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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.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
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.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
...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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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
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+
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.
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.