Some help here...

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Whcih holiday would you prefer to have TOTAL day off on?

Australia day?
26
67%
Good Friday?
13
33%
 
Total votes : 39

Some help here...

Postby Moe » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:31 pm

I am not really computer savvy people, but i would like to start a survey, but not sure how to do it.
If someone is interested enough i pose this question:

Which Holiday of the year should all Australians be able to enjoy with a total day off?

A. Good Friday
B. Australia Day

My vote is easily Australia Day as i work in hospitality, and today i lost count of people telling me how nice it was outside & isn't it great to be an Aussie.
Yes it is, and i would love to celebrate it too, & i would gladly work Good Friday any year.
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Strawb » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:36 pm

Moe wrote:I am not really computer savvy people, but i would like to start a survey, but not sure how to do it.
If someone is interested enough i pose this question:

Which Holiday of the year should all Australians be able to enjoy with a total day off?

A. Good Friday
B. Australia Day

My vote is easily Australia Day as i work in hospitality, and today i lost count of people telling me how nice it was outside & isn't it great to be an Aussie.
Yes it is, and i would love to celebrate it too, & i would gladly work Good Friday any year.

I work most public holidays as people like to travel on the train so it doesn't really bother me. But I feel we should go back to having all Public Holidays with the stores closed. Because they deserve a day off also that is what a public holiday is all about.
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Re: Some help here...

Postby smac » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:37 pm

There you go - poll set up.

Australia Day for me, because my work wanted me to do some stuff today!
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Moe » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:40 pm

smac wrote:There you go - poll set up.

Australia Day for me, because my work wanted me to do some stuff today!

Cheers!
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Bully » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:52 pm

both days?
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Media Park » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:37 pm

For the people wanting "time off," this year is a five day break over easter because it ties in with Anzac Day, so I assume that you'd all prefer that, rather than one day...

Having said that, Good Friday is more of a religious thing, Australia Day is a patriotic thing.

I'd prefer Anzac Day, because of my moral system, I consider it the most important "holiday" on the calendar...

Of the two options though, Australia Day... If you aren't religious, Good Friday shouldn't mean much.
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:18 pm

I'm not religous but respect other peoples beliefs so I chose Good Friday. It is the only day in the year where 99% of all businesses are shut worldwide.
I'd like to go to the pub, have a bbq, go to the cricket or go out for dinner to honour Australia Day, there's a fair chance I'd run out of p!ss aswell if it fell on a Friday or Sunday, then I'd be buggered.
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Dirko » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:36 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:It is the only day in the year where 99% of all businesses are shut worldwide.


Good Friday isn't a official public holiday in Italy, nor France (only a couple of regions), nor the United States, nor Russia, nor Japan, nor Thailand and they don't celebrate it in United Arab Emirates either :lol:

The list of countries which don't have a public holiday on the Good Friday is huge. Just about every Muslim country wouldn't celebrate Easter, same for huge parts of Asia where Christianity is a secondary religion.

Hell they even play Serie B Football in Italy on Good Friday....
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:37 pm

SJABC wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:It is the only day in the year where 99% of all businesses are shut worldwide.


Good Friday isn't a official public holiday in Italy, nor France (only a couple of regions), nor the United States, nor Russia, nor Japan, nor Thailand and they don't celebrate it in United Arab Emirates either :lol:

The list of countries which don't have a public holiday on the Good Friday is huge. Just about every Muslim country wouldn't celebrate Easter, same for huge parts of Asia where Christianity is a secondary religion.

Hell they even play Serie B Football in Italy on Good Friday....


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Re: Some help here...

Postby Gingernuts » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:43 pm

I'm religious, so it's Good Friday for me.

More than happy for all you heathens to work though. ;)
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Jase » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:56 pm

Gingernuts wrote:I'm religious, so it's Good Friday for me.

More than happy for all you heathens to work though. ;)


Amen brother, testify... :lol:
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Drop Bear » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:28 pm

Jase wrote:
Gingernuts wrote:I'm religious, so it's Good Friday for me.

More than happy for all you heathens to work though. ;)


Amen brother, testify... :lol:


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Re: Some help here...

Postby Bat Pad » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:31 pm

Gingernuts wrote:I'm religious, so it's Good Friday for me.

More than happy for all you heathens to work though. ;)


And buy booze too I hope.
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Re: Some help here...

Postby Gingernuts » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:40 pm

Bat Pad wrote:
Gingernuts wrote:I'm religious, so it's Good Friday for me.

More than happy for all you heathens to work though. ;)


And buy booze too I hope.


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Re: Some help here...

Postby Lunchcutter » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:58 pm

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Re: Some help here...

Postby dedja » Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:03 pm

Moe wrote:I am not really computer savvy people, but i would like to start a survey, but not sure how to do it.
If someone is interested enough i pose this question:

Which Holiday of the year should all Australians be able to enjoy with a total day off?

A. Good Friday
B. Australia Day

My vote is easily Australia Day as i work in hospitality, and today i lost count of people telling me how nice it was outside & isn't it great to be an Aussie.
Yes it is, and i would love to celebrate it too, & i would gladly work Good Friday any year.


Unfortunately you work in an industry that can't shut down on holidays (Good Friday excepted) because people like me want to do things on those days ... sorry for being selfish but that's the way things go.

I work in IT and I sometimes have to work in the middle of the night because my customers want systems up during the day ... that's just the way thing go for me too!
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.

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Re: Some help here...

Postby Psyber » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:23 am

A lot of industries have to carry on regardless of public holidays.

Medical staff rosters never took public holidays into account nor paid penalty rates for working them.
We had fixed annual salaries, regardless of when you worked or how many hours a week - usually 85 hours plus.
But you did get days off in lieu of public holidays worked.

I used to volunteer to work the public holidays because they were usually quieter and less stressful.
I'd save the days in lieu than take them either side of a weekend rostered off, to string together a good break.
Of course when I went into private practice I was never off duty.
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