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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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  2. I don't think that means what you think it means.. by TWX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  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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  4. Re:I will spend thanksgiving with my co-workers to by plopez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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