Beautiful memorial service for Prince Philip

Gilly you know how long every engagement takes ? Do tell,
how long to meet someone starting a business through
The Prince’s Trust, to visit a farming area, meeting a head of
state, attending the opening of The Senydd ?

Gilly3

Grany's maths is correct, it is 521 engagements for PC. Mind you an hour would be long enough for me with him.

So can you imagine what it must be like for him spending so much time talking to so many people - some must be inspiring but some will be tedious and boring (or even worse, gushing).

PECS I remember a couple of colleagues and I once spent our meal allowance on afternoon tea at the Pump Rooms in Bath.
Well, it was too late for lunch and too early for dinner and we had time to fill before our train home.
Very nice it was too!

Grany's maths is correct, it is 521 engagements for PC. Mind you an hour would be long enough for me with him.

callistemon My father, a civil servant, had to travel when he worked for the then DSS, chairing tribunals. I believe he could retrospectively claim travel and hotel costs including breakfast & dinner..not lunch or alcohol. He treated his expenses as a bonus..which my mum endlessly pointed out it was not... and we would be taken out for a treat or he would buy a gadget , new book or toy for us!

However, travel time or not travel time, there is a lot of work that goes on out of public view too, not just time spent on public appearances.

Nope ,never have been paid for 200 mile round trips ,your wage was your wage .My son worked for a short time a sa salesman....he was all over the country literally ,if he didn't make the sale he didn't get paid and he had to pay for his own travel ...this wasn't in the last century o
r even the last decade

PECS

Pantglas I might ask for some back pay..all those residential school journeys..on duty 24/7....

Is that only be for civil servants...?

Certainly not PECS
I don't remember being paid from leaving home at 6.30 to catch a train to wherever then getting home at 10 pm, only just for the standard week.
Of course, there's always the on-call allowance for those who might get called out at any unearthly hour.

Casdon

If you’re on a salary you travel in your work time so you’re being paid anyway, and organise your meetings accordingly though volver don’t you, which amounts to the same thing.

Oops, sorry, I saw that afterwards.

RTWT

I cannot, however, tell you what colour dress Kate was wearing on the 23rd June 2011. I'm sure there are some that can
I'm sure it was blue.

Don't forget travel time either!

The Queen’s seven grandchildren were there so doubt absence
of one was of concern

I was overwhelmed watching the memorial service wondering how the Queen must have felt where her grandson Prince Harry presence was made noticeable by his absence

Pantglas I might ask for some back pay..all those residential school journeys..on duty 24/7....

Is that only be for civil servants...?

Standard practice in public service that any travel from your normal place of work to another venue is paid working hours - unions wouldn’t allow anything else would they? If it’s good enough for us...

I have got up in the morning at 3am to catch the early flight to Paris and didn't get back until about 11pm. Then into work the next day.

Which is why I find it a bit hard to take when I'm told that the Royals work really hard.

If you’re on a salary you travel in your work time so you’re being paid anyway, and organise your meetings accordingly though volver don’t you, which amounts to the same thing.

I never got paid travel time over and above my basic salary.

Is that another Royal perk?

Yes paddyann in jobs where you are travelling extensively as an integral part of your role you do, of course, get paid your travel time as working hours. You aren’t expected to get up at 6am, travel from London to say Newcastle, carry out a full days work and then travel home again, arriving at say 9pm if it’s a requirement of your job and tomorrow you’re in say Cornwall. Most companies will deduct your normal home to office base time and pay you any hours above that.

Anniebach

grany you must spend hours every day reading about the royal family, don’t you get bored ?

Whereas…

Casdon do you and all the people you know get paid for travel time? Things are certainly different in your part of teh UK if thats the case.

Well, some of them are undoubtedly phone calls. For which I'm sure he doesn't do the actual dialling...he probably has a chap for that.

And - does the engagement time include travel time to, between and home from them too? It would need to if you want an accurate picture. (Not that I care in the slightest, but I’m sure Grany knows the answer because she knows everything there is to know about the Royals)

I can do it in my head, if you like.

2 1/2 hours per engagement, times 251, 627 hours, divide by 8, approx. 74 1/2 working days

No obsession. Just really good at arithmetic

I cannot, however, tell you what colour dress Kate was wearing on the 23rd June 2011. I'm sure there are some that can.

To work out how long each of the 251 engagements lasted and
then work out they equaled 74 and 1/2 working days , ? , with respect that is a worrying obsession

Callistemon21

? Anniebach!

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