Monday 22nd November 2010
A very Orkney sort of day today. I didn't get much done but I went to post some parcels this afternoon. Unfortunately I had forgotten about it being half day closing at the Post Office. Many shops up here still have a half day closing. A thoroughly good idea as far as I am concerned.
I used to work in a shop when I was younger (many many moons ago) and for the convenience of customers we were of course open all day on saturdays. Some customers however seemed to think that for us to take half a day off in the week was very selfish of us. They would of course never think of working on a saturday themselves, especially if they did not earn any extra money for doing so. We even had customers wanting us to be open christmas morning so that they could collect meat for their festivities. As it was we had worked about 100 hours in the week before christmas and slept in the back room of the shop because it was not worth going home.
(Whinge Over)
The other side of the coin here was illustrated when Pam dropped into the dentists this afternoon. She wanted to make an appointment to replace a filling that had dropped out. The dentist told her to come back at 7:15PM and he did it then.
I don't think that many dentists down south would do that. The doctors here have the same philosophy. Patients are treated as individuals to be helped if possible and not just inconvenient work unitsthat must be endured.
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