Yea, my little sister is pulling an 8-8 shift, so she misses the whole kids opening the presents stuff and Christmas lunch. You got a shorter shift, but of course you cover more people. What's more annoying is some of her fellow shift workers are single, without kids, but because she's been away during the week (heck the last couple of months) to do her paramedic training they drew up the Christmas rota without her there or any chance to object and just presented it to her. So she's working today, tomorrow and most of next week as well. Lovely. Ah well, no doubt she'll be zooming off to indigestion cases all over the Northern Irish coast.