- Oct 20, 2022
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Why the agressive response?The majority of the workforce, really? REALLY?
Pen pushers, school teachers, the really tiny tiny amount of the workforce in the city. Loads barely leave their bedrooms these days it appears
The rest
Medical
Shops
Delivery
Restaurants
Pubs
Police
Fire Service
Refuge Collectors
Street Cleaners
Farmers
Milkman
Bus drivers
Railway Workers
Coach drivers
Sports people
People working at sports venues
Cinemas
Care home workers
Zoos!
Pilots
Engineers
Hostesses
Ferry staff
Tanker drivers
Army
Airforce
Navy
etc etc etc etc etc etc
I excluded frontline workers from my initial post (most of what you have listed) because these are essential services that when you join, you sign up to shift work - everyone understands the importance of 24hr frontline services. The others are largely sports and entertainment industry related which of course is more active at weekends because Sundays is when many people relax with friends or family participating in sports/entertainment if they are working during the week.
Working weekend in most jobs pays a higher rate than weekday too - recognising that the weekend is NOT a normal working day.
The initial thread discussion concerns Sunday trading as did my post.
For the sake of convenience, so you and I can do our weekly shop or wander around the DIY store, somebody has to give up their Sunday to serve us. Not wanting to make this about class or income but you can bet the shopworker giving up their Sunday is doing it on a low income and probably has limited other choices in the job market so is basically stuck with it..
I don’t have an issue with weekend Sunday trading, I just think people should be given the choice to work - it’s not a biggie.