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23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers

Posted by timothy on from the but-the-turkeys-generally-have-titles-in-management dept.

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."

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  1. The Rest by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The remaining 77% spend it in their mom's basement.

    1. Re:The Rest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey, that's not fair! I come upstairs for Thanksgiving.

    2. Re:The Rest by plopez · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Mom! More Hot Pockets!"

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      putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
  2. Re:I will spend thanksgiving with my co-workers to by slashmydots · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  3. My coworkers would be preferable to my family by sandytaru · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
  4. Re:I will spend thanksgiving with my co-workers to by CaptSlaq · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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