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Do your work colleagues actually know it's Easter this weekend and that Friday and Monday are Bank Holidays?

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cakeorwine · 26/03/2024 19:50

After some recent emails and conversations, I think some people just don't know. Maybe they are just out of the loop on these things.

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MassageForLife · 27/03/2024 17:53

Don't children have Easter related events any more?

We had egg rolling and Easter egg hunts locally, and usually Easter teas.

Treesinmygarden · 27/03/2024 17:53

ErrolTheDragon · 26/03/2024 23:17

The rest of my team is in the US, they don't have these holidays. No idea whether they know or care that it's Easter.
What kind of halfwit would love their job so much they would want to work bank holidays?!

I nearly always work on bank hols - and take a different day off in lieu when the roads and anywhere we'd want to go are less crowded. What kind of halfwit takes the same day off as everyone else if they can avoid it?Grin

The kind of halfwit that doesn't have that option!!

I kinda like it that everyone is off. No catching up to do when you start back!

Treesinmygarden · 27/03/2024 17:55

Tryingtokeepgoing · 26/03/2024 23:04

That’s a bit blinkered…there are plenty of organisations that operate every day of the year and just add the 8 Bank holidays to the 25 / 28 or whatever days contractual holiday. There are times in the past I’d much rather have had the flexibility to take 38 days when I chose, not have 8 fixed for me.

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Clearly the kind of halfwit that forgot she had already replied!

Treesinmygarden · 27/03/2024 17:57

FUPAgirl · 26/03/2024 23:32

Maybe the kind of 'half wit' who appreciates getting paid 'time and 2 thirds' for working it? 🤷‍♀️
And then gets a different day off instead.

If you're unfortunate enough to end up in a hospital over the holiday, you might even meet one of these half wits!

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MassageForLife · 27/03/2024 17:59

I'm the kind of halfwit that is quite happy to work bank holidays.

I would much rather take a longer spell off work, rather than an odd Monday every now and then, so the fact that they are added to my normal holidays is perfect for me.

SecondHandFurniture · 27/03/2024 18:04

ErrolTheDragon · 27/03/2024 17:45

I think the point is if you have children you’ll be aware when the end of term and the Easter holiday is, which will give you a pointer to which weekend Easter is likely to be

I thought the spring holiday isn't necessarily at Easter nowadays?

Yes, this is what I meant. Until we got the final term dates I knew DS was off for roughly the first 2 weeks of April, so based on that would have assumed Good Friday to be the 5th!

Bloom15 · 27/03/2024 18:46

theriseandfallofFranklinSaint · 26/03/2024 20:59

Whaaaaat!!!!!

Everybody I know is aware it's a Bank Holiday this weekend - we've been looking forward to these 4-5 days off since Christmas!

That is what I am thinking!!

MSCReturnToUni · 27/03/2024 19:12

I am old, and wiser I hope. Tacked this holiday weekend onto annual leave to be off work from tomorrow until 10th of April. Don't really do Easter as a thing as not religious. Caught on to maximising annual leave by using bank holidays just a few years ago. Long after needing childcare to cover 13 weeks school holidays.

Bloom15 · 27/03/2024 19:20

Elphame · 26/03/2024 23:14

I'll be working all weekend.

What I hadn't realised til last week was that it is the clock change. I hate the switch to BST, it takes me at least a fortnight to adjust to it.

At least you'll work an hour less!

Cactusleopard · 29/03/2024 00:02

I only learnt this year whilst trying to organise a work schedule for the whole of the UK, Scotland don't get easter Monday off!
The staff we have in Scotland are in on Monday but have no support from the usual offices they rely on because we are all based in England and so aren't in.
Genuinely thought bank holidays like that would be the same across the UK

nocoolnamesleft · 29/03/2024 00:11

Of course. Really changes how the rota works.

Linearforeignbody · 30/03/2024 05:56

Treesinmygarden · 26/03/2024 23:42

Jesus Christ, some of you could start a row in an empty room!!!!

I think that’s because you referred to us as halfwits for working bank holidays… some of us don’t have a choice. Our work goes on as normal and we take other days.
It really isn’t a problem and it’s industry standard for many.

If you hate your job so much why not look at doing something else?

tryingtohelp82 · 30/03/2024 15:07

It's quite depressing how many people assume everyone is off on bank holidays. How do you think the world continues to function? Soooo many professions work as normal. I have never had them off in any job despite working in different sectors.
You all sound like MPs who are so privileged and blinkered not to see the real world

Treesinmygarden · 30/03/2024 16:37

Linearforeignbody · 30/03/2024 05:56

I think that’s because you referred to us as halfwits for working bank holidays… some of us don’t have a choice. Our work goes on as normal and we take other days.
It really isn’t a problem and it’s industry standard for many.

If you hate your job so much why not look at doing something else?

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I don't know why people are so obtuse when I was quite obviously referring to the large proportion of the population who don't work bank holidays routinely. We also don't have a choice. Bank holidays still exist whether or not you work them. Why take it all so bloody personally?! It's swings and roundabouts.

I don't actually hate my job and I am fucking good at it too. It's high stress and it's so good to get some time off to recharge. Or am I not allowed that because I don't have to work bank holidays? I am looking at an alternative either - it's called retirement.

And if you're so triggered by having to work bank holidays, maybe you should consider changing that for a job where you don't.

JoBrodie · 01/04/2024 14:25

JoBrodie · 26/03/2024 22:46

If you look at the Gov UK website https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays on a Bank Holiday it will display some bunting.

Although I don't think it appears for Good Friday but should be there on Easter Monday.

At Christmas it's tinsel :)
https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678

Jo

Bunting is live on the Gov UK website, not an April Fool's joke - it's really there :) https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Jo

Do your work colleagues actually know it's Easter this weekend and that Friday and Monday are Bank Holidays?
MILLYmo0se · 01/04/2024 14:34

There's seems to beconfusion online every year here in Ireland because GF is a Bank Holiday only so banks and public institutions are closed, no legal right to a day off for the rest of us though some businesses like where I work do close and the day comes out of our annual leave. Every year there's people declaring it's not a Bank Holiday, it is, its just not also a Public Holiday, like today Easter Monday is where I'm entitled to a paid day off that doesn't come out of my AL entitlement.
Trying to explain this to someone in an FB group and she repeatedly shared lists of Irish Public Holidays, 'see GF isn't a Bank Holiday!' but couldn't explain why the banks are nt open and people wage payments are always changed if they are due to be paid on GF

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