All of the holiday cripple crap of parties and gifting and running around, it doesn't feel like a holiday to me. I get One day off for this mess. They just don't feel the same if you aren't in school gettting a month off to fool around, go somewhere warm, sleep in, see friends. We're resigned to the holiday party, it's not like the partiess of yore when you worked at that hipster restaurant, these are the parties where you get to see your coworkers drunk, especially the ones you'd rather not see drunk: the x-baseball player that talks about his career and how he coulda gone pro, the divorcees pawing at each other in their rasped voices while taking another pathetic drag...so, I didn't go this year. What am I most looking forward to this year? Christmas with my lady's family, Peruvians do it right, and New Years at my buddy Chicken's. We have decorating to do, he's a designer and I have a good eye so I think something cool should come of it. Maybe I'll post some pictures. Haven't done that in a while. I think I'll do that now.
anabel:
i don't know why you think the MTA employees have some of the best benefits around -- it's simply not the case, and if you were working for the MTA in your town you wouldn't be making $47-$50K -- you'd make about $30K to pick up trash and scrub public restrooms and drive a bus for 8 hours a day with MAYBE a few bathroom breaks and 20 min. to eat lunch. It's not fun and it's not glamorous, and once there is no union to protect public workers then what is going to happen to the private sector? and erosion of rights trickles down...and it will only get worse and worse. i blame the government and i think all the new yorkers that have to suffer because of this strike are worth more, but i don't disagree with it.