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This is outrageous. It is unfair. It should be a totally unacceptable part of our society. We need to organize a march, we need to picket the White House, we need Pope Francis to say a prayer on behalf of the inflicted.
It's Christmas in about a day (depending on where you are) and the shackles of tyranny have not been shaken by those of us who are truly oppressed. While some people get to enjoy spending time celebrating the holiday in the manner they see fit, There are still some in the world who are denied this basic liberty. That's right, the poor paperboy and papergirls of the world have to work on Christmas. Not only do I have to deliver 465 papers on Christmas, I have to do so at midnight. Midnight!!! The paper is denying me the right to open my gifts the very second Christmas day is upon me.
We need to organize. Everyone put a one day hold on your papers. Would it kill you not to know that President Obama had a hole in one at his golf outing or that the retail stores didn't do as well as expected (leading story last 5 years, I say retail needs to lower their expectations). What's more, this year is extra work. Normally the Christmas paper is a mere pamphlet. You come in, make an origami chicken and laugh. This year it's the size of a Sunday paper. No easy night for me. I don't even have room for Felix in my car so we can look at the decorations on my route. So while you enjoy some yule, I'll be muttering obscenities at 465 homes.
Merry Christmas.
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People in the US get papers
People in the US get papers delivered on Christmas Day? Really?
Part of the job
Until I got laid off, I hadn't had a Christmas off in more than ten years. I knew this would happen before I ever started working there. When I worked at the PD I didn't have any seniority, so I worked all the holidays.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
tjanks for the reminder
I forgot that four years ago I thought I wouldn't have a job and was really a wreck about it. Yes, it's part of the job and the job has allowed me to live. Luckily I've gotten some breaks these past few years and I am no longer struggling. So yeah, I bitch and moan about working, but it beats the alternative. At least i don't have to worry about being homeless or where my next meal is coming from, which is exactly where my roommate is. I asked him to move at the end of the year (in march) but now he has no job and no place to go and I'll never put someone to the street, ever. But I need to keep these things in mind.
Thanks for the perspective. Sorry you had to work Christmas, hope they were quiet days but I expect there was an uptick in domestic disputes.
Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)
Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life
working on holidays
I can sympathize with you since I have been called in to work to fix problems in the middle of the night on holidays, had to call in and check to see if there is any problems while on vacation.
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
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TopShelf BigCloset
It is a long road ahead but I will finally become who I should be.
paper, what!
Military hoises dont get the paper anymore thanks to king obama
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Yep.
Been there, done all that, got the t shirt.
Used to hike through snow drifts bigger than I was, walk for miles, and deliver about 150 papers throughout my town.
A tougher job than most think...especially with cracked up dobermans at every other house.
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During my entire time in the service.....
I never had a Christmas off. On one particular Christmas, it took the gunnery officer on my asset, a US Navy destroyer, to let me know that it was now Christmas Day. Such was my situation that I had completely lost track of the fact.
Since leaving the service, I have worked in the logistics field - larger in the food and beverage industry, but also with retail customers. The advantage to working in the food industry is that the business is extremely recession proof. The disadvantage is that people eat 365 days each year - excepting leap years of course in which they eat 366 days.
I sympathize with your plight, but such is the nature of working in a service industry. We tell all new employees that out company observes six legal holidays, of which you are guaranteed to get exactly zero off. Bottom line, if our customer wants us to work, we work.
While serving in the Navy, my customers were my fellow citizens - the people I had sworn to serve and protect, and if I needed a closer look at my customers, I had but to look around at my troops. Since leaving the service my customers are identified by contract, but my obligation to them is no less important.
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Work harder slave!
Momma wants her paper first thing christmas morning, and there better be Cocoa!
i work i on Christmas day to
i work i on Christmas day to at kennel i know how how you feel 6 am
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sorry, i really should've learned by now not to try & comment where the humans are talking about things i have no frame of reference for
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
It appears
that despite the efforts of Wilberforce and Abraham Lincoln, slavery is alive and well in the western democracies.
Angharad
Papers
Use to have a rack route, 1k papers a day on a thirty mile route. Until 1968 it was twice a day. 7 days a week 365 days a year.
Paula
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
The Coda
Chapterhouse: Dune
Working Holidays!
Been there, done that!
It just kind of goes with some jobs.
Although papers are not exactly essential.
Merry Christmas w/Huggles,
~Hypatia >i< ..:::
Working on Christmas
Working for a big 24/7/365 job I don't normally get weekends or holidays. Nope the trains got to move which means they need an engineer behind the throttle. I don't even get extra pay. I happen to luck out this year and get my days off to fall on Christmas by the luck of the draw, but last year at 3 pm I was going to work, and the previous year I was at work at noon.