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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:22 PM
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I resent the Easter weekend.
No, that's not true, I hate and fear it. I work for a weekly magazine, and the Easter weekend means the subtraction of two days from our production schedule. It creates a great deal more work and requires weeks of planning. One day is fine but two days is different; it's just mad. All because some guy was nailed to a cross. The religion is fine; the impact on my life is not.
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MousePlayingDaffodil Donating Member (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:28 PM
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1. Well, just look at it this way . . .
We all have our own crosses to bear.

I'm sure you'll be able to muddle through somehow.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:30 PM
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2. I'd love to get two days off....
Regular workday tomorrow, regular workday Monday.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:34 PM
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5. I would prefer that.
The past eight days have been miserable. When I get back, things will be no better. I get a dozen crappy days for two days off. That's not good enough.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:32 PM
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3. They took away our Easter holiday
Union job
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:32 PM
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4. If this guy hadn't been nailed to a cross, you'd still work on Dec. 25
It all evens out.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:36 PM
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6. Not even for Saturnalia?
That's not the big J's birthday, you know; that's Saturnalia.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:40 PM
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8. I know, but don't tell the fundies.
They'd freak.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:43 PM
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9. Those fundies!
Those crazy guys! I'd nudge them and wink at them if I didn't have the vague suspicion they wanted to kill me.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:38 PM
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7. OTOH, it's my busiest time of year.
Exhausting, yet exhilarating. All kinds of people come out of the woodwork - people I haven't seen all year long. Yet they look at me as if I should remember their name.

Oh well, a few more days, and they'll disappear again.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:46 PM
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10. Perhaps you misread my post.
It's my busiest time of the year too, thanks to the two state-mandated public holidays.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:11 PM
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12. I didn't misread anything.
It's my busy time of year - AND - all those people coming to church are probably the same ones who aren't working at your place.

The irony is, most of them don't bother with Maundy Thursday or Good Friday (read here: they really don't need that "time off.") The time off, apparently, is for dyeing eggs and hoarding chocolate bunnies and jellybeans.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:04 AM
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15. I converted to Christianity at Easter.
I know the power of the festival. And I was a churchgoing Christian. I used to go three times a week. I fell from faith, and stand by my beliefs, or lack of them. But I think my secular workplace woes are still legit.
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:58 PM
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11. Look at it this way, you could be sleeping under a bridge.
Sorry can't feel sorry for you.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:48 PM
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14. That's OK
I wasn't asking for pity.
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:50 PM
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16. I wasn't gving any...pity that is.
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:33 PM
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13. State of Idaho doesn't recognize Easter
as a Holiday. Sorry, to hear your work piles up when you are not there to do it. A lot of people have no one to do their job when they are not there. Put behind, can't get back on the power curve. I'm not religious. But because I grew up in this culture, the Holidays have a tradition, for me. I've changed my way of thinking about them. More of a seasonal thing, the Solstices and the equinoxes....the meaning of Spring...new life...green...blooming...baby chicks...little lambs.. bunnies...made it through the winter celebration.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 04:12 PM
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17. Ugh!
I'm also in production, and I completely understand what you mean, though for me, it's Christmas. Every printer and publisher at the upper levels still thinks we do a Wayzgoose and then take off two weeks. Except for those of use trying to do our final passes and get covers approved...
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