Indigeous Peoples Day

[Richmond Jake]

Paid holiday for me tomorrow. Who else is off with pay? And is this a ridiculous holiday or what?

 

[JNA]

I don't get tomorrow off.
The powers to be have traded it off so we get one of theses days off - I just forget which -
The Friday after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve Day
New Year's Eve Day

 

[Cardinal]

We call it Columbus Day and no, we don't get it off.

 

[SGB]

I get tomorrow off. My wife has to work though.
My son calls these the "guy days."

 

[Chet]

We call it Columbus Day and no, we don't get it off.

DITTOS

 

[Zoning Goddess]

I don't think anybody in the south gets this one off. It seems to be a northern kind of thing.

 

[Greenescapist]

DITTOS

In the Northeast, Columbus Day means no school and sometimes no work (every other year as a floating holiday for lots of companies) . It's supposed to be nice tomorrow and I kinda wish I had no work/school. C'est la vie.

 

[biscuit]

I didn't even realize it was Columbus Day today until this morning. First I tried to call someone over at the County offices and didn't get an answer. I then tried calling several other people over there but still got no answer. Where are all these lazy county workers today? Finally I walked over to my bank and found them closed with a sign on the door explaining why. Man, I can be really blonde sometimes.

 

[Jeff]

Columbus Day = A great excuse to close most govt offices and have a sale on something.

 

[Planderella]

It meant lighter traffic for me to drive through to work this morning.

 

[Big Easy King]

My office is working on this holiday. :-(

 

[PlannerGirl]

im off today and headed back for my mid morning nap ;-)

 

[BKM]

Another "contract traded it for another day" here. That's ok, friday is my "flex Friday" anyway (I work a standard 9-80 schedule. A wonderful benefit)

 

[pete-rock]

We call it Columbus Day and no, we don't get it off.

Since when has Columbus Day been called "Indigenous Peoples Day"?

 

[BKM]

In certain "progessive" cities, it is considered "incorrect" to celebrate the start of European colonialism (Columbus). So, these "progressive" cities have renamed the event "Indigenous People's Day" and a grand festival of White Liberal Guilt is had by all. (Not that I don't acknowledge the tragic dimensions of the massive movement of Old World peoples to the so-called New World, but ...these events are just so "academic-left.")

 

[SkeLeton]

Columbus day... sunday... mapuche protests, nothing out of the ordinary... plus who doesn't have sundays off?

also the Esmeralda (navy's school ship) got back to Valparaiso yesterday, where a bunch of human rights people were protesting because they say that they used that ship as a prison and torture center after the 9-11-73... there were also protests worldwide on ports where they were going to dock but didn't because of this...

 

[Rumpy Tunanator]

nothing like a paid day to drink martinis