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?

The airline job for crew/essential ground staff is potentially 24/7/365....just as in your profession airline crew and many ground staff are expected to work when other don't.

Rosters for September at most airlines will probably have been published a while back and people will still be expected to work their rosters, the employers are not at this stage going to go around saying "anybody who wants it can have the 19th off".

That BH will probably be added to an individuals entitlement for later in the leave year.

YABVU

People will feel under indirect pressure to say yes.

I'm in education too and would be pretty pissed off if a colleague suggested I should spend my bank holiday meeting with them. Don't put people in that position.

If you absolutely have to, I would send emails along the lines of "Hi Jane, I'll be rescheduling my meetings on 19 September. I'll still be working that day, so if you would prefer not to postpone that's fine with me."

I really really wouldn't though.

... because some of us don't care about the funeral?

Pretty simple.

That's not the point. If you work in an organisation that shuts for BHs, you are a twat for asking colleagues to work on those days. You can work on your own stuff if you want of course, but the fact of the matter is the nation has decided it is a BH, the organisation decides what the organisation is doing, and you as an individual have to lump it.

I'm on holiday.

If the meetings are so important to,you, do the 'quick zoom' meetings in Friday, during your booked day off.

Yanbu to work in the bank holiday.
But Yabu to ask others to do so.

I don't think you should even be asking them, let alone there being any expectation to do so.

If you can send work emails from your holiday then surely you can also zoom?

Did you read my original post? Nowhere did I say I expected anyone to work.

You've said you want to go ahead with meetings. Unless those meetings are you talking to yourself, you are expecting others to work.

Halleluia.

I'm on holiday until next Saturday with just my phone. No laptop or other work resources. It's not possible to see documentation, schedules, other people's calendars, even phone numbers (given they're not in the office or all part of my institution) and other things we'd need to refer to on my phone. They're on a work Google drive accessible on a VPN.

I've been accused of "not giving a s* about the queen" too. This place is totally nuts sometimes.

What I actually said was:

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

You'd think that, but we didn't get the equivalent added to our leave allowance for the jubilee in 2012 or William and Katie's wedding. We also still had to have some staff working those days (whereas in my department we don't work on "normal" bank holidays). Those who took the day off had to take it out of their usual leave allowance.

We did get an extra day added to our leave to allow for the Diamond Jubilee, but I have no idea if that will happen for this.

If it’s that important, all the others will realise and will be in touch on Tuesday.

I have 3 meetings on Monday. Know 2 will be cancelled but the other 1 colleague and I are going to still have it by teams as we need to sort something out. Only be an hour. DH will be at work and teenage DC so I think I will do a few hours work without no interruptions and catch up on admin.

I want to watch the funeral so therefore it will be a non-working day for me........for people that don't and want to work then do it....I don't think there should be any judgement either way. It is very short notice for some people to change their plans and they should do what they feel.

I would like to watch the funeral but I won’t be able to, as I’ll be at work.

My friend is a hospital consultant in paediatrics. She runs two clinics on Mondays. Waiting lists are enormous and she works evenings and weekends to try to reduce the backlog.

She decided that she wanted her clinics to go ahead as planned on Monday 19th so her and her students have begun calling the parents of children with appts on that day to let them know that the appointments will go ahead.

4 sets of parents have already complained- they don't want up attend as it is now a bank holiday and they expect an alternative appt to be conjured up over the following few days instead!

FFS people!

YANBU @ImJustMadAboutSaffron

I’m in much the same situation. Meetings that are necessary and can’t really be rescheduled. But I’ve been told my university will be closed.

At least I’ll get paid for the day anyway. There will be many people who will lose a day’s pay.

It’s a pretty thoughtless gesture, frankly.

Exactly.

And it’s so inconvenient because the BH has been called at such short notice. That’s adding a lot of extra work to many people’s workloads.

The OP is in a job where a “day off” isn’t really a holiday, because there’s no corresponding day’s reduction in workload.

The same amount of work has to be done, but in 4 days rather than 5.

Absolutely fine!

Neither are me and my teams. In a 4 day week, we do the same amount of work as a 5 day week.

I still wouldn’t ask them if they could do a couple of quick jobs on a bank holiday.

Of course there’s still a power imbalance. you don’t have to directly employ someone, for there to be a power imbalance.

I work in conveyancing. It’s going to be a pain for clients who have already exchanged to complete that day.