LordM's "Workin' For The Holidays" giveaway (a combination Darkside/Liteside giveaway!) BR

lordmarcovan

Yep, here I am. At work. Christmas night. Worked Christmas Eve. Gonna be workin' New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day, too.

S'OK, though- I ain't complainin'. One of the first things you learn in the hospitality industry is to forget about the concept of "weekends" and "holidays". When the rest of the world is at play, you're workin', and vice versa. I do get to take a brief trip down to see Mom this weekend. We celebrate our birthdays together, since I'm December 28th and she's January 4th. Guess we'll do Christmas then, too.

Annnnnyway, I thought I'd put up a meager giveaway for you other poor schlubs who hafta work during the holiday season.

If you did, are doing, or will be doing any working on Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve, or New Year's Day, let us know what kind of work you did or will be doing. You'll be entered into a random drawing to be held on New Year's Day (or a day or so afterward, if I'm busy). The winner will get an EF-AU-ish 1882-O Morgan dollar and a lovely, prooflike BU 2004 Australian 1-ounce .999 silver Kookaburra dollar.

(Sorry, but things like going to the fridge to get Uncle Bob another beer, or helping Mom load the dishwasher don't count, admirable deeds though they are.)

The Morgan's a bit scuffy but not totally hideous- hey, c'mon, it's a free Morgan dollar, fer cryin' out loud!

The "Kooky" part of the prize is one of the first coins struck with the 2004 date, as I received them from RNCHSN in October of '03. Apparently coins are like car models, now- the '04's have been in for a while! This sucker will knock your eyes out, thanks to the frosty "reverse-cameo" effect (the portrait and devices are brilliant and the fields are frosted). These coins make the Liteside Silver Eagles look almost plain and frumpy by comparison! Yours will come in a plastic holder which looks a little like an Airtite, (but not air tight.)

If you only want half the prize, I'll send the other coin to whomever you specify. (Or if you win but don't really need either prize, I'll send both coins to members of your choosing).

Braddick wins!

goose3

I had to work Christmas Eve, Christmas and will be working New Year's Eve as well as New Years from 6a-2p. I will be on patrol as usual.

New Year's Eve is also our anniversary!

Thanks Lord M

a2labmom

I had to work Christmas Eve (helped with a production problem and fixed something so build 15 could happen before leaving for Christmas). I also have to work New Years Eve (hopefully it will be relatively quiet since 99% of the FTEs are on vacation.).

If you see fit, please enter me in your very generous give away.




Merry Christmas, LordM.

Trooper

I started my shift on 12/22 and my next day off is Jan 2nd. That's a long 11 work days in a row.
Gotta make sure the communications don't break down....
Tom


Thanks for the chance Lord

atarian

Ive been working every day cept today and will be working mostly strait right though new years and beyond

i worked 12/24 (xmas eve) 8-1 at my maintence job moving lifting and fixing holes in walls. rushing 35 minutes home to get changed to get to work by 2 and work till 10

granted today i had off but 12-26 -1-1 ill be working teh same 13 hr days. but thats how it is on winter break i work this many hours to save money and im doing what i can.; i dont know mnay 20- yr olds willing to work 13 hrs a day though holidays just to make a little extra so it isnt so tight the rest of the year

Bubblehead

Bless you, young man. You already know that I don't qualify.
I just wanted to tell 'ya that my youngest daughter's birthday is also December 28th! It was a problem, years ago, but not now....
Take Care, Jerr

nwcs

She doesn't hop on this board, but I'd like to submit my mom for this giveaway. She's working right now at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge (we're proud nuclear people ). And she is a collector so she would appreciate this kind of giveaway.

laserart

I worked until 2 pm Christmas eve. I did a custom last minute job for a guy that wanted his daughter name engraved on a canoe paddle. I was only going to work until noon, but it got extended. Then I started some domestic chores until 3. Then I had the rest of the day off.

mgoodm3

I'm on call for Radiology from Xmas eve through the 30th. They can make me look at images or do procedures 24 hours a day during that time.

MrLee

I'm a Route Salesman for Frito Lay and the stores I cover have to be serviced or there'll be phone calls to the office Monday. I worked a 12 hour shift Christmas Eve to be off today but I'll be working a full day New Years Eve and New Years Day. To cover five days work in four days is just too brutal.

JohnZ

One of my gigs is as a church musician. I played for three services on Christmas Eve, at 5, 7, and 10:30. Long day.

my3cents

Real Estate Brokers NEVER get time off. Worked yesterday, and had to go in to the office for 3 hours today.

agentjim007

Working Christmas 3:30 pm until midnight CT. (ok so I'm not off for 5 minutes ...don't tell) Parole officer.

Mrpawn

Bought, Sold and Traded Chrismas Eve until 5:00 pm. Joked with some of the last minute shoppers that the sale prices were reversed after 2:00 ( add 20% instead of taking 20%+ off the original price - everyone actually got their discount). Also wrote pawns all day for the last minute shoppers that just had to overextend their resources for the season. I will spend part of every day of the next month (except Sundays) buying and trading unwanted Christmas presents that cannot be returned/exchanged at the original stores. Wedding anniversary is also 12/30.


Thanks for the chance in your giveaway. If I win there will be two happier YN's up here in the not so snowy North.

trozau

Day before Christmas I worked from home and I will probably be doing the same the day before New Year. Luckily I have a loaner laptop from work to be able to access my work email and get into the test and production system network from home.

TayTay

I'm working the graveyard shift Christmas night, New Years Eve, and New Years Day, which is my anniversary (got married the first day of the new millenium).
I'm dispatching aircraft for an air cargo airline (also a busy time of year).

Shipcoin

Wow, LordM!
I'm running just now in your second giveaway, and I still hope to win in the first one

I worked at my usual work in Ministry of Agriculture of Israel during Christmas Eve. and Christmas because, you know in Israel don't celebrate that holiday.
We have now Hanukkah holidays, but the problem is that only kids have a vacation!

As for New Year---it really beats me, because I used to celebrate that holiday (the night from 31Dec-1 Jan) all my life also in Leningrad and also here in Israel, but the really problem is that also that holiday is not a holiday here, so I need to go to Tel Aviv at 5 o'clock at the morning at 31 on December! And also 1 on January I still need to go to work!! And I hate that fact!


And if you are interested what exactly I did at 24 and 25 on December, I tell you---I have checked irrigation's projects made by private companies to aplly them in local kibbyts, using our Ministry's financial support ---if you are really interested in it ...

Have a nice holidays and Happy New Year!!

braddick

Great idea for a contest!
-I worked Christmas eve and Christmas day and will New Years eve and New Years day (evening), traffic enforcement. Crashes; tickets and DUI's.

Do people drink and drive on Christmas?

rhound1977

Don't enter me, I am not working, our president declared Friday a federal holiday so I am off for four days, only on call and doubt I will get
called. For those working best wishes anyhow, and been there done that.......

Good Luck....

hamiltonjh

I worked Christmas and Christmas eve, the 3pm-11pm shift. Workin 6 shifts straight.

I work in an undergound facility in the base command post. Technically it is classified as Command and Control. Our job is to react to any and all Emergency Actions Messages dealing with lots of stuff from DEFCON's to terrorist related stuff these days and pass on that information to the base commander.

We keep track of everything from 911 calls to Fire Department runs to Domestic Disputes, DUI/DWI, Red Cross notifications or whatever. We get notifications from the cops or direct calls and depending on what it is and the timeliness of it, brief wing leadership. We have the STU-III's (Secure Telephone Units) and other computer systems and stuff to help us out.

We're open 24/7 365. Like you LM, we work regardless of the holidays and enjoy our time off when we can get it.

Striker

I worked Christmas eve, Christmas day and will be working New Years eve and New Years day. I work in one of the State's Prisons.

ajaan

LordM, I have 20 advanced Math test to score, 29 Math 7 projects to grade, and 20 Health essays to read. If I do some on New Years eve day can I enter?

bearcave

Thanks LordM for the opportunity. I worked christmas eve, christmas day and will work New Years eve and New Years day. I dispatch and sometimes run the jail the 3 to 11 shift for the local sheriff department. Been at this job for more than 10 years. Coins help take my mind off the rough days!

farthing

LM, worked Christmas Eve and Christmas, will be working New Years Eve and Day. Currently in Singapore doing the implementation of computer software at Changi airport. Must be fully operational by the first. Customer is now up and running, just shaking out the system. Should meet the deadline with a day or two to spare.

slothman2000

I lucked out and got 11 days off from the 19th till the 29th of December. I will be working on New Years eve and New Years Day. Chances are, If you ever flew on Northwest Airlines, I am one of the dwindiling amount of Technicians that keep that collection of metal nuts and bolts in the air. We strive in our work to keep up with our unions motto of "Safety in the air begins with quality maintenance on the ground". This is one of our busiest seasons and with all the all the hectic schedules involved with this time of year, rest assured that the 5000 Professional Thechnicians at Northwest Airlines strive everyday to make your flight as safe as humanly possible.

ccrdragon

Worked Christmas eve and will be working New Years eve as well. I am a software engineer and project lead for a customer who will be implementing a new database system before the first of the year (custom designed and implemented database transformation from IDMS to DB2).

Stork

I'd like to enter the giveaway (can you believe, I don't have a Morgan to my name!). I work Labor and Delivery on New Years Eve Day, then as 'backup' to one of the FP guys that night, in other words, No Champagne for Me--if I'm lucky, I'm home that night, but still 'on'. So that means I may get the first delivery of the New Year--I'd have to check my time zones, but I think I would have a shot at the first US citizen of the New Year. Unfortunately, that would mean something was relatively complicated for someone!

Thanks for the giveaway!


Cathy

LUCKOFTHEIRISH

I had to work in the control room Christmass Eve and Christmas Day at the Anniston Army Depot. We are in the process of destroying Weapons Of Mass destruction a nerve agent called GB. So far we have destroyed many M-55 rockets. Think how much safer the world will be without this stuff. We spent billions making them and we spend billions destroying them. Makes a lot of sense right?

Striker

I used to live on that base, back when it was still an active base(the one in Anniston). My dad was stationed there and helped run the chemical school.

millennium

Thanks for the givaway LM!

Oh boy...talk about work!!......I had to work from:

Dec 22-- 7pm to 7am
Dec 23-- 7pm to 7am
Dec 24-- 7pm to 7am
Dec 25-- 7pm to 7am
and finally tonight....Dec 26-- 7pm to 7am.....Plus I am sick (going for the sympathy vote here )

Working in the control room in manufacturing as an Operation Specialists.....at Millennium Specialty Chemicals

farthing

Slothman2000 - As a frequent flyer on Northwest Airlines believe me when I say that I appreciate the work you do!

braddick

<< <i>I worked Christmas and Christmas eve, the 3pm-11pm shift. Workin 6 shifts straight.

I work in an undergound facility in the base command post. Technically it is classified as Command and Control. Our job is to react to any and all Emergency Actions Messages dealing with lots of stuff from DEFCON's to terrorist related stuff these days and pass on that information to the base commander.

We keep track of everything from 911 calls to Fire Department runs to Domestic Disputes, DUI/DWI, Red Cross notifications or whatever. We get notifications from the cops or direct calls and depending on what it is and the timeliness of it, brief wing leadership. We have the STU-III's (Secure Telephone Units) and other computer systems and stuff to help us out.

We're open 24/7 365. Like you LM, we work regardless of the holidays and enjoy our time off when we can get it. >>

Now you've got a cool job. Even if I happen to win, I'd like to ship you the prize!

Baley

Hi LordM, I'll be working new years eve and day, tending a device called a bioreactor, which my company uses to grow the genetically engineered cells that make the biotech products we're developing. The Cells Never Sleep!

lordmarcovan

TTT one more time before I leave town for three days. While I've had to work on all the holidays, I do have a rare weekend plus Monday and Tuesday off- we're goin' down to sunny Saint Pete to visit my Mom and celebrate our birthdays (I'm officially 38 today and her birthday's a week from now, on January 4).

Entries for the giveaway are open as long as it's still 2003 in your part of the world. Happy New Year, y'all! I'll be back at work (and online, if it ain't too busy) on New Year's Eve.

Dennis88

I had to go to school last week...... (and that's hard work)

Dennis

Louis

I worked Christmas Eve and will probably be working New Years Eve, count me in.

lordmarcovan

Braddick wins!

Pat, if you want me to send either portion of the prize to someone else, let me know.

PS- Please allow me some time to ship the prize(s). Might be after the FUN show.

braddick

Hamiltonjh, Congratulations! I promised you the prize should I win.
LordM should be contacting you shortly via PM for your address...

Working the job you do, my hat is off to you sir.
Happy New Year.

hamiltonjh

I just arrived home from a 10 hour road trip across japan from my wifes parents house. A great time was had and I'll entertain the details in the open forum.

Braddick...I thank you for your generosity. I PMed LM back and asked him to "split it 50/50" with the split at his discretion. You won, and I appreciate your generosity like I said, but at the same time, I cant "take it" from you. I would be honored if you'd take what you won, or at least split it 50/50.

HAPPY NEW YEAR