[bmstinton93]

Happy Birthday Chris.

[a-moron]

- and then demanded that we chanted to recognise the anniversary of the day she was born.

Your post was excellent Chrystal Tips but that particular line did make me cachinnate vociferously.

*I always feel the need to jazz up my replies to a Chrysostom post for some reason. The lad does have excellent diction*

**bugger, just had to edit my original post due to my own diction being pure jobby**

[Nicola_Red]

He does, doesn't he? He's eloquent at 10am in a way that I can never quite manage. Sometimes I'm surprised that anything I post before lunchtime even makes any sense.

[Bas]

He does, doesn't he? He's eloquent at 10am in a way that I can never quite manage. Sometimes I'm surprised that anything I post before lunchtime even makes any sense.

"Before lunchtime"?
Then what's your excuse for those that come after?






I'm going to cop it for this, aren't i?

[Nicola_Red]

He does, doesn't he? He's eloquent at 10am in a way that I can never quite manage. Sometimes I'm surprised that anything I post before lunchtime even makes any sense.

"Before lunchtime"?
Then what's your excuse for those that come after?


I'm going to cop it for this, aren't i?

Ha! If you didn't keep providing me with sig quotes, you might do.

(By the way, I asked a friend if he agreed that I was like Tina. He replied "I can see something of the princess in you, yes.")

[Yudster]

I know what you all mean, on my mum's birthday last year she expected us to bake her a cake as if she was some sort of deity - and then demanded that we chanted to recognise the anniversary of the day she was born.

Shortly after, we had to give her gifts which honoured her position in all of our lives.

For a majority of that day, she was waited on hand and foot - and relatives actually phoned from overseas just to verbally acknowledge that they knew it was her birthday!

Bloody Sycophant!

Was the outcome of your mum's job (which, given the comparison you are making between her and Moyles, I assume to be one which is primarily geared towards providing some kind of service to other people) compromised by all this frivolity, or was this particular excess of affection confined to friends and family?

No one is complaining about the team making a fuss of Moyles on his birthday, merely that this year they seem to have forgotten that they should be catering for an audience as well, rather than just broadcast what was in effect pretty much a private party. Although as I said, I think I managed to enjoy it more than a lot of people seemed to.

[chrysostom]

I've always thought of the birthday shows as being an ego boost for Chris - but in a positive way. I get the idea that Chris isn't always the easiest man to manage, and getting a spectacle for him on one day of the year doesn't seem that frivolous.

Some people are complaining about the music acts being too on target - but surely they were there to cater for their primary audience?

It was better than a low key 'Dom' style birthday which provides 20 mins of laughs, and no other reference.

I fully sympathise with birthday brats. I LOVE my birthday.

[swaddon1903]

Sometimes I wonder if the Daily Mail is a spoof paper that has been fooling readers for years.

[Nicola_Red]

I've always hated my birthday. I like to play it down where at all possible. Here all contracted staff get their birthday off work, so it's always in big letters on the rota, so I can't avoid people knowing. I hate that conversation the next day: "what did you do for your birthday?" "well, nothing..."

[bmstinton93]

Ha! If you didn't keep providing me with sig quotes, you might do.

I've survived quite a while as your sig now. I feel honoured.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, you have. I had a different Bas quote before but I just replaced one with another. So I'm partly Barney and partly Tina at the moment.

[Yudster]

I've always hated my birthday. I like to play it down where at all possible. Here all contracted staff get their birthday off work, so it's always in big letters on the rota, so I can't avoid people knowing. I hate that conversation the next day: "what did you do for your birthday?" "well, nothing..."

Wow - so they insist that you make it public when your birthday is? I'd tell them where to put that one. They make a stupid fuss about birthdays in my office and it took a long time for me to convince them that I was not about to be a part of it. The absolute last thing I want anyone doing is assuming that I am going to be in the mood for celebrating anything on my birthday, as its also the anniversary of my first husband dying. Anyone who says "happy birthday" to me is going to get thumped.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, you have no choice really. Well, I s'pose I could ask my boss to not put it on the rota and lie to people about why I'm not in. But I'm not concerned enough to go to that extent. I just put up with it. And it is a free day off work.

[MK Chris]

it is a free day off work.

You think? I'd see it more as they have a number of days holiday that they allocate to people and one of those days is automatically allocated to your birthday. That it doesn't come out of your official holiday allowance just means they've given you one less day in your allowance than you'd otherwise have had - the only difference really is that one of your days is forced to be on a particular day.

[Yudster]

Also, if you did refuse to publicise your birthday and they tried to say that you couldn't have another day off, they's be entering an Equality Act minefield. Whatever the legalities or otherwise of it, its really bad HR practice.

[Nicola_Red]

it is a free day off work.

You think? I'd see it more as they have a number of days holiday that they allocate to people and one of those days is automatically allocated to your birthday. That it doesn't come out of your official holiday allowance just means they've given you one less day in your allowance than you'd otherwise have had - the only difference really is that one of your days is forced to be on a particular day.

Well, the allowance used to be 28 and when they introduced the policy it went up to 29. So they increased the allowance by one day - but that day does indeed have to be your birthday. I don't care, it's an extra day off from what I had when I first started. Well, I have 35 now cos I've been there so long, but that's a different thing.

[bmstinton93]

I get 8 weeks, all paid.

[yummytummy]

sorry for delay in putting up highlights video. I will upload either tommorow or friday

[chrysostom]

I get 8 weeks, all paid.

Are you full time?

If so that's amazing - I'm on my first proper job and we get 25 days (5 weeks) for the whole year (not including public holidays).

[bmstinton93]

Nah part time 12 hours a week. All full and part time staff get 6 weeks paid holiday initially then the more overtime you do, the more holiday you get, so this year I had 8 weeks.


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[Yudster]

25 days is average. I used to get more at my last job, but that was because I had been there a long time and the allowance increased with service. It will do here eventually - if I can stick it for long enough.

[DevilsDuck]

I get 27 plus bank holidays and up to 12 days a year flexi.


That's 10 weeks a year I can take off


I win

[Nicola_Red]

25 days is average. I used to get more at my last job, but that was because I had been there a long time and the allowance increased with service. It will do here eventually - if I can stick it for long enough.

Same here. I've been here over 10yrs so I now get 35. It's joyous.

[Yudster]

I used to get 35. It was indeed joyous. Unfortunately here by the time I qualify for that kind of allowance I won't need it any more because Baby Yudster will be older and it won't be so crucial.