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The Rota

Who works Christmas?

The Rota

You're asked to write the Christmas shift schedule for your team of six. Two must work the holiday. One colleague has small children. One has nobody and says he doesn't mind. One asked you first, back in August. You also get to decide whether your own name goes on it.

Who works Christmas?

Then ask

  • Is the man with nobody getting a favour or a punishment?
  • Do you put yourself down to make the list defensible?
  • Would you show them the reasoning, or just the rota?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Pond
  2. The Deathbed Promise
  3. The Windfall
  4. The Payslip
  5. The Ring
  6. The Novel
  7. Who Stays
  8. The Will