toonsy:
Problem with your “advice” Winseer is that it applies only to you.
Essentially what you’re saying is don’t try and work your hours around your family.
Don’t take holiday in the summer when the kids might be off etc etc.
What a handsome household.
I couldn’t get holidays in months like August anyways, as I wasn’t senior enough to get such holidays.
Rather than book odd days in peak holiday season, such as the friday before a bank holiday weekend for instance, I’d rather work them, pick up the cushy duty of the senior guy who’s on leave, and then take my own holidays in places like Egypt where it doesn’t matter if you go in November or February, actually rather better if you do for such places.
What I’ve been saying here is that for decades - it wasn’t possible to pick and choose “family friendly” ANYTHING at work, due to the old-fashioned seniority system, enforced by the Union. The overtime allocation system was based around “Aggregate” so that the senior drivers, many of whom would not touch overtime - would cherry pick the plumb overpaid premium jobs, like New Year’s Eve for instance, where you seem to be saying that there are loads of people who’d lose money taking that night off, just to ■■■■ it up the wall somewhere, and have to sleep off new year’s day as well, unfit to come to work and do some double bubble even if they wanted to by that point…
Yes, it is true I’ve been accused of being rather “Money Orientated” in the past. The alternative though? Are you truly telling me that most working class drivers that you AND I come from - “don’t care about money - we’ve got our working pride” kind of argument, where you’d rather have a solid job @ low pay, rather than a fly-by-night job @ top dollar, rather take your holidays when flights are double the price, try to get overtime when there ain’t any, and end up retiring without a pot to ■■■■ in as well?
Again, if you are telling me that 99% of people are like the latter, and only 1% like myself - then it might explain a lot as to why people like me are so unpopular in the unionized workplace in particular… My practices are anything BUT “Dodgy”. They are just making use of the system as it is designed. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now years later, I have a brainbox kid who’s now at University reading Physics. It isn’t as if I never had any time at home with my family, because if you can earn the same on nights as it takes half as many more hours on days to earn - who’s the daftest to their family there - really?
The 99% would be working 07:00-19:00, Monday-Friday, spending their money on unnecessarily flashy cars, holidays at peak cost, and ■■■■■■■ up the wall the rest… A lot of them - never got around to HAVING a family, let alone spending quality time with them over the past couple of decades like I did…
Am I really “not like most people”?
