Moving the May Bank Holiday. Will this cause you inconvenience?

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I work Mondays. I am still paid for the Bank Holidays. I don’t work Fridays. I have already made my holiday arrangements around child care for 2020 and now unless I can take a day off unpaid my plans are now up the creek. Also my job involves a diary of clients that book up almost a year in advance so this will now also need to be sorted.
Not a happy bunny, this should have been announced at least a year in advance for people accommodate.

Hopingtobeamum you are missing something - presumably due to not having read the thread. If you don't read the thread, you will miss things and your posts will make you look silly. The main thing you are missing is that people have paid out thousands of pounds in non refundable deposits for events such as weddings, holidays etc often years in advance. They will completely lose this money if they reschedule.

You just know the celebration will glorify war rather than emphasise the absolute horrific brutal mass slaughter and the individual desperate suffering anyway. It's clear in the language - children murdered in their beds and teenagers who bled out slowly in no man's land or were blown to pieces or died of flu in the trenches or who were shot for desertion due to PTSD didn't "give" their lives - their lives were taken from them. The official line is always about commemorating the end of the war, but bank holiday drinking and tens of thousands of pubs encouraging drinkers to toast heros, and bunting decked street parties just paper over the horrors and turn it into a patriotic piss up party.

Surely a 2 minutes silence or simila plus projects to learn in an age appropriate way about the reality rather than the pageantry of war in schools would be more appropriate than parties and moving a bank holiday.

In most countries the bank holiday at the beginning of May is for workers rights, presumably it's not really for anything if it can be shifted and repurposed?

Jesus, talk about a ‘war and peace’ length of response!
The BH has been changed and it’s not going to be changed so I’d suggest putting efforts into working around this to minimise impacts.

@nuxe1984 Backwards and forwards don’t mean what you think they mean. The bank holiday is being pushed backwards. Being brought forwards means it would be sooner.

We only get Christmas New Year & Easter BH so makes no difference.

OP you sound ever so important. Your diary and your clients' diaries can't be moved a year in advance?
Gosh.
Are you the Queen?

This is like the smallest drama yet known of 2020, but we have 356 responses....

This must be a thing in the upper echelons of madness.

Jonette is it a leap year to boot?

If you acquire madness a year before, then it might well be a leap year.

Funny to see how the other half (the mad half) live.

Anybody who is anybody has a PA to trawl through these nightmares on their behalf...............

The privilege is real, we are fortunate that this is something to get worked up about. Bank holidays cost a lot of money, it's not just a case of adding another one as a few people are too self absorbed to realise that complaining about it moving is nothing in comparison to what the day is commemorating.

I think people have lost their marbles Sandy I know it must give people "inconvenience" for a day an a loss of wages for pt workers, but in the grand scheme of life.....it does make me wonder what this world would have been like, had those service men and women decided it was all rather tiresome to disrupt their lives by going off to fight for freedom, oh and damn it, get killed on the front line. How blardy inconvenient!

Couldn't they have kept the bank holiday and given us the extra day too?

Aibu at its finest, quick decent into a bun fight and some very inaccurate assumptions about who I am . Nope, I’m not important, but that’s not to say I can’t be inconvenienced by some rather shitty government decision telling me what I’m expected to do for my day off when I had already planned sensibly in advance . Some really great replies too .
I was only asking if it was inconvenient to you personally that the date has been pushed back. Nothing else and never implied it wasn’t for a very good reason.
Their are people on here who are going to be far more inconvenienced than me.
And yes, I agree with the long post about possibly having to endure a weekend of drunken behaviour as in the name of celebrating our Fallen.

Given the fuss some people do make when their appointment is cancelled or rearranged even in advanced you might be mistaken for thinking I am royalty after all.

am I missing something or is 11 months not enough notice?

Not enough notice for the hotel I’d booked who have confirmed they won’t refund my deposit for a bank holiday break. As it was only a weekend break my deposit was relatively small but some people are being hit for hundreds.

Our diaries for next year will have wrong dates in as they are due for delivery from the printers this week so we can get them to our parents but the end of term. If we don’t change every one by hand I can guarantee that parents will keep the children away on the Monday as well “that’s what it said on the diary you gave me”.

Very important remembrance but shoddily handled.

Why can some posters on here not understand that is it possible to be annoyed by this, because you will lose a holiday deposit for example, and respecting the war dead?

Why can some posters on here not understand that is it possible to be annoyed by this, because you will lose a holiday deposit for example, and respecting the war dead?

You won't lose a holiday deposit, holiday companies will allow a change.
It's Grayson not Greyson.

A friend of mine is a bit miffed as she'd specifically arranged her wedding for a bank hol weekend so that people have more time to relax / stay over if they are travelling from far away. However there was a couple in the Sun yesterday who were more than a bit miffed the same reason, they were absolutely fumming!

Hollow. Did you miss the post about one above mine saying that her hotel won’t return her deposit?

It's nearly a year I think you may be ok to rearrange. I understand it's irritating but from what you describe nothing major, I guess it's a choose how you feel situation.

Grayson, that's for a cancellation. If you change it you should be fine. If you cancel you won't be.

And a lot of people are going to have to cancel holidays, weddings, etc for a wide variety of valid reasons. They can't all just change.

I can see some people might have already booked events/weddings and holidays based on the usual date. I will effectively lose a days worth of annual leave ( I don't work Mondays so get prorated bank holidays to take whenever). Think this should have been announced last year or given another day

Is it really going to be that many?

Many will just take the day as annual leave anyway or just swap shifts. After all, most people will be able to find one day out of a minimum of 28 to use so they can continue as planned.

The main group of people affected would appear to be those working in schools and I can see that day being an inset day for a lot of schools as there will apparently be a lot of people who have already made plans for things a year or more in advance (really? is this how most people operate? I book almost nothing more than 2 or 3 months in advance at most. I understand actual full week holidays eg half term, Easter, summer holidays etc but not one single day that's not connected to a full holiday).

So making 4 May 2020 an inset day will allow the people who work in schools to continue with their original plans so further reducing the number of people affected to what must be almost no-one, except a few Star Wars fans who have decided to get married that day and I really think we're now scraping the bottom of the barrel of what we should expect the Government to take account of.