GF Eve holiday

[MC Extra Dollop]

They'll be able to get a return trip to Perth for about a hundred bucks.

Apparently that happens a lot in Olympic host cities. They just bugger off somewhere for a cheap holiday while the games are on.

 

[DAWESOME!!]

How has this ruined it? You can do the same thing but now don't need to take annual leave

They've re-routed the parade because the CBD will be dead, and the club has changed the date of the lunch because most people want it to be a work day, so they can come in, do a couple of hours work then nick of to the lunch.

So the lunch will be on the Thursday, two days out, with no parade. Rooned I tells you!!

 

[the harry]

Standard Victorian legislation to benefit Melbourne.

How so? People from regional Vic can now bring their kids down to see it. The kids are on school holidays.

 

[BORK]

Are people going to get public holiday rates for the Saturday if they work? If not it seems like a pretty pointless holiday(not that there a aren't a few already).

 

[Thewlis Dish]

How so? People from regional Vic can now bring their kids down to see it. The kids are on school holidays.

I mean in terms of regional businesses.

 

[ManWithNoName]

RIP small business owners

ANZAC Day wasn't a public holiday on a weekday this year. So this year there's as many public holidays for Monday - Friday businesses as any other day. So if you could explain how this year is so much worse that'd be gr8.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Would lol if were a derby grand final. The Vics taking a public holiday to celebrate the derby

I'd be laughing with you mate! It's the most pointless public holiday I've ever seen!

 

[Pomsta]

If it was a Derby Grand final then we would see the WA fans whinging. If you come over for the Grand Final Parade then the majority of businesses that stay open will probably have a 10-20% mark up due to Public Holiday surcharges.

Plus we have the Union Picnic Day (for union workers only) on the Monday after the Grand Final so it's a really long weekend for those people.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Blatant vote grabbing exercise whilst the whole of Melbourne continue to sit in traffic jams.

Doing anything that the majority of voters agree with could be described as a 'blatant vote grabbing exercise'.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I'd be laughing with you mate! It's the most pointless public holiday I've ever seen!

Can someone remind me what Boxing Day is for, again? I'm just assuming that it wasn't introduced entirely to get us to the stocktake sales, give us a chance to return dud Christmas presents and get a sellout at the MCG.

Queen's Birthday is shit. Melbourne Cup Day is shit (not the actual holidays, they rock, just the dubious reasons for having them). I could go on. The AFL Grand Final is more important to the majority of the public in this state than any number of other public holidays, including Anzac Day (yeah, I said it). And I don't really give a stuff if it's Fremantle and West Coast playing, or Fremantle and the Bulldogs.

 

[Mytjoe1]

Maybe get some better family and friends to hang out with if you hate them so much?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Wasn't this news like six months ago?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Wasn't this news like six months ago?

It was just after the election (so December/January), I reckon, so even longer than that. Pretty bizarre that there hadn't been any real follow up to lock it in until now though. I just assumed that it had been promised, so it would be delivered.

 

[garlic munchers]

Really?

The only people sooking will be sandgropers going on about how the game should be in Perth and those who they cant get flights, tickets etc.

Now that will be funny.

Hendo being proactive by announcing he's getting out of town well before the GF?

Now that is funny!

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

The more the better, could not care one ounce for businesses crying poor.

Thanks mate. I work for myself and my business is reliant on businesses that will now be closed on that day so I will be losing the money I had expected to make on that day, no two ways about it. Stupid idea.

 

[utility]

If a small business can't handle being closed for one day, then they aren't very good at what they do

Actually it is very common when renting retail space you are required under lease to be open seven days a week (with higher labour costs for public holidays).

 

[PoppedCorn]

a day off for a horse race
yet when anzac day lands on a sat, tough shite

 

[JackFlash]

A shocking decision by Andrews, he needs to change it immediately...no need for a public holiday Grand Final eve.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

If a small business can't handle being closed for one day, then they aren't very good at what they do

They can handle it but don't feed us a load of bulldust about it being good for the economy which is what the government are claiming, it won't be. Business groups have said it's a bad idea but the government went and gazetted it anyway. Gotta to keep their promise to the unions, I mean, electorate. Give me a break.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

a day off for a horse race
yet when anzac day lands on a sat, tough shite

The horse race is on the day of the public holiday, we are getting a public holiday for the day before a football match ANZAC Day is still a public holiday if it falls on a Saturday.

 

[PoppedCorn]

what about sunday

The horse race is on the day of the public holiday, we are getting a public holiday for the day before a football match ANZAC Day is still a public holiday if it falls on a Saturday.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Thanks mate. I work for myself and my business is reliant on businesses that will now be closed on that day so I will be losing the money I had expected to make on that day, no two ways about it. Stupid idea.

If it wasn't popular, they wouldn't have done it.

Why are you more important than the many people that will be delighted to have the day off?

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

If it wasn't popular, they wouldn't have done it.

Why are you more important than the many people that will be delighted to have the day off?

Who said I was?

Yep, popular amongst their union mates.

 

[JackFlash]

If a small business can't handle being closed for one day, then they aren't very good at what they do

Andrews clearly didn't think this through during his vote grabbing exercise, the raw impact from lost production is likely to be between $717 million and $898 million a year. It is unnecessary and will fail within a couple of years as the parade will be a disaster, small business will suffer because people will have the Friday off and turn it into a long weekend taking Monday along with it. Less than a month later we will have another day off for the Melbourne Cup, small business in the CBD cops it in the arse as the city empties for days! I wouldn't mind betting neutral supporters will go away for a long weekend rather than watch the Grand Final at home on the Saturday? Gee i hope Freo play the Eagles in the GF this year!
The only thing that will save the parade this year is the Bulldogs making the GF!

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Who said I was?

Yep, popular amongst their union mates.

Popular with anyone that gets to take the day off, go on a weekend away, spend time with loved ones, or maybe do a bit of shopping or grab a coffee or a meal and support those small businesses. Work to live and all that...