Friday

**Budd** · November 27th, 2002, 12:26 PM

we're open, but only for a few hours, i'm in from 2 to 4. we're closed on weekends and bosses don't want to go 4 days without support. we'll come in, check the answering machine and watch football for a few hours and go home. there will only be a few of us and as i had last year off so i have to work this year. hopefully it won't interfer with my yearly day after Thanksgiving football game.

**Carlitos_Way** · November 27th, 2002, 01:04 PM

I work at a financial institution so by law we are required to be open on friday. I put in for a vacation day and was gonna use up vacation hours, come to find out I had a floating holiday so I get to use that instead of my hours...pretty pumped...and I'm off at 2 today. *cheese*

**Wayward Clam** · November 27th, 2002, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by Tacklebox
What is Boxing Day anyway??

Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, traditionally named that because it is the day on which everybody is "boxing" up all of their ornaments and junk.

It used to be traditional for everybody to have Boxing Day off up here, but the tradition has instead evolved into the Boxing Day Sale, in which retailers desperately scramble to unload everything on their shelves that they ordered too much of and couldn't sell at full retail before Christmas. So if you work in a store, you pretty much have to work Boxing Day, otherwise, you are pretty much sure of it off.

Big store Boxing Day sales are actually pretty good. I got a Far Side day by day calendar at one for $2.97 Cdn.

**drewmaztech** · November 27th, 2002, 01:56 PM

I work in the Financials too, so it's a normal day for us here on Friday. It is a dress-down day though! About 1/2 the staff have taken it as a vacation day so it'll just be a few of us hanging around, eating anything and everything in sight.

Of course, the big bosses have "business obligations" elsewhere on that day which happen to be nearby wherever their families are...