So less pay for equal expenses?
Do you just like punishing the low paid or just don't realise they exist
Give UK 4 more bank holidays, says TUC
- Thread starter tenofspades
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So less pay for equal expenses?
Do you just like punishing the low paid or just don't realise they exist
I'd have preferred an extra day off but at the time I was doing quite long hours Mon-Thurs as it was. It is gonna depend though person to person.
Soldato
Trust me. They go shopping in the week too.
There must be some financial incentive to be in town as early as possible as we constantly get oaps trying to board with their free bus pass before 0930.
Soldato
Have you considered the fact that some people actually have to work for a living during the week, and so the weekend is the only time they actually have to go shopping? Or should they take annual leave and pull their kids out of school for a day to buy them new clothes & shoes etc?
What a stupid suggestion
As your colleague appears to be truly gifted in the thinking and planning department, can we assume that he was in charge of organising the logistics of the departures from Afghanistan?
Have you considered the fact that some people actually have to work for a living during the week, and so the weekend is the only time they actually have to go shopping? Or should they take annual leave and pull their kids out of school for a day to buy them new clothes & shoes etc?
What a stupid suggestion
Have you considered food shopping is available 24/7 During the week... If you cant plan for 1.5 days without a shop being open, your either
A - A idiot
B - A millennial
Soldato
Soldato
What I don’t get are elderly that stand outside waiting for a bus at least 30 mins before they can travel for free. Seen them when it’s 0c at 8:30. Yes they may have an appointment at hospital etc and need to leave before 9:30. That isn’t the case for the dozen pensioners waiting for the bus then.
Soldato
Who works 100 hours a week? My work is open 90 hours a week. Other supermarkets are open 102 hours (are any supermarkets operating 7am Monday -10pm Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday anymore) they are 143 hours a week,
I think you need to take a look at your own life if old people going about their own business give you such an issue.
Soldato
Man of Honour
I liked it when Wednesday afternoons were all closed - did the UK ever do it?
Not too bothered about bank holidays, but won't say no to them.
Not too bothered about bank holidays, but won't say no to them.
Still a thing at university, reserved Weds afternoon for sports.
Soldato
Yep I remember Wednesday early closing fondly. Also remember the summers being glorious and long, which obviously isn't completely true...
Wouldn't say no to another 4 bank holidays, that would take me to 40+ paid days. Hoping to go part time in my 40s and retire early tbh
Wouldn't say no to another 4 bank holidays, that would take me to 40+ paid days. Hoping to go part time in my 40s and retire early tbh
Man of Honour
Uni and the forces, I've never seen a nice free Wednesday afternoon anywhere else in the UK
Holiday entitlement is obviously a lot more flexible, however bank holidays do have some advantages:
- Schools and most workplaces are closed, so you can do things as a family (for people without kids, it's the opposite, you want days off when families are at school/work)
- Your work colleagues are likely on leave too, so the amount of work being generated for you whilst you are away is much less than with a standard holiday (a personal day off work in some jobs isn't really a day off in terms of reducing workload, you still have to squeeze the same work into the reduced number of days you are working)
- Usually double-bubble etc if you are asked to work BH
- Logistically easier to plan for [most] companies, i.e. everyone is on holiday so you don't have the normal dependency management headaches from different people being off at different 'random' times and others needing things from them
One thing that does need looking at is the day of the week, a lot are on Mondays either by design (Easter Monday, May x2, August) or because they can be deferred from the weekend (CD, BD, NYD). I can see the benefit from having them next to a weekend but if new BH are introduced I'd prefer they be on a Friday rather than a Monday. There's a bit of a 'scam' situation with childcare where nurseries often charge you for bank holidays even though they are closed, but this is massively unfair on families who send their child on Mondays rather than another day. e.g. imagine two families, one sends their child every Monday, another family sends their child every Wednesday. Both pay the same amount of money, yet the former receives 4 fewer days of childcare provision.
Caporegime
Old people shopping at peak times is annoying but I haven't done proper shopping for years due to online delivery from Tesco.
The worse ones are people who get to the checkout and everything is scanned before they consider that the establishment will require payment in the immediate future or that they will have to put their shopping in bags.
That ****-wittery knows now age. Although middle aged women faff does seem to play a large role in this.
The worse ones are people who get to the checkout and everything is scanned before they consider that the establishment will require payment in the immediate future or that they will have to put their shopping in bags.
That ****-wittery knows now age. Although middle aged women faff does seem to play a large role in this.
Soldato
Im old enough to remember that shops used to have half day closing on Wednesdays