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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Yeah teacher training was wasted on me 
Lucky him, perhaps if he had to clean to goo of the train he might not be so blase about it next time. |
Evidently it was wasted on you, or left you quite bitter towards the profession if you equate a 3 year degree, a year PGCE, basically no paid leave as it has to be in school holidays and working 70 hours a week in term times with saying 'Mind the doors' and pushing a lever backwards and forwards for 35 hours a week, with 43 days of paid leave per year after a matter of weeks of training.
Oddly enough drivers don't clean their own trains. They drive them.
Regardless it doesn't change that this is nonsense. There's an agreement from 1996 which bakes into it the working of public holidays as part of the currently £45,545 basic, plus overtime, plus 43 days paid leave per year on a 35 hour working week.
Agreements are there for a reason, the unions try their luck every so often, this is obviously one of the more absurd examples trying to obtain a day off in lieu and triple time for a standard bank holiday which is already covered by existing compensation arrangements.
EDIT: Just to add to the hilarity the unions agreed in return for their ransom demands over the Olympics giving them the huge pay rises and bonus to not strike over pay, so this is a dispute about time off. Ya.