Monday 19th Bank Holiday

[Ferret]

Anyone else been told we are not closing business as usual ?

 

[alimac]

Should have made it mandatory not optional its a holiday for me

 

[calisto]

Asked in Wickes this morning if they are shutting on the 19th but was told they do not know yet.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin.]

Anyone else been told we are not closing business as usual ?

Why you might not get the Queen's funeral bank holiday off work
Queen's funeral Bank Holiday working rules - and whether you'll be given day off

Seems it's up to the firm's.

 

[Ferret]

Brother and my son's all go it off.

Me no chance.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin.]

Brother and my son's all go it off.

Me no chance.

Not all business close bank holidays look at Xmas and Easter but should get a day in lieu matey

 

[Ferret]

Not all business close bank holidays look at Xmas and Easter but should get a day in lieu matey

Yeah be we normally do close.

It is what it is i was just curious of what other work places were doing.

 

[gez]

I'm definitely having day off from retirement, need a break

 

[kegnkiwi]

As of this morning, the MD of our company who I work with told me that we are off

 

[Joe Noodles]

I'm taking the day off

 

[IANB]

Our company is giving it but we need to cover 24 7 365 so there will be some on emergency call. They will get a lieu day though

 

[JonMMM]

Feel sorry for people that have been waiting for months to see a medical consultant and it gets cancelled.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin.]

Feel sorry for people that have been waiting for months to see a medical consultant and it gets cancelled.

It is a sad state of affairs, when lives could be put at risk over a funeral.

 

[Joe Noodles]

Feel sorry for people that have been waiting for months to see a medical consultant and it gets cancelled.

Yes but its has nothing to do with the funeral,
Its been like this for years

 

[chookey]

Feel sorry for people that have been waiting for months to see a medical consultant and it gets cancelled.

Mine gets cancelled every 3 months. I haven't had 1 consultant appointment on the original date for over 2 years now. I was due to see 2 separate consultants this Thursday.
One is still going ahead as they mixed my appointment up last month but the other has been re-arranged for the following Thursday. Usually they are put back a month.

The above isn't a dig at the NHS. It just shows the reality of the NHS backlog. I am fully aware that my cancelled appointments may be going to someone who is in the early stages of their diagnosis. I'm lucky. I underwent my surgery pre-Covid.

 

[JonMMM]

Yes but its has nothing to do with the funeral,
Its been like this for years

Yes it has been happening for years, but however you look at it appointments will be cancelled as a direct result of the funeral

 

[chookey]

Yes it has been happening for years, but however you look at it appointments will be cancelled as a direct result of the funeral

Appointments don't get cancelled. They get postponed/deferred till the next earliest opportunity. Even then they will be given based on priority.

If appointments are postponed it would be as an indirect result of the funeral. The Queen didn't choose to die. She never proclaimed that her funeral would be a one-time Bank Holiday. That was a Government decision that allows people to witness the funeral at home if they so wish.

 

[darren221980]

my employer is giving it to us as a bank holiday, however thankfully my employer lets us work bank holidays if we prefer and use the holidays when we want.

I'll be working the monday, I've heard / seen enough coverage recently to last a lifetime.

 

[johnny bravo]

We royal mail employees got a day off as a bank holiday .

 

[chookey]

I'll be working the monday, I've heard / seen enough coverage recently to last a lifetime.

A mate of mine said the same yesterday. I asked why he didn't just change the channel.