10-04-2012, 10:52 AM
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We get the fewest bank holidays of anyone in Europe. We should get more not less, they are very important for those of who are still working. Obviously if you are retired they are not important as every day is a holiday if you like. This forum has more retired members than working members so they will naturally have a different point of view.
10-04-2012, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by The Dog Lover
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We get the fewest bank holidays of anyone in Europe. We should get more not less, they are very important for those of who are still working. Obviously if you are retired they are not important as every day is a holiday if you like. This forum has more retired members than working members so they will naturally have a different point of view.
In the kind of jobs I had I worked some if not all bank holidays and felt I was missing out when a lot of the country was not working and I was .
10-04-2012, 02:56 PM
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Well, there's some cheerfull people on here, how can you not like bank holidays, a day off with pay and you moan about it. You would complain if you were young and just starting your working life. how would you like working till your seventy and no bank holidays?.10-04-2012, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimmy
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Well, there's some cheerfull people on here, how can you not like bank holidays, a day off with pay and you moan about it. You would complain if you were young and just starting your working life. how would you like working till your seventy and no bank holidays?.
10-04-2012, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimmy
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Well, there's some cheerfull people on here, how can you not like bank holidays, a day off with pay and you moan about it. ]You would complain if you were young and just starting your working life. how would you like working till your seventy and no bank holidays?.
I started my working life with half a day off a week and a whole day once a month working 12 hours a day for £1 a week and my 'keep' which was a shared bedroom and a diet consisting mainly of potatoes and marrow. And no bank holidays not even Christmas day . In subsequent jobs I worked bank holidays. When I married I ran a business and worked bank holidays then I was widowed at an early age and it was back to jobs where I worked bank holidays.
10-04-2012, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dog Lover
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Well said Jimmy. Yes the roads are a pain but its nice just to have some extra time off work to get stuff done round the house and garden. Bring them on as many as possible
10-04-2012, 06:34 PM
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I don't like the busy roads and crowds, but bank holidays are essential to the industries that rely on them.I can recall years ago I worked most bank holidays looking after industries that just needed the odd day to get essential maintenance work done.
I had a business for the last 20 years of my working life, and I looked forward to having the shop shut for a break.
So yes there is obviously a fore and against for bank holidays, so let them be.
10-04-2012, 09:04 PM
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I hated being forced to have a holiday when I worked for large company's so when I had my own business I gave the employees the choice of working or having a holiday, not one of them had the day off.Bank holidays in my opinion are for the idle British type of shirker.
10-04-2012, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Antibrown
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I hated being forced to have a holiday when I worked for large company's so when I had my own business I gave the employees the choice of working or having a holiday, not one of them had the day off.Bank holidays in my opinion are for the idle British type of shirker.
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