• @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    2212 days ago

    This year was the first year I worked in an office that didn’t recognize Juneteenth. Someone still found a way to complain about people expecting Juneteenth off work and blamed Zoomers for it becoming the norm like it’s a bad thing

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1612 days ago

      Gosh dang zoomers expecting nationally recognized holidays off, like this is the 20th century or something. Next they’re going to expect clean water, and acceptable working conditions.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      211 days ago

      My current company is the first one that does recognize Juneteenth as a holiday, so I assume I have a much longer work history than you.

      I’m still not used to it existing so it totally slipped my mind and I would have accidentally come in to work, except one of the overseas guys pointed it out

      • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        211 days ago

        I’ve been working for 20+ years and I’d never heard of it until a couple years ago. I don’t have a problem with it, celebrating stuff is cool, but it does seem to have come out of nowhere when it became a political issue. Maybe it was a regional thing before that.

          • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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            110 days ago

            Yeah that was when I first heard of it. I researched it at the time and saw that it has been around for a long time but I had never heard of it before that and I’d consider myself to be pretty well read on history in general. Obviously enough people were aware of it to push for a holiday so maybe it’s just the part of the country I’m from it wasn’t celebrated much idk.