To be seemingly the only one at work tomorrow

[Givenupgivingashit]

Apart from me and and my other NHS colleagues, all of my friends seem to be off work tomorrow, teachers, retail workers, office workers.
Please tell me that there's someone else at work keeping the country running?!

[mountainsunsets]

Both DH and I are off work.

The building site he works on doesn't open on bank holidays, and I'm a self-employed dog walker/pet sitter with my own business. I could work, but all my clients are home and don't really need me, and I had a stupidly busy week last week so in all honesty, I could do with a day off. I asked if anyone needed me and nobody did, so I decided to close.

I do have a horse to go and feed in the evening though but he only takes half an hour to sort out.

[NothingIsWrong]

Working. Don't have the luxury of time on my current project to take a day off, I'm going ahead with a couple of meetings that were booked and need to happen

[Xiaoxiong]

DH is working - boarding school and not all the kids can go home at such short notice. I'm also not "at work", but the rest of the world doesn't have a bank holiday so I anticipate a few hours of work at least if I don't want an avalanche on Tuesday morning.

[DashboardConfessional]

I wish I was. DS3 and I are off Fridays so day 4 of keeping him entertained when DH and I both have a stinking cold is going to be difficult.

[IroningThrone]

I'm working!

[Dontknowwhyidoit]

My husband will be working as he is a farmer and he will probably ask me to help him as I'm off work due to the bank holiday

[SauvignonBlanche]

NHS nurse manager with a BH I never asked for but dept is closed. Am hopelessly behind on paperwork so will spend the day catching up.

[User47484739478474]

I'm off, Dp will be at work at his non essential job, that could easily shut down for one day but his boss is an Ahole!

[BrokenWing]

We have been given the choice, if we want to take the day off for the national day of mourning we can. But it won't be a floating day, you must take that day, if you don't normally work Mondays, if you have it booked off already or are sick you don't get to take it on another date (or cancel your prebooked holiday if it is already in the system). If you are required to come in you will be compensated. Seems a fair compromise to me and allows anyone who wants take part do so and those who want to take part but can't are compensated.

Lots of people already had the day booked off as it is a local holiday (not in-service day) here and schools were off anyway and they are all being mature and respectful about the context and noone has tried to say its "not fair". LA has sent out an email saying schools will be closed another day this year to make up for it 🤔, not unexpected and absolutely ridiculous that they would do this with no thought to impact on others.

I will probably be working in the morning 8-10am as I have some online meetings, then I will have the TV on in the background until 5pm when I have calls with US.

ds(18) is off for what should have been his first day at uni, and self employed dh (don't work, don't get paid) is working as normal.

[Pixiedust1234]

Oh.... I thought you were going to say that you were the one officiating at Westminster, AMA 😮

[PurBal]

Churches are open.

[TimBoothseyes]

Although the place isn't open to the public DD is working tomorrow. She works in an animal park so will spend most of tomorrow cuddling her beloved meerkats. 😄

[PurpleBlis]

I'm self employed I'll be working, otherwise I won't get paid and still need to pay childcare fees.

I am planning on watching part of the funeral though so I don't get FOMO

[ProbAmU]

@emmetgirl

I'm working. I own a cafe bar and we're open as normal.
All day.
If anyone thinks it's disrespectful, I don't care.

I think it's sensible to open tbh. Everywhere is shut near me as far as I can tell, anyone daring to open will probably have a profitable day 🙂

[emmetgirl]

I'm working. I own a cafe bar and we're open as normal.
All day.
If anyone thinks it's disrespectful, I don't care.

[NiceTwin]

I work with animals, everyday is the same, no bank holidays in this house!

[KatherineJaneway]

I'm not working tomorrow. My job is important but not vital to the running of the country.

[JustDanceAddict]

not working.
my work is closed and my dh’s business (his own) is closed. We are going to watch the funeral and do some sorting out after!

[itsthesoundofthepolice]

I'll be working....so will DH, emergency service working sucks.
Tomorrow is supposed to be my day off but that's been scuppered.

[Tumbleweed101]

I'm working. Usually I have bank holidays off but my boss decided it was too short notice for our parents to get alternative childcare so we are open for keyworker children.

[SocksAndTheCity]

I'm volunteering rather than working, but I'll be in tomorrow (food charity)

[Waitingaround]

Working in the NHS. We are running service as normal.

[TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]

Are you the Archbishop of Canterbury?

[primeoflife]

@ConfusedDottComm

I bloody hate this saying so please forgive me ladies and gents - As an essential worker who had to travel to work everyday through the pandemic, who couldn't possibly be furloughed or work from home at all as we were so essential, I am OFF tomorrow! Essential my foot ehh.

@ConfusedDottComm well you could say that about teachers, GPS, surgeons then! We were all essential in lockdown but can have tomorrow off!

[primeoflife]

@Noteverybodylives

I’m a teacher so not required to work tomorrow but I have a lot of work to do, so I’ve chosen to do it tomorrow which will free up some of my evenings/weekends.

@Noteverybodylives this is exactly my plan!! I'm behind already with the start of the term so I'm looking at it as a catch up point!