To think it’s ridiculous that an extra Bank Holiday has been announced in Scotland because they’ve qualified for the World Cup?

It IS unique to Scotland, because we haven't qualified for the world cup for so long. What's difficult to understand about that?

I take an additional week unpaid

The Daily Mail would go mental if the house price fall happened, the rest they'd just blame on the wokes and forrins....

I’m confused about this . A holiday for public servants. Optional for everyone else?

AT least the Scottish government is consistent in its approach to Scottish football. They always pander to it. Remember Covid? people weren’t allowed to organise socially distanced outdoor running but football was allowed. There was a spike in cases , officially recognised by the PHA as being caused by football fans congregating when no one else was allowed to. Glasgow city centre on an old firm match day is literally a riot . People avoid the city centre. The truth is the day of or after big matches people call in sick to their work. But sure let’s all celebrate this while ignoring many other worthwhile sports and achievements.

YABU, can’t see the problem with people having a little bit more joy, we need it enough.

Do you only have 25days leave like the average worker? I ask because everyone (most people ) i know who has worked in public sector for over 5 years has at least 30days so an extra week off.

If you're feeling jealous, you could always move there?

YABU

We have about the lowest number of public holidays in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_public_holidays

We need at least two more in England. Three or four more would make us align with France and Germany.

Who both have much higher labour productivity than the UK.

Can you guarantee this wont happen? 🤣🤣

I’d like the extra day off but I don’t expect we will get it. Our place reluctantly closed for the queens funeral and I firmly believe that was only because everyone else was closed.

We shut the country down for a grown man in a gold cloak sitting on a chair that cost millions.
As a part-time employee I had to use my own annual leave to stay off, because it was pro rata and there was no option to work.
It’s all relative, what feels “silly” to one person is meaningful to someone else.

Well aren’t you a charmer…

Small minded nonsense

No more spurious than bank holidays for jubilees and coronations

I'm not Scottish and I'm not interested in football, but I'm very pleased that Scotland have qualified after so many years and I hope that they thoroughly enjoy supporting their team. If having an extra bank holiday enables them to do this, then I'm very pleased that they have got one.

We've had extra bank holidays in England in recent years because of the Queen's jubilee and the King's coronation. I'm not a royalist and couldn't have cared less about these events, but I know these things do matter to lots of people and I was perfectly happy to give my staff the extra days off.

You sound like a bit of a killjoy tbh OP.

Scotland in world cup is a big deal

But my local authority have announced they won't be giving the bank holiday

It only applies to government employees and others if their employer chooses to grant it.

Maybe the better question is, why doesn’t every country do this?

Theres an economic hit obviously but a little bit of joy goes a long way.

Completely ridiculous.

My OH won't be getting the day off anyway.

Well they did it for whatever the tedious royal jubilee was....... Or was it the naff coronation?
Who cares . Its a day off.

How does it affect your life?

When Tony Blair was in power my DD attended a SN clinic in Alderhey. They'd tell you what appointments were available and if not suitable, you'd have more to choose from that week. Now it's 'go home, wait for the letter, then cancel and wait for the next one'. The same DD (now 29) is waiting for Endocrinology, since she couldn't make an appointment in April 2024. She's getting a phone call appointment in March. We are living in very different times.

I’d have slightly less of an issue of the nhs in Scotland wasn’t so broken that people re waiting 2+yers for cataract operations, 2yers for hip replacements and women and babies weren’t being put at risk because maternity units are so under resourced that pregnancies are routinely going into their 43rd week due to there not being enough to to carry out inductions inna safer timescale.

But you crack on with your delusion

The bank holiday when Queen Elizabeth died set my granddaughter's hearing aids back by a year. That's a year in school not being able to hear and at a age were her speech would be affected. This was after no speech therapy or hearing aids, during lock down.
If we had a health system like in the 2000's were an appointment was available that week, all well and good, but it sets people back months, to years. Surgeons/Consultants etc work all over the UK, so does it affect anyone who has health issues.