Many of us on here haven't held down a standard job in years, if not decades. I've pretty much forgotten what it is like to get paid for not working. The last time I received a paycheck that included time not worked for a holiday was no more recent than February 1987. That's assuming we had President's Day off that year.
Beat 27 years and eight months.
I can't top you digger but I'm over twenty years.
I resigned my engineering job with the USDA SCS in Salina, Kansas in the summer of 1993 (I wasn't suited for the the BS of being a FED). No paid holidays since then. Thinking back, in reality almost every day at that job was a paid holiday but you did need to show up and put up with the interoffice politics and bickering. Money wise I'd probably be better off if I'd stayed with it to retirement. I would have needed to keep myself from going postal everyday for twenty five years though. So it was probably a choice between life or death.
How about this:
I've never collected any unemployment insurance in my life. But I've been unemployed or mostly unself employed quite a few times.
29 years 4 months (and counting)
2.5 weeks ago. Next planned paid holiday is 3 weeks over Christmas break.
Oh, I also get leave loading. 17.5%
Being your own boss has it's perks, but being in the trenches has some too.
37 years 6 months
Every day surveying is a paid holiday.
> I've pretty much forgotten what it is like to get paid for not working.
I wonder what percentage of employees actually get paid for holidays. For an hourly employee, if the paycheck includes hours during which the employee wasn't at work on a holiday, then I'd say that qualifies. For salaried employees, getting an "extra" day off without a reduction in salary is just part of the annual compensation cost rather than "getting paid not to work."
We self-employed types get as much "paid vacation" as we care to take, as long as the demand for our time exceeds the vacation time. Again, it's just part of our compensation. (If there's no demand for our time, then time spent away from work can't be considered paid.)
> I've pretty much forgotten what it is like to get paid for not working.
Hey, when you enjoy what you do as much as I do in Texas, at least every other day is a (well) paid holiday. I can see how Kansas would tend to be a bummer, though. :> Oklahoma is at least material for a good novel and I don't care what anyone says to the contrary.
Holiday?
I've heard about those. Gettin' paid for one? Sheesh, what next, food stamps? 🙂
-JD-
Holiday?
I resemble that remark.
The last one I got was Labor Day. I combined it with other paid leaves into the first two weeks of September. Paid leave is part of my compensation for working here. Believe me, it's required to keep us gu'mint employees sane.
Wait a minute, now
Oxymoron alert!!!!!!!!!!!
You simply cannot use the terms "government employee" and "sane" in the same sentence.
Wait a minute, now
That's true.
It takes a certain amount of insanity to work for DUH MAN!
I'm not sure withdrawing $50 operational funds and taking an early quit counts as paid vacation.