Which brings us full circle to the original posting, where contractors employed by West Berks are working Saturday and SUNDAY probably at double rates for 3 weekends (six days) when possibly the work could have been completed in 4 weekdays at half the cost (at least) and probably far less inconvenience.
Really user23 you talk yourself round and round in circles with such a centrifugal force that one day you will disappear up...
Which brings us full circle to the original posting, where contractors employed by West Berks are working Saturday and SUNDAY probably at double rates for 3 weekends (six days) when possibly the work could have been completed in 4 weekdays at half the cost (at least) and probably far less inconvenience.
Really user23 you talk yourself round and round in circles with such a centrifugal force that one day you will disappear up...
Saturday is rarely double rates now is it, so claiming it could be done for half the cost is a bit silly.
No offence, but sometimes you do offer up some seemingly ill thought out points to support what you say and this time it is an attempt to distance yourself from your allusion that it's not shoppers but workers in Newbury that should "find another town" for a week whilst this happens. Never forget, workers need to work to become shoppers.
Saturday is rarely double rates now is it, so claiming it could be done for half the cost is a bit silly.
No offence, but sometimes you do offer up some seemingly ill thought out points to support what you say and this time it is an attempt to distance yourself from your allusion that it's not shoppers but workers in Newbury that should "find another town" for a week whilst this happens. Never forget, workers need to work to become shoppers.
He's determined to have the last word however does he not realise that 3 Sundays at double time is equivalent to payment for 6 days, plus 3 saturdays at single time (probably in reality it is time and a half). this equals the equivalent of payment for 9 days.
If the work could be completed in 4 weekdays as I suggest then this is half the labour costs and reduced inconvenience to shoppers. The workers are hardly likely to look for another job for a short period of inconvenience.
He's determined to have the last word however does he not realise that 3 Sundays at double time is equivalent to payment for 6 days, plus 3 saturdays at single time (probably in reality it is time and a half). this equals the equivalent of payment for 9 days.
If the work could be completed in 4 weekdays as I suggest then this is half the labour costs and reduced inconvenience to shoppers. The workers are hardly likely to look for another job for a short period of inconvenience.
So it looks like more might be spent so that the majority of businesses and workers of Newbury suffer less inconvenience. Sounds like a good news story to me, "Clowns Bring Joy To Newbury" might be the headline.
Personally I think it's a bit heartless to suggest that if your plan was implemented "workers are hardly likely to look for another job for a short period of inconvenience", in other words the workers should just put up with it.
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