Because They're Special

I always kind of wished we would take vetrans day off, for some odd reason the company I work for takes presidents day off and not vetrans day off, I know a whole lot more vets than I do presidents!

Two things. One I worked a lot of holidays other than Christmas and Easter. No we did not have full staff, no there were no office workers, there was no factory, there was no salaried. Just 3-5 people in the Data Center.

Two- Hey It Is Oct. 1. Shut down the plant lets go hunting, do not have to call in sick and tell a lie. And you get paid to go. What more can you want.

I too would have preferred Veterans Day to either Presidents Day or Martin Luther King.

Why not just tell employees that they have X number of holidays which they can take whenever they want and not automatically give holidays for Christmas, Christmas Eve, Kwanzaa, Good Friday, Eid-Al-Fitr, and Festivus?

That would never fly...good for a small facility that is flexable or an office environment that can set their own hours, but in most cases holidays have to be scheduled around and in some cases the holliday is just extra pay as the plants never shut down.

Besides those who want all the time off yet still hold a fulll time job should just go work for the state. I remember my days there the month of November and December I probably only worked 1 full week. Man those were the days, no responsibility, no accountability, no stress, no nothing, just an easy job and a paycheck...Why'd I quit? Oh yea the pay was equal to the responsibility/accountability.