OH, you better not shout,
You better not pout,
Xmas day is just another

work day.

Was there tachnun today?

If it was just another regular workday you wouldn't feel the need to point it out.

It's an 'illegal' holiday. If I'm getting paid to stay home then I will.

I always worked on this holiday as I worked at jewish businesses (except one year when I dealt with hotels and hospitals, whose workers were off.)

Nope, kids went to school, I went to work, worked as usual. It just always amuses me that my kids are not subjected to the hype that I grew up with in the US. My oldest knew who the little dwarf with the red cap was in the malls in a nearby town, but her friends didn't.



I think I had to change media a couple of times in one lab as a favor to other techs, but I never worked the legal holidays in the US.

Not that I got any days off for Chanukah.

My mother used to work at a bank that ran a 24/7 call centre. She (and the other Jews) used to volunteer to work Christmas; they got paid triple time.

Christmas in the UK is absolutely huge--the country completely shuts on Xmas Day (no newspapers, no shops at all, no public transport) and most things are closed for Boxing Day (no shops, no railways [but the tube partly runs], still no papers!) You end up half celebrating it by default, because even if you don't have a tree and presents and so on, you've got nothing to do but sit home, eat, and watch the BBC.

i looooooove this about israel. when i made aliyah, it was right before chrismas and well, that was all i saw and heard....i love every year, not even thinking about it. it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wonderful.

I don't get it. Hearing about Kratzmach (I think that sounds hilarious) bothers me not in the least and I get a day off from work. What is the problem with that? Why is it somehow meritorious to work on 12/25?

I had a jewish boss who used to think it was..we worked every legal holiday except Labor Day b/c of the neighborhood parade (wasn't safe to go out).