>FWIW, US holiday provisions are miserly by international standards. Many nations have statutory holidays to cover festive season/national festivals plus at least four weeks of annual leave to be negotiated with employers.
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>I agree...and it seems that in the last 20 years it's grown worse.
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>I can remember when most employers gave both Thanksgiving day and the day after Thanksgiving as holidays. Now it's just Thanksgiving. Of course, most people just take Black Friday as a holiday.
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>Maybe we can have National PA Crew Day? ;)

Can we make it December 27th because I need more deer hunting time. Especially since the government is coming soon to take all guns away.