My dear friend, your question regarding flying over christmass is not the point but the idea of actually paying someone, in this case the people who do the rostering, is in my opinion not acceptable at all!
Just to get me right and as I mentioned in my previous replay, I suspect if people who are willing to actually grease some one are of the same kind, showing the same attitude as people who accept or even demand "a little geasture". This is in my opinion not acceptable at all and questions someones credebility and finaly professionalism. Why I have this opninion? Well, maybe you are willing to bent or even breake rules just because some one ask you for a "little feavour" while leaving "something" behind on your desk, for example.
If you, like you metioned before, were asking in the respect of greasing someone in an irronic manner, then I suggest you should make this clear! For example have a look to the right of the window where you can edit your posts, lots of nice little so called smilies
For your information, as you, I like christmass and prefer to be at home during this time of the year. But during the past ten years of my career I spent only a total of three christmass eves at home. For the future this wont change much, so I have to live with it.
