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Too many non-working holidays in America.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

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  • rarbg@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth…

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Remember back in the middle ages, when everyone was sporting an axe and knew where the boss’s house was?

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    • dumbass@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They also had more days off back then, more time to sharpen that axe.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        More holidays, but when you’re a subsistence farmer, those aren’t really days off, just days you don’t have to work for the rent.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A lot less workers too to be fair (the plague did it’s work), so it was a workers market

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And worked a lot less than 40 hours a week

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        well, worked less than 40hrs a week for an employer. They had a ton of shit to do at home, and if they weren’t married, doubly so.

        My grandma used to tell me stories of how long it would take to forage for food before refridgerators

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  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    $BILLIONS

    I mentally read this in the same voice I read $VARIABLE.

    exec *>/dev/null

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  • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And he seriously said this, what the actual fuck. It seemed so absurd that i had to look up, and yeah its there…

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Said the guy who spends 1/3 of his time golfing

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my life is not created for an economy

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    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Almost!

      The economy is not made for living beings.

      Life exists, and there is no will nor force that can make it compatible with “the economy”. Certainly not in all the ways that its deranged acolytes are calling for.

      But the other way around? Let’s give it an honest try, shall we?

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  • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Go play golf and change your diaper grandpa, you’re getting crabby.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What a piece of shit post.

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    • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What do you mean?

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        He posted it on Juneteenth, i.e. the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.

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      • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This was posted on Juneteenth.

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Come for the racism, stay for the contempt of working people in general.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But the economy!

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  • Foni@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He said this specifically on Juneteenth so that his hateful voters agree, and those that work for businesses that don’t give a day off on Juneteenth get angry at the people who work for companies or the government that does.

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      • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d love to see him say this on the 4th of July or Christmas.

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    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      His voters love the taste of the boot

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because republicans have no integrity and have cultivated a base of gibbering idiots who are happy watching others suffer even if it hurts them too

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    • blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Any non-republican in America who said this would also instantly have their careers end. “Would end a political career” happens multiple times a day for trump though and I’m still waiting for him to be held accountable for anything. Unfortunately, they made “holding people accountable” a bipartisan issue and only one party has any interest in doing it…unless it’s a democrat that needs to be held accountable, then it’s usually bipartisan.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because they’ve spent decades demonising and dismantling unions. There’s no voice for the workers.

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s a voice for the workers at least every 4 years, and workers demonstrated in November they really want this guy back.

        I wish them to have the day they voted for.

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do hate holidays as a working stiff:

    They exist only as a foil to working days- once working days are eliminated, so too will holidays be.

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  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t tourism help the economy? You gotta give people time off to be the consumers you want them to be.

    I know nurses and other government employees who wouldn’t want less mandatory holidays off, you’re either off or get holiday pay to work on a Monday!

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh yes, all eleven federal holidays will turn into 365 real soon.

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …i’m down for cancelling f*cking christmas; federal holidays should be secular…

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      • Penny7@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As a Pagan, if you want federal holidays to be secular then solstices and equinoxes couldn’t be counted. Many Pagans (not all) observe them as holy days along with Feb 1-2 (Imbolc), May 1 (Bealtaine - there are multiple spellings this one), August 1 (Lammas/Lughnasadh), and Halloween (Samhain). And I’m sure Pagans that celebrate non-European traditions have other days, I just can’t speak to them personally.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He’s right. This year, everybody’s gotta work Christmas.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Says the man that golf’s more than work

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    soon we’ll have a holiday for every once working day of the year

    Damn! Not that the whole bleat isn’t awful, but that’s one of the stupidest sentences ever in ALL of the ways! 🤦

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He’s just very forward thinking. In 14000 years you’ll be sorry for not heading this warning!

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one is forcing anyone to be closed on holidays! There’s no law or rule or anything!

    Banks don’t have to close and work absolute shit hours because they handle money!

    You wanna make more money stay open on holidays.

    I work in appliance repair I get the 4th thanksgiving and Christmas and new years.

    It sucks. But we make more money.

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    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My sleep deprived brain trying to process the 4th thanksgiving. Like, I only get one and this guy gets 4. I’m going to go to sleep now, you should also invest in some commas. :)

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      • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I was thinking he only took Thanksgiving off every 4 years.

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  • Penny7@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All righty then Ebeneezer…

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    300 million people can’t have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will “cost billions”, while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I remember something from r/ask_historians, is that peasants had a shit ton of holidays and festivals.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know those tropes in old cartoons where overworked factory workers are given a union-mandated 3-minute lunch break? That’s the future of America.

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  • Heikki@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Working with people in other countries it really make me jealous they have a notional holiday, seeming every month where the business is closed. Really wish the US had more days like that

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We have fewer holidays than medieval peasants. Economic historians vary between 150 and 250 work days vs 261 for a Mon-Fri job.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.

      EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just to be slightly clearer (unless it’s changed since Brexit) those 28 days may or may not include public holidays at the company’s discretion.

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Too many non-working presidents and billionaires in your country.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They had the option of Bernie, Harris and Walz just in the last decade, they, they chose the president they chose.

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    • Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Truer words have not been spoken.

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  • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hoffa and JFK got whacked for less than this.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah Americans have way too many holidays, like two hole weeks per year!

    I mean, compare that to the Europeans with their lousy 5 weeks per year, they never take off!

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Europeans don’t have 5 weeks of holidays. It of course depends on the country, region, and sometimes city, but usually is between 8 and 11 days of holidays (that everyone gets on the same day, like new years or the respective independence day) and between 4 and 6 weeks of PTO, which every person chooses when to take.

      Plus no sick days, if you are sick you stay at home, no quota. Optionally some paperwork if the sickness lasts a bunch of time.

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Fair enough, I don’t know the vacation days in all European countries, but many definitely do

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS”

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Remind me how “all these businesses” can be closed if only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays?

    Here in the real US (I.E not has make up fantasy land that he wants his user base to believe in), most companies were business as usual. As most companies only really close for Christmas and and maybe Thanksgiving and Easter.

    Not to mention that most Federal workers are salary, and their pay includes holidays, if he were to remove the holidays as part of the package, he would need to spend /more/ money on the workers, so it’s not like it would be a plus even in his imaginary world. This is ignoring the fact that a good portion of the federal government is also unionized. so this entire plan would fall short before it even hit the water.

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    • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I wanna say the majority of people have less holidays off these days already. Hell even paid holidays (where the business doesn’t close but you get 1.5x pay) seem to be shrinking.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sounds like the WH chef staff ran out of chicken nuggies

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  • Sarmyth@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t even get to take off yesterday. Fuck this guy.

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  • imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    someone do the fuckin deed already, I’m so fuckin sick of this jackass and all his Republican dumbfucks

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