law74
Well-Known Member
Had to laugh at this, about 20 years ago, we were told that the Secretary of State was visiting the following Wednesday and no further leave would be granted.It's always been the same, when I worked in the Civil Service it was tidy this, tidy that, don't say anything etc.
I used to take 1/2 a days leave for every bodies sake.
There was a cricket match I wanted to go to that day, but hadn't booked the day off as I intended to see what the weather was going to be like closer to the time.
We were in the middle of industrial action at the time, and I was a member of the Departmental Trade Union Committee.
I happened to mention that I was looking forward to meeting the SOS as I had a couple of queries about our pay negotiations.....the ban on taking annual leave suddenly didn't apply to me for some reason