin 2nite.. until 8am chrissy mornin..... ghey... i wanna get drunk! though there is beer in the fridge at work for some reason.. *contemplates*

Stuck at work until 8:30pm :-(. Apparently some desperate people still bet on horse racing all night on xmas eve.

Last year i had the graveyard shifts over xmas eve and XMAS day.

This year i have it off so I am very much looking forward to enjoying a proper christmas this year.

Took today off, just to finish the last minute stuff that needed to be done. Off on Monday, but still have to VPN in and move tapes around for the backups.

at work now until 6:30am then back tomorrow night 6:30pm until 6:30am yay

Off Xmas Eve, Xmas and Boxing day. Not often retail lets you take the surrounding days off, so I'm very happy.

oh persay. BOOM.

did anyone else think she looked about 14 foot tall when standing next to that filthy thing

So there's virtually nobody at uni today. There was no notice about being given today off, which makes me think that people either mistakenly think today is a holiday, or are just being dodgy.

There was an email that went around yesterday on the staff list saying if you don't come in, its an RDO, but if you do come in that you can leave at midday. Not that anyone would know who is on campus anyway.

I had a client ring up and want me to attend a site after the laughter subsided i quoted triple time and a half and triple the standard callout fee, so $378p/hr + $162 callout before I leave the house, oh and I have been drinking since 7am so don't me to be a) on time b) sober plus you will have to fly me to the qzn airport because I am about 400Km from your site. Or you could call the heldesk you know the number that was repeated on my voice mail 3 times on my pabx before it diverted then 2 times on my mobile.