Comments on: Balancing Act…. http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/85 on being the family of a woman training to be a priest in the Church of England Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adrian http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/85/comment-page-1#comment-70 Adrian Sat, 08 May 2010 21:01:59 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=85#comment-70 Read and weep - one 24 hour uninterrupted period of time off each week - what no time to sleep, eat, recreate, exercise, garden, build and keep relationships, do hobbbies the other 6 days? Yes that's right, and forget the working Time Directive of 48 hours max per week, & time on call counts as time working - ah that will be a 144 hour week then. Oh you got to love the C of E. And the holidays are reducing to 28 days, and you can forget about Bank Holidays and statutory holidays they don't even get a mention. So if relationships mess up, divorces happen, and clergy get disaffected as they have no life what will happen - they will use the capability procedures to make us work more, harder and better. ps can you tell I am ordained? Read and weep – one 24 hour uninterrupted period of time off each week – what no time to sleep, eat, recreate, exercise, garden, build and keep relationships, do hobbbies the other 6 days?
Yes that’s right, and forget the working Time Directive of 48 hours max per week, & time on call counts as time working – ah that will be a 144 hour week then.

Oh you got to love the C of E.
And the holidays are reducing to 28 days, and you can forget about Bank Holidays and statutory holidays they don’t even get a mention.

So if relationships mess up, divorces happen, and clergy get disaffected as they have no life what will happen – they will use the capability procedures to make us work more, harder and better.

ps can you tell I am ordained?

]]> By: Isobel http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/85/comment-page-1#comment-35 Isobel Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:14:39 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=85#comment-35 I can sympathise with this completely! Once in parish the day off and when it is can still cause a strain for a family when there is another vocation and children's activities to balance as well. We have to plan family time or it just does not happen... I can sympathise with this completely! Once in parish the day off and when it is can still cause a strain for a family when there is another vocation and children’s activities to balance as well. We have to plan family time or it just does not happen…

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