Or to be accurate and with reference to an earlier graph, the Developing World needs "a good plague, natural disaster, war, comet etc etc".
Who pollute and consume far less than you do - by about a factor of 32.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html?_r=0
So really, it would be far easier to sort the worlds problems by culling overprivileged Europeans and Americans, probably mostly the white ones considering the income distributions of those countries.
be considerate, be thoughtful. Care about others and their needs as well as your own
heh.. Unfortunately this is a state of mind that some folk could only ever hope to fully achieve by becoming parents..
Hence some of the odd attitudes in this thread perhaps 😉
This thread is gold.
The point is - nobody without a child (or partner who is a teacher) is ever going to choose to take a holiday during half-term or whatever.... unless it's unavoidable (like the OP).
At the point that it's unavoidable (ie: 100% of the time) there is no justification for de-prioritizing it vs somebody with a sprog.
The interpretation of whats unavoidable is obviously up for discussion, eg: you don't have kids but are babysitting for your nice/nephew in half term, or are going skiing with a group of people that include teachers etc, all sound "unavoidable" to me.
But in practice, but as long as nobody is being a d*ck about it (eg: arbitrarily taking every other Wed off!) it's essentially just first-come first served.
Hah, anyone feeling hard done to here should be grateful you're not in my position. Girlfriend is a nurse in BC, Canada which means she has to be in the nurses union. Said union has stupid seniority rule which allows the most senior person to have first dibs on holiday. In her office, this has resulted in the very same person ALWAYS getting the prime summer weeks off. Naturally, this woman has no school age (she's in her late fifties...it takes that long in the same position to work up the seniority list) The next most senior has second choice etc. GF now has about 7years seniority and has only just moved off the bottom rung so there's little chance of us ever being able to grab the prime weeks in summer. Fortunately, we don't have kids and would generally never want to take time off when the schools are closed...however, when you want to get out into the mountains of Canada, the season is very short.....
The main one is the not getting sued reason,
I don't get it - how would privileging parents over nonparents stop them getting sued?
it's not, it's a more general point about HR management. anything goes until there is actually the potential for getting sued
Wow, some people's employers sound shit, and some people have real issues!
We get 25 days, plus you can buy or sell 5 at full daily rate, plus we can take 12 'flex days' by accruing hours beyond your contracted 35/week. Holiday is first come first served. If multiple people want time off simultaneously they try and facilitate it by allowing folk to go off 'on call' or something. My whole team (of 3) is off over Xmas - we've divvied up 'on call' days, works for me!
Buying and selling holidays has nothing to do with this "discussion" which is about whether it is reasonable for someone without children to want to take time off during school holidays to watch a sporting event.
...whether it is reasonable for someone without children to want to take time off during school holidays to watch a sporting event.
The answer to which is "yes, of course it is".
Yeah I forgot that lot's of places don't close down for xmas. BTW I'm against parents getting priority for xmas day off. if you're in a job where you have to work xmas/NY*/easter** then should be done on rota where possible.What, maybe like Christmas?
That BC senior nurse thing sounds like a load of bollocks to me
*would have thought none-parents cared more about this than xmas tbh
**Don't see the point of easter myself but accept a lot of other people take it like xmas, big family get together.
First come first served.
Agree entirely. The issue is parents HAVE to take that week off. Not because they can afford to actually go anywhere but purely as little Jonny is off school and they have no choice. Zip. But to sit at home with them as holidays are expensive and childcare? Tried getting it for holidays/out of term time?
