Christmas leave priority

That attitude doesn't seem very Christian to me. What happened to loving thy neighbour? What happened to kindness and Christian charity? Demanding the religious festivals as holiday every time seems quite a performative approach to religion.

I’m sorry but this is quite ironic given you seem to be a pretty selfish person; ‘why doesn't anyone put me first??’ Society doesn’t care about the individual, it doesn’t care about you, me or Tom, Dick and Harry. What matters is collective society, and children are the basis of that. They are needed to keep humanity going. And at the rate we’re going humanity will die out as the replacement rate is falling. Would you prefer to be in a society like Japan where there are 2.5 elderly people for every 1 child, which is having a detrimental impact on not only the economy but also the health and happiness of their society (significant increase in feelings of isolation etc). You might not feel ‘seen’ in society and perhaps feel lesser-than mothers, but I would encourage you to think less about yourself and think more about the greater good.

Well I don’t think being front of the queue of beggars qualifies as much of a privilege. Much better to not be in said queue….

You sound nice…

I’m choosing not to have children because I think it’s an intrinsically selfish choice in this world.

I have had all but one leave request denied this year. I’ve had a week of leave (and 2.5 days used for appointments at my gp) while the parents have had fucking tons.

I’m assuming you understand Christianity well enough to work the answer out for yourself.

Or do you need spoon fed?

note: don’t worry, I also have every Easter off :)

Age is a protected characteristic - that works both ways and being treated differently for not being "old enough" to be a grandparent is age discrimination.

Disability is a protected characteristics and some disabilities prevent people from having children

Religion is a protect characteristic and advantaging non Christians more favourably because they have children for a Christian holiday is discrimination

I actually am in favour of parents having priority for all school holiday leave, insofar as is possible, but that priority list is crazy. A parent of an 8 year old being lower down the list than a grandparent of a 6 year old is ridiculous!

Ha. It seems you got lost when you forgotten you’d told us you were childless ;)

Enjoy your evening, be careful up there on those bandwagons, the bump when you fall of can hurt…..

No, see my previous re. “Clearly balanced with someone can’t always be priority”.

Frankly, you lost me at “Christianity”. That explains a lot. Crack on.

You obviously don’t know it well enough to even understand the difference between a lawyer and solicitor…. Go look up barrister and you might be able to figure it out.

there’s bandwagon #2 btw: own a business.

surely there can’t be room for another bandwagon….?

No. I’m not a “wannabe” anything. And you don’t need to be a “lawyer” or actually a “solicitor” as they are called in the UK to know the basics of the law. It’s actually quite helpful if you own a business. If you don’t, you could land yourself in trouble. Fortunately your ridiculous entitlement is not law. Lucky me!

I’m assuming you understand Christianity well enough to work the answer out for yourself.

Or do you need spoon fed?

note: don’t worry, I also have every Easter off :)

Well your words were “a lot of us who are childless by choice”…. A good (wannabe) lawyer like yourself who has even the most basic understanding of English would know that means you’re not a parent.

Unless of course you’re a parent of a non-child which makes no sense… and before you say it: “of course the law require you to make sense” I know, I know

Really? I can barely remember a thing from before age 7 (Christmas or not!) you remember every single one of your childhood Christmases?

I think it’s fair actually. It is more important the under 7s are with their parents at Christmas. Childhood Christmases form lifetime memories. Really not the same for teens and adults. When I was single and pre kids I didn’t mind this either.

Yes, but year after year? He never worked xmas. I had to, or I was called in to cover him when it would have been my day off. If I complained... "well you don't have kids"... um, I was my parent's kid and I very much wanted to go and spend xmas with them instead of doing a shift and having a meal for one home alone because there was no public transport to get me to my parents anyway.

Thankfully, this nonsense had a stop put to it when a new manager started and saw what a piss taker he was.

Sorry, but the offspring of my colleagues is none of my business.

I think it’s fair actually. It is more important the under 7s are with their parents at Christmas. Childhood Christmases form lifetime memories. Really not the same for teens and adults. When I was single and pre kids I didn’t mind this either.

So as a religious family you also expect priority over Easter too?