Re: Batch of Mirepoix

On 2025-02-19, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-02-19 10:15 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-19, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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When I was a kid, we got Good Friday off and no bones about it.  At
some later point, someone said, "What about the Jews?" and they
stopped calling it that.
 
Like Boxing Day, Easter Monday is not much of a thing.  Wikipedia
tells me it's observed in some cities in Michigan, but I've never
seen it.  Perhaps in old Hamtramck, when it was majority Polish.
 
Except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, most holidays are seen as
prime retailing opportunities.  Banks and the government are closed,
but pretty much everything else is open.

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I don't really see much the point of paid holidays if they are just
going to be retail sale events.  Banks, major businesses and government
offices shut down for the day and everyone goes out shopping, so the
lowest paid sector of the economy end up having to go to work. Nuts to
that. If it is a statutory holiday everyone should have the day off.

You forget that the only real religion in the U.S. is money.  We
don't actually have statutory holidays.  You can get a Chinese
restaurant meal on Christmas.

People with good jobs get paid holidays.  People with crappy jobs
don't.  They also don't get paid sick days or vacation.

Ah, here you go:

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require payment for time
not worked, such as vacations or holidays (federal or otherwise). These
benefits are generally a matter of agreement between an employer and an
employee (or the employee's representative).
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/holiday

We observed Family Day on Monday. That is a relatively new holiday and I
was surprised to see that just about everything was closed including
grocery stores. Even my local corner coffee shop was closed.
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If I ran the world we would be back to the Blue Law Days when everything
was closed on Sunday. No one makes any more money because stores are
open one more day. Sunday used to be a common day off when  friends and
family could get together.

I wouldn't.  "Sunday" implies "Christianity".  Can Jews take Saturday
instead?  Can Muslims have Friday?  Can pagans have the Esbats?

Do you want hospitals closed on Sundays?  Police?  Fire?

You won't get any support from me for getting together with friends
and family.  I see the only person who matters all the time.

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For a number of years there was a flower shipping business next to us.
There were two Dutch families and being some variation of Dutch Reform
we never saw them outside on Sundays. I almost felt guilty mowing the
lawn on Sundays.  I was really surprised to see them working on Good
Friday. Easter weekend is a busy time for flower sales. I had thought
that Good Friday was the holiest of Christian holidays. It seemed really
strange they would be so strict about working in Sunday but that they
would be labouring on the day their lord was crucified.

Good Friday is pretty High Church.

--
Cindy Hamilton