• Surp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    4th of July is only better for me because I don’t get Juneteenth off even though I work in a school. Fucked it is!

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      5 months ago

      This year was the first year I worked in an office that didn’t recognize Juneteenth. Someone still found a way to complain about people expecting Juneteenth off work and blamed Zoomers for it becoming the norm like it’s a bad thing

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Gosh dang zoomers expecting nationally recognized holidays off, like this is the 20th century or something. Next they’re going to expect clean water, and acceptable working conditions.

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        My current company is the first one that does recognize Juneteenth as a holiday, so I assume I have a much longer work history than you.

        I’m still not used to it existing so it totally slipped my mind and I would have accidentally come in to work, except one of the overseas guys pointed it out

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          I’ve been working for 20+ years and I’d never heard of it until a couple years ago. I don’t have a problem with it, celebrating stuff is cool, but it does seem to have come out of nowhere when it became a political issue. Maybe it was a regional thing before that.

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              Yeah that was when I first heard of it. I researched it at the time and saw that it has been around for a long time but I had never heard of it before that and I’d consider myself to be pretty well read on history in general. Obviously enough people were aware of it to push for a holiday so maybe it’s just the part of the country I’m from it wasn’t celebrated much idk.

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      5 months ago

      Same, I don’t understand how schools can weasel their way out of federal holidays so easily lol.