I propose we move all federal holidays to the nearest Friday to the holiday. As a hard working blue collar American I would love every holiday to start a three day weekend for a more enjoyable observance . Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year and work resumes the following day. It eliminates all motivation and absolutely decimates an entire paycheck worth of working hours .
You want Christmas day moved?
Do you think they would let you to celebrate God?! It is Satan aka SANTA!
Absolutely only to the nearest Friday itâs not like itâs the absolute day Christ was born it was originally a pagan holiday the church moved Christmas to that day to overshadow plus we already practice something similar for thanksgiving moving it to the last Thursday of the month
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Christmas has been firmly established as being celebrated on December 25th since long before America was founded.
I donât think youâre going to get much support for moving it to a Friday for no reason other than you want a 3-day weekend. To say nothing of how you run into the problem of âWhat if Christmas is supposed to happen on a Monday this year so why are we moving it to Friday?â
Plus, Christmas isnât just celebrated in the US, so you run into bigger problems when the rest of the world is celebrating Christmas on the 25th and then the US is âNo, weâre going to celebrate Christmas on Friday because the only reason we have holidays is to give employees a free paid holiday and we should make sure they get a 3-day weekend when that happensâ.
On a national level, you also run into problems with days such as Independence Day, which we celebrate on July 4th for a very specific reason.
In short, this is a stupid proposal that either actively ignores or doesnât get what holidays are supposed to be about and reduces holidays to âFree day off!â.
Christmas has become bad enough with the way itâs been de facto turned into a shopping holiday, this would spread that âholidays donât actually mean anythingâ mindset across the board.
So no, we should not have all holidays be moved to Friday because this policy reduces holidays to âI get paid to not workâ.
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I think youâre trying to simplify my justification for this as being only to have a 3 day weekend . But the larger implication Iâm referring to is quality time to enjoy the holidays and reflect . The notion that it would attribute to the âholidays donât mean anything â mindset you say is incorrect. Thanksgiving for example is a floating holiday and it has not lost in value to as a holiday . I understand some such as July 4th which is an American specific holiday there shouldnât be a change . However I feel many would feel the opposite of what your suggesting and the meaning of holidays would increase instead of returning to work this year on Thursday the day after Christmas we could enjoy watching our children play with their toys we bought for them through the weekend . Instead of working all halloween day and racing home to take our kids all over town trick or treating staying out late not having to wake up the following day to work with little sleep. Knowing you have adequate time to enjoy a holiday should increase its value instead of water it down . I know
I probably wonât get much support for it and I am bias because it would directly benefit me but I thought what the heck Iâd throw it out there just to see I anticipated some not liking the idea and even referring to it as stupid like you did. However maybe a few will like it and make that positive change either way thank you for your contribution to the discussion
First of all, learn to use paragraph breaks.
Yet you made no mention of this in your core proposal.
The entirety of your proposal centered around the corporate elements.
Move all federal holidays to the nearest Friday. You made no mention of any exceptions, and everything about your proposal focused on what you would get out of it. The closest you come to even hinting at âreflectingâ involves âa more enjoyable observanceâ which in the context of the rest of your proposal can easily be presumed to mean "itâs more enjoyable because I get a 3-day weekend.
Now that youâve already compromised your original proposal, you have to pick and choose why each and every federal holiday has to be moved from its traditional celebrated date. If youâre willing to keep Independence Day on July 4th no matter the day of the week, how do you then justify âWeâll just celebrate Christmas whenever because I want a 3-day weekâ?
Could you possibly come up with a more wishy-washy way of trying to justify an argument that is clearly you BSing out nonsense without anything to genuinely support it?
First, youâre not addressing âWhat if December 25th falls on a Monday?â
Second, your example emphasizes the problem of âChristmas as a shopping holidayâ because your attempt as âitâll mean moreâ is âweâll have more time to watch people use the stuff we bought themâ.
Halloween isnât an official Federal Holiday, nobody get Halloween off, so it doesnât matter what day of the week Halloween is celebrated.
All Iâve seen thus far is that you donât seem to get the meaning of any Holiday or what any Holiday means except maybe Independence Day, and even thatâs questionable since you just lumped it in with all the other holidays from the get-go.
All any Holiday seems to mean to you is âI get a free paid vacation dayâ.
So how exactly are you supposed to have a greater opportunity to âreflectâ and âobserveâ the meaning of those Holidays if you donât understand why they actually exist?
And how, exactly, are you supposed to argue for âa greater opportunity to observe and reflectâ against people who do actually understand the true meaning of the holidays who are care more about the actual meaning of the holidays and want those holidays to stay right where they are?
Kudos to you for being the most thorough keyboard warrior I have come across thus far . You see like you would be a blast at a party . If I had to spend holidays around you I would more than likely agree with your stance on not advocating for more time off .