It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

On that last bit, one funny thing I saw at the game, 2 lads about 2 rows ahead of us must have agreed to swap jerseys at the end, one an England fan was wearing a jersey in dart player size (i.e massive) whilst the Irish lad looked like he was half the size and was wearing a player fit slim jersey, watching the English lad trying to get it over his shoulders had our whole section in stitches, no idea what the two of them were thinking, so they ended up just swapping scarves... have to say the few English fans near us were sound though, very complimentary towards our team & fans.

Same here @pigtail33, we used to get Good Friday as a company day but we've been taken over by a much larger company & it doesn't seem like we are going to get it. Proper raging over it as it's lovely to have Good Friday off & it makes the childcare situation so much easier!

I'm still mad every time it comes around and they changed the policy over 10 years ago! The extra day really did make such a difference, otherwise, it's just like a normal BH weekend. I used to always WFH on Good Friday, but that's the norm for me now, so I don't get anything extra. I refuse to take it as part of my annual leave!

I always think it's pure stingy of a business to make employees use leave when the office is closed.

I know a few places it happens and its so cheap. Especially in big multinationals where it'd be easily absorbed.

Ah jeez, I couldn't work for a Scrooge like that...and then the same company probably wonders why staff morale is in the dumps!

Worked in factories all my life. Never had it off. I think it's mostly just office staff and building sites that get this day off (after all it's just like any other day, businesses have zero obligation to give it off to a worker).

Best of luck to anyone who has it off. Would be great to have two short weeks.

Child's christening on Saturday now all systems go. 5 months have flown by.

What used to bug me most about working Good Friday years ago was that I used to get the train to work (to the world's most disgusting train station, Howth Junction 🤢🤮) but they would run a Sunday service on Good Friday! Caught me out more than once that I'd rock up to get the 7.20 train only to find it wasn't running! And they wouldn't have any notices anywhere, you'd go into the train station, be standing there like an eejit and then finally ask someone what's the story & they'd say "oh it's Sunday service today" and we'd be like "eh it's a normal working day for most of us"!

About time, it really needed it, it was desperate altogether.

Probably done over 10 years now, probably around the time it changed to howth junction/donaghmede

Always feel we're getting somewhere when we get to week 39, that's a full quarter of the countdown done and dusted.

Just home from croker, tell you what twas bitter cold out.

I love the "grand stretch" but getting up this morning nearly killed me.The cold and the tiredness mean today might be a bit of a struggle.

Same here, I wasn't expecting to have to defrost the car this morning, and doing it in the dark didn't help. Hopefully that's the last time I'll have to defrost the car until next Winter.