How did I do on this poll Maister ?
Is a work day because Fri., Nov. 23 (fri after thanksgiving - black friday) is a holiday in lieu of Columbus Day
is a scheduled Holiday
off as a vacation day
having to work
Other
How did I do on this poll Maister ?
Is a work day because Fri., Nov. 23 (fri after thanksgiving - black friday) is a holiday in lieu of Columbus Day
Last edited by JNA; 08 Oct 2012 at 8:45 AM.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Simply awesome.....except spelling 'having' with an 'n'Originally posted by JNA
(I'd correct if for you but it seems the ability to do so is not one of my superpowers. Sorry.)
People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor
I work for a government office and we are open today so I nave to work. However, 99% of the outside folks I deal with are people at other government offices and most of them are off today so it will be a quiet day here.
I guess a few years before I started here, the employees took a vote on whether they wanted to keep Columbus Day as a holiday or nave to work on Columbus Day but get a floating holiday that we can use once a year whenever we like. The floating holiday won out.
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
Fixed.Simply awesome.....except spelling 'having' with an 'n'
Oh, and at work today.
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund
I'm working.
However, unlike WSU, the county I work in is off today, so it will be slow.
"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany"
ahh I was wondering why the phone ain't ringing. Today is catch-up day!
We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Fr Gabriel Richard 1805
At work, but I get holiday's y'all don't get either.
When did I go from Luke Skywalker to Obi-Wan Kenobi?
I am still unemployed, so I have every day off
At work by personal choice not by fiat.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
City offices are open.
Local ISD is not open. It's State Fair Day for the kiddos. So, if yo'ure a parent in this district, you have to deal with kid out of school but work being open.
"We do not need any other Tutankhamun's tomb with all its treasures. We need context. We need understanding. We need knowledge of historical events to tie them together. We don't know much. Of course we know a lot, but it is context that's missing, not treasures." - Werner Herzog, in Archaeology, March/April 2011
Paid Holiday.
So it's a four-day work week for me, but I've noticed that four day work weeks - especially when a Monday is a holiday - always seem longer than 5-day work weeks. That's because my brain is in such a state of atrophy by Tuesday morning from the long weekend, that that I just end up staggering into work and rest of the week seems drawn out and just crawls along. Anyone else experience this?
We are off. Although I really wish we moved this day to somewhere closer to Thanksgiving or Christmas. It would be much more practical.
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams
We are here...but its awfully quiet..not sure if its the cool-rainy weather or just us.
"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon." ~Peter Lynch
I'm working and cursing all you slackers...
Everyone I know who isn't in the public sector is working today... they're sending me e-mails.
My regular schedule is 4-10 which means 4-12's and the days fly by. When I worked a standard work week and I would agree with the above statement.
As for Columbus Day I am working. This is the first government job I have had where I worked on Columbus Day.
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less" General Eric Shinseki
Never (private sector), but all of my clients were, so I was able to get caught up on a bunch of administrative crap in peace and quiet...
I found you a new motto from a sign hanging on their wall…"Drink coffee: do stupid things faster and with more energy"
Private sector, but off. We work on many Federal contracts so our company holiday schedule follows the federal calendar. Went to the zoo with the fam.
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#ProudlyAICP
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The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Public sector, with government offices closed. Still an official holiday in Upstate New York, the large-ish Italian-American population probably a factor keeping it so.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
Wish I had Columbus Day off since it falls on my birthday some years (like this year).
I got it off, which I don't remember having had off before, but when I used the day to go for a walk, I saw that my old office was closed too.
I had a fairly productive day, having finished mowing the lawn, done a couple craft projects, and then taking my family out.
Maintaining enthusiasm in the face of crushing apathy.
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