RE: Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 26, 2021 at 12:13 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2021 at 12:14 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(November 25, 2021 at 10:25 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(November 25, 2021 at 10:14 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: I got mixed up. I thought Thanksgiving was on Friday, which is sensible. With American employers being so tough, why not have it on Friday and have a long week end? I'm thinking of all of those poor hung over bastards having to go to work on the Friday.
Context of sympathy: New Zealand is known as The Land of the long white cloud. Australia is known as the land of the long weekend.
Having Friday off after Thanksgiving is becoming more and more common in businesses other than retail. Even the doctors I tried to make appts. with are closed tomorrow.
I work from home doing the bookkeeping for a maid service. The office is closed tomorrow but a couple of the teams are going out to appointments as they would on any other Friday.
Good to know.
An entire country shutting down for public holidays is a thing which is slowly changing in my country, for the worse imo
Here we have had the casualisation of industry, especially retail and service industries. People in many of those industries are employed as full time casuals. Far too many are employed on a zero hour contract. IE the person is always on call, but is not guaranteed any hours.
Plus, we have the shift to multi culturalism. My state has over 200 ethnicities*** That means an increasing number of workers are not christians and celebrate different religious holidays. EG Deewali for Hindus, Eid al-fitr (end of Ramadan) for Muslims. There have been moves here for years to abolish penalty rates. Sundays and public holidays will no longer attract higher rates of pay. Don't know how that will effect practices such as 12 hour shifts.
***Nothing compared with New York, which is claimed to have 600 languages spoken there, making it the most ethnically diverse city on earth.
