I also work for the county. We get those "bogus" days are floating holidays--you can work them, save them up, and use them as vacation days until year's end! Or, you can use the actual day on the actual day. Do you get Election Day off? We do.
Actually, I'd go along with that. I used to work in a paper plant and we had three holidays off a year: July 4th, Labor Day, and Christmas. All of the other holidays, we worked unless it was a scheduled day off in our normal work rotation. It was horrible and I hated it.
I work for the county now and we have more holidays off, including what Dear Richard calls "bogus" holidays: Columbus Day, MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Veterans Day, etc. I've been at this job now for almost 17 years and I still cannot believe I have those days off work! I'm still amazed.And I like having those days away from the office.
I've had union jobs all my life and we always had those holidays off. There was nothing "bogus" about them. I had two amazing benefits after I retired. I get 70% of my salary for retirement and I get to keep my health insurance at no cost to me. I always had great health insurance with the union and never had to pay a cent for it. If I did not get the free health insurance I would not have been able to retire at age 60.
Wow
I thought Xmas was big in Japan? Even though it makes no sense.I don't really celebrate any holidays.
Partly because I live in Japan, where the holidays are all different to the ones I know from growing up in the UK. I always have to work on Christmas day and sometimes on New Year's Day too.
Easter, Thanks Giving and all the rest aren't celebrated here. Valentine's Day has gone through some weird, commercial misrepresentation and even though Halloween is starting to be celebrated in the big cities it hasn't made it out to the sticks yet.
That's kind of sad, but I do have the huge summer fireworks festival to cheer me up.
I start preparing for Christmas for DD very early- her majesty has expensive taste. The only thing Christmas/holiday oriented really are the cards, decorations, wrapping paper and such. I buy them after Christmas when they are 75% off. I refuse to pay full price for that stuff.
We are contracted by the state of Georgia so we follow their holiday schedule and get the following days off with pay. As far as I am concerned, any day off with pay is a good day. There are no "bogus" holidays in my world.
Actually, I'd go along with that. I used to work in a paper plant and we had three holidays off a year: July 4th, Labor Day, and Christmas. All of the other holidays, we worked unless it was a scheduled day off in our normal work rotation. It was horrible and I hated it.
I work for the county now and we have more holidays off, including what Dear Richard calls "bogus" holidays: Columbus Day, MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Veterans Day, etc. I've been at this job now for almost 17 years and I still cannot believe I have those days off work! I'm still amazed.And I like having those days away from the office.
Aka Boxing Day
Here in the US it's more like "go to the store and stand in insanely long lines to return stuff you got for Christmas and don't really like/want/need or is broken" day.
Here in the US it's more like "go to the store and stand in insanely long lines to return stuff you got for Christmas and don't really like/want/need or is broken" day.
Do you get together and put things in boxes that day? Or since the holidays are pretty much over, is that the day you beat up the relatives you don't like but had to deal with during the holidays?
Every day is "Cardboard box shantytown" day in our house- at least it is in Sophie's world. :lol3:
They're big on decorations and fairly lights, but that's about all. It's not a holiday so most people have to work, unless it's a Sunday. I have to work Sundays, so I'm almost always working.
