The Egg Day Cometh
Well I hope you're all having a very nice Bank Holiday weekend, with either Friday or Monday off, or both if you're lucky. Because I'm not. We don't get Easter here. (here being Scotland). This is partly retribution for our disgusting debauchery at New Year when we get an extra holiday on Jan 2nd to recover, while our stay-up-till-midnight-with-a-small-sherry-then-go-to-bed English neighbours are back at work bright and early on that day, and partly because Easter is all about Spring, and it is demonstrably not Spring here, not even close - there is snow on the ground and the daffodils are nowhere near out.
But mostly because Aberdeen council, who are responsible for public holidays, are the meanest bunch of c...ouncillors in the country. Despite the fact that Easter is not a Public Holiday in Scotland, most places manage to finagle a local holiday on either the Monday or the Friday (or both), but not Aberdeen Council, much to the joy of A-the-boss at Container World.
Even if it was a holiday, Container World would remain open, because A-the-boss does not believe in holidays. The only days Container World is ever closed are Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and Jan 1 and 2, and oh, how he resents it to the very bottom of his black little capitalistic soul! On Christmas Eve and December 31st, every other company winds up at lunch time and goes to the pub. At Container World, we slave away till 5.30, despite the fact we are the only ones there by that time.
So it is at Easter as well. Our charming Industrial Estate was deserted by lunchtime today as everyone else bogged off early with thoughts of chocolate eggs and a glass of two of plonk, and so it will be on Monday too, but I will be there, once again stuffing invoices into envelopes to the very end.
So enjoy your weekend and your long lie in on Monday morning. Not that I'm bitter, or anything....
But mostly because Aberdeen council, who are responsible for public holidays, are the meanest bunch of c...ouncillors in the country. Despite the fact that Easter is not a Public Holiday in Scotland, most places manage to finagle a local holiday on either the Monday or the Friday (or both), but not Aberdeen Council, much to the joy of A-the-boss at Container World.
Even if it was a holiday, Container World would remain open, because A-the-boss does not believe in holidays. The only days Container World is ever closed are Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and Jan 1 and 2, and oh, how he resents it to the very bottom of his black little capitalistic soul! On Christmas Eve and December 31st, every other company winds up at lunch time and goes to the pub. At Container World, we slave away till 5.30, despite the fact we are the only ones there by that time.
So it is at Easter as well. Our charming Industrial Estate was deserted by lunchtime today as everyone else bogged off early with thoughts of chocolate eggs and a glass of two of plonk, and so it will be on Monday too, but I will be there, once again stuffing invoices into envelopes to the very end.
So enjoy your weekend and your long lie in on Monday morning. Not that I'm bitter, or anything....