Working Bank Holiday

cherryghost

I hate it. Hate it hate it HATE IT.

I work in an office that deals with european relations. On a holiday 95% have the day off, with 5% of us still in the office dealing with a normal's day workload. Pain in the goddamn hole.

Anyone else working today and feel my pain then?

snubbleste

No.

cherryghost

snubbleste wrote: »

No.

Drink a pint for me then.

Tzardine

Nope. Every weekend and bank holiday off for me.

Sucks to be you

mark renton

European relations? you deserve to be working today

dan1895

cherryghost wrote: »

I hate it. Hate it hate it HATE IT.

I work in an office that deals with european relations. On a holiday 95% have the day off, with 5% of us still in the office dealing with a normal's day workload. Pain in the goddamn hole.

Anyone else working today and feel my pain then?

Yes but I work with the public who turn in to f**king self entitled idiots on bank holidays so I've no sympathy for you.

hairyslug

Nope but I work in a distribution company and we have 2 days worth of stuff to send out tomorrow

CarefulNow!

cherryghost wrote: »

I hate it. Hate it hate it HATE IT.

I work in an office that deals with european relations. On a holiday 95% have the day off, with 5% of us still in the office dealing with a normal's day workload. Pain in the goddamn hole.

Anyone else working today and feel my pain then?

Yes! But have slept it out! Waiting at dart station and there doesn't seem to be any!

Howard Juneau

cherryghost wrote: »

I hate it. Hate it hate it HATE IT.

I work in an office that deals with european relations. On a holiday 95% have the day off, with 5% of us still in the office dealing with a normal's day workload. Pain in the goddamn hole.

Anyone else working today and feel my pain then?

Youve a pain in the hole & want us to feel it?!
No thanks

ComputerKing

Same boat as you OP but all of us have to go in. But today is the first one we have off in 2 years.

VanZandt

yip - working today too

i dont really mind though - because going back to work on a Tuesday after the BH weekend is pretty depressing!! (probably down to the extra day boozing)

mark renton

VanZandt wrote: »

yip - working today too

i dont really mind though - because going back to work on a Tuesday after the BH weekend is pretty depressing!! (probably down to the extra day boozing)

keep telling yourself that - after about the twentieth time u might actually believe it

cherryghost

ComputerKing wrote: »

Same boat as you OP but all of us have to go in. But today is the first one we have off in 2 years.

Nice. Cherish it so

Muise...

I like working when everyone else is asleep and everything is quiet and slow. I should be a shoemaker's elf.

Squirtle McTurtle

Putting down wooden floors for my neighbour, could have left it till tomorrow but it's the first bit of decent (well paid) work I have been able to find in about 2 years so I don't mind working bank holidays.

If I could have steady work, I wouldn't mind if every day was a bank holday!

theteal

try working/living over here. The bank holidays are messed up. It's a normal day today

Quagmire77

Same here OP, don't really mind with it being triple time. Extra few quid for Christmas :-)

Franticfrank

Living abroad and working away. I won't complain though, it's good to have a job.

December2012

CarefulNow! wrote: »

Yes! But have slept it out! Waiting at dart station and there doesn't seem to be any!

You know there's none on the north side this weekend?

Specialun

working and depressed off my t!ts

I want my bed

bradolf pittler

Starting at 2 o clock for double time plus a day off in lieu so not too bad i suppose.

padma

double time today, so am happy.

This is the first Bank Holiday in a year that I haven't worked.

Mondays are actually my normal day off, but because I'm part time (39 hours a week, but technically part-time) I'm the one that gets called in to work bank holidays because that way they don't have to pay extra to get the full time staff in.

[by the way CarefulNow! there's no trains between Howth/Malahide and Pearse]

dan1895

true-or-false wrote: »

[by the way CarefulNow! there's no trains between Howth/Malahide and Pearse]

Isn't it great how so many people now work on bank holidays yet our public transport system leaves so many of those people finding other ways of getting to and from work.

Legs.Eleven

Even though I don't live in Ireland, I still feel hard done by when there's a bank holiday there. I'm off Friday though, which is probably better.

LizT

Just finished a day's work and have a 4 day week next week

rainbow kirby

Might as well be a bank holiday here, 2/3 of my office working from home or just haven't arrived in yet. Stupid weather...

dan1895

dan1895 wrote: »

Isn't it great how so many people now work on bank holidays yet our public transport system leaves so many of those people finding other ways of getting to and from work.

Yes, how dare they plan and advertise having to fix their signalling system instead of waiting for it to break down unexpectedly and taking three days to fix it in the midst of the Christmas rush.

dan1895

true-or-false wrote: »

Yes, how dare they plan and advertise having to fix their signalling system instead of waiting for it to break down unexpectedly and taking three days to fix it in the midst of the Christmas rush.

I was speaking about the generally s**t service on Sundays and bank holidays. The Dart not running just reminded me of it.

Mint Sauce

I would work half the bank holidays throughout the year, including Christmas and New Year.

Its just another day when working in Health Care.

eh i dunno

cherryghost wrote: »

I hate it. Hate it hate it HATE IT.

I work in an office that deals with european relations. On a holiday 95% have the day off, with 5% of us still in the office dealing with a normal's day workload. Pain in the goddamn hole.

Anyone else working today and feel my pain then?

5/6 posts on boards today means the place is seriously over staffed if only 5% of staff are on and dealing with a normal work load while posting on boards