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July 30, 2003
Picnic Day
Oh the dilemmas we face! Where I work we get a public holiday that is called Picnic Day. Used to involve most people going to a work sponsored picnic with the wife and kids. Essential staff required to keep things running were allowed to take a day off between Christmas and New Year instead.
Well times change. The company no longer puts on the picnic and the wives are just as likely to be working anyway. Effectively it is no different to any other long weekend and this means that most employees put themselves down as essential and then take the Christmas option.
So what is the problem? Well there is no guarantee that we will all have jobs at Christmas and it might be a case of a bird in the hand being worth more than the vague possibility of collecting a bird later in the year if you are still employed! What would you do?
Posted by Ozguru at July 30, 2003 08:07 PM
