Anyone else laboring on Labor Day?

[prolesunited]

Or is it just me?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. My building's maintenance guy was here this morning....

I was off.

Sorry about that. I hope that you are getting extra holiday pay.

:hi:

[prolesunited]

8. Yeah, time and a half

and a day off later of my chosing, which is good because I was scheduled to work the day of a dinner party, not that I'm really sure I'm up for that anyway.

[Rosemary2205]

2. I spent the weekend screaming and bitching.

And coming to the realization that I deserve better and it's time to chop off a casual friendship. Some things just aren't worth the shit.

Whole damn holiday weekend shot to hell. All the hot plans I had and all I did was stay up half the night and cry because I've had enough of being sucked dry.

Stupid bitch from hell can just kiss my grits from now on.

[FreedRadical]

4. Nice!

:yoiks:

[prolesunited]

9. Wow, I would rather be working

One lesson I'm learning is that you can beat your head against a wall and it won't change another person one iota. They're skipping along their merry way and you're left with a bloody head.

Let it go. All you can control is your behavior and response. (Not that I'm always successful.)

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Depends on what you consider labor.

I did not get paid for:

grocery shopping
mowing the yard
ironing my husband's shirt for his trip (flight left at 7:40)
feeding my children
printing New Member Kits for my church
researching whether or not FrontPage 2003 is compatible with MS Vista (still can't figure it out)
two loads of laundry
cleaning two bathrooms

It's my guess this will not be one of the top ten most memorable Labor Days. ;)

On the other hand, my ministerial colleague delivered one hell of a sermon about the Labor movement yesterday. It gave me a lot to think about today while I did the above.

[prolesunited]

14. I did a bunch of stuff I didn't get paid for today

Now I'm at work.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. My situation gets fuzzy.

I am a self-employed contractor. Some of the stuff I do eventually gets remunerated, but some doesn't. It's hard to tell what is volunteer and what is paid labor. All a labor of love at any rate.

Whatever, I am a huge fan of organized labor and recognize the huge debt I owe to the brave men, women and children who went on strike so my family could have "quality time."

[BarenakedLady]

5. For once I was productive

5 loads of laundry (including a full queen bed sheets, blanket, comforter)
Dishwasher unloaded and reloaded
Kitchen and family room cleaned
Gigantor zucchini cut up and frozen
Main floor vaccumed and mopped
Basement vaccumed
Litter boxes scrubbed and refilled
Cement flooring in unfinished 1/2 of basement swept and mopped


I'm still waiting for my pay.

[SPKrazy]

6. I did

had to do it!

hospitals don't close

:shrug:

[tigereye]

7. I made a work phone call

but mostly it was mom stuff- mopping, cooking, getting kid's stuff ready for school, laundry, that kind of thing.


Hey Proles!

:hi:

[prolesunited]

16. Why do we always get that stuck with that stuff?

I think I want a wife.

[tigereye]

20. wel, my husband does cook, and he cleans the kitchen each night

kid also has been mowing the lawn...

and husband also does most of his own laundry since I refuse to mix lights and darks....


;)

[Piltdown13]

10. Oh, yeah

I seem to have an uncanny knack of getting myself hooked up with universities that don't take Labor Day off, at least for the faculty and students. At my graduate institution, all offices were closed, but we still had to hold class; at the uni I teach at now, there seems to be somewhat more than just class going on (food services, etc.). So, today I taught three classes and cleared the decks for tomorrow to be spent entirely on research (yay!).

[prolesunited]

15. How was your attendance?

I imagine some students were resentful.

[Piltdown13]

18. Attendance was actually quite good

The students don't seem particularly resentful about it -- at least, not any more than my grad school colleagues and I were when we had to go to class on Labor Day. (In other words, we didn't like it, but we knew we'd better not miss, especially given how small graduate classes are! The really weird thing is that other schools in that state's uni system *did* take Labor Day off.)

I don't agree with holding class on Labor Day, but unfortunately, there's absolutely no wiggle room in the fall schedule -- we already have two/three fewer instructional days in the fall than in the spring semester, even as it is. And I suspect that the alternative would be even less palatable to many -- for instance, when I was an undergrad (at a third school), we didn't even start the fall semester until the Tuesday after Labor Day...but final exams didn't end until December 23!

[LuckyTheDog]

11. I put in a half day (nt)

[deepthought42]

12. Went to class...

And I'm actually going to do some homework! *gasp*

[Left Is Write]

13. I worked this morning.

But the real labor came later when I came home and did laundry and started rearranging the kitchen cupboards.

[riderinthestorm]

19. Yes, farmer here so every day is a work day.

I have a great staff but I tend to give everyone the holidays off and work them myself which scores me enough points with the staff that I get to take any other day off that I want. :D Since working at the barn/farm isn't a real problem for me on a beautiful summer dya, it's a win/win all around.