Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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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.
"MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS"
someone do the fuckin deed already, I'm so fuckin sick of this jackass and all his Republican dumbfucks
fuck him
From this list, it looks like the US and Vietnam are actually tied for the lowest, with 6 each.
One of Vietnam's holidays, Tet, last 7 days, though. So that 12 total days off.
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China and Russia with 13, 14.
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Working with people in other countries it really make me jealous they have a notional holiday, seeming every month where the business is closed. Really wish the US had more days like that
We have fewer holidays than medieval peasants. Economic historians vary between 150 and 250 work days vs 261 for a Mon-Fri job.
As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.
EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.
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Yeah Americans have way too many holidays, like two hole weeks per year!
I mean, compare that to the Europeans with their lousy 5 weeks per year, they never take off!
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Sounds like the WH chef staff ran out of chicken nuggies
Don’t worry, Don, the “essential workers” won’t be affected.
I didn't even get to take off yesterday. Fuck this guy.
This is the first trump post where I saw the members of r/conservative unanimously against the president.
Too bad they'll still support him anyway..
keep up the talk fat man and we'll have a paid holiday for every finger and toe we cut off.
Orangeboi staying true to form and leaning into the idiotic, inaccurate, archaic, and racist “lazy people of color” trope, I see. And on Juneteenth, too. I’m sure that’s part of the subtext he was going for.
You guys are getting days off?
Okay, grandpa. Time for bed.
If Trump tries to take away a federal holiday, that might be what makes somebody finally do it.
How the fuck does it cost money to keep businesses closed.
...where there's a whip, there's a way where there's a whip, there's a way. We don't wanna go to war today But the lord of the land says NAY NAY NAY we gonna march alll day, all day, all day.... for where there's a whip there's a way