I tweeted that earlier (by the way, if you're not following me on twitter yet, you're missing 100% of all hilarious tweets like this), and it's 100% true, today might be the only day ever that my interests and the interests of the Occupiers align.
Working on the day after Thanksgiving (note, I refuse to call it Black Friday, except on twitter, I'm only working with 140 characters, gotta make sacrifices) is the absolute worst. Just a complete kick in the nuts. I woke up this morning a little bit dehydrated, and alot-a-bit-fat. Felt like I still had a pony keg stuffed up under my rib cage, I'm still that full. All my friends that work at small offices, or are engineers, teachers, etc...all have the day off. Me? I'm the poor schlep who's office follows the New York Stock Exchange schedule and I have to work...because those ass holes never take a day off.
I just can't stand the fact that the traders at the NYSE, are basically, soulless, family hating, money grubbing, (fill in the blank swear words), who refuse, REFUSE to just take a day off once in a while. You know what the volume is going to be today in the stock market? 10. Not 10 million, 10...There's going to be 10 trades. Yet we have to come in because some pseudo celebrity wants to ring the bell and the traders want to be on the floor to regale each other with epic tales of how much stuffed turkey they ate or something. And because of that, I'm here, in my cube, staring at the clock in the lower right corner of my screen, begging for it to speed up.
All the other countries are taking random days off once in a while, why can't we? In my job I happen to have a calendar of all the different countries national holidays, and let me tell you something, we're getting the short end of the stick, big time.
Ireland has four days a year that they just call "Public Holidays." Basically if there hasn't been a national holiday that month or in the last few weeks, their government just makes up a day for everyone to party. Well, Erin Go Bragh, that's awesome...Japan, don't even get me started on Japan...They have three days off for New Years, a day called "Ocean Day" (you can't make this stuff up), May 4th is National Greenery Day (so they basically have Arbor day as a national holiday), and in October, they have Health & Sports Day (I've just packed my bags and am looking for the cheapest flights to Tokyo, William Shatner is helping me).
