Bank Holiday Weekend

From: Dan (HERMAND)12 Apr 2017 13:41
To: ALL1 of 26
Whoop! Two four day weeks and a nice chunky weekend - what are we all up to?
From: koswix12 Apr 2017 13:45
To: Dan (HERMAND) 2 of 26
Recovering from first week of real work in years. Also, no bank holiday off for me :((
From: ANT_THOMAS12 Apr 2017 13:59
To: Dan (HERMAND) 3 of 26
Working Friday. Going to be a day of doing very little, and I'll keep the days holiday so I can't complain.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)12 Apr 2017 14:01
To: Dan (HERMAND) 4 of 26
Depends on the weather. Perhaps a day trip to beautiful downtown Brampton.

From: Chris (CHRISSS)12 Apr 2017 14:56
To: Dan (HERMAND) 5 of 26
Yay. Long weekend. Then I'm off all next week too.

Gonna be up at my sister's in Stoke this weekend, days out with the kids. Probably Gulliver's World in Warrington and other stuff.
From: gracia (GRACEINC)12 Apr 2017 15:19
To: ALL6 of 26
Lucky people
From: milko12 Apr 2017 23:09
To: Dan (HERMAND) 7 of 26
Goin' up to the folks in North Wales. Grandparent fun for the nipper, hopefully manage to grab a rare window of us-time for me and Tina (like, a lunch out alone or something).
From: william (WILLIAMA)13 Apr 2017 10:33
To: Dan (HERMAND) 8 of 26
I hadn't even thought about it being a long weekend until I saw your post.

Daughter's birthday on Friday so I'll have to stump up for six meals at the Thai place round the corner and then drive my son back to Hastings on Saturday morning. Other than that, no plans. 
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)13 Apr 2017 13:01
To: william (WILLIAMA) 9 of 26
The life of a retiree, eh?  :-Y
From: william (WILLIAMA)13 Apr 2017 16:56
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR) 10 of 26
Yep.

Seven meals now :(
 
From: william (WILLIAMA)14 Apr 2017 00:33
To: william (WILLIAMA) 11 of 26
And to reiterate the theme of how long teh forum has been around, and who is still logging on, the son I'm driving back to Hastings on Saturday joined this place about 14 years ago now and did some semi-deliberate trolling at the grand old age of 12. 

And embarrassed me a bit.
From: william (WILLIAMA)14 Apr 2017 00:34
To: william (WILLIAMA) 12 of 26
He will be enjoying a long weekend with some time away from the insurance company he works for. In Hastings.
From: koswix14 Apr 2017 08:31
To: william (WILLIAMA) 13 of 26
What route are you driving? Taking a detour?
From: william (WILLIAMA)14 Apr 2017 08:49
To: koswix 14 of 26
My lazy grammar. He is spending time in Worthing before I drive him back to Hastings, where he works (for an insurance company).
From: ANT_THOMAS14 Apr 2017 09:00
To: william (WILLIAMA) 15 of 26
A very direct insurance company?
From: william (WILLIAMA)14 Apr 2017 09:02
To: ANT_THOMAS 16 of 26
That too :)
 
From: Dave!!14 Apr 2017 09:24
To: Dan (HERMAND) 17 of 26
One of the first times I've been able to enjoy the bank holiday weekend for some time. A lot of companies in Aberdeen don't respect the Easter holiday, hence even though the company I directly work for does respect it, the company I'm sub-contracted to didn't (in Scotland at least) - hence me working Friday and Monday, but at least being paid triple-time for it.

This year, I've been promoted and am now no longer site-based. And as my company is based in England and does do Easter, hence I'm currently putting my feet up and procrastinating a bit - seeing as I've got a shitload of paperwork to sort out for moving house next month...
From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)14 Apr 2017 11:49
To: Dan (HERMAND) 18 of 26
My office does an extra public holiday elsewhere in the year, and only get one day off at Easter. It's supposed to be Good Friday, but I'm working today taking Monday off instead. The advantage of this is that the office is pretty quiet - there's only five of us in. To celebrate, I'm planning to make mojitos at Mojito O'clock for those who want them. We normally do Beer O'Clock on a Friday afternoon, but making mojitos seemed like a far more sensible course of action.
From: ANT_THOMAS14 Apr 2017 12:00
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 19 of 26
I could do with a Mojito.

I now work in the food manufacturing and we don't officially get bank holidays off. We don't have to take them and can use the holidays elsewhere, which is useful. I would have liked today off but since the factory is producing it was insisted I was in and I'm doing very little since all my suppliers are off today so it's not like I can fix any issues anyway. They nearly forced the factory to produce on Monday meaning the shop floor staff would have only had Sunday off.... There was rumour of a strike so they quickly rearranged the plan.
From: koswix14 Apr 2017 13:10
To: william (WILLIAMA) 20 of 26
So you're going to Hastings direct, then?
EDITED: 14 Apr 2017 13:12 by KOSWIX