The Honda Owners Club

Hi all,

Just got home from work and realised that as its February 29th then I've had to work an extra day this year for nowt. I think that every 4 years we should be entitled to have this day off and it should be a Public Holiday, (Leap Year day perhaps). Just think what you could do with an extra day off. No work, No School. Go biking, pubbing, etc, etc. What do you all think

Would be nice but I don't think it's going to happen.

Now if you ran your own business you would look at it as another day to make money.

Regards

Chimpy

Chimp Boy wrote:Would be nice but I don't think it's going to happen.

Now if you ran your own business you would look at it as another day to make money.

Regards

Chimpy

Well I for one would like to propose it. Any seconders and lets have a vote count.

Hate to put a damper on this discussion but apparently, according to my better half (who I would add is retired!!) we workers are working less days this year than last and will work even less next year due to how the weekends are falling. I am too confused to check this out but he is always right (well he says so!)

Speak for yourself - some of us seem to be working more !!!

Sorry Alan - I always knew there were exceptions to every rule!

EricaVFR wrote:8) Hate to put a damper on this discussion but apparently, according to my better half (who I would add is retired!!) we workers are working less days this year than last and will work even less next year due to how the weekends are falling. I am too confused to check this out but he is always right (well he says so!)

As you're too confused to work it out and I don't have the time,(always working you see and my spare time is for biking,etc), why don't we just agree on the idea of it becoming a public holiday and stuff the statistics. So come on, is that a yes and what about anyone else

Nope - I want October the 21st (Trafalgar day) as a public holiday.

2 reasons:

1. There is a long gap between August bank holiday and Christmas
2. That's my birthday!

alansh wrote:Nope - I want October the 21st (Trafalgar day) as a public holiday.

2. That's my birthday!

At least you get a bithday every year. My youngest G/daughter was born on the 29th February 2000!

Barry wrote:At least you get a bithday every year. My youngest G/daughter was born on the 29th February 2000!

Barry

I've always wondered about people who were born on the 29th of February. Does your grandaughter annually celebrate her birthday on the 28th of February or the 1st of March?

Regards

Chimpy

My vote is in favour of a public holiday... and also on Feb 14th (so we can avoid all the soppy mush that's rammed down our necks all the time )... and on November 19th (my birthday)... and also on the weekends of the HOC National Rally... and the BMF weekend.... and Superbikes and...

well... just give me time off work anytime really... best with good weather so can blag a pillion on a bike and REALLY enjoy it!!!

I think ALL bank holidays should be abolished.

And quickly.

Starting with Easter.

Skipper wrote:I think ALL bank holidays should be abolished.

And quickly.

Starting with Easter.

Why and why should we have to work on what surely is a free day to us every four years and where have all the yes voters disapeared to Only one so far Come on don't let me be a lone fighter.

OK OK I am all for an extra day off. Now get the violins out ....... I have worked without a break since I was 15 and think that all the extra days I can have off (particularly when the sun is shinning) are well deserved.

Come on lets keep the Bank Holidays and add more, BUT lets get rid of all the commercialism that goes with the main ones!

kidof55 wrote:Why

Firstly, I don't understand your problem. Assuming you are monthly paid, does your employer normally reduce your pay in February? No he doesn't. In fact he is paying you the normal 30 or 31 day rate for only working 29. I reckon you owe him, and should go into work one Saturday for free, or take it out of your annual holiday allowance. Naturally that will be two days for the other three years in the cycle.

Secondly, how do you work out that February 29th is a free day? Does your life go on hold for 24 hours, do you not need to eat, does the building society not charge you mortgage interest that day? Of course not, it's just another day that has expenses which need to be paid, and for that you must go to work.

I think that the system of paid holidays is a cancer eating at the heart of society by destroying the link between effort and reward, and allowing people to believe that it is acceptable to be paid for laying in bed. I can't tell you how wrong I think that is.

I would like to see wage rates increased, so that no-one is worse off, and paid holidays completely banned. Simple system - go to work, get paid - stay at home, earn nothing. That way, those that are prepared to work can prosper, and the lazy ones reap the reward of their sloth. I'm self employed so that's the situation I'm in. Why do you think you are entitled to better?

I'm not a particularly political animal, and I forget the occassion, it might have been the Queen's Golden Jubilee, but that doesn't matter, but one thing that could almost have driven me to an assassination attempt was Tony Blair standing up in the House of Commons and declaring that the government had given you all an extra bank holiday. All the gullible public fell for it and thought "good old Tony - given us a day off" when in fact he had given you nothing. It didn't cost the government a bean. Lots of feelgood factor and goodwill gained for nothing because the expense was borne by employers who had to pay their workers to lay festering in their pits for yet another day.


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