So today is the good old 'mad' friday

Lets go ing mental lets go ing mental nanaananan

I might have a nice sherry and a sit down.

HAHA, You are mad!

Looks like someone has already had one sherry too many...

Next friday is mad friday!

normally it would be, but for some reason radio's been saying tonight is as well this year because theres lots of work parties on. Why this year is any different to others escapes me

Because next friday is Xmas Eve, Mad Friday is traditionally the last Friday before Xmas Eve

I always thought it was the last working friday before christmas, and if it happened to be xmas eve then it was just tough.

Me too and the fact that the pubs seem pretty empty sort of confirms that!

Yep, one.

I've never heard of 'Mad Friday'


Just thought I would share that with you...

Glad you have, since that now makes two of us.

Mad Friday is split this year. Normally the last Friday before Crimbo, but with Christmas eve being next Friday a lot of people will finish today, but loads will finish next Friday too.

Can see Thursday next week being ”mad”

Isn't it 'black' friday?

I always thought it was just the friday that coincides with the last pay day before xmas.

That would be next Friday for us NHS employees.

Fuddle friday in Cas tonight and suprizingly very little trouble !!!

Yeh Mad Friday has always been the last Fri before Xmas for us and it was pretty busy in Halifax last night.

Who only get about 14 quid a month. Crap night out for you then.

Tell me about it.

My mate who works at Royal Mail has just got a nice £150 Xmas bonus.

I could only dream of the NHS doing the same, in fact there looking right this minute for us all to lose 10% over the next two years to save £50 million pound.

Bloody 'Ell, bankers eat your heart out................

Is that right? Are the Agenda for Change pay scale bands all being reduced by 10%? I must have missed that being announced.

Have you noticed now how any banker you meet (when they venture out) always says something like "OK, I'm a banker. I admit it. But I'm an ordinary retail banker looking after customer accounts at branch level, not one of these investment bankers in London..."?*

Sort of like Clinton's "I smoked it yes but did not inhale..."?

Have you ever read the "Alex" cartoon strip? Sums up perfectly what a load of scumbags investment bankers generally are, IMO.

[size=50* In fairness, they likely are, and are as sickened as the rest of us and fed up of being tarred with the same brush. [/size

Not every band is having a 10% reduction (well it still has to be put to a ballot - I've voted no) although then jobs become under threat.

You're band 8's and 9's and A,B,C,D,E etc are protected but then that's what I would expect for them to look after their own while frontline services are cut here, there and everywhere.

My missus is a Band 6, and she's never heard of this proposed reduction - that's why I'm puzzled! Is this something local? Mind you, her frontline department is already more than 25% below establishment and they are keeping it that way (that's why she's having to work 11+ hour days...) so maybe that is the alternative strategy?

Does she work at the BRI or St Lukes?
I'm not sure how this can be implemented across the various departments when everything is being drastically cut back.

It's a hard one to call as no one want's to see/feel the threat of redundancies.