So it's Christmas week, it seems like everyone's on vacation, and yet it is you maintaining order in the office. You may daydream wistfully and jealously about the winter getaways your co-workers have embarked upon, but your time will come, you think. Until then, you will be the warrior of the cubicle, the only man or woman to keep total anarchy from ensuing in the office.

Here are a list of responses from readers who were similarly abandoned during last July 4 weekend.