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A day ON, not a day OFF |
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A day ON, not a day OFF |
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01/17/2006 |
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I don't have many outlets to write this kind of stuff, so the vault seemed as good a place as any to post this:
Yesterday was Martin Luther King day, a federal holiday here in the US. Commemorating this, Kamini Cormier, a higher-up in the ATS hierarchy, sent all of the US branch of ATS an E-mail entitled, 'Celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday'. It was the usual long-winded corporate management e-mail, complete with appropriate jPegs and so on. The highlight of it was the following inspirational phrase:
"Together, they will honor King?s legacy of tolerance, peace, and equality by meeting community needs and making the holiday "A day ON, not a day OFF."?
Pretty motivational stuff, eh? What made it less 'inspirational' and more the 'funniest shit I've read in a while' was the fact that for the people he was writing to, it was literally, 'A day ON'. We all worked yesterday. In fact, I read the E-mail while sitting in a nearly deserted building with 5 other ACN employees, because the client and all of the other contractors were in fact making the holiday, "A day OFF, not a day ON"
MLK day is a minor holiday... I don't mind working it that much if I have to. But does management really need to poke fun at us about it? :)
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