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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by blakeyrat on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:58PM (#12474280)
How could you possibly have a work-free day? Who'd drive the bus taking voters to the polling place? Who'd be manning the emergency room at the local hospital, or driving the ambulances, or enforcing the law, or keeping the power plant running, or spotting for forest fires, or...

I love the concept of a "work-free day", but I'm guessing that something like 5-10% of the workforce is doing infrastructure stuff that needs, absolutely needs, to happen every day simply to keep society functioning.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by jessaustin on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:24PM (#12475124)
I love the concept of a "work-free day"...

I thought I loved this concept, then I worked in Wellington NZ for a few months, and discovered the only time I could possibly grocery shop was on my lunch break. (In fairness, this was over a decade ago, so things might have changed?)

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