Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America.

• FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I find its more often they need those hours to afford to live. Sometimes due to poor life choices like owning 5 dirtbikes that don’t run and buying a 6th, but often its just due to how unfair the economy is to low income families.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean Americans don’t get paid on holidays?

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    • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thats very job dependent. Does the salesman in the UK make money if they dont make a sale? Does the construction worker make money if they didn’t build anything? The salaried folks sure get paid in the holidays.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sometimes they get paid more if they do come in, typically time and a half, so they feel like they are missing out if they don’t. Sometimes is based on if they are full time or not. The same rhetoric is true for just regular weekends, my boss considers anyone who works less than 6 days a week unmotivated and lazy.

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      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        💀 so you are treated like the medieval serf

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• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re over 30, but so am I! 😭

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