The company I work for has a habit of mucking about with the holidays it gives US employees. We used to have 10 paid holidays, scattered across the calendar. Then they removed "Good Friday" in the US, because it wasn't politically correct to give a day that's so very specific to the numerous Christians and the handful of non-Christians were grumbling. Instead, they created a "personal, floating holiday" that people could schedule to coincide with a day that was special to them.
I get that. I even liked it, because my own Christian faith does not require me to spend all of Good Friday in mourning, or whatever. Being at work is sufficient penance. So I had a day I could choose and it didn't have to be bound up in some churchy obligation. Kind of neat.
Then they took away Presnuts Day, leaving us with 9 paid holidays and they fixed the "floating" day to one specific calendar day. Yup. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
I'm not wholly against a day honoring a guy who did good things. It goes against my political morals that it was made into such a big frickin' deal because his skin is black and people thought we absolutely had to have a day to honor a black skinned guy, but whatever. Done is done and we have a day to honor a great man and that's good. And my company wants me to take that day off, and that's okay by me.
Except.
Why the fuck couldn't Marty have been born in March or April, hmmm? Because in my company have all our holidays all clustered in the coldest months. Two days for Thanksgiving, two for Christmas, one for New Year's, and now this MLK day. Then nothing until Memorial Day at the end of May. A day for Fourth of July, and one for Labor Day. In fact, MLK day is the only holiday my company celebrates in honor of a specific US person. The only other day that's s'posed to honor a person is, well, Christmas.
Here's what I figure. They took the Presidents' birthdays and crammed 'em together into one. They moved other days from the day they're normally celebrated and put 'em on Mondays. And back in the darkest of ages, they even moved Jesus' birthday from October to December!!!
So if it's good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for the Reverend King. I say we move his birthday to March 31.
Who's with me?
Shaddap and have a BBQ on yer day off.
I haz to work today, boo hoo.
"I say we move his birthday to March 31."
Doesn't make shit for difference to me. I usually work.
"all our holidays all clustered in the coldest months"
Poor baby, what's it get down to, upper 60s?