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23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers
itwbennett writes "A timely CareerBuilder survey finds that 23% of IT pros spend the holiday with coworkers, either in the office or at another location. But the findings vary widely by city. In Boston, for example, you're pretty sure to be on your own for the holiday — only 6% of coworkers there nosh together. While in Atlanta (35%) or Dallas (30%) things are downright chummy."
...and there won't even be neither turkey nor booze, over here in Europe *g
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If you know what I mean...
The remaining 77% spend it in their mom's basement.
After spending the last decade with co-workers I *MAY* be able to see family this turkey day! No no call or essential operations for me. Go me!
"Poop" ? How old are you? Three?
To be honest, everyone should have the holidays off save required jobs like FD, PD, hospital staff. A for-profit company can let everyone off. Servers can be maintained from home and if someone has to drive in due to some unforeseen stuff -- it happens. I once worked for a particularly large web hosting company where I ran the *BSD servers. Short of a hardware failure, which was highly unlikely, I never had a server go down. The Windows guys? A constant battle, constant tuning, constant malware. Us *nix admins? Home. Windows guys? Sweating it out at work. Go home... get some deserved rest with your family. Any company that doesn't respect holidays is not one for which I would work. Common decency prevails.
...and there won't even be neither turkey nor booze, over here in Europe *g
(emphasis mine) At least, I hope for you there aren't any grammar-Nazis over there...
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If we stole the country from Native Americans through trickery, scamming, and crooked contracts but every square inch of Europe was taken over by bloodthirsty dictators, kings, emperors, etc surely that deserves even more of a holiday, right? Maybe killsgiving or genocide-o-rama.
I wouldn't be surprised if the "23%" figure is fairly close to the percentage of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with friends instead of with their own family, or of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with their coworkers, who are also their friends.
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
This is no surprise.
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IT's pro-coworker showing was only 2% less than those put-upon retail workers who may be forced to work right after they finish their plate. The top industry was Transportation and Utilities (28%) and Retail (25%), with IT, Healthcare and Finance tied at 23%.
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
Nothing more loathsome than office politics on thanksgiving. This is the first time Boston demonstrates sound and healthy common sense.
Really funny story. I was team lead for a small group. I invited everyone over to my house for thanksgiving . We were all young professionals at the time, mostly single. Just as we sat down to eat, the on-call pager went off. Policy was we had 15 minutes to respond. The on-call person waited and called back. "Sorry, just sat down to turkey, please page the backup." For the rest of the meal we repeated going through the on-call list this way, around the table. Sweet :)
i'd wager .0001 btc i am the only byrd on my block to have a screenshot of paid poster pickens lambasting the home dna tests using pr firm scriptdead text appearing below an ad for same here. 23 somethings
the fear can be smelt
no mention of freeing the innocent stem cells yet?
some still calling this 'weather'? http://www.globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561
What other holiday allows Murkins to celebrate their wholesale slaughter of an indigenous people and the plundering of their women and resources for profit?
w00t! GO MURKA!
At least my coworkers will stick to polite and civil conversation for the duration of a meal. Odds are 99 to 1 that someone in my extended family will go off on a long winded political rant and/or racist screed, such that I will try to find an animal or small child to interact with in a quiet corner rather than have to listen to them.
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...and there won't even be neither turkey nor booze, over here in Europe *g
(emphasis mine) At least, I hope for you there aren't any grammar-Nazis over there...
No, the eurozone has effectively expunged "Nazi" from their vernacular, if the media is to be believed
Source
Money quote:
Users were warned not to take bids on Nazi items from people in France, Germany, Austria or Italy because of laws in those countries. Users with French- or German-language Web browsers also were blocked from searching for Nazi-related items, eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said
If you take the truth of this story what they really mean is they are forced to work on Thanksgiving. "spending Thanksgiving with co-workers" lol
Mandatory overtime/rotating holidays :/
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misrepresentation now shamefully obsolete? do not miss the replacement; thanks scott olsen day in usa,,, million moms (& babys) marches,,,, it could get smelly
I've got real skills and I spend every Thanksgiving eating alone at a Ryan's steakhouse.
And what's the percentage of those workers that are immigrants or of some religion that doesn't let them celebrate? I know we have a lot of people from India, Russia, and Thailand that all love to get the extra overtime during yet another one of your crazy US holidays. Then we have a few Jehovah Whiteness's that also like this time of year. I bet they account for well over 20% of our staff so how knows.
Secondly, most of my Turkey eating co-workers ended up having thanksgiving at various relatives houses the weekend before and after the holiday. There-for ending up with no where to go on actual turkey day. This happens nearly every year so it's become a custom at my house that I get the biggest turkey(s) (last year we had 2) I can find and invite anyone and everyone I work with (including some from other countries that just want to see what's up) to my house to eat. My mother is from a large southern family and has never been used to our northern way of having less than 10 people for dinner, so she thinks it's great. Last year we had 25 people over (only about 6 I was related to) and this year we're having about 15.
The entire point of the holiday, after all, is to get people together than generally don't get together and give thanks for all that we have. I'm lucky enough that I usually have actual Indians at my table (both kinds!) and I think it's great.
Weasel-stomping day?
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ask any native elder or watch the mooovie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUvhDG7x2E
rated htrc (horrific terror by religious 'conversion' etc)
happy hollow days
But usually there is some other substitute e.g. Oktoberfest or its equivalent. Just about every culture has some sort of fall harvest festival if they have such a season.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
I would have done that in my twenties, but pushing 40 now (ugh) I want nothing to do with my cow-orkers after hours. I'll go to happy hour with the team so I don't look like an unsocial jerk, but otherwise forget it unless there's a charge code to bill my time to.
:wq
You forget that the tradition of invasion, conquest; and economic,religious, and cultural assimilation was a grand old tradition in Eurasia long before the Americsa were discovered. E.g. Alexander the Great, the Romans, and the Vandals to name but a few. Americans learned at Europeans feet.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Dallas, like many cities of the region are colonized by transient populations from far flung areas. Boston is a city of drunks with large families. Are there any more stereotypes we want to use?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Then you might get to have Thanksgiving with your family.
No where in TFA does it say that celebrating with co-workers and family are mutually exclusive. I will be with my family on Turkey Day. Two of my co-workers will be coming over to my house with their families. So I will also be with my co-workers.
No, thanks. They used to be a great bunch of guys, then the company outsourced, most guys left, one of the ones remaining went from a good friend to being weird (never figured out why, but I surely don't care now). I moved on and left that mess.
One place I was at we were doing 24/7 support so someone had to always be onsite. For holidays our boss just split the day into 3 hour shifts starting at 6am. For only having to work 3 hours wasn't too painful still got most of the day with family/friends. Boss also said it will be dead bring DVDs to watch, just answer phone if it rings. So pretty painless Holiday work.
You forget that the tradition of invasion, conquest; and economic,religious, and cultural assimilation was a grand old tradition in Eurasia long before the Americsa were discovered. E.g. Alexander the Great, the Romans, and the Vandals to name but a few. Americans learned at Europeans feet.
Stop confusing people with historical facts. It's easier to forget the past and blame the present. Really, it's best to blame the present not learning from the past failures.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Seriously, why do people put up with this bullshit? Go the fuck home people and spend some time with your families. When people on are on their death beds, they rarely say, I wish I spent more time working.
Does the stat mean IT workers will be working on server upgrades over the holiday?
X% of people SAID this or that. This is another poll that just measures what people think they should say. In Boston, people feel that they should care more about hard work. In the South, people put more emphasis on family and friends.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
If that's the case, get back to the retirement home.
Thinking of myself I've spent Thanksgiving at work twice because I was traveling overseas and it wasn't practical to fly back for the holiday. It does wonders for perspective through when you encounter people who insist it is a Christian holiday. You then get to explain that there's only two countries on the planet that celebrate it and they don't even celebrate it on the same day. Out of the US the holiday is known for overeating of food and buying too many presents. sigh
you guys are great to work with, and I enjoy our D&D games on Sunday afternoons, but I have family to annoy during holidays. You know?
More music, fewer hits
This may not because we are all lonely losers who can't make actual friends. Most Lusers can't live without their shared drive, and won't let me upgrade anything during the normal weekends. So when we can get an extra day or two for actual downtime maintenance, we usually grasp that opportunity. I once spent a long weekend just doing cable management in the datacenter.
I've been travelling to events working with maybe one coworker on certain days and contractors from other companies. I eat almost all my meals alone this time of year. Its 10degrees hotter than outdoors, and 100% humidity in here for this event. They don't turn the ac on until after the event starts. I'll be spending the holiday catching up on paperwork!
The top of the list is probably an intersection of "cities people move to for work" and "cities which have recently developed IT industry," or places where IT workers are less likely to have extended family.
So you don't want to look like an unsocial jerk, even though you want to be an unsocial jerk? o.0
Bonus points for using "nor" with "neither," though...so close and yet so far...
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I've spent 3 Thanksgivings with co-workers, once with a building manager (senior manager), once with a manager of a different department, and once with an administrative assistant that I am still friends with. It was a small company though (around 2,000 employees) so everyone knew each other pretty well.
My current employer is a global bank, everyone here just stabs everyone in the back and is extremely defensive about separating their personal life from work.
I'm just going to stay at home this year, all alone, nothing but the heat from the file server to keep me warm. Thanksgiving dinner will be a breakfast casserole made with frozen hashbrowns, sausage, cheddar cheese, and sausage gravy cooked in a slow cooker on low for 8 hours. =D
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In Boston, for example, you're pretty sure to be on your own for the holiday — only 6% of coworkers there nosh together.
Ah, well that stinks. Too bad people don't have friends, or family, to spend their holidays with...just coworkers. So, if you're in Boston, you'll probably be alone this Thanksgiving because you don't have friends, you don't have family, and your coworkers hate you.
I married a coworker. How does that get counted?
Here in the United States it is coming close to Thanksgiving, a holiday to visit family and be thankful for our many blessings. However corporate culture, as a part of our-business-is-a-family mentality likes to do pot lucks. I will encourage and support anyone that wants to have the pot luck on company time as long as the company does not make me participate. I, like many people, do not regard my co-workers as a "family". I don't feel like investing extra money to feed these people in the name of company-is-family and "team building". I'm not a hostile employee but I realize that the company regards everyone as a replaceable cog and a lowest-cost expense. Of course I realize saying anything like this to our company would cause me to be fired. I am sure I am not alone in feeling this.
Here's hoping you have a great Thanksgiving, and spend it with those that matter - your real family.
I submitted this as a submission a few days ago, and didn't get accepted... ah well.
I was in Boston and had Turkey with a coworker.
Well, you are on to something here. I live and work in a German-language country. As a matter of fact, using the word "nazi" is simply not done here. People cringe if and when I literally translate "grammar Nazi" or "spelling Nazi" into German, even this long after the war. So I use "grammar taliban" or "spelling fundamentalist" instead. That has the strange property of making people smile uncontrollably. Va comprende, Charles...
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No one is actually from Dallas, so no family there, and there's nothing to do there but eat and shop anyway.
No lie it made me smile uncontrollably.
UPVOTE PARENT! 90% of the world dont celebrate Thanksgiving.
If we in Europe would have "thanksgiving" holidays for each good thing that's worth giving thanks for throughout history, some countries would have holiday around 50 weeks of the year.
Though to be honest, that seems to be what some countries do anyway, I mean work only two weeks a year (see e.g. Greece).
/ The Arrow
"How lovely you are. So lovely in my straightjacket..." - Nny
And while you're all sleepy from excessive turkey consumption, your government will dissolve more of your freedoms into the fettered cranberry sauce-like sludge they call democracy and freedom. don't sleep people, it's a trap. put down the turkey and pick up a meth pipe and an "assault weapon", it's the only way to stay alert during a distraction of this magnitude.