How noticeable were the effects of the “Day Without” protests in your area? I encountered no evidence of either protest here (DFW - N Texas).
On the day without immigrants, our (all Hispanic) lawn crew came later than usual that week. I think that was more to do with rainstorms earlier than the protest, although I’m not sure.
On yesterday’s day without women, there was nothing apparent at all. The gals at the marina gas dock were there, I went to the (lady) doctor for a wasp sting and she was there, as were the nurses. My wife said there were no absences in her department and everyone showed up for a normal workday.
I’m wondering if these protests were more regional or concentrated in a few cities. To be quite honest, without news articles I wouldn’t have been aware of them.
I’m curious if they were more apparent in other Doper’s areas.
Absolutely nothing going on where I live and work. My female employees showed up for work and just laughed when I asked if they’d considered staying home.
After work I stopped for a couple of beers. The bartenders laughed when I mentioned being surprised to see them. My bringing it up did lead to some serious talk about how much we drinkers appreciate servers.
I texted my daughter, who is a nurse. She was at work. She never considered not working.
Immigrants (recent immigrants) are pretty much absent in the rural area where I live.
I went to the (female) doctor for a much awaited neurological test. She was running 20 minutes late, but I think that had more to do with traffic being a mess that morning. All of the staff I encountered there are female, though no idea if anyone was staying home.
My female colleagues were working their normal hours. The sandwich artist at the Subway was a guy. So no readily apparent differences for me here in the Cayman Islands.
After work I went home and chatted with Mrs Iggy who is back home in Colombia right now. She mentioned that they were celebrating El día de la Mujer (Women’s Day) but we didn’t really discuss if there were any protests or work stoppages. This is an annual unofficial holiday in Colombia which I had heard mention of in previous years.
One day isn’t going to save us, but I think the resistance needs all kinds of protests and statements pretty much constantly. I’m not convinced the “day without” idea is effective, but it’s worth a try.
I know a couple people who participated in one or the other but the impact level was zero. Even the blurbs on the evening news were short and easy to miss.
There’s renovations going on at my workplace, and none of the drywallers showed up on the Day Without Immigrants. It didn’t slow any of the work down. That happened because of late shipments.
All the women showed up to work yesterday, including myself. No red that I could see. I hate red and won’t wear it anyway.
I think march/rally protests are more effective since they lend themselves to dramatic photos and people are encouraged to see one another and feed off each other’s energy, etc. I don’t think that a bunch of people staying home for a day is particularly effective and any protests yesterday seemed less planned than the previous big one. My wife stayed home (full disclosure: she also had ‘use it or lose it’ vacation time to burn off) and didn’t comment on even possibly attending any event despite being at the Woman’s March in January.
One day boycotts are pretty pointless for the obvious reasons, be they “Day Without…” or stuff like the “Boycott buying gas on this date” attempts. And everyone doing it from their living rooms makes no visible impact.
Two out of three of our workers stayed home during the day without immigrants, we were pretty screwed that day. They are also women but they showed up for the day without women.
No difference in my life, I didn’t even know about it until I saw a post on here.
If I don’t work I don’t get paid, so I’m not taking a day off except when I absolutely have to. I like the company I work for and wouldn’t want leave them short handed.
I take a day off and I lose a day’s pay, and the company I work for potentially loses business because they wouldn’t have enough coverage if all the women took the day off.
So I lose, and my employer loses - for what?
So I can pat myself on the back and say I did something meaningful for women?
Did I stop a woman from being mutilated? Or beaten? Or have enough money to feed her kids?
If I really wanted to help, the best thing I could have done is worked extra time yesterday and donated my extra earning to woman’s organization.
Imagine if every woman who took the day off yesterday had gone to work and donated a day’s pay to a woman’s organization.
Interesting responses. My commute both morning and evening was much lighter yesterday. I noticed a lot of women wearing red. The biggest difference I noticed was when stopping at the grocery store after work, the shop that is normally very crowded on Wednesdays was practically empty.
I wonder if most women protested by not spending any money yesterday, rather than not working.
Well, I didn’t have to cook breakfast as middle son did that. I didn’t have to take the garbage out (middle son). I didn’t have to walk the dogs (youngest son). I didn’t have to do laundry (oldest son). And I didn’t have to cook dinner (hubby brought home chicken and the fixings). I didn’t have to do the dishes… but I did do them this morning (paper plates= hardly any).
Now, excuse me, I have to start preparing for Steak and a BJ Day (March 14th).
I didn’t notice anything at all. I went out to lunch and shopped for groceries and noticed no difference. Ladies of Walmart were all wearing their blue shirts same as usual. Then again this is suburban Tennessee. We wouldn’t miss anyone unless the had A Day Without Trump Supporters.
