16th November 2006, 01:31 AM
By mutual agreement, my current contract runs out on December 15th, and although I will miss out on getting paid for the Christmas/New Year holiday, I do stand a pretty good chance of re-employment at the end of January (after our return from the winter holiday). But as DD intimated in an earlier post, that is due largely to experience and myself and the wife anticipating a downturn at that time of year, in effect planning our annual holiday around one of the least busiest times in the archaeological calendar.
Mind you I have heard criticism in the past that volunteering to be laid off at Christmas is not quite as 'character building' as receiving a redundancy notice at the works Christmas party or at the pre-Christmas booze-up!!
Mind you I have heard criticism in the past that volunteering to be laid off at Christmas is not quite as 'character building' as receiving a redundancy notice at the works Christmas party or at the pre-Christmas booze-up!!