To not want another bank holiday?

[Pbbananabagel]

Ok hear me out, for people working in 9-5 jobs or industry’s that regularly have weekends off, bank holidays are a great thing. For everyone working in service industries though, it really isn’t. It’s yet another day we pay for childcare that can’t be used (but we have to pay as that’s in the contract), it’s another day of work while everyone else is having a wonderful time. It’s another day where we have to suck it up and deal with people being extra drunk/rude/obnoxious because… bank holiday. I’d really rather he sorted out the tax/universalcredit/benefits system/nhs/midwife crisis/underfunding of schools and social care or just about anything else rather than try to grab some popularity points to cover his rich tax avoiding backside.

I get you OP. This is why I left hospitality. I worked in a kitchen (pub type setting) and would often be on the close. On bank holidays we would be rammed and I wouldn't leave until 3-4am.

If you work bank holidays, you get additional annual leave to take at another time though. So that would be an extra day that you don't need childcare.

Very Badly timed in the middle of exams - GCSE and A levels.

noisy street parties and 3 days of drinking music and dancing at pub closest to us, should make revision challenging...

Actual anniversary of coronation was months ago so the government could easily have scheduled the mass national party after the exams...

Realistically it just means I have less days to do the same amount of work. I make sure I make the most of the extra day - by that I mean ensuring I have proper down time.

I spent plenty of bank holidays (in fact practically all of them including Boxing Day and New Years Day) working at my retail job. Hated knowing that my friends were having a lovely BBQ in the sun and I was working a supermarket shift for my normal wage.

Sorry to say but now I love them. I’m a teacher so I’m long welcoming the extra day off next week, a weekend where I can have at least one full day without having to touch my work (hopefully!). Flip side of my situation now is most of them are inside school holidays anyway so not much difference. But I’ve done my dues. And can I take another 37 years of teaching before retirement? I may be working them again at some point!

when I worked at a nursery, we had the absolute minimum allocated annual leave required by law regardless of service. Bank holidays formed part of this entitlement, so 8 days a year were chosen for me. If you have to work bank holidays, you get the time given back to you in annual leave so you still get the day you just take it somewhere else. Swings and roundabouts.

But then the rest of the citizen wouldn’t have had 4 day weekend. I’ve been a student and has exams in June. You just have to focus on them. Your party time will come not long after anyway

I’m happy to have the bank holiday. In my work some of us are required to work it, but we get that day as an extra day holiday to take whenever we want if we don’t take it as a holiday, so I’ve added the day onto a week I’m off in the summer.

I think it purely depends on the company you work for whether it’s a good or bad thing.

I hate bank holidays. I work in hospitality. This one is going to be hell. Drunken assholes or over entitled assholes. I won’t get paid any more for serving the afore mentioned. I will have to work longer hours. I won’t get a break in a 12 hour shift but will be expected to do it all with a smile on my face. Yuck.

Oh god no.

I don't want them.
Two weeks Easter hols.
Inset day this week.
BH next week.
Before we know it more BH...the kids are never in bloody school!

chill out it’s an extra day not a month

As an agency worker working in an industry closed on bank holidays, I don’t get paid as I don’t have annual leave. I don’t like them for that reason!

But you won’t be paying for childcare forever. Your child will be a teenager before you know it 😀. I know some people still have to work on bank holidays, but you get the equivalent hours back as part of your annual leave don’t you?

So why wouldn’t you want extra holiday allowance?

It won’t happen anyway

YANBU it’s horrible having to work them all and find childcare whilst people are out enjoying them selves.

YANBU I'm self employed and I'm not able to work the bank holidays as the sites close or people don't want you working in their homes on a bank holiday. I've got 2 kids, a partner on maternity leave and a mortgage, then along comes another bloody bank holiday with no pay.

Where I live the day after Halloween, All Saints' Day, is a public holiday. It's always miserable weather. You're not missing much.

Bank holiday weekends are a pain in the ass. We stay at home cos everyone wants to go away.

Get a different job then 🤷🏼‍♀️

What’s this about an extra BH? I thought the late May one had just been moved to June, or have I missed something?

Well Rishi doesn't arrange the bank holidays either so neither here nor there

Not everyone has kids, you're just thinking of yourself which is fair enough but for me, thinking of myself, I'm delighted, the more bank holidays the better

The late May BH has been moved to June and an extra one has been added, so the Thursday and Friday are Bank Holidays.

Surely it's pro rats to your holiday allowance if you work it. I'm in tourism and our worked hols are given back to us to take when we want them.

Anyway it isn't even decided yet is it from next year I mean.

You dont loose anything.

Your shoelace gets loose. You dont loose a day's pay. You lose a day's pay. Lose. Not loose.