Why does your company only work Monday to Friday?
Your point appears to question why others aren’t working for your benefit.
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[NSC] Keep Sunday Special ?
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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Your point appears to question why others aren’t working for your benefit.
In the aulden days people lived above/behind the shops. When I ran my business I worked similarly. It adds up. If you need to work 24/7 the business models wrong.
Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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Say pen pushers again. Coz that ain't aggressive. Might want to change your password as I think GB News have hacked your account.
You’re splitting this list out to make it look longer than it is. You could have posted
The Emergency Services
The Armed Forces
Hospitality
Health
Public Transport which covers the majority of occupations.
This isn’t anywhere near as dramatic as your original post. I agree these are essential but who really wants to go to the garden center on a Sunday?
- Oct 17, 2008
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When I worked at Paradise Park, it was the second busiest day behind Saturday actually
Pubs are shutting and have been for decades. The model may be wrong to some but it would be brainless to shut on one of your busiest days.
fly high
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Wasn't part of the problem with railway drivers, Sunday working is voluntary and the government and rail companies wanted it to be included in normal shift patterns.
People who can't get to it any other day.
If we want to look back in time to the good old days. Shop keepers had a day off during the week. Horsham for instance was a Thursday, hence why up to today there's a Thursday Cricket team at Horsham CC. This was for working a Saturday. Back then a lot of people worked Saturday Mornings as part of their job in a lot of industries.
My real point in the posts I've made is that shops being open only accounts for a small amount of people who work weekends, yet some believe it should be a "special" day for ALL.
It never has and never can be, that's the point.
Back in the wonderful 60's and 70's people still worked Sundays. The shelves needed stacking in shops. The post needed sorting and distributing. The papers needed printing and delivering. And on and on.
Lets face even vicars had to work, talking to their boss.
I’m not advocating the closure of everything but I do like the idea of “major” shops being closed on Sunday. It works very successfully here and no one I know complains, quite the opposite in fact.
Would you stop food deliveries as well from the big supermarkets?
Yes. These don’t operate in Germany on Sundays. I’m not aware of wide spread famine every Sunday; it works.
As it happens, it’s a nationwide public holiday today and everything is shut. If I don’t post tomorrow because I have starved to death you can have the last laugh; my funeral wishes are in the “Music at your wake” thread. It will be a weekday, I wouldn’t want to deprive @Lenny Rider of a Sunday at home….I hope you can make it.
Count me in. I may even drink a weird brew in your memoryYes. These don’t operate in Germany on Sundays. I’m not aware of wide spread famine every Sunday; it works.
As it happens, it’s a nationwide public holiday today and everything is shut. If I don’t post tomorrow because I have starved to death you can have the last laugh; my funeral wishes are in the “Music at your wake” thread. It will be a weekday, I wouldn’t want to deprive @Lenny Rider of a Sunday at home….I hope you can make it.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Especially in a small town/village where Sunday ‘day of rest‘ tend to be observed more than in cities/large towns:
I went to my local garden centre one Sunday lunchtime when I first moved to my current location, after a some voluntary work I was doing for a local charity event. A colleague dropped me off on his way home.
After buying a load of plants, I walked across the road and waited for a bus - and waited - and waited. I then asked someone when it was due. There were no buses running.
Because it was Sunday.
I went back to the garden centre to phone a taxi.
No taxis woking in the afternoon.
Because it was Sunday.
The Garden centre then closed at 2pm.
Because it was Sunday.
I walked home (several miles along a main country road ) in the August heat carrying 4 large, heavy plants.
Now I never go to the garden centre on a Sunday
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Has Atilla hacked your account?There were no buses running.
Because it was Sunday.
I went back to the garden centre to phone a taxi.
No taxis woking in the afternoon.
Because it was Sunday.
The Garden then centre closed early.
Because it was Sunday.
I walked home (several miles along a main country road ) in the August heat carrying 4 large, heavy plants.
Now I never go to the garden centre on a Sunday
Sunday special is, not so more near times. Shopis opened.
OzMike
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Sunday has been special in our family for years.
Being self employed, I have usually had to work 6 days a week, with early starts and late finishes at times.
I refuse to work on Sunday, when they were small, we used to have a day out with the kids every Sunday.
Now they are older and doing their own thing, I reserve Sundays for taking wifey out, I still work 6 days a week.
She works out what she wants to do and where she wants to go and that is what we do.
It's her day and her choice and she usually chooses well.
The 9th Sept was our 32nd wedding anniversary and still happy.
Being self employed, I have usually had to work 6 days a week, with early starts and late finishes at times.
I refuse to work on Sunday, when they were small, we used to have a day out with the kids every Sunday.
Now they are older and doing their own thing, I reserve Sundays for taking wifey out, I still work 6 days a week.
She works out what she wants to do and where she wants to go and that is what we do.
It's her day and her choice and she usually chooses well.
The 9th Sept was our 32nd wedding anniversary and still happy.
Congratulations.
Perfidious Albion
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As a town centre resident, I am in favour of keeping Sunday as a day of rest and relaxation, not chasing around the shops. Give us a break !