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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."
The remaining 77% spend it in their mom's basement.
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%.
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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
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Everyone residing in the US (or Canada, for that matter) should be entitled to celebrate Thanksgiving. I would argue that this goes double for immigrants, considering that that's what the Pilgrims were too.
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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.
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This surprises me.
Do THAT many people associate with people they work with outside of the work place???
I mean, for all my working life, I could likely count on my hands the number of times (outside of a company event or company party) that I've actually planned and met and associated with any co-workers outside of the work setting.
I tend to separate my work life from my personal life.
Don't get me wrong, at work, I'm highly sociable, I smile and try to get along with most everyone, but when I walk out of the office and the door slaps me on the ass on the way out...I leave all thoughts and associations for the most part behind those doors, never to even intrude on my thoughts till I come back to work.
I have plenty of long term friends outside the office that I associate with.
I don't even think this decision of mine was made consciously, just something that seemed natural. Maybe it was something subconscious, I mean, I don't want to do or risk doing things that would possibly piss someone off at the place where I earn a living.
It is definitely a reason I've not pursued (more than a couple times) any type of romantic type of relations ships with any co-workers. I mean, at some point there'll likely be a break up and I've not wanted to have a pissed off bitch I have to see every day at work, etc...
I prefer to keep work and personal life as segregated as possible, I kinda assumed most other folks did too?
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While you could say they should still get the day off too, some days like thanksgiving leave one precious little to do.
I pity people like that. There's always something to do. Some people live to work, those are the folks you're talking about and they're pathetic. Me, I work to live, and next February I retire.
More books to write, electronics to tinker with, probably buy a new soldering iron and multimeter, slashdot,... hell, I may even sweep my floor and wash the dishes for a change.
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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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