Friday sick club

[Blue Maverick]

That was Wednesdays. If you represented your station / unit at football etc you got half a day off work (sometimes a full one for away trips). I often thought it was the nearest thing to being semi-pro. Great times, although by the end of the nineties it was almost gone … so in 2001 I left - f**k working 5 full days a week ;-)

Exactly the same for me based in Germany we used to go play football in Belgium and holland, some top trips absolutely smashed out my head, god I loved it back in the 90s in Germany. I wish the wall had stayed up lol.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Eight weeks a year after 10 years? Plus generous pensions, plus the opportunity to retire, plus the opportunity to strike, plus the opportunity to whinge constantly about how hard done you all are?
Jesus...

Loads of jobs available if you’re that jealous.

 

[Bill Walker]

8 weeks were you getting that info?

Previous poster who gets 8 weeks

 

[dickie davies]

It was yesterday for any council worker in Scotland as they're given st Andrews day off

 

[snorky]

I'm sick this morning.
I'm still in bed with my sister.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

I'm sick this morning.
I'm still in bed with my sister.

Is your bike outside?

 

[Blue Maverick]

Previous poster who gets 8 weeks

But it’s not though, in public sector if your a shift worker you have to include weekends, when I took two weeks off it was 14 days, out my leave, a day worker takes 10 as weekends aren’t included, plus day workers get bank holidays off, shift don’t you take them in lieu so that’s 8 bank holidays on top of you annual leave. So a day worker gets say 28 days leave thats 6 weeks off give or take plus bank holidays, a shift worker gets 28 plus 8 banks, that’s 36, but they have to take them consecutively, so one week is 7 days not 5.
Pensions are a whole different issue.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I'm sick this morning.
I'm still in bed with my sister.

You are Neymar and I claim my £5

 

[normskih]

But it’s not though, in public sector if your a shift worker you have to include weekends, when I took two weeks off it was 14 days, out my leave, a day worker takes 10 as weekends aren’t included, plus day workers get bank holidays off, shift don’t you take them in lieu so that’s 8 bank holidays on top of you annual leave. So a day worker gets say 28 days leave thats 6 weeks off give or take plus bank holidays, a shift worker gets 28 plus 8 banks, that’s 36, but they have to take them consecutively, so one week is 7 days not 5.
Pensions are a whole different issue.

I’m with you, I’m a shift worker too.

 

[Kippaxian]

16 years in current job without a sick day off.

In our place we have a lot of sickness due to PDS (Pay Day Syndrome) and the recovery period, APDS (After Pay Syndrome) and in the summer we have outbreaks of SDS (Sunny Day Syndrome). Nightmare when you come down with PDS and SDS on the same day.