[twoleftfeet]

No.

Normal people have a few days off over Christmas,they have weeks.

Not worth the money the Beeb give them.

Discuss.

[DevilsDuck]

How much money do the BBC give them?

[twoleftfeet]

How much money do the BBC give them?

Loads.

[DevilsDuck]

What do you class as loads?

[Boboff]

A load is more than some, and less than shit loads.

[Nicola_Red]

Is that a metric load, or imperial?

I do wish they were back this week, but I can't say as I care that much. How much the BBC pay or do not pay the team has no impact on my life. My licence fee is the same regardless.

[Yudster]

Which of them are on holiday? Chris and Dave are I assume, but they are freelance and don't get paid for holiday. Aled is at work, I think Rachel is too - Don't know about Dom and Carrie. Oooh, I just realised I don't care either. There's a thing.

[Munki Bhoy]

Probably find over the course of a year they all get the same amount of time off. Just so happens Chris has taken now off rather than later in the year.

[wireman2004]

How can 6 weeks holiday be classed as not working hard.
And Just because you don't here chris and the team after 10. Doesn't mean that they still are not working. You here on the radio at times that chris is there some days till 11.30, 12. Or even 1 or 2 some days. Well. By my calculations. Thats 5-8 hours continuous work. I'd hazzard a guess that chris could work 30 hours plus a week.

I get 29 days holiday. 5 weeks 4 days.
The main difference is that chris chose to take 3 weeks of his 6 weeks holiday at christmas. The only difference between chris and 90% of working people is that chris is allowed to take his holidays at christmas and i, as most of you will not be able to take there holiday at christmas due to business requirements.

So is chris and his team not hard working. Bull. They could be the hardest working team. Just for the fact they've got to continually keep the show fresh. Or face getting the boot from breakfast.
I'd also hazzard a guess chris and the team have had meetings together during the christmas break.

[twoleftfeet]

How can 6 weeks holiday be classed as not working hard.
And Just because you don't here chris and the team after 10. Doesn't mean that they still are not working. You here on the radio at times that chris is there some days till 11.30, 12. Or even 1 or 2 some days. Well. By my calculations. Thats 5-8 hours continuous work. I'd hazzard a guess that chris could work 30 hours plus a week.

I get 29 days holiday. 5 weeks 4 days.
The main difference is that chris chose to take 3 weeks of his 6 weeks holiday at christmas. The only difference between chris and 90% of working people is that chris is allowed to take his holidays at christmas and i, as most of you will not be able to take there holiday at christmas due to business requirements.

So is chris and his team not hard working. Bull. They could be the hardest working team. Just for the fact they've got to continually keep the show fresh. Or face getting the boot from breakfast.
I'd also hazzard a guess chris and the team have had meetings together during the christmas break.

6 weeks holiday?

And the rest,he works a 3 on 1 off rota!!

Id hazard a guess at about 10 weeks plus.

[Yudster]

You don't need to hazard any guesses though, just go back over the last few years if you want to back your claim with something solid. Go on, give it a try.

[John22]

I would say they're not the hardest working but not the least-hard working either.

[Johnny 1989]

No.

Normal people have a few days off over Christmas,they have weeks.

Not worth the money the Beeb give them.

Discuss.

Chris & Dave are freelance so don't get paid when on holiday (hence when Dave was off on Paternity leave he was on the phone, on air, so he got some sort of pay). Aled, Rachel, Dominic & Carrie are probably at work but not necessarily on air. It's also a case that some of their holiday could be from last years entitlement and some from this years (where I work holidays run from 1st Jan - 31st December, rather than April-April like some firms do.)

Where do you stand on school teachers who have to teach some right horrible kids at school yet get a week off for each half term, two weeks off for Christmas & Easter and six weeks off for the summer?

[Boboff]

*fingers in ears###

lalalalalalalalalalalala

don't care

[SAV1OUR]

If I was any of the team this morning, I'd be glad I was off, it's been snowing plenty, and could get worse. Just been listening to an opening link from February last year after they'd climbed Mount Shush.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/70810899d480a4aa/

[Aled]

Chris and Dave have had 8 weeks off last year, the same they've had every year since we did breakfast in Jan 2004.

Carrie, Rachel and I are staff so we have 5 weeks in a year like every other BBC employee.

During the 46 weeks that the show was on air we've done shows and off air evening events from Milton keynes, Stoke On Trent, Hull, Bristol, Plymouth, Swindon, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow, Belfast and the O2 in London. We've climbed Mount Snowdon and Mount Kilimanjaro, done a week of shows split between London and Kenya and London and Uganda, all while doing off-air events in and around London and Africa that's helped raise £1.5 Million. Piloted two projects for the BBC (podcasts and visualisation) and been at the heart of 3 Radio 1 campaigns (Drugs, Exams and Money).

Yeah, I can hold my head up when justifying how hard we work to management.

[pjordan2000]

Sooooooo.....quite a quiet 2009 then eh Aled?

[freddie]

Carrie, Rachel and I are staff so we have 5 weeks in a year like every other BBC employee.

I assume that Dominic is the same as this

[twoleftfeet]

Chris and Dave have had 8 weeks off last year, the same they've had every year since we did breakfast in Jan 2004.

Carrie, Rachel and I are staff so we have 5 weeks in a year like every other BBC employee.

During the 46 weeks that the show was on air we've done shows and off air evening events from Milton keynes, Stoke On Trent, Hull, Bristol, Plymouth, Swindon, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow, Belfast and the O2 in London. We've climbed Mount Snowdon and Mount Kilimanjaro, done a week of shows split between London and Kenya and London and Uganda, all while doing off-air events in and around London and Africa that's helped raise £1.5 Million. Piloted two projects for the BBC (podcasts and visualisation) and been at the heart of 3 Radio 1 campaigns (Drugs, Exams and Money).

Yeah, I can hold my head up when justifying how hard we work to management.

But they didnt undertake the climbs during their holidays it was done whilst on work time!
And yes it was for a very good cause but the PR for the show wasnt to bad either was it?

Someone earlier on the thread was justifying Chris and his holidays by saying he does a 30 hour week,that for most people would constitute a half week so it was a bad point to raise.

Anyway good luck to Chris,Im sure if I could get away with it I would have 8 weeks off and avoid working over Christmas and the New Year.
Its just jealousy on my part!!

[MK Chris]

Aled already pointed out that those activities were "during the 46 weeks that the show was on air", he never tried to say they were done during the team's holidays.

Also, most people do not work 60 hours per week.

[janeshaw]

The average 9-5 worker works 37.5 hours a week, so 30hours a week isn't far off. Especially if you take into account all the 'pub meetings' and stuff outside of Radio 1 on the telly ect. they do

[Latina]

And yes it was for a very good cause but the PR for the show wasnt to bad either was it?

What on earth does that have to do with whether it counts as work or not?

[Yudster]

The best PR for the show is the broadcast they do every day between 6.30 and 10am. Does that mean that can't be classed as work either?

[twoleftfeet]

The best PR for the show is the broadcast they do every day between 6.30 and 10am. Does that mean that can't be classed as work either?

Who knows? maybe when they get their arses back to work Ill let you know if its good PR or not as its been quite awhile since they were on air!

[Yudster]

The best PR for the show is the broadcast they do every day between 6.30 and 10am. Does that mean that can't be classed as work either?

Who knows? maybe when they get their arses back to work Ill let you know if its good PR or not as its been quite awhile since they were on air!

Whatever you think of the show when it comes back, the fact remains that it is its own best PR. How good and/or effective that might be is another thing!