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The Big Leap Year Con

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  • 03-01-2008 4:12pm
    #1
    chipclub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    2008 is a Leap Year. There is one extra day but a quick check of the calendar shows that there are still only 52 Saturdays and 52 Sundays so we are all going to spend the extra day in work for no extra pay. I will definitely be pulling a sickie on Friday February 29.


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    #2
    RxQueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    dont get me started on leap years and february they cause me utter confusment so they do always!


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    #3
    connundrum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    chipclub wrote: »
    I will definitely be pulling a sickie on Friday February 29.

    I refuse to work on a day that exists less than 33% of the time!


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    #4
    Mully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Mully


    I had great fun a few years ago trying to explain to my sisters friend, who was going from Weekly to Monthly pay, that sometimes there is 4 wks between Paydays, & sometimes there is 5wks between Paydays .... Same pay for more working days.


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    cunnins4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭cunnins4


    Mully wrote: »
    I had great fun a few years ago trying to explain to my sisters friend, who was going from Weekly to Monthly pay, that sometimes there is 4 wks between Paydays, & sometimes there is 5wks between Paydays .... Same pay for more working days.

    Yeah but you get paid for 4.33 weeks work every month, so you're actually getting paid more for your 4 week months! (that's if you go by your hourly rate, when you're on a fixed salary, then it sucks!)


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    cance
    Registered Users Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    Mully wrote: »
    sometimes there is 4 wks between Paydays, & sometimes there is 5wks between Paydays .... Same pay for more working days.

    single most annoying, and painful thing about monthly pay.


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    #7
    baztard
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭baztard


    The government should make it National 'Do What You Want' Day.


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    #8
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 7,860 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    or....you could just work that little bit less all year to even it out!


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    #9
    silvine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    In relation to the monthly versus weekly pay, surely you're getting paid the same amount when it all adds up? The only thing is it's more spaced out at times.


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    #10
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    lets look at the positives people for those of us paying rent we get one extra day for our money in febuary
    and also my uncle who was born on the 29th gets his one birthday for every for years this one


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    baztard
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭baztard


    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    lets look at the positives people for those of us paying rent we get one extra day for our money in febuary
    and also my uncle who was born on the 29th gets his one birthday for every for years this one

    Does he have the mind of a 40 year old and the body of a 10 year old?


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    The_B_Man wrote: »
    or....you could just work that little bit less all year to even it out!
    How could you possibly work any less??? :confused:


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    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    baztard wrote: »
    Does he have the mind of a 40 year old and the body of a 10 year old?


    everyone knows you only age when you get birthday cards telling you your new age is so he has the mind of a 40 year old and the body of a ten year old


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    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    emo!! wrote: »
    dont get me started on leap years and february they cause me utter confusment so they do always!

    Ha ha ha ha. I remember that thread. Where is Pighead!

    Anyway that is shocking i will definitly be asking for a pay rise equalling one days pay, or an extra days leave. Either is fine with me, dirty robbin baxtards. They* always complain about how much money sick days and bank holidays cost the economy never hear from them* when they are getting free days do ya.

    *they/them = "da man"


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    #15
    prendy
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    i hate 5 week months!


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    #16
    RxQueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    Ha ha ha ha. I remember that thread. Where is Pighead!

    "

    he is probally off confusing some other poor soul!

    i just looked at my payroll dates and im getting paid on the 28th of febuary, so yeah am thats and extra day then i think *cough cough*


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    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    Presumably every 7 leap years we get a free Saturday or something, no?


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    everyone knows you only age when you get birthday cards telling you your new age is so he has the mind of a 40 year old and the body of a ten year old

    Do you know where it's buried?


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    #19
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    Maximilian wrote: »
    Presumably every 7 leap years we get a free Saturday or something, no?

    Yes 2007 ended on a Monday normally the this year would end on a Tuesday but the leap makes it a Wednesday, so that Wednesday is actually the extra day.

    In 2016 (a leap for those confused) the year will end on a Saturday so that Saturday is the extra day.


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    #20
    chipclub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭chipclub


    Maximilian wrote: »
    Presumably every 7 leap years we get a free Saturday or something, no?

    That sounds about right but for a monthly paid, Monday - Friday worker that just means you do the same 261 days of work (not including bank holidays) as in any other year.

    This year we have 262 so we should either get paid extra or have the day off. I am choosing to take the day off.


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    #21
    pd101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭pd101


    Shouldn't have read this thread.:confused:I thought that I understood leap years.:confused::confused:


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    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    pd101 wrote: »
    Shouldn't have read this thread.:confused:I thought that I understood leap years.:confused::confused:

    Totally agree. I'm just glad I wasn't born on 29th February. There's no way I'd be able to get my head around that one!

    The extra day doesn't bother me seeing as I work very little anyway and am in college very little too! (Because of my course, not my laziness!) And will not be in college or working on the 29th so I can't even take it off. (Or is that not the extra day? Is it a Wednesday as someone else mentioned? :confused:)


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    #23
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    It's a conspiracy to get people working more!


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    #24
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    Gordon wrote: »
    It's a conspiracy to get people working more!

    Bastards!! All this time and I find out now!

    Scheming Bastards!

    Someone ring Joe Duffy.


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    #25
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    **** God.


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    #26
    CathyMoran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭CathyMoran


    The advantage is that us ladies get the chance to propose to our other halfs - I did that 8 years ago (though it took a few years to get married as I kept on getting nightmares about going down the isle).


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    #27
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    CathyMoran wrote: »
    The advantage is that us ladies get the chance to propose to our other halfs - I did that 8 years ago (though it took a few years to get married as I kept on getting nightmares about going down the isle).

    Haha, nightmares??? Could have been a sign...

    Well if I fall in love and she proposes before the end of the year and we live a long and happy life together I'll let them away with the extra working day this year.
    But what about the rest??? Bastards!


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    #28
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    CathyMoran wrote: »
    The advantage is that us ladies get the chance to propose to our other halfs - I did that 8 years ago (though it took a few years to get married as I kept on getting nightmares about going down the isle).


    so if you proposed does that mean you had to buy him a big feck off diamond ring?


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