AIBU .. to work on 19 September?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

It's the first day back at work for me and the first day of freshers week. Of course the student activity planned for the day will not take place but I'd got several meetings planned with colleagues and student ambassadors as well as a couple of employers. These meetings will affect what we do in the rest of the week.

It's not about not showing respect or not caring about the queen and nothing whatsoever to do with the social side of university or drinking activities. Yes we can rearrange some things. But it's going to be rather awkward and have a knock on effect on the following week when the returners come back.

If the others are amenable - and I'm aware they might not be - I want to have the meetings, probably on Zoom.

AIBU?

It's the horrible way some posters are coming across. Not what they're saying but the way they're saying it. There's no need for rudeness etc. Not saying you are but some posters have been.

You are pretty obstinate @ImJustMadAboutSaffron I will give you that!

The rudeness you intend to show your colleagues is what you should be focused on, IMO.

I agree. If people want to take the day off and watch the funeral that's fine.

But it shouldn't be a forced thing.

Equally, as it is a bank holiday you can't expect people to work unless they are due in for a shift eg in a hospital which isn't the case here. You'll just have to reschedule for the Tuesday. The student ambassadors might be happy to do the meetings as they are volunteers anyway but not your colleagues.

So people are wrong because you don’t like how they have posted?

Did the consultant also call the nurses, HCAs , secretaries and admin to tell them to come in on a bank holiday or arrange locum rates for them? What a doughnut.

Whaaaa? @MomsnetAdmin you say that about a consultant who is trying her best to do what's right for her patients?

I know who the "doughnut" here is, and it isn't the consultant.

You'll just have to reschedule for the Tuesday. The student ambassadors might be happy to do the meetings as they are volunteers

And if Tuesday is chock full? Or meeting rooms aren't available? Or people involved are not available because they're doing the work scheduled for Tuesday?

And certainly at my place, we pay student ambassadors for their time. It would be exploitative to do anything else.

I think a lot of people commenting here don't know how universities work, particularly the pressures on staff & departments in Fresher's week.

If it’s not a priority for them, then it’s not as important as OP is making out. Its a ‘quick zoom call’ afterall. If it’s important it’ll get squeezed in or people will decline something else to fit it in.

I think a lot of people commenting here don't know how universities work, particularly the pressures on staff & departments in Fresher's week.

I work at a university. Im a senior academic and prior to this job I managed our student ambassador scheme...... I still think they are being completely unreasonable.

I met up with my cousin yesterday. She is a regional coordinator

Sorry posted too soon. Coordinator for anti natal testing. She was beyond stressed and upset that both routine and urgent scans will have to be cancelled. She has no wriggle room to reschedule them all. Her sonographers are already stretched as far as they can go and there is no way to fit all of in the missed spots within their time window.

I’ll be working, we won’t close

Well, I’m a senior academic and HoD and I think @ImJustMadAboutSaffron is not unreasonable. So where does that claim get you …?

Well, I’m a senior academic and HoD and I think @ImJustMadAboutSaffron is not unreasonable. So where does that claim get you …?

It means we disagree. It also means that I understand how universities work and in particular pressures of freshers week, which is what I was responding to.

I'm in a role which is equivalent to HoD and if I found out that staff in my department were planning on doing what the OP is then I'd be having a word. It is particularly inappropriate to contact student ambassadors in this situation. Despite what the OP claims there is a power imbalance in that relationship.

My Uni announced that some people will be "asked" to work on 19th for "student welfare" reasons. There is worry about new starters, overseas students, and the knock on effects rest of the week's events. This "ask: will mostly fall on Admin staff, lecturers would be able to get out of it much more easily. So much for solidarity, right?

Didn't the economy lose like 1% GDP this year because of the jubilee bank holiday?

I take it back we are closing along with every other business in my area it seems