bank holidays should be axed

[traciebanbanjo]

Obviously you still have the holiday, but you choose when to have it avoiding places being really overcrowded and holidays being super expensive. It's a right pain in the ass for many couples where one is often forced to work and the other forced to take holiday.

Weren't they originally because people were paid Daily and as the banks were closed so we're the factories.

I think some people haven't understood that electable holidays still means the same 28 min days a year.

The economy would probably perform better too, many people just stay local or do nothing.

many people just stay local or do nothing

And this is a bad thing??

I’d love them if I were single. I don’t like enforced family time, and not being able to go anywhere as it’s so busy and just having to cook, clean, tidy etc as normal. Same shit different day, but worse.

Dh and I work in factories. Bank holidays have to be booked off if you don't want to work them. I get no extra pay for working but get a day in lieu so in theory if i work I get to take a day off when its less busy.

Every Monday should be a bank holiday.

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'Enforced family time' - strange expression that.

I don't think it's a strange expression. It's one that often pops into my head on here. Quite often family time sounds like something to be endured rather than enjoyed and holidays geared towards family time have little significance to people who don't have families.

I knew someone would post my "saying at home isn't good for the economy" out of context!

And no it isn't good for many families if they are forced to take 30% of their holidays on the same days as everyone else so can't go and visit friends and family due to the nightmare of the traveling chaos.

YABVU. DH works for a supermarket who decided a few years ago that they no longer recognised BHs and added it to the leave. Great but they can never have leave in any week with a BH.

Luckily I still get BH's or there would be nobody to look after DD, who doesn't go to school on a BH.

I get really envious of all the families I see when I'm out on my own with her yet again, and I feel really sorry for her when she has to get somebody else's daddy to lift her down from high equipment in a park because her own daddy is at work as per flaming usual.

Everyone wanted Sunday to be a "normal" day so people now get forced to work it for no extra money. Let's not go down the slippery slope of losing our hard won holidays as well.

No

I don't get any extra pay or time off in lieu for bank hols. It costs me money to work a bank holiday, because of public transport restrictions and double taxi fares, doesn't seem fair somehow! Especially when you add to that it's usually 10 times busier with arsehole pissheads who can't hold their drink and the company is raking it in. Though I don't think they should be banned all together I do think that things like public transport need to up their game a bit and provide a service for those who have to work bank hols and I do think it should be statutory to have a bonus or enhanced pay for them if they exist, so the people actually giving them up get the benefit rather than the company.

Thing is if they were axed it would make places less busy and not as shit to work then.

It comes down to you want the government when to tell you to take almost 1/3rd of your holiday or you don't.

traciebanbanjo

What happens in your masterplan for those of us that have jobs where we can't choose which days to take off?

That's up to companies not the government. Work somwhere where you agree with the companies policy.

traciebanbanjo

I already work somewhere where I agree with the policy, It is you that has the issue with the holidays.

I like bank holidays!
I'm not bothered if I work or not.
If I do I het my hours back on to my annual leave hours +time and a half pay. If it falls on my day off I do stuff with DP, my lads and their girlfriends.
I'm happy either way!

I don't work Mondays and DH is working a 12h shift today so not a particularly special day for us. Although when I worked FT with only 20 days leave those extra days off were something to be cherished.