[sleepless]

Originally Posted by carlingman

As an example then try telling that to someone without their landline for the weekend who cannot ring for an ambulance.

I said emegency service, is a phone an emegency sercice? if so then let society pay the price for support of such a service.

Originally Posted by sleepless

There should be no service on weekends, period.

Disagreed think there should be see above.

see above

Well I am a Manager for a Service Help Desk but our hours are agreed with the client and fortunately they are at the moment days, but thats drifting from the topic of this.

I think you will find that the people concerned have moved away from the Sunday opening and it is in their orginal contract somewhere so they have had a break from it for a while and now it has been put back.

In essence then if it is in the original job hours they have nothing to compalin about.

So you are in favour of the break down of family life, the one that historically and conveniently has always revolved around the weekend?

Me thinks it is not Mick or others that need to get a grip on reality but you as I fail to see what reference to a 3rd World War has anything to do with this.

A little strong I agree The point I am failing to make is that the loss in broadband, tv, etc is irrelevant. How many kids are left without thier parents on the weekend/evening due to the demands of us, the paying public. How much can we bleed from each other before it all breaks down.

How many people have to forgo their life to serve others? Should we be valuing the right to spend time with ones family and friends over the right to have non essential services like TV and broadband.

Why can't we, on the weekend, say "feck off I'm taking my kids to the beach" without the threat of loosing ones job?

Looks like I'm in the minority here. So much for evolution

Overall though in an ideal world if the service was faultless there would be no need for Sunday faults but it is not and I still stand by my original idea they should spend the money on the Network and make sure it is stable but at the end of the day we do not live in an ideal world so to me this is somewhat of a step in the right direction.

Perhaps you should realise that we are not in an ideal world and that others need time with thier family and therefore they have right to time off to be with them.

My gripe is not with voluntary work but with firms demand it on thier workforce. The ones that say; we are now going to support xyz on a 24/7 (or whatever) basis, your current contract is null and void, Either sign up to new contract or feck off. As far as I'm concerned Weekend and nights should be purely voluntary.


Apologies; thanks for the chat, not meant to be confrontational. I've had a few beers this evening