I actually still get weekends. Only working shift work means my weekends are simply when I've finished a set of shifts. Sometimes they fall on actual weekends but mostly they fall midweek.
I haven't really stopped working throughout this.

GooberTheHat wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

I'm officially furloughed now so I guess during the week I just sit there picking my arse being extremely careful I cant profit from it at a later date.

You're allowed to take additional work while furloughed aren't you?

Yes but it has to be totally unrelated to my normal work.

I'm back at work. Still got my weekends. The only real difference is lack of traffic which is a bonus for me day to day. I pray redundancies aren't on the line but it's sadly inevitable. Hope it ain't me...

Oh and a fucking haircut I don’t have a bad head of hair for someone approaching fifty but when it gets this long it falls into a natural Ken Barlow and that’s not a good look

b0r1s wrote:

I skinned mine off a week ago.

I’ve got the clippers but imma gunna look like Mark Williams the snooker player and a bit of length disguises that

Yesss... give into your destructive urges Gazelle! Fight the god of Capital at the crossroads of fate!

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I remember when pubs in England used to have to shut on a Sunday at 3. It was ace.

This part was not ace.

Remember before ATMs?  If you didn't have cash for the weekend by lunchtime Friday you were more or less fucked unless you wanted to wank around with cheques.  Those were the days.

Errrr no. I don’t.

So did mine. Though his pay packet was typed (may have been printed - Harland and Wolff shipyard had an IT dept even back in the 70s). The notes were always mint - they stuck together if you weren't careful... My dad was paranoid about handing an extra note over so he used to scrumple them after counting his wage.

N.Ireland used to close for 2 weeks around the 12th July. There was very little open during that time. Private owned shops would stagger it so you could always get food etc. but there was little else open unless you were in a seaside town. Most factories all closed at he same time. It actually sort of makes sense - gets it out of the way and no wondering if certain suppliers are open.

(If you lived up the Falls Rd in Belfast or the Bogside in Derry/Londonderry I suspect most private owned shops stayed open)

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I remember the days you were paid in cash, in an envelope.

I'm still grateful you let me into your truck at Calais buddy

I've only ever been paid cash in an envelope when I did the paper rounds for the news agent.

My partner still gets paid cash in envelope with a printed payslip.

Yeah, I think actual pay packets are still a common thing in hospitality. Not at big chains or groups, but on the smaller scale definitely.

My ex-wife always used to get ’em from bar and restaurant work and when she eventually managed places she was the one who had to put everyone’s cash into envelopes and hand them out.