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  1. 05-05-2008, 13:33 #1
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    Angry Working on a bank holiday.

    I'm giving a seminar in half an hour to my fellow PhD students. Not how I would generally choose to spend my bank holiday.

    Stupid work ethic. I think I'll pay the organisers back by making sure I give a really boring seminar. Maybe I'll overrun by half an hour or so just for good measure.
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    Hate to sound niave but whats a bank holiday?
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    Default Re: Working on a bank holiday.

    Be sure to sprinkle the phrase:

    "At the end of the day..."

    liberally throughout your presentation. It'll set everyone's teeth on edge.

    edit: probably too late; he wrote: 'half an hour', over an hour ago. The audience should be sound asleep by now

    Bank holiday = gratuitous day-off in UK.
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    *plays the worlds smallest violin*
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    Working on a bank holiday is just wrong.

    I've got summer holidays in two week though!

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    Holiday = time and a half.
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    Holiday= Saint Day.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    Holiday = time and a half.
    Really?
    Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
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    Default Re: Working on a bank holiday.

    Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster
    Really?
    Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
    3x? I'd work 12 hours on Sunday.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster
    Really?
    Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
    Not in IT as that is kind of 'expected' and the contracts are written up as such. Mind you when I'm on call I get an extra days pay for the week just for holding onto my phone and not passing out when answering it.
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