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Labor Day
Hope everyone is enjoying Labor Day, whether you're in the USA or not.
Weather is beautiful here in Buffalo NY today, which is a nice surprise considering we've had one of the cooler and more rainy summers in recent memory. I'm at the office all day anyways. We did have pizza for lunch for the CC team though (at least the ones unlucky enough to get stuck at the office working on Labor Day).
If you celebrate it how did you spend your day?
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Why do Americans have a different date for the same thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day
Netflix on one monitor, LET/reddit on my other monitor and eating some nerds. Pretty nice day, I can't complain.
@serverian Well, it's funny because Worker's Day is 1st of May in most of countries because of the Haymarket affair that occured the first week of May 1886.
"After the Haymarket Massacre, which occurred in Chicago on May 4, 1886, U.S. President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus, in 1887, it was established as an official holiday in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
I slept for a total of 6 hours! That's huge for me and it happens only a few times every year
I thought this post was about labor day promotion.
Why "May Day" is a distress call?
I think it is from a FRench word.
BTW, I spent it working :P
It comes from the French phrase "venez m'aider" which means, "come help me." Apparently...
PrivateInternetAccess is having a promotion for Labor day, got one of those deals. :P
Enjoyed my day off, in weeks, where I have no college and no work on the same day, having a cookout with my family.
Post some picture of niagara falls
Why are there no colocrossing specials?
It's been years since we've run discounts.
But you can get a deal from our Hudson Valley Host division I'm sure. Ernie is always ready to make a deal.
@jbiloh better than Delimiter or go away
The question is actually why do Europeans/Asians have a different day? September Labor Day was first and you people decided it wasn't good enough for you :-)
There were a variety of proposed days in the US for a "labor day" and the US ultimately decided on September in the 1800s. Later, after the 1886 Haymarket event, socialists/communists instituted an "International Workers' Day" as May 1 because Haymarket was in May. The timing is pretty close but I believe September was actually first...and regardless, long seeded into American practice before May 1 became popular in Europe/Asia.
Following the Russian revolution, etc. the thought that the US would change its day to a Communist-desired choice of days is...not going to happen.
Labor Day is actually a better name. "International Workers' Day" practically screams "workers of the world, unite!" Communist silliness.
In the US, no one cares about "celebrating the union movement on Labor Day" or anything like that. Literally no one - it's just a day off or a day when stores have sales, and kids mope around because school starts the next day.