We really only need the following holidays. The rest just serve to disrupt business

[RB TexLa]

Martin L. King day
Washington's birthday
Memorial day
Labor day
Christmas day

Five is plenty.

For areas of the country with concentration of a certain religion can have certain days locally. Christmas, though religious to many is a secular holiday.

[darkangel218]

1. Umm i want actually more holidays if possible.

I get paid time and a half on holidays :p

[quinnox]

2. you're on a roll!

You are being very generous to allow for a grand total of 5 holidays, and the peasants thank you for your overflowing generosity. After all, we could have zero holidays and no holiday time off whatsoever.

[Sherman A1]

54. Precisely

You hit the nail on the head. For many those listed are not even holidays as they have to work them just like every other day.

[Marrah_G]

135. You know what really sucks

We can't say what everyone reading this thread and has been on DU any length of time, besides maybe some freepers, really wants to say.

[SammyWinstonJack]

141. +1000!

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Seriesly?...You're going to axe our National Celebration?

That should go over well.

You sure post some crazy-ass shit.

[Brickbat]

4. RB TEXLA HAS SPOKEN.

[myrna minx]

11. LOL.

[eqfan592]

27. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[Change has come]

75. OH!

Just freaking perfect.

[CreekDog]

5. is what a Libertarian says

[Cleita]

6. Really? In a country with the least vacation days of any

developed nation, you want to chop holidays down too?

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Why do you hate veterans?

And fireworks? And turkey?

[lpbk2713]

8. You are joking, right?

My heart bleeds for the the one per centers.

I'll try to remember how inconsiderate I am when I carve the Thanksgiving turkey this year.

Just think, the poor Walton family could have made several million dollars that day.

[msongs]

9. christmas is actually a holiday only for ONE religion. should only be a private holiday nt

[Fumesucker]

10. Don't go changing

We love you just the way you are.

[nolabear]

22. You are cracking me up today.

[Occulus]

12. Fucking surprised Labor Day is included, considering the source

[TBF]

19. lolol

[Buns_of_Fire]

43. Labor Day will have to be renamed, of course.

I suggest "Love Your Billionaire Day."

On that day, there will be parades with giant balloon likenesses of Donald Trump, Jack Welch, et.al. Attendance at these parades will, of course, be mandatory, and attendance will be taken.

The grateful peons will also chip in to buy their favorite CEO a fitting present. The committee recommends that you contribute no more than 15% of your annual salary, but the more love you show your CEO, the better for your continued employment. The minimum contribution has been set by the holiday committee at 12%. To make it easier, automatic payroll deductions will automaticcally be set up.

At the end of the day, all peons will contribute a covered dish to serve at the Great Feast of the One Percent. Once again, attendance is mandatory. Virgins are optional. The Feast will begin no earlier than 9 PM, for a duration of not less than five hours.

Note: All are expected to be at work bright and early the next day for the ritual Kissing of the Ass. Lateness will be cause for immediate termination.

[Starry Messenger]

48. I have the perfect card!

(Actual card my partner texted to me in horror...)

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. Yep. It's October 16, if you'd like to go ahead and get that cash advance ahead of time!

Oops, forgot the verification: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/boss-day

[Starry Messenger]

64. Meanwhile, World Teacher Day came and went without a murmur.

http://www.5oct.org/2012/index.php/en/

Priorities are jacked. X(

[SammyWinstonJack]

142. Sounds like RB TEXLA paradise.

[slackmaster]

13. Why do you hate your country?

[mrmpa]

26. That is a beautiful pic........eom

[Skidmore]

14. In a nation that insists on working its people long hours and not allowing for establishment of a

living wage, couple of extra days off here or there are fine by me. "Business" can bite me.

[RB TexLa]

16. It's not just business, it's a disruption of people's lives

[eqfan592]

28. Save your watches, folks....

...the BS is starting to stack up!

[GoneOffShore]

60. Starting to stack up? More like being sprayed with a hose.

[Skidmore]

33. I fail to see how a little extra personal time

(time for yourself and family) is disruptive to peoples' lives.

[xxqqqzme]

36. Oh yea, I can see how a person

having a day off, to spend w/ family at the beach, park or backyard bar-b-que would be incredibly disruptive. Hell, no days off would be even better - no disruption at all!

[GObamaGO]

41. Welcome to the Machine

I think that is the world the OP would prefer.

[RC]

67. Yeah, just sleep at your station. 4 hours out of 24 should be enough sleep.

[Bake]

47. How, exactly, does a day off work "disrupt" anyone's life?

I guess you couldn't get your driver's license renewed ... what a bummer.

Since "disruption" is a terrible thing, hell, let's just eliminate ALL holidays. And weekends. They're damn disruptive too. Who needs a day off.

Bake

[richmwill]

115. I used to work for Blockbuster Video...

They were open 365 days a year. The corporate overlords felt that having even one set day off a year would disrupt the "love" the customers had for them, they thought customers would go irate if God forbid they were unable to rent a movie one day a year. So yes, I worked many a Christmas Day there. Which actually wasn't that bad- getting paid time and a half to sit there and watch DVD's or play video games all day, and ring up the 5 people who would actually come in that day. Still agitated me that they expected us to work as many holidays as we could though, and we never even had one we could know for sure that we'd have off.

[Iris]

79. Speak for yourself. n/t

[WinkyDink]

96. Do you live in the Bizarro World where people COMPLAIN about holiday time?

[frylock]

104. sounds like you have no life

[HappyMe]

139. Okay, how does it disrupt lives?

[surrealAmerican]

51. I'd take that one step further ...

... and say that business exists to serve people, not the other way around!

[RC]

68. You sound like one of those people that think government exist to serve the people.

Eberbody knows people need to serve their overloads in government.

[dawg]

15. Just an excuse to pick a man's pocket every 25th of December.

You want to give us Washington's birthday but not the 4th of July?

[RB TexLa]

21. We are a country of people who primarily came here long after

that event. It's not really meaningful to the current population's history.

[dawg]

23. And George's birthday *is* relevant?

[RB TexLa]

25. More for his effect on our current democracy many already

call that day President's day.

[NYC Liberal]

87. And the declaration of independence -- you know, which actually created the country --

has no effect on our current democracy? Lolz.

[RB TexLa]

88. Honestly you could call them whatever, it doesn't matter

You could name them


Family Values Day #1
Family Values Day #2
Family Values Day #3
Family Values Day #4
And
Family Values Day #5

[NYC Liberal]

91. Do you realize that businesses choose to close on federal holidays?

Federal holidays only affect the federal government and its employees.

Businesses observe holidays by their own choice. No business is forced to close on any holiday; plenty of businesses do remain open.

[RB TexLa]

93. Yes I know there are no national holidays in the US

Just saying we can stand up to the traditions.

[WinkyDink]

97. WRONG! Thanksgiving is a national holiday.

[RB TexLa]

103. A national holiday is where by national law all non public

saftey business is required to be halted. Other countries have them, the US does not.

[NYC Liberal]

101. Why?

[Generic Other]

84. The current population's history?

Please please explain what that is.

And please explain why newcomers should decide what Americans should and shouldn't celebrate? Oh it's not meaningful to you that we celebrate our founding, our revolution, our common history. Our traditions are not worth the bother for new immigrants?

Then why do immigrants continue to flock here? To colonize us?

What the fuck is this thread meant to do? Simply bait us all? Then why not go bait some folks your own size? Why not go post it on FR and get their opinion. I am sure that on this issue they can deliver a smackdown better than most of us at DU. Because the difference is that there, they don't want any immigrants. You are not welcome in their world at all. We at DU can laugh at you, but we are probably the only ones who stand between you and what the majority of Americans would tell you to do with your grand idea.

Please someone tell me this is a joke.

[RB TexLa]

89. Oh yeah, they best get in line with your culture as soon as they put a foot down in your

precious country. Their own culture and history has best be put in the garbage or certainly out of your sight.

[WinkyDink]

99. "your" country? Just WTH do you live, RB TexLa??

[RB TexLa]

102. I don't push for the kind of assimilation you seem to want

[Generic Other]

116. I am part Asian

and all-American. This is my country. It clearly does not sound as if it were yours. Rather than embrace the culture of your adopted land, you spit on it. You believe you can change America to your liking. Apparently a place where you get to decide what holidays Americans may celebrate, and you get to decide how much vacation time we can have. And you get to do this while insisting all the while that you find the idea of our shared culture somehow not worth as much as the amount of work you could get done by getting rid of pleasures that distract workers and reduce profits.

Are you here to enslave? Or to outsource? Because you sound like someone who yearns for an America where workers are more like those in the old country who work long hours for nearly nothing without complaint and make their overseers rich.

[GObamaGO]

17. I suppose we should abolish the 40 hour work week too

[GoneOffShore]

59. I'm sure he'll be posting about that soon.

Of course I'm in favor of a 35 hour work week, and retirement at 55 with full pension. But hey, that's just me.

[GObamaGO]

72. I have always thought a 28-32 hour work week would be good

Everyone gets one "business day" off per week. To do stuff they would have to take time off from work to do in the current system.

[nolabear]

18. Yeah. I'm in New Orleans and just saw a Halfway to St Patricks Day parade.

So, speaking for all my kin, you can bite me.

[Agnosticsherbet]

20. Holidays are big business,

with major sales, that amount to targeted capitalist orgiastic money fucks.

They are boon to the travel industry, the greeting card industry, the party industry.

If anything, they are disruptive to relaxation.

[mrmpa]

24. Five is not enough

The following are the 10 Federal Holidays. I want & need them. I also would like to have Massachusetts's Patriot Day. There has been a diminishing of the "celebration" of Holidays over the past few decades. I'm sure there are a lot here at DU, who remember the anticipation of an upcoming Holiday. We knew that one if not both our parents would have the day off. I remember for Thanksgiving, my Dad would get the car gassed up on Wednesday, because all the stations would be closed for a long week-end. Stores were closed. This was at a time when industry ran 3 shifts, but stores were closed. There wasn't the "idea" that the store might lose 1 customer because they were closed. On the eve of a Holiday most businesses closed early.

I had a part time job once, at a retail outlet. On Christmas Eve, the store closed at 9 p.m. My thought is, if you don't have what you want and or need by 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, well I'm sorry for your inability to plan. I've taught, and I seethed that we worked on Veterans Day, (I'm the daughter of a Marine Corps Veteran (15 years), who was also a Korean War Veteran. I would schedule a personal day for November 11.

I would like one national company on a Holiday, to post the following: "In honor of the Holiday, and in order for our employees to be with their families, our business is closed." When I learned that Buca di Peppo (sp) was open 365 days a year, I won't eat there any more.

New Year's Day
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
President's Day
Memorial Day
July 4 Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

[xxqqqzme]

29. What happened to the 4th of July?

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams thought very highly of it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

98. I'm sure it's the old "fireworks glorifies the military and war" thing. n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

30. Didja forget this?

[Raine1967]

31. Well, I'd like to add one that doesn't disrupt business. Please allow me to suggest

Popcorn Day.

A day which we celebrate sitting back and watching things go down in flames on DU.

It shall be celebrated in place of Columbus day. All shall have delicious buttery corn products.

oh, and we shall also have

[GObamaGO]

112. Brilliant!

Here is an idea I can fully get behind.

MMM Popcorn

[darkangel218]

32. I think the OP was being sarcastic and/or jk

Couldn't possibly want even less days off than the few we have.

[quinnox]

34. oh yea? check out his other recent thread where he complained about people getting paid vacation

If this is some sort of act, it has been going on for years...

[darkangel218]

38. Umm.. maybe he's on the wrong forum then.

Only repubs complain about giving employees paid vacation

[Occulus]

42. He's... a fragrant one, isn't he?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021481795

[darkangel218]

44. Has anyone alerted on him?

That's repeated right wing propaganda. I wonder how is being allowed to stay.

[HughBeaumont]

122. Hundreds have. It's futile.

This one's indestructible. I don't have any idea why.

[smirkymonkey]

131. Completey baffling.

[kurt_cagle]

35. I Want National Election Day

Nearly every other democracy on the friggin' planet makes election day a holiday, so that people can go and vote without impact from work, and so that children can participate in the democratic experience rather than being in school all day. I'd gladly give up Columbus Day for it - always felt that one was a pretty vile day, or Washington's Birthday.

The only reason that Election Day ISN'T a holiday is because the Republicans are deathly afraid that people would actually come out to the polls and vote if there was a day set aside for the purpose, and they are adamantly opposed to letting that happen.

[fishwax]

37. "need" is an odd word in this sense, but I don't much care that they disrupt business

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. You're welcome to work through the holidays you don't like.

I'll take mine off. They're opportunities to be with family members I don't see that often.

Oh, and I don't get a holiday for MLK or Presidents' Day.

[Blue Idaho]

40. Screw that - bring back Debtors Prisons and Debtors Factories!

Force people to work for ten cents an hour until they pay off their $30,000 Visa card debts and lousy home mortgages.

Now there's an idea republican "Job Creators" can really fall in love with.

The working men and women did not break the American economy the Banksters and Corporate Bosses did.

[GoneOffShore]

45. No, sorry there young RB - We need more holidays and only a 5 day work week.

Last edited Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Plus 6 weeks of PAID vacation a year.

National Holidays -
Labor Day - Most important
May Day
Election Day - And extend it over the Monday so that more folks get a chance to vote.
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The week between Christmas and New Year's
New Year's Day
Rosh Hoshannah
Easter/Zombie Day
Good Friday/Make a Zombie Day
Memorial Day
Washington's Birthday
Franklin's Birthday
Jefferson's Birthday
Lincoln's Birthday
MLK's Birthday
FDR's Birthday
JFK's Birthday
Armistice Day
Yom Kippur
Ramadan - the whole month
Passover
St Patricks day and the day after to recover
4th of July
And Bastille Day in honor of the French contribution to our revolution
Canada Day
Thanksgiving and the day after
Plus it's time to get rid of the 24/7 notion - Open shops at 10 or 11A and close later so people can shop after work plus close for two hours at lunch. Have stores do staggered hours so that the people who work in shops can find time to do their shopping.

[chowder66]

46. What's wrong with you?

Vacation time and pay, now this? Why don't you tell us all what it is exactly that you want to accomplish with these posts?

Hell where is your post on how many hours more we should work in a day. How do you feel about weekends? What if you have the flu?

Should we sleep 8 hours or is that asking too much? How about family leave, funerals, pregnancy, etc? Why not let 'er rip?

[Raine]

49. No Lincoln holiday (?) no 4th of July (?), no Thanksgivng (?)

that's just crazy.

[silvershadow]

50. No, we don't. We need every holiday that was gained through labor action or otherwise.

As it is, 3/4 of the stores around here are open on Thanksgiving and Easter,etc. There is something to be said for allowing workers holidays with their families...It goes to the fabric of our nation and our communities. That fabric has a big tear in it as is.

[HockeyMom]

52. SCREW Business

There are far more important things in life than BUSINESS.

[darkangel218]

56. not to the OP aparently.

[theKed]

53. Ridiculous.

Despite the fact that a lot of businesses remain open on "holidays" (what, never worked in the service industry?), that list seems pretty arbitrary as far as holiday themes go.

In fact, I'd love to add a few holidays a year where retail/restaurants/other service businesses are required to close with pay for workers and other business can keep on trucking. 9-5er's can suck it.

[mulsh]

57. We need as many holidays as we can get, including the ones you've selected.

n/t

[HughBeaumont]

58. I'll keep my 10 fed holidays, plus my 4 weeks and 2 days of PAID vacation, thanks.

I earned my days off.

A burned out employee is an unproductive employee. The American employee should receive 5 weeks vacation mandated by LAW, like every other industrialized country does for their citizens.

And since alerting on you is completely useless because you're indestructible for some fucked up reason or another, I'll end with how I usually do:

Yep, I don't know why he's still here either.

[Iris]

81. +1

btw - what's your tag line from?

[HughBeaumont]

92. Matinee (1993) - one of the most underrated movies of the 90s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(film)

[Iris]

120. Thanks!

[HopeHoops]

61. I think Halloween should be a holiday. How many times have YOU rushed out for candy?

The extra prep time would be nice.

Thanksgiving is good because it's a four-day weekend involving food. New Years Day is good because everyone's fucking hung over. Screw Columbus Day. The 4th is a good excuse to drink a lot of beer and play with explosives that can blow your head off - guy stuff, ya know. Easter Monday means you have time to make egg salad. Valentines Day AND the day afterward should be holidays for obvious reasons. August needs one just because, well, it doesn't have one - Dry Grass day or something.

And on TOP of all of that, companies are doing whatever they can to cut paid time off. Perhaps we need MORE holidays for that reason alone. Vacation and personal time are dwindling with time. Those few days that are granted without question are valuable and even they are evaporating. My wife had a "professional development day" instead of the day off today (seminar bullshit). The liquor stores were even open. I don't agree with the concept of "Columbus Day", but if it's a fucking holiday, make it a fucking holiday. I'd like a name change though.

As for Christmas, the whole week before New Year's Day should be a freebee. Nothing gets done then anyway because everyone's wasted on eggnog (well, I am at least). When I worked for a NASA contractor, there was a six-week window where NOTHING got done. Everything needed someone to approve actions and nobody was around to approve them because they all had extended vacations - both in our company AND at Goddard. And yes, we just got loaded on eggnog all day (one of the guys had a killer mix - the jug marked "X" and the one marked "XXX&quot . There weren't many of us around so we all got loaded - but paid for it.

[HuckleB]

63. Everyone should be able to get off work early on Halloween.

Still, come on! The candy goes on sale in August.

[HopeHoops]

124. Yeah, but it also takes time to get into costume. The kids love that....

One year, when mine still did the Trick-or-Treat thing, I dressed as a wizard and had a small high-intensity flashlight in my left hand (staff in the right). That particular year, about half of the street lights were near their deathbeds. Because of the way halogen lights work, a few photons at the right frequency will provide enough excitement to fire them back up for a few minutes. All I'd do is wave the beam over the bulbs with the right oscillation and they'd "magically" come on. The neighborhood kids totally freaked out when I did it. It also helped keep the street brighter.

Perhaps word got out, but the township replaced all of the malfunctioning bulbs before Christmas of that year. It might help that the township manager lives in our neighborhood.

[HuckleB]

62. These are the necessary Holidays.

My Birthday.
My Wife's Birthday.
My Kid's Birthday.
My Anniversary.
Any other day I need off work.

[99Forever]

65. The flamebait runs deep in this one.

This will be the last thread you author I will ever open.

May all of your hate for others, be visited upon you a million times over.

[KamaAina]

66. No Thanksgiving?

Why do you hate Pilgrims so much?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

69. Did you forget All Trolls Eve?

[etherealtruth]

70. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

[lost-in-nj]

71. I'm guessing

you don't drink or eat at any "holiday Parties" with people you don't work with even though you were invited , so...why are you here?



lost

[RB TexLa]

73. It it truly disgusting how pro "family values" DU has become.

[morningfog]

76. Could you explain? I don't get it.

[darkangel218]

77. If youre so disgusted by DU, why are you here??

[ret5hd]

80. It's his job. nt

[Starry Messenger]

82. Does this mean we're getting an OP on the virtues of child labor from you soon?

I await.

[RB TexLa]

85. No, it's just part of the God that family and "family values" has been made into in this

country

[Change has come]

83. What?

Perhaps you would be happier at Hateful Libertarian Underground?

[Union Scribe]

113. Like paid vacations?

I honestly have no idea how you're still here.

[JonLP24]

143. WTH are you talking about?

I don't mean to be dense and don't expect this poster to explain but can anyone explain WTH he is talking about?

[WillyT]

74. Oh My... We Wouldn't Wan't To Disrupt Business, Would We ???

How do feel about a National STRIKE ???

[ret5hd]

78. I don't holiday with you!

[Chellee]

108. This.

Thank you. I always wonder why people respond to him. And I was waiting, and hoping that someone would say it. Thank you.

[Earth_First]

86. Is this the *official* or unofficial 'War on Christmas' thread?

The Front gathers earlier and earlier each year...

[begin_within]

90. Oh come on, at least let me have

But I think all federal holidays should be on Mondays.

[onenote]

94. We really need all the following holidays

New Year's Day.
Martin Luther King Day
Super Bowl Monday
Lincoln's Birthday
Washington's Birthday
St. Patrick's Day
Spring Solstice Day
Opening Day of Baseball Season Day
Tax Day
Memorial Day
First Day of Summer Day
Independence Day
Elvis Presley Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Halloween
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day

Since we're playing this silly game.

[WinkyDink]

95. I finally get it! The OP is convinced that the US has placed "the family" above all other institu-

tions, TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE ECONOMY (which, we shall recall, is IT, STUPID).

Thus:
There should be less vacation time taken, in order to place THE ECONOMY above THE FAMILY.
There should be fewer holidays recognized, in order to place THE ECONOMY above THE FAMILY.
The US needs to place BUSINESS VALUES above "FAMILY VALUES."

Ergo:
The OP hates his family!

[cherokeeprogressive]

100. Maybe his family hates him?

[GObamaGO]

114. That would be my guess.

[RB TexLa]

125. I don't have any family.

[cherokeeprogressive]

126. Is that why you post strange shit like calling "family values" God like it's somehow wrong to

think highly of one's family?

[WinkyDink]

128. Even more to my point.

[Quantess]

105. Yes, and we should eat lukewarm gruel every day.

[Ter]

106. Independance Day is far more important than the ones you mentioned

I could do without a few, but not that one.

[struggle4progress]

107. Where's Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day?

[WillowTree]

109. Fine by me. You should feel free to limit yourself to just those holidays.

I'll continue to take all that my employer makes available to me. That way we both get what we prefer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

110. I really need to reach for this now

With an extra of butter, salt and crazy rabid badger... get rid of the Fourth...

Ah comfy chair...



Yup, reminds me of some Monty Python at this point.

[MrsBrady]

111. I definately needed the holiday today

but you can go to work if you want...

but i'll enjoy my day off.

[Norrin Radd]

117. Try working retail. You'll rarely see a day off on any holiday.

[Rex]

118. This is great stuff, really great stuff

you are producing lately... .

[Socal31]

119. I work extremely hard and rarely take a vacation.

We could pick apart almost every holiday, but I just choose to enjoy them when I get them.

[vanlassie]

121. I'm pissed off that we don't get all those Bank Holidays my daughter gets in England.

[LanternWaste]

123. Any holiday is by definition, unnecessary-- therefore, any list of the ones we may or may not need i

Any holiday is by definition, unnecessary-- therefore, any list of the ones we may or may not "need" is simply subjective bias.

However, I have little doubt you rationalize the holidays you believe we need, much like everyone else with our lists. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, and nothing is achieved (except for more performance art lacking both performance and art).

[CreekDog]

127. You forgot Ayn Rand day

although I didn't.

[Initech]

129. Ayn Rand is that you?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

130. If you're only going to have five

You could at least get those right.

There is no holiday for Washington's birthday.

[RB TexLa]

137. Then you should tell the federal government that they are wrong

are wrong and you are right.

http://main.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/FEDHOL/2012.asp

[jmowreader]

132. ELECTION DAY needs to be a holiday

More people will show up to vote if they don't have to worry about getting fired for missing work.

[Rhiannon12866]

136. Exactly!

Should have happened a long time ago!

[Marrah_G]

133. We should all work 7 days a week and no vacations

And everything should be open all the time, so as not to disrupt business.

[ibegurpard]

134. what a strange post

We're going to get rid of Thanksgiving?
and celebrate Washington's Birthday instead of July 4?

okay...

[ileus]

138. I'd throw out all of those and only keep the 4th and TGD.

[lame54]

140. My business does extremely well every holiday...

Thery're all a boost to the economy

and another reason to party