Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

silvercar

Cross-posted. decades ago when I worked in central government, hours were 36 a week (outside London was 37) with hols of 22+8+2extras. After a few years service the 22 became 25 then 28 then 30.

Don't know if it is still the same.

OH has stopped counting leave. He takes what is reasonable he claims. I think he never takes all. We disagree on how much overseas travel should be given back in leave. If he travels overseas on a saturday (because flights are often cheaper if you stay over a saturday night and if you travel business that is a lot of saving), then I reckon he is owed 2 days for being away Sat and Sunday, he says if the firm is paying for business travel the least he can do is be accommodating with the flight times.

Wheezy_2

silvercar wrote: »

So what is good?

Hours=37
Hols=25+8.

would be decent

+ uninterrupted access to the NPT during working hours!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I went out on a corker hunt after architect left....very very few of them

I was going to make a poncey autumn garland that would have had on whooping with laughter at middle class housewives, but no chance now.

Don't feel too bad... there is a national shortage this year. They fell out of the tree earlier than they should have done, so weren't ripe.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

So what is good?

Hours=37
Hols=25+8.

would be decent, 40 hours is not terrible if people stick to it. If the culture is to work 45 plus in any case, then what is written on paper is irrelevant. OH works 8.45 to 6.30/7 most days, so averages 10 hour days and may take a lunch break or may not.

And I've worked longer hours too ... but when the pay's not that good, the hourly rate looks poorer. I'd work 200 hours/week if I were on, say, £150k, or had the potential to get that.... but if a job's what it is, and you're just going in and plodding on day in, day out, stuck in the office (no trips, no meetings with food, just working)..... then it can be tiresome.

And, of course, there will be additional hours, without extra pay.... so it's nicer to know the starting point is 35, rather than 40.

kabayiri

GDB2222 wrote: »

Send it back and ask them to make up something saucy about you?

Well, in place of "None" they could write "Nothing to report boss". That'd be getting down to a quid a letter, much more MSE

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

+ uninterrupted access to the NPT during working hours!

Yeah - no more NPT for me once I get a job. Few jobs have Internet access and I'd not want to be trackable/watchable by coming here on the server.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah - no more NPT for me once I get a job. Few jobs have Internet access and I'd not want to be trackable/watchable by coming here on the server.

You could of course create an http proxy to tunnel traffic using SSH.

Usually, it's just a matter of time before the better sysadmins work out what kind of tricks you're up to

zagubov

Jimmy Saville came ot the town I was born in and led a charity fun run back in the 70s. There was a major band giving a conert there The Bay City Rollers who were really becoming big at the time and it was regarded as a Major Event. At the time everybody hero-worshipped him as he did this everywhere in the UK not just our bit of Central Scotland.

Ironically one of the Rollers pled guilty to possessing indecent iimages.

When I was a teenager, I watched TOTP being filmed in the BBC studios. I've tried to remember if he was the host. The main songs were Hawkwind's Silver Machine and Terry Dactyl's Seaside Shuffle which seems alarmingly far back.

I wasn't anywhere near old enough to be in the audience, and it seemed very exciting at the time; and I can believe that celebrities were very much over-idolised.:D

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

When I was a teenager, I watched TOTP being filmed in the BBC studios. I've tried to remember if he was the host. The main songs were Hawkwind's Silver Machine...

I thought you were younger, zag...that's 1972! :eek:

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I wasn't anywhere near old enough to be in the audience, and it seemed very exciting at the time; and I can bekive that celebrities were very much over-idolised.:D

And if somebody important had come up to you and offered to introduce you to your favourite girl star... then taken you to the dressing rooms and, 'jokingly' grabbed you and rubbed your thing and laughed "When you're a bigger lad these girls could be chasing you".... you'd think "F.... ME!!" but never tell anybody as you'd feel daft, felt guilty, thought you'd misinterpreted.... and so you'd have stayed quiet too ....

You'd think it "ungracious" to laugh too as it was clearly just ... well, nothing.... it's what some adults do, he was laughing... can't be bad can it ....?

And if you'd ever told your best mate they'd have called you Q**** ... so you'd have stayed quiet....