Originally Posted by
bunyip
I think my main point is much the same as yours: to each his/her own.
I use the term "ignorant" not as an insult, but in the dictionary sense of "having or displaying a lack of knowledge or understanding". There seems to be an all-pervasive and rather lazy argument that everyone else gets paid bank holidays off and it simply isn't true. This would indicate that a lot of CMs don't know or understand that a lot of parents aren't getting paid time off at bank holidays or, more likely, know that and are choosing to ignore it.
I've worked bank holidays for most of my working life and did not get any pay enhancement for it: just the normal rate. I have clients who are self-employed who don't get paid for not working bank holidays. I know of other self-employed parents with other childcarers who hate the fact they're being charged whilst their children are at home, on the basis that "well, everyone else gets paid time off at bank holidays" and it just makes their childcarers look bad and look unable to see anyone else's situation.
I agree with you about comparisons, but we're collectively cherry-picking the comparisons we make, which can only upset clients who could make rather less favourable comparisons of their own. I think part of the problem is that CMing is rather unique: self-employed, but highly regulated, so a lot of comparisons simply don't work.