Says the man that golf's more than work
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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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.
He's right. This year, everybody's gotta work Christmas.
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 of July, thanksgiving and Christmas and new years.
It sucks. But we make more money.
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All righty then Ebeneezer...
Hoffa and JFK got whacked for less than this.
And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth..
Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days
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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.
Remind me how "all these businesses" can be closed if it's really only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays? Like sure some banks do as well, but most companies just stay open
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 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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Don't these holidays cost owners rather than workers, though?
I used to love working holidays as a single guy for that double pay. ๐ค
No holidays means only 1x pay ๐ nevermind if you just wanted to take the day off without getting docked.
Golf.