The problem isn’t that we have too many holidays, it’s that the holidays we’re adding shouldn’t exist at all. A national holiday should represent the United States of America, not pander to a specific racial or ethnic demographic. We don’t need “Juneteenth” just as we don’t need “MLK Day”.

A national holiday should represent the United States of America, not pander to a specific racial or ethnic demographic.

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And other than George Washington, holidays should never honor politicians. Maybe Founders Day instead of Presidents day.

**Well your opinion is crap. Given that I have a toxic CEO who never gives out raises higher than 2% and mostly just lays people off I’m far too productive.
The job is to pay for life, not the other way around.**

1) You can always quit.
2) You can choose to be poor and still get by.

Hurt my feelins’.

I could quit but why bother. That’s how corporate America works now. If you wind up someplace that’s actually different and treats their employees like human beings, they’ll probably get bought and you’re right back in the grinder.

Ironically it was being bought by this company that gave me this attitude. I really wasn’t much of a vacation kind of guy. I had maxed out my vacation accrual and was only taking time off largely by force. Then we got bought by a company whose vacation policy was “use it”, there was no or. No accrual, no carryover, no buy outs, use it. In order to burn off my accrual AND what I got I wound up taking off 1 week every month for a year.

And in that year 2 big things happened:
1 - I learned I really liked my life outside work, I had books and movies and music and a pool and a bike trail and I could have a lot of fun not going to work
2 - I became very separated from work, I really had no idea what was going on a lot of the time, and that was cool

By the end of that my job was just a job. I don’t hate it. Sometimes I even really enjoy it. But it’s just a job. It is not who I am, it is not my life purpose, and when I retire (hopefully in a couple years) I will not miss the concept of job at all.

If you wanted to make a point about Juneteenth, I would go with this ... yes it’s important to remember an occasion where blacks were targetted for violence, but in the present social context, it’s much more likely to be whites targetted by blacks and we don’t have a “juneteenth” occasion where this can be placed on the national agenda. So perhaps juneteenth could morph into a call for an end to all forms of inter-racial violence. And nobody is innocent in this.