No difference around these parts, which really shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Our janitorial staff isn’t here today, therefore the break areas are stys (because my co-workers are pigs) and we are running low on toilet paper. I expect the office will smell vile tomorrow, since I doubt the trash will be dumped tonight. We expect the march to pass our office around 6, and they expect 100,000 people to show up, so I want to be out of here before then. It was a quiet drive in this morning, almost like holiday-level traffic.
The independent burger places which I like are all closed. However, In N Out and the other chains are open, so I didn’t go hungry.
Approximately 50% of my employees were absent today.
50% of your employees are illegal, or just immigrants?
I went to my local Muchas Gracias, and to my shock and horror they were shut down. In my mind I was shouting a silent “NOOOOO!” like Darth Vader in Star War episode III when I realized that there would be no dollar burritos for me today. :eek:
No discernible difference here, but we’re all federal employees, too.
The only effect I noticed was that the small Mexican cafe on the corner was closed, and all the workers at Carl’s Jr. were white, middle-aged men.
Apparently, the gardening staff around here didn’t get the memo. The guy with the leafblower woke me up at 8:30 a.m., right on schedule. DAMMIT! For once, I was planning to sleep in!!
NW (Morris County) NJ here. A notable lack of landscaping trucks about. This could be a coincidence, but it was the first thing I thought of when this protest was mentioned.
VCNJ~
Traffic was fan-TASTic today. Got to work in half the time.
The two guys working on my bathroom for my contractor didn’t show up, but we knew ahead of time, and they had put in a 12-hour day on Saturday in preparation for it. The mexican market across the street from where I wash my dog was closed, as were some of the other smaller stores on that block.
That’s it. I really think this didn’t have the impact they were hoping for, and certainly not on the people they hoped it would.
Nothing impacted me today that I couldn’t live without for a day. Now, if it were for a week, I’d really be feeling it, but they’d be feeling it even worse. I’m not too worried.
Our receptionist took the day off. I think most of the workers on the bottling line would have taken the day off, but the bottling line doesn’t run on Mondays anyway. I’m sure some vineyard workers took the day off, but it’s not crush, so that’s not really a big deal.
The Hispanic grocery store and taqueria across the street from my house are closed, as are the ones up and down the cross street of our house. No taqueria trucks came by the office. Since I’ve been home, I haven’t seen or heard one ice cream man (not a push cart, not a bicycle cart, not even a truck), tamale man, snow cone man, corn on a stick man, chicharrones man, strawberry man, or orange man.
It’s a slow day in the ghetto. But I think I’ll live. Overall it hasn’t affected me a bit.
Traffic on 101 wasn’t much slower coming home than it usually is, even though many of our downtown streets are closed or blocked off.
Here’s a picture of just part of the group that marched in downtown Santa Rosa today.
NYC here–didn’t notice much besides only one construction worker showing up here in our building; there’s usually 2 or 3 mostly from Haiti, but they come and go, and the American guy was missing too. 
Didn’t notice any rallys or anything on the East Side and the Latino guy who delivers from Kosher Deluxe was right there as usual. 
The UN was totally placid. I think the rallies were around Union Square, a place that’s been home to the up-on-the-soapbox crowd that the Gershwins wrote a song about it for a musical in 1933.
Did notice lots of folks coming home on the subway carrying l’il American flags, though.
Very, very quiet in Oakland today. Few people walking around even for such a sunny day. The bus ride was nice- no standing. I was afraid for a while that maybe we’d get a little to comfortable with this.
Then lunchtime came and everyone in my office freaked out because no restaurants were open.Then ended up getting salads from one that was limping along without their kitchen staff. I planned ahead (and nominally participated) by bringing my own frozen entee to work, so I just watched in amusment as they were at a loss as to what they were going to do. I promise they all learned a little bit about who cooks the food they eat at those business lunches.
My BF said the port was running, but not at full capacity. A lot of workers participated in marches in the morning and returned in the afternoon. A quiet day all around.
Just the huge throng of people marching down Broadway right outside my office. But by the time I left for the night it was over so it had no effect. Was really loud though.
I’m not even supposed to be here today!
Nope. Ate breakfast at McDonalds. Went shopping at Walmart. Found a beautiful black and white sateen skirt at Kohls. Bought it on sale and got the white sweater that goes with it. Ok, so maybe I did do a little more shopping than usual. But besides that, nothing was different.
Some construction here was slowed down
Other than that i am aggravatied, if you don’t like it here go home!
I don’t want a spanish national anthem either it is AMERICA(c/o Condoleza Rice).
To get in I think you should have to be able to sing the whole song in perfect english
and get legal before you can even get a job much less protest.
I didn’t see any difference at all, and today (unusually for me) I even went out and did some shopping. Heck, I even bought lunch at a fast food Mexican type restaraunt, staffed by honest-to-goodness Latinos. Guess they were legal.
Now that I think of it, I did a LOT of errand running today. Wow.
I wouldn’t even be aware of it, if it wasn’t on the news. [Yawn]
The pick-up spot for day laborers seemed less full-to-bursting, and my SO had no problem at all getting a job yesterday. He was against the whole idea anyway, instead choosing to go to a church vigil after work last night.
Smeghead, I don’t think it was just illegals protesting because my SO’s boss shut down business for the day in protest and he has been legal for years.