Eight (grumpy) reasons to work over Xmas
Most people reckon that South Africans have work ethic. This is absolute rubbish. Everyone knows that no work gets done in Cape Town on a Friday and, though people pretend to be working, they still leave the office at about 12:00 to kick off their weekends.
While this stereotype exists because it is true – some of us do however work like bees and some of us aren’t fortunate enough to get any time off over Christmas. Whether you celebrate it or not, it’s still rather unpleasant to be sitting in an office on Christmas Eve while all your mates are galavanting around Town getting their drink on.
But there is always a bright side to everything so here are a few reasons to enjoy working over the Xmas period.
- You don’t waste money and, if you didn’t get a 13th cheque, you won’t be broke by New Year’s.
- You don’t have to be around a bunch of festive inebriates all the time.
- You don’t have to wait in a queue to be seated at a restaurant.
- You can avoid seeing that family that you don’t really like and you don’t have listen to Auntie Maggie’s story about “her Peter” or whoever else the star of the family is.
- You don’t even have to waste money on getting them shirts they’ll never wear and deodorants they’ll never use.
- Unless you are an alcoholic or a drug addict, you’ll cruise through a road block. (Not that anybody should drink and drive).
- You miss traffic and you can probably sleep a little bit later than usual.
- You get to take leave when the malls are quiet and the people are back to normal. Has anybody been to a major shopping centre in these past few days? It gave me hives.
So, while working over Xmas is probably not the most desired way to spend “the holidays” – at least there are some positives to take away from it.
