It’s Remembrance Day here, and I work it just like any other holiday. People seem to expect 9-1-1 to answer their calls 24/7/365.
I realize now that state and local governments can dictate when the holiday is observed. I should have said that in Massachusetts, Veteran’s Day is always observed on a Monday (in my experience, having lived here for 30 years).
Everyone I know who doesn’t work for the government at some level (which is almost everyone I know) had to work today. It may be a Federal Holiday, but it’s always been a work day for us civilians.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of Veteran’s Day being moved.
Not only do I have to work Vetran’s day, I also work Memorial day, 4th of July, and Labor day. Retail sucks.
While I was off work this Veteran’s Day, someone sent me a link to this memorial. I’m impressed. This is what stonehenge wants to be when it grows up.
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day when I was growing up in New Zealand) is not a public holiday in Australia (we have Anzac Day, which is sort of a public holiday) so I, like most other people, was at work.
The day has a bit of an identity crisis here because, to the average punter, it’s about commemorating the same stuff as Anzac Day, but you don’t get a (half-) day off.
There is some concern Anzac Day is becoming a bit too mythologised, so it’s possible Remembrance Day will become more popular in due course as a chance for people to pay their repsects without all the flag-waving and overt declarations of “Strayaness” which some perceive as being increasingly part of Anzac Day.
Yes, I had to work. But I work for a public school district. Which was very much open.
ETA: I have never had a job that gave me Veteran’s day off, nor can I ever remember anything being closed on Veteran’s day other than banks, courthouses, and mail delivery.
Stopped at a bar after work where first beer was free to veterans. I’m not a veteran, but a few of my drinking buddies are, so I bought a few guys their second.
Strayaness?
Odd bar moment. A twenty something heard a guy talking about the army. Kid asked veteran if he was in Afghanistan. Veteran replied no, Korea. Kid was flabbergasted, thinking he missed breaking news that we are at war with Korea.
They could at least let us Vets off.
In Strine - the very broad Australian accent typically associated with working class bogans (uncultured yobs, not entirely dissimiler to rednecks in the US and chavs in the UK) - “Australia” is stereotypically sounds something like “Osstraya” and is further shorted to “Straya”. Hence, “Strayaness” is “Australianess” in Bogan.
The English language is a complicated thing at the best of times and Australian English is doubly so, I’m afraid…
It’s the first option for me. What happened to the holiday? 