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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Haha! I Googled it after, and see you share a birthday with Robert E. Lee and it is Confederate Memorial Day. So congrats on that one.
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I prefer to focus on Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton, but I suppose you can't be too picky!
I'm not all up in arms about this policy. It's a little weird and I'm not entirely sure how well it works, but whatever. I just think that you have a government that's obviously teetering with obvious places you should be hammering. Why the decision is made to rollout things like this is just beyond me.
And yeah, everyone else "at home" is celebrating the Jewish high holidays (for example) and you have to be at work. That kind of thing would suck for sure. I'm just not sure from a practical point of view how easy this is for most organizations to implement. For me, a lot of what I do is dictated by when the stock exchanges are open. Sometimes that means that in Canada we have some days off that they don't have in the US, and that sucks. Last year (2021) I think Boxing Day the US market was open and the way New Years fell the US market was open when Canada was closed. So...you kind of end up working those days or at least parts of the day. It's different for every industry and sector, of course. I'm not saying this is a brutal policy, just that it might create some issues.
And the idea of swapping is bizarre. Like how would I swap say Christmas for another religious holiday during the year? Everything is closed on Christmas...so I mean I can't just open "just to be open"?