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« Reply #5115 on: 14:28:37, 19-03-2008 » |
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It used to be a religious holiday.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #5116 on: 14:32:23, 19-03-2008 » |
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There used to be some sort of convention that builders worked on Good Friday but no one else did. I never understood that one. What was it implying?
(Civil servants get Maundy Thursday afternoon off but perhaps I'd better keep that to myself for fear of retribution.)
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« Reply #5117 on: 14:35:53, 19-03-2008 » |
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In the case of Equity contracts, Good Friday ceased to be a holiday in either 1974 or 75, Anty: in 1973 it was a compulsory (unpaid) holiday. In Easter 1974 I was 'between engagements' (though I started rehearsing Rep. in Jersey two weeks later) so I'm not sure what happened that year. In 1975 I was on tour in Oxford, and we definitely rehearsed as well as playing on the Friday: I remember it snowing quite heavily when I went out on a hunt for hot cross buns during the lunch break.
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« Reply #5118 on: 14:45:44, 19-03-2008 » |
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When did Good Friday cease to be a Public Holiday? I've never worked on Good Fridays (although one of our departments started to open 10.00-4.00 about 5 years ago). I now find our Company does not recognise Good Friday at all, it is "a normal working day" with the proviso that if you do work it you get an extra day off in lieu. Where's the sense in that? Why make people work Good Friday and then take the following Tuesday off?  The organisation that I work for are pretty carp about basic employee entitlements, but they at least they recognise Bank Holidays. Nursing staff working on a Bank Holiday get the day off in lieu. Non nursing staff get the BH day off. |
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« Reply #5119 on: 14:50:54, 19-03-2008 » |
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We don't have contracts of employment but there is an Employees Handbook (which we never have been given either!!) It's just wherever I've worked Good Friday has been a holiday. I remember going down to darkest remotest Cornwall once and the only things open were the fishmongers and the bakers. We don't have our normal Friday market here either because of the procession with the Cross and the open air Services. I certainly won't be at work on Friday. No point. One boss is in NZ and the other will be away on a long weekend, I am totally up to date with everyone so there's no point in me coming in. It's not as if I work in a Service Industry. I was just wondering when it stopped being religious  |
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« Reply #5120 on: 14:56:21, 19-03-2008 » |
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One of the few perks of being a public servant is that I get a half-day privilege day on Maundy Thurdsay - which I'm going to turn into a full day of leave since I'm not flogging all the way up to London for just a morning's work. For all my moans and whinges, at least the public sector generally still respects holiday entitlements.
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« Reply #5122 on: 15:14:25, 19-03-2008 » |
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Sorry Mort,
Badly phrased! But I do remember it being strictly observed as a child.
If I was told to work and said I couldn't because of having to go to Eucharist and Stations of the Cross - what would happen? (Just asking theoretically)
Edit: I know there is no Eucharist on Good Fridays, it was just in theory could you refuse to work if it interfered with your religious faith or would it be a case of being told to go?
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« Reply #5123 on: 15:19:10, 19-03-2008 » |
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Replying theoretically  I imagine that the boss would say you'd have to take it as an an Annual Leave day. Times does change, me dear, times does change. |
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« Reply #5124 on: 15:20:38, 19-03-2008 » |
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You wouldn't get Tuesday off? And vice versa? Aren't they just saying you can take one or the other day off, and it's up to you which, as long as there is adequate cover to keep the place open on both days? We certainly take the religious aspect very seriously here. |
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« Reply #5125 on: 15:35:14, 19-03-2008 » |
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It's funny - I'm not a religious person, but it still rather shocks me that all the shops are open and the bins get emptied on Good Friday. It doesn't seem quite right.
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« Reply #5126 on: 15:36:42, 19-03-2008 » |
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You wouldn't get Tuesday off? And vice versa? Aren't they just saying you can take one or the other day off, and it's up to you which, as long as there is adequate cover to keep the place open on both days?
Just looked again George, if you take Good Friday it is docked from your annual leave. If you work Good Friday you get an extra day added to your annual leave, but can't automatically take the Tuesday. Those who are also working the Saturday as well as Friday only therefore get a two day Easter (Sunday and Monday). |
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« Reply #5127 on: 15:40:10, 19-03-2008 » |
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the bins get emptied on Good Friday
Not round here they don't - and I suspect it's not because Brighton's binnies are devout Christians ... |
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« Reply #5128 on: 15:45:25, 19-03-2008 » |
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the bins get emptied on Good Friday
Not round here they don't - and I suspect it's not because Brighton's binnies are devout Christians ... Not round here either. I do remember going with my Mother on Good Friday morning to the bakers to get bread and buns and then the fish and from about mid-day onwards everything was closed. It was a very special day of quietness. |
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« Reply #5129 on: 15:49:24, 19-03-2008 » |
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I remember there being a national outrage when Dunnes Stores (is that supermarket chain in the UK as well?) started opening on Sundays.  |
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