scoobydoo 0 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I got up this morning and started getting ready for work. I was about to go out the door when I realised that it was a national holiday and there was no work today!! Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 There's plenty of work at my company today Scoobs! Anyone else have the pleasure of working at a company where national holidays mean nothing? When I think back, I've never had a job where national holidays meant anything. IN UNIVERSITY DAYS Bartender and sperm bank donor. The former was busiest on holidays, the latter knew no rest. POST-UNI JOB Cashier at a record shop. We sold most records on weekends and holidays. I was always working on July 4 or Xmas day or what have you. Terrible. FIRST LAWYER JOB AND EVERY OTHER SINCE THEN Holidays? Forget it. In fact, forget about dinnertime and skip lunches too. I need two hands to count the number of Xmas days I've worked, and the number of last-minute-cancelled ski trips, camping trips, weekends with good friends and family gatherings. I'd need many more hands to count the number of dates and small promises I had to break due to work requirements. Yes, I've always made the mistake of getting a job where "the buck stops here". Another way to put this is, I am the trap at the bottom of the porta-potty, and the s*** all lands here. This is a real issue for me now as I try to find stable employment for the next long while to support my new baby and give her a solid home life. When I start looking around, it seems all there is are soul-killing high-pressure jobs like "challenging position available for stellar attorney", "yes we work hard and are dedicated to serviing our clients no matter what" and "self-starter needed to handle complex and detail-driven legal and financial compliance issues companywide"... How awful. I get sick just thinking about it. It's not that I have no ambition, it's just that I used up the supply of dumb ambition to blindly serve Corporate or Client interests merely to hold a job and get the chance to wake up the next day and do it all over again, again and again until I retire or drop out. --badmigraine, at work on yet another national holiday. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 And taking time off from the work Link to post Share on other sites
slaphead 0 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I nearly did the same. I only remembered that today was a holiday late last night. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 What a great feeling I bet that was (in a mixed up kinda way.) Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 hang in there badmigraine..... my old house of employment had a mixed up national holiday system, and I had to work on most Japanese national holidays as well (although never on xmas day)...... Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 I wish I could work on national holidays here and take the days off another time when places aren't busy. Sounds like a good idea as long as your buddies are on the same kind of deal. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 It's always funny when you forget things like this. It must have fealt good though to get ready for work and then find out you don't have to go even if you fealt silly. Badmigraine - **** ambition. You have to get your priorities straight. Being a company man sucks. You shouldn't have to give up life for your job. Link to post Share on other sites
hamtaro 0 Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 Bet you felt a right fool! Would have really felt a fool if you'd gone Link to post Share on other sites
Roger's head 0 Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 And I slept soundly until 12 noon. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Have ambition without being a company man. There. Solved. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Yeah, the word "ambition" has a bad rap. It sounds like it only means what a jr. mgmt. trainee in his first cheap suit feels when he drinks his morning coffee and thinks "I'm going to kick a** at the next meeting and really impress the boss and get that promotion!!" I've got ambition, but not in that direction. I've also got a wife and unborn baby in the hospital and I haven't the option to Chill Out and find myself. I won't be able to do that anymore until I become independently wealthy, or run out on my family and be a deadbeat dad. I'd love a job that matches my lifestyle and leaves me time for my family and personal development, but wouldn't we all. I'll let you know when I find one. Until then, as unhappy as it is, I am keeping my high-paying "day job" and reserving the right to whine about it! Link to post Share on other sites
nori-chan 0 Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 I did this once. I went to work, and only knew when I arrive and office is closed. I felt really stupid. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 You fools. In winter, I want to work on weekends and get weekdays off but I can't. Link to post Share on other sites
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