Secondly, how are you going to spend the day?
Would a ride down Heartbreak Ridge be appropriate?
Already a public holiday for me, Edinburgh area.
Been told I won't get a day credited to me.
My feelings towards the royal family are ambivalent. I think it's a bit excessive to give everyone a day off, especially those who will use the time to do something other than watch the funeral.
My employer not announced it yet, but as I'm having a day out cycling on Saturday, I'll have to do what the missus wants on Monday. It's a fair compromise.
I'm off anyway, wonder of I'll get a day in leu 🙏
My Big American Faceless Corp (TM) is giving us the day off.
Yup, mine as well. We've had two emails from high ups in the US sending their condolences.
I'm managing to avoid the bank holiday and the funeral by being in the office in the US. I'm dreading travelling through London to the airport on Saturday.
Self employed so I'll be working. Unless my customers would rather me not be there (mostly domestic jobs at the moment) which is fair enough then I'll mince about on the bike instead.
I booked uplift at BPW as soon as it was confirmed that Monday was going to be a BH.
Going to watch all the history taking place on catchup, with a pint and lots of aches and pains.
Gave all our team an extra day off. Told them not to bank on the same for the coronation!
Taking a boat from Stromness to go sea fishing. No phone or TV reception. Bliss!
Small consultancy..
Lost revenue £7000
Wages paid £2000
Total £9000....
Thanks...
Self employed. Part of operation Lion, my part is providing power for the broadcast, all of it. just finished a 15 hour day, won’t get much sleep running up to it, and none during.
I will be fairly stressed on the 19th
Small consultancy..
Lost revenue £7000
Wages paid £2000
Total £9000….Thanks…
Wow, that sounds like a successful business, but how small is small? If that is 100 people then it isn't as wow as 5 people.
Either way, being an employed person, this isn't something I tend to consider, so seeing figures makes my mind boggle as having not considered it before the figures seem much higher than I would have guessed.
Sorry for my nosiness, but I'm genuinely surprised as I've just never considered this before and I've just realised how out of touch with some things I am.
Had a window fitted by a local company yesterday. Chatting to them, they're weighing up working as normal and risking the wrath of folk who think they're being disrespectful, versus having to cancel lots of pre-booked work and risk losing customers.
I'm an employee and although not yet confirmed I expect my employer to observe the holiday. If they don't give us the day off, I'll need to use A/L instead as the schools will be closed and I'll have the kids kicking around the place!
Small consultancy..
Lost revenue £7000
Wages paid £2000
Total £9000….
Is it really lost though or just delayed and can be clawed back over the next few weeks?
Happy workers are more productive workers, bank hols make workers happy. 😉
My employer has decided to close the office, add the day to everyones holiday entitlement, and does not expect anyone to work. Except for operationally critical roles of course, who may have to work but instead get to take a day off before the end of September
I think it’s a bit excessive to give everyone a day off
I agree, I imagine this will be costing my employer a fortune
especially those who will use the time to do something other than watch the funeral.
But I don't agree with this sentiment. It is everyone gets a day or no-one does - would be pretty unfair if it were anything else. Which is why ultimately a BH is the only way to deal with it - because companies already have contractual stuff in place to deal with those.
The free mandatory day off at short notice means everyone is free, then booked golf for the Monday within seconds of the BH being announced
You’re aware, I assume, of the irony in all your friends having the day off courtesy of a bank holiday and you then promptly organising an event that takes the people who work at the golf course away from *their* friends and family?
To answer my own question, it appears it's going to feel more like a Christmas day style bank holiday with pretty much everything closed, than a may bank holiday with retail and leisure mostly open. Exception being pubs remaining open it seems
My local pub has announced they will be open on Monday so people can 'pay their respects together and raise a glass to The Queen'.
Combined with an offer for full English and a pint.
They are normally closed on a Monday! 🙂
Either way, being an employed person, this isn’t something I tend to consider, so seeing figures makes my mind boggle
People know how much they earn but rarely know how much they cost 🙂
Happy workers are more productive workers, bank hols make workers happy. 😉
My employer is open, having given us all an extra days holiday and allowing those who want to watch the funeral to use it on Monday if they wish. My wife's employer hasn't yet decided, but it's looking likely that they will be open, nothing more. There has been no announcement from our kids' school so we don't yet know what child care plans to make.
Happy workers are more productive if they know what's happening in three working days' time and can plan accordingly. 😀
The company I contract to has announced its a day off, but I'm a contractor so don't get paid for holidays anyway so it doesn't really matter, guess I'll take the two eldest out on a bike ride while the wife watches it all on the tele box, probably with her mother.
My workplace is closed, but then it is a bank. Would be strange for a bank to be open on a bank holiday 😁
So as well as people planning to move house that day are stuffed, the bin collections next week will be all over the place too!
This made me laugh..... Ive just seen a post saying that all Angus public toilets will be closed on Monday as a sign of respect!
I can understand them saying as no one will be there to clean them etc, but as a sign of respect? Really?
I hope for those in London for the funeral they manage to keep theirs open or there'll be some flowing gutters!
Would be strange for a bank to be open on a bank holiday 😁
Try telling that to the contact centre staff 😉
We are being given a 'special' bank holiday as leave if we are able to take it. If you are scheduled to work in certain functions then you will be working but will be 'compensated' in some way.
Centre Parcs have chosen to close for the day. Which is going to be somewhat inconvenient for anyone halfway through their holiday. What are they supposed to do?
Checked with my manager... it's a nope at the moment but bosses are likely to capitulate at last moment, thereby incurring costs without gaining much staff loyalty 🙄
Centre Parcs have chosen to close for the day. Which is going to be somewhat inconvenient for anyone halfway through their holiday. What are they supposed to do?
Tricky one I guess, but don't most people do Fri to Mon or Mon to Fri, can't imagine doing a full week at centreparcs?
Monthly staff briefing today. It's being treated as any other Bank Holiday.
Would be strange for a bank to be open on a bank holiday 😁
strange for a bank to be open on a normal day round here...
Centre Parcs starts an ends on a Monday and you have to be out of your lodge by 10 anyway, that hasn’t changed. What’s changed is that you still have free use of the facilities for the remainder of the day - that won’t happen as they are closing to let staff do something else watch the funeral.
Day off for me. I’m working with a team Monday to Wednesday and having cancelled my travels and hotels they’ve decided to go into the office anyway after having arranged for it to be unlocked. As I’m the most senior I shall look down upon them with contempt from the luxury of my saddle living room while I have the day off. 😉
strange for a bank to be open on a normal day round here…
Truth.
Then you ring them up and all blasé they say "just pop in to your local branch." That'd be fine except you open from 10am till 4pm Tuesday to Thursday and my nearest "local branch" is three towns away because you closed them all.
Try telling that to the contact centre staff 😉
We are being given a ‘special’ bank holiday as leave if we are able to take it. If you are scheduled to work in certain functions then you will be working but will be ‘compensated’ in some way.
Ours is closed fully, the only person working will be those on call like a normal weekend.
We're a credit card/loan bank though, no current accounts or branches so normal office hours apply.
Centre Parcs starts an ends on a Monday and you have to be out of your lodge by 10 anyway, that hasn’t changed.
You can start a 7 day booking on a Friday, thus putting a Monday right in the middle of your holiday.
It’s self catering FFS , I’m sure anyone who is staying there could manage for a day if the facilities are closed.
There was a caller on LBC who was told they had to leave the park on the Monday and come back Tuesday .
"The BBC understands that long-stay guests will be allowed to stay on-site without access to facilities, including restaurants."
Bit of a ball drop by Center Parcs, thankfully we aren't booked in next Monday.
Since when did Boris run Center Parcs?
They've u-turned. 😆
Probably a good job they’ve u-turned because this was crazy 🤣
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Someone has probably realised that this could get very expensive (since there's seemingly no uncontrollable element of not being able to provide the services I could see the compensation claims, valid or not, coming in thick and fast and even if you don't pay them you can't ignore them) and that trying to evict the entire population of the parks might be a logistical and practical nightmare that will take longer than they would have been closed for.
I hope all the BBC news reporters, pundits and staff are being given Monday off, because the wall to wall ****ing coverage of every ****ting detail of arrangement and opinion is really pissing me off.
I was not a committed republican, before but if we have to endure all this bollocks for the coronation and then again on 20 years time for king Sausage Fingers funeral, I could well be persuaded.
I was not a committed republican, before but if we have to endure all this bollocks for the coronation and then again on 20 years time for king Sausage Fingers funeral, I could well be persuaded.
As with a lot of things, it's not the subject that upsets me, it's the media coverage - off with THEIR heads!
Changing sides for a minute
At least we are spared a regular presidential election and its coverage. However the television and radio is staying largely off for the duration. Mornings are really strange now - keep going to switch the thing on and then realise....
Small consultancy..
Lost revenue £7000
Wages paid £2000
Total £9000….
I imagine the work is booked? Why take it off? If customers don't want you in send them the bill anyway. Its their decision not yours.
Think I'm going back to Weymouth tomorrow until next Wednesday. Take the bike,a guitar and chill with Digby and walk the coastal path.
We're working the Monday as any other BH (24hr plant).
Extra 12 hrs pay, plus 12 hrs lieu and a little extra on the average holidays too.
‘Stuck in Centre Parcs with no access to the facilities’ definitely sounds like a Half Man Half Biscuit tune
Shits getting real now…
https://twitter.com/greggsofficial/status/1570027443695792130?s=21&t=aZlluvdI83UNht1_uFYQwg
We as shift workers are getting a 7.5hour flat rate payment, the rest of the site getting a day off. I can see how this is "fair", kinda, but doesn't really feel in the spirit of the thing.
Inna Dylan style I hope Binners?
Shits getting real now
And MacccyDs.
People will be having to eat swans at this rate
The Square & Compass are going to open, so I’m sorted for Mondays ride.
No extra pay and no bank holiday for me (care worker)
Small consultancy..
Lost revenue £7000
Wages paid £2000
Total £9000….Thanks…
I'm not sure whether this snippet is taken from a wider conversation, but it seems to show an complete absence of understanding of basic accountancy principles.
What is the total line supposed to represent?
Self employed so no pay if I don't work so might do a bit. Probably won't though, 364 other days I can work, a cheeky day of is always good. Girlfriend will be glued to the TV so providing the weather's ok I'll be out on my bike.
Our Trust has granted a bank holiday which I will take in lieu as I don't work Mondays, as will my wife who's not rota'd on that day.
Eldest son self employed so he's losing out as his place of work is closing, youngest son is a Prison Officer, he's not sure if they're getting extra leave yet but thinks not.
My dad's immunotherapy treatment for his lung cancer is postponed, the same as any other bank holiday.
Shits getting real now…
Well the Greggs heir is a convicted paedophile so there are parallels to the Royal family.
Well the Greggs heir is a convicted paedophile so there are parallels to the Royal family.
Pretty sure he is not the Greggs heir, just a disgraced family member. And technically,no member of the Royal family is a convicted paedophile, sadly. But other than that, you are spot on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39150569
I think the company removed any influence or control from him but he still stands to inherit.
Thoughts and prayers binners, thoughts and prayers.
We'll be closed. Advantage of working for a small company where the boss is sole shareholder/decision maker and treats their staff like people.
I'll be off to my model flying club for a day's flying I think...
We are moving to Bank Holiday service as Vet practices, closed bar urgent or emergency cases. Means some people have to work as Hospital staffed 24/7/365. As schools closed, lots of team members would have been struggling anyway without that decision. Time in lieu or overtime for those working and still aiming to have doors closed between 11-2 barring emergencies so they can watch part of it. Will also get higher choice of Bank Holiday worked next year
At least we will be able to plan for the Coronation next year!
At least we will be able to plan for the Coronation next year!
LOL! Have we got to go through all that next year?!?
I'm looking forward to next year's Coronation Thread already 😊
Well I'm booked for a covid booster jab on Monday now.
It's what she would have wanted.
Although I am slightly surprised that the covid vaccination centres will be open.
We’ll, that’s my bank holiday sorted
https://twitter.com/hrwright/status/1571087456375828484?s=21&t=brZ5JKSNurUdR8TTJvrsJA
Centre parcs should take note on Pleasurdomes sensible and mature approach to do enough to satisfy ardent royalists, whilst not spoiling the entire day for everyone else
Apart from mums net, as this now puts into doubt the whole 'going to center parcs is worse than bum secs' discussion
Disney+ doesn’t screen ‘Andor’ until the 21st.
In light of recent events, it wouldn’t hurt Disney to bring forward their scheduling and screen it a couple of days early.
It’s what the worlds been waiting for.
Unusually, work head office has decided to give everyone across all sites the day off, which makes it easier for me to get my 3rd Covid booster shot.
I should be working the rest of the week, but a letter arrived this morning, telling my my cataract operation is this week! A month or so ago I was told it could be any time in the next four months, so I was taken a little bit by surprise, to say the least!
Gives me a week to properly recover before driving to work again.
