2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not having to work

There are people who are still working? ????

How about letting us travel in Thailand for a holiday?

3 hours ago, Mavideol said:

so what's the purpose of having the public holidays

Well that's to stop people being forced to work 365 days per year for no extra pay than a basic salary...

However, at this time I think companies should add public holidays to their 'holiday' allowance and negotiate with employees TBH.

 

Are you suggesting the only reason to have public holidays (like Christmas Day in the UK) is that people don't stay home?

 

Perhaps a slightly less developed idea of how to belittle everything reported in Thai news.

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by ben2talk

4 hours ago, Mavideol said:

so what's the purpose of having the public holidays

so that we can stay at home (thanks god!), and not having to go to work ?

4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not having to work

What work?

 

4 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

People don't have work or money at present, and if alcohol ban continue,  who need holiday?

Good God .. if we All thought like that the world would be in a bad way. Holiday =Drinking ? .. 

Let's open up alcohol sales in advance of the holidays. What kind of holiday can people have without some hooch? 

4 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

People don't have work or money at present, and if alcohol ban continue,  who need holiday?

The people who have been working... not everyone is closed down.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Labour Day - 1 May

Coronation Day - 4 May

Visakha Bucha - 6 May

Royal Ploughing Ceremony - 11 May

Will companies close May 5th, making it a continuous holiday from Fri 1st returning to work on the 7th?

The insanity continues.  people standing in line for hours for food as the incompetent mingle.

I just want a chance to visit husband in Phattalung, so, if I can get a few days to maybe leave Phuket, greatly appreciated. 

5 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

People don't have work or money at present, and if alcohol ban continue,  who need holiday?

 

People want to go back to work, earn money, then first then have a holiday and party.

 

That I agree with you. I think Thais would sooner go back to work than have a holiday unless you work for the gov or are the governemnt Just dont make sense to me. Lots of thais have no work so they say have a holiday hahaha

1 hour ago, Expat Tom said:

Let's open up alcohol sales in advance of the holidays. What kind of holiday can people have without some hooch? 

A good one without drunks slobbering and spitting all over people and their food at a restaurant as they stagger and push their way past

Royal Ploughing Ceremony is an official holiday for government offices but is not a bank holiday and companies work as normal.  

3 hours ago, Percy P said:

Is that all you think about is money for beer.   A better idea would to put some beer money in a savings account for a time you may be short ,like the present situation. Or do  you have the Thai thought  of spend today my not be here tomorrow . 

Another "holier than though" punter

well we seem to be doing okay Australia has just started the meter and a half apart so they a few weeks behind us

7 hours ago, Mavideol said:

so what's the purpose of having the public holidays

Good question if you are one of the 27 million unemployed under the new regulations.

8 hours ago, Mavideol said:

so what's the purpose of having the public holidays

Keeping our pension money in the bank for an extra day or two to "play" on the world financial markets!

Looking forward to May 11 and ploughing my usual furrow at home.

Time to open up and let starving people, some now without homes to get back to work. Be damned the new normal!

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by Sumarianson

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Labour Day - 1 May

Oh Yippee!!!  All of the unemployed and the out-of-work and folks who have had their businesses and livelihoods destroyed can flock to the celebrations (with the proper social distancing) and sing the praises of Labor Day that the puuyai have so graciously allow the little people to celebrate!!!  That's over 1/3 to 1/2 of the county.  Man.  What a party.  Well, except they'll be no gatherings too large without permits and permission.  Better if no gatherings at all.  Better still just to stay home and look at pictures of May Poles on the Internet.  And no drinking allowed.  Definitely no drinking as that spreads Covid. 

 

 

 

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by connda

Might as well add Stinko de Mayo..with Coronas, of course.

9 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Thai logic let’s have a holiday but I think everybody needs to stay in quarantine at their home and makes a lot of sense amazing Thailand TIT

Ahhh, but the "Special People" will be allowed out with much pomp and fanfare so that the public can vicariously celebrate the holiday by watching their betters. 

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by connda

17 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Even without the virus the economy would be tanking with all the holidays in Thailand

Here, in case you want to post something based on actual facts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country

18 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

People don't have work or money at present, and if alcohol ban continue,  who need holiday?

We are completely under water with work. Cancelling the holidays would have been a blessing looking at our tight timeline. 

 

17 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Lucky for me I am not effected, been on holiday here since November 2015.

 

What I would like to hear is that the alcohol ban will be lifted for one day at least, which would give me enough time to grab some booze so I can bunker down with a smile every single day for the next month.

 

Oh dear! What a desperation for alcohol. ????

16 hours ago, Wildliferescue said:

These are uniforms of ministers and permanent secretaries, not police or military. 

Typical Thailand, give the people uniforms, an excuse to make loud noise, and plenty of paperwork and that's them happy. ????

14 hours ago, Expat Tom said:

Let's open up alcohol sales in advance of the holidays. What kind of holiday can people have without some hooch? 

Yes and see all the road deaths pile up a lot more than usual.

13 hours ago, Russell17au said:

A good one without drunks slobbering and spitting all over people and their food at a restaurant as they stagger and push their way past

But there are no Chinese people here just now, or are there?

18 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like the suits are outnumbered by uniforms at the democratically elected government cabinet meeting then????

Just hope that they don't all shrug at the same time - with all those wings the building might take off!