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What days do you get off of work for Independence Day?

Just July 4 - Happy Birthday America!	5 votes
July 3 & 4 - USA! USA!	12 votes
No days off - I work for heartless American-hating bastards.	2 votes

Willets Point Jun 27 2006 04:04 PM

Independence Day is on its way.

Nymr83 Jun 27 2006 04:16 PM

if you picked option 3 (and do not work for the government) please report your employer to unamericanscumwhoneedtobeillegallymonitored@whitehouse.gov, its a secret provision of the patriot act.

Vic Sage Jun 27 2006 04:19 PM

luckily, i'm the guy in the office who gets to decide, so i picked option 2!

Yancy Street Gang Jun 27 2006 04:23 PM

I just get July 4, but my company gives us a bunch of personal days that we can use to fill in these kind of days. The office will probably be nearly empty on July 3. I'll be away on vacation anyway.

ScarletKnight41 Jun 27 2006 05:11 PM

Online classes know no holidays.

seawolf17 Jun 27 2006 07:12 PM

Ah, crap. I picked the wrong one. Technically just July 4, but day care is closed on Monday, so I had to take that one also. So I chose both, but only both because of Mr. Baby.

metsmarathon Jun 27 2006 08:08 PM

i'm in between 1 & 2. we federal employees get the 4th off, but we're taking the 3rd off to paint the hell out of our new house.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 27 2006 08:35 PM

USA... USA... Of course, I hafta pay for it by getting killed this week, and next Wednesday.

sharpie Jun 27 2006 09:38 PM

USA! USA! We get 2 days off for July 4 every year that it isn't on a Wednesday.

Rockin' Doc Jun 27 2006 10:15 PM

Our office is closed for only one day, Tuesday the Fourth. I always have every fifth Monday off, which by good fortune happened to fall on Monday the third, so I will have a four day weekend.

Elster88 Jun 27 2006 10:57 PM

Is it legal to force your employees to work the fourth?

SteveJRogers Jun 27 2006 11:25 PM

Elster88 wrote: Is it legal to force your employees to work the fourth? Service industries, Community Recreation Departments, they work, or at least will ATTEMPT to have someone work the shifts. I think the issue is more forcing employees to work period on nationally reconized vacation days

Gwreck Jun 27 2006 11:34 PM

I love working the major holidays. Back when I worked a service-related job, it was usually slower, and hence pretty easy. In the office, it's quiet and you can get a ton done. It would usually work out that I could get enough done on the 4th to take a much-needed day off during the middle of the week sometime later in the summer, or whenever. That and I try to avoid family functions like the plague. :)

Edgy DC Jun 27 2006 11:35 PM

I get both days off. If my eval doesn't go better than I fear tomorrow, I'll get a lot more than that.

silverdsl Jun 28 2006 09:31 AM

The university is closed on the 4th, but I have off the entire week for vacation.

MFS62 Jun 28 2006 10:24 AM

I've been doing some on-site consulting work for a local CT City agency. They'll be closed both Monday and Tuesday. Unfortunately, since I'm a consultant I won't get paid for Monday. Later

TransMonk Jun 28 2006 10:59 AM

Gwreck wrote: I love working the major holidays. Back when I worked a service-related job, it was usually slower, and hence pretty easy. In the office, it's quiet and you can get a ton done. It would usually work out that I could get enough done on the 4th to take a much-needed day off during the middle of the week sometime later in the summer, or whenever. That and I try to avoid family functions like the plague. :) I agree...and you usually get paid more for working the holiday. Tuesdays are normally days off for me, so I work Monday and get the 4th off by default...but if it fell on a Wednesday, I'd be working that in addition to Monday.

ABG Jun 28 2006 12:10 PM

Elster88 wrote: Is it legal to force your employees to work the fourth? Yes, provided you give them another day off to compensate.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 30 2006 01:30 PM

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Elster88 Jun 30 2006 02:07 PM

2:53 to go.

KC Jun 30 2006 02:14 PM

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