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I’m Protesting Leap Day
Posted by Simple Dude | Posted in Holidays | Posted on 29-02-2012
We have an obsession with creating things that happen every four years. Here in the U.S. we elect a new President every four years – though most politicians all seem to be the same jackass to me.
Every four years we have the Winter and Summer Olympics as well as the World Cup of Soccer (Football for you foreign types). And the four year thing even hits close to home… one of my friends seems to only get laid about once every four years. It’s like a Leap Day miracle. That poor bastard.
Speaking of Leap Day, it’s the most bizarre of all the once-in-four-year occurrences because it’s just a random day added at the end of February. You know, statistically speaking only 1 in 1,460 people can say they have a Leap Birthday.
(Which one of you geeks just pulled out a calculator to check that math?)
Leap Day is an extreme version of Daylight Savings Time when you turn the clocks back and “gain” an hour. People jokingly ask me what I’m going to do with the extra hour. Well, since it happens at 2am I usually just sleep through it… you dumbass.
The same can be said about Leap Day – what are you going to do with it? Well, since IT happens today (on a Wednesday) I am going to work. Which sucks. Like many folks I’m paid on a salary basis. Whether I work 6 hours a day or 10 hours a day, 3 days a week or 7 days a week when I get my pay checks the dollar amount is the same every single time.
Then along comes this Wednesday Leap Day bullshit, adding an extra day of work into my pay period without changing my pay.
The Corporate world must LOVE this. They get an extra day of productivity, an extra day of sales, an extra day of billing. And don’t have to pay that extra day of salary.
Like Leap Day should be any different?
Well I am giving the big fat middle finger to Leap Day. I am vowing to do little or NO work at all today. I’ll surf the internet, read a few magazines, steal some office supplies.
Those who know me may say it sounds like a typical work day for me. Ha, very funny. But I’m seriously refusing to do any true productive work.
Who is with me on this? Salaried people UNITE! Today we protest!
SD
I’m with you 110% Aside from being able to easily budget since the dollar amount never changes, being on salary sucks!
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@8:27 am
Ha ha ha! I love it!
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@8:53 am
Not only will I protest, but I’m doing it out of town in a hotel room! Here’s to tourism!!!
Brandon recently posted: Happy Leap Year, 5-year-olds!
Posted on: Feb/29/2012@9:09 am
I have to say that I think I will do the opposite, but I doubt it will actually happen.
My boss is under the impression my job takes 40+ hours a week, and the way he wants me to do it that is the case. However my highly effective skills result in my actual work only taking about 8-10 hours of work a week. So I spend most of my time surfing the internet, working on my various online stores, and “looking” busy.
So today since I actually have work to do, I will attempt to spend the day actually working, but I probably will be done in 3 hours and spend the rest of the day surfing the power of the interwebz!
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@9:17 am
I’m totally protesting today too! ok, maybe only half protesting, I have actual work to do, but I’ll grump about it as I go along!.
Here’s a fun link about leap year stuff and the reasons behind it.
More than you ever wanted to know about Leap Year
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@10:35 am
Being on salary sucks for that very reason. Put your feet up on your desk, take a snooze, and flip anybody the bird who dares to complain.
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@11:09 am
Count me in. I am SOOO with you on this.
, Susan Cooper
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@11:32 am
Preach it! My team lead in the office has been doing juuuuust enough work to avoid getting fired for the last 6 months. I think I will now adopt the same policy…let’s see who gets fired first.
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@12:23 pm
That is a great idea SD! And a good point–your paycheck doesn’t change, why should your productivity? I call BS too!
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@1:06 pm
Yea, I’m not doing much today either. Trying to catch up on all my blog reading. oh…yay! In other news, the only reason I even remember the whole leap year thing now is that election jazz. gawd.
Posted on: Feb/29/2012@1:19 pm
I hate leap day because I get paid on the 1st and 15th, and I really needed money today! Also I used a someecard to propose to my boyfriend (per Leap Day laws) and he said “maybe next leap year”
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@2:32 pm
I’ve already mowed the lawn and dug a hole…wish I would have read this earlier.
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@3:23 pm
I protest the fact I didn’t hear/think of this before I did my eight hours.
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@3:53 pm
Ok I read that sign and thought it said I’m not doing a shit today and that cracked me up thinking a person can controll when they shit……….then reread it and realised it said not doing shit no a in there……………..
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@4:59 pm
A-friggin’-Men!
I’m not super excited about giving one up for “the man” and given the 7 days in a week, every 4 year thing, it’s like 20 years before it appears on the weekend. How about a national holiday that my company can ignore?
WG
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@5:10 pm
Haha I love it.
But then I’d realize how easy it is to get away with and want every day to be Leap Day.
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Posted on: Feb/29/2012@7:00 pm
Holy shit, I just read your post and realize I must be connected with you mentally on some level (I’ll pray for your soul) because I basically did jackcrap at work today AND I left early. In my defense, I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night (damn insomnia) and was basically a zombie at work (minus the whole brain eating thing), so I got the hell outta there.
Posted on: Feb/29/2012@8:37 pm
Yea! for hourly wages….
Posted on: Mar/1/2012@12:23 am
SO agree! Actually, I took a sick day yesterday, so I can’t complain.
Did you notice that leap year and election year (and the summer olympics) are all the same year? Maybe that’s what some people are doing with their extra day – voting and arranging sporting events.
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Posted on: Mar/1/2012@12:05 pm
I stayed in bed almost all day on Wednesday
Only got out of bed for cake.
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Posted on: Mar/2/2012@7:15 pm
I mean Tuesday :/
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