Mayday Mayday...we have a problem
Wikipedia states:
"May Day is a name for various "holidays" celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May), ranging from pagan festivals to International Workers' Day, its most famous action.
International Workers' Day (a name used interchangably with May Day) is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect as of May 1, 1886. This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the "eight-hour workday"."
Note that the quotes enclosing the "holiday" and the "eight-hour" workday have been added by yours truly.
The word "mayday" as used in the title is a distress signal totally distinct from the so called holiday...and if i might add, is far more appropriate for me at the moment. The reason for my using this distress signal is the fact that i'm deeply distressed! Why? Because somehow i cannnot uunderstand why i'm sitting at the office(along with only 5 other poor souls, in a floor of seating capacity 70) on a day which the world declares to be a "holiday".
As for the 8 hour workday, it pains me when i realize that had the founder members of the "Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions"(or those actively involved in the riot) known that the only possibility of my getting off with an 8 hour workday would be if i came to office on a holiday or over my cold dead body, they would surely be tossing and turning in their graves...
The fact that i'm getting really frustrated should be evident by now from the fact that the sentences i start never seem to want to end...quite like my normal so called "eight-hour workdays"...
Anyway, i think i'll just stop writing now...Cheers to whosoever can find anything to be cheery about.
"May Day is a name for various "holidays" celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May), ranging from pagan festivals to International Workers' Day, its most famous action.
International Workers' Day (a name used interchangably with May Day) is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect as of May 1, 1886. This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the "eight-hour workday"."
Note that the quotes enclosing the "holiday" and the "eight-hour" workday have been added by yours truly.
The word "mayday" as used in the title is a distress signal totally distinct from the so called holiday...and if i might add, is far more appropriate for me at the moment. The reason for my using this distress signal is the fact that i'm deeply distressed! Why? Because somehow i cannnot uunderstand why i'm sitting at the office(along with only 5 other poor souls, in a floor of seating capacity 70) on a day which the world declares to be a "holiday".
As for the 8 hour workday, it pains me when i realize that had the founder members of the "Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions"(or those actively involved in the riot) known that the only possibility of my getting off with an 8 hour workday would be if i came to office on a holiday or over my cold dead body, they would surely be tossing and turning in their graves...
The fact that i'm getting really frustrated should be evident by now from the fact that the sentences i start never seem to want to end...quite like my normal so called "eight-hour workdays"...
Anyway, i think i'll just stop writing now...Cheers to whosoever can find anything to be cheery about.
posted by Comfortably Dumb at 12:03 PM
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