Leap Year

[caddyman]

I don’t want to be in the office today and I seem to be drawing flak from all directions. It’s nothing personal and nothing that wouldn’t come my way anyway, but I don’t feel particularly well disposed to dealing with it.

Today is 29 February. The one day in every four years that the government effectively gets my time for free. If the 24 hours was made up incrementally in hourly adjustments, they would all happen on weekends¹, but no, it just gets generated as a whole day and that means an extra day’s work for no additional pay.

Employers like to get their money’s worth from their employees. Today, I intend to see that they get it.


¹And we’d be getting up and working through the night and sleeping through the day half way through the process. Let’s not go there.

Comments

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it's not as simple as that. There were in fact 255 working days last year, and this year, in spite of the leap year, there are 254 working days (source: Sky News). So you owe your employer a day's pay! :-)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I can't help but feel that one of us is missing the point - and I don't think it's me! ;-p

[mathcathy]

My employers gave us the day as a "free" day. We were told to not do any ordinary work and use this day as a chance to catch up on stuff, to learn things we wouldn't usually have time for, to find out what other people in the office do for a day job etc etc. In the end, I had to lead a training session for a few hours and then we all piled down to the pub after lunch....and stayed there.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I am paid by month, and buy holiday back past my allowance pro-rata on a 260.25 day base. Where are the free bits?