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Working for Free on February 29th![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why you should take the day off. We enter into a contract with our employers to do a certain amount of work in return for a certain amount of pay. In Ireland the standard working week is 39 hours long, and anything over that is overtime. Of course, the bosses don't pay us for travelling to and from their premises (what do they think we are doing - sightseeing?) and if they can get away with it they won't pay us for lunch or breaks, so we end up spending a lot more of our waking lives with them and the crew they have picked to make money for them, than we do with our family or friends. It's a shitty system, and we get our own back by stealing as much stationary and office equipment as we can cram into our pockets and the boots of our cars, and calling in sick as regularly as we can get away with. |
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Jump To Comment: 1humourous, but not news, it's opinion.
plus, it ignores the fact that depending on whether the year starts on a weekend or not, you will have up to extra /less working days from one year to the next regardless of whether it's a leap year... nobody's jumping up and down about that...