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I do have to work with kids though!
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And we have to team with them at some point... Can't you petition a new lesson called "CoX 1 o 1" 
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If I tried to deliver a lesson called CoX 101 then I doubt I would still be a teacher...
Unless you were giving a lesson on various kinds of apple..?
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Is it just me, or if you actually try taking holiday before the end of the year, do your managers then conveniently forget and start ringing up in screaming panic anyway?
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That or the holiday form you submitted 3 times in the summer gets convieniently lost around a week before youre due to have time off..... 
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Or, in the case of my wife earlier this year; book the holiday 6 months in advance, get it all OK'd and everything, then get told TWO DAYS BEFORE that she can't have it as someone who only started 2 months ago, booked it a week ago, and has ALREADY GONE ON HOLIDAY WITHOUT GETTING APPROVAL is also away.
She told 'em to get stuffed and we went anyway. 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Well GhostRaptor is off for a few days (he'll be back on Monday) and I'm working half days this week, mainly on behind-the-scene stuff.
I guess this is what you get for not bothering with holidays until the last moment. :/
But don't worry Big Brother is watching you...
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Gordon Brown plays CoX?
That explains a lot of recent policy decisions at least :P
Thelonious Monk
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Is it just me, or if you actually try taking holiday before the end of the year, do your managers then conveniently forget and start ringing up in screaming panic anyway?
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That or the holiday form you submitted 3 times in the summer gets convieniently lost around a week before youre due to have time off.....
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Or, in the case of my wife earlier this year; book the holiday 6 months in advance, get it all OK'd and everything, then get told TWO DAYS BEFORE that she can't have it as someone who only started 2 months ago, booked it a week ago, and has ALREADY GONE ON HOLIDAY WITHOUT GETTING APPROVAL is also away.
She told 'em to get stuffed and we went anyway.
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Been there, done that 
I just told them to stuff it and was going as it was approved and booked. It's not my problem if someone new comes in and wants to go away a month after they start.
My mate had a holiday booked as he was going away to a stag do in ibiza and was told a couple of weeks before that he couldn't take it for similar reasons to your wife. He was going mad at me about how [censored] it was and how much money he was losing and how his mate was upset that his best man wasn't at the stag do, so I just told him to grow some and tell his HR he was going anyway. They grumbled a lot but there was nothing they could do about it
Ah the joys of public sector working. start on 28days (rising to 33 after a few years) the minute you sign the contract. Plus back holidays on top.
Marked flexi or my favorite self certified/managed hours.
Plus all the overtime you can take.
Makes me miss the old days of acrewed holiday (16 days per year due to shifts)
or not.
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And we have to team with them at some point... Can't you petition a new lesson called "CoX 1 o 1"