Wish people would stop assuming we'll all enjoy "an extra hour in bed" when this comes round. Some of us might prefer to work through the extra hour. Likewise there is no need to lose an hour's sleep in the spring simply by adjusting one's bed time accordingly.
Wish people would stop assuming we'll all enjoy "an extra hour in bed" when this comes round. Some of us might prefer to work through the extra hour. Likewise there is no need to lose an hour's sleep in the spring simply by adjusting one's bed time accordingly.
You really are a miserable so and so aren't you? Two points... it's not just directors working overnight, but people in all sorts of jobs. And secondly, the majority of people, especially if not paid by the hour, would prefer not to work an extra hour in the middle of the night I would have thought.
Wish people would stop assuming we'll all enjoy "an extra hour in bed" when this comes round. Some of us might prefer to work through the extra hour. Likewise there is no need to lose an hour's sleep in the spring simply by adjusting one's bed time accordingly.
I wasn't meaning "work" as in paid employment - though of course there will be many people on shift tonight and for that they have my sympathy. I simply thought that for those not working in the literal sense, it might be more constructive doing an extra hours' worth of whatever then in the morning getting up at the usual time.
Come the spring things are weighted in the night workers' favour, but the rest of us still moan about "losing an hour's sleep" when the solution is quite simple.
Wish people would stop assuming we'll all enjoy "an extra hour in bed" when this comes round. Some of us might prefer to work through the extra hour. Likewise there is no need to lose an hour's sleep in the spring simply by adjusting one's bed time accordingly.
Would you rather the announcer said, 'enjoy the extra hour in bed everyone, assuming that you won't be at work making money to pay off those Christmas bills in a couple of months, which of course is assuming that you are able to work, unless you are in some way disabled, either mentally or physically... oh crap, the idents finished!'
I did think about what an announcer might say: "And that's as far as we go on BBC2 tonight. Before we go, a reminder that the clocks go back an hour at 2am tonight, taking us into Greenwich Mean Time - so while you enjoy your extra hour in bed spare a thought for our late team who'll be minding the shop for an extra hour, so to speak. And with that thought from me, may I wish you a very goodnight. Good night."
I think you could count on one hand the number who'd rather be at work. Cheer up man.