My field/job has no down time, this is just another normal week aside from the 25th.
same here, except the 25th is just another normal day too.
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday happen to be my normal days off. I'm back to work on Saturday... if I'm still working this same schedule next year, when X-mas/New Year's fall on a Saturday, I'll likely be forced to work both.
NGL, it kinda annoys me. if I were my boss, I'd move things around to get our Hong Kong guys to cover US holidays even if it would mildly inconvenience them for a day or two (like the US team is inconvenienced during their ten billion holidays that they seem to have every year in China)