The Weekend That Wasn't

So, imagine you work for this company. It is a dodgy, family run thing. Now there are a couple holidays coming up, and this year they happen to fall on a Friday and the following Tuesday. Lots of people have booked the Monday off, so they are kind of clamping down. You need the money anyway. Now imagine that the week before said holiday they decide that they don't want to work the monday either, so they call a holiday. They then realize that they may lose some productivity, so now imagine they tell you that you now have to work the following saturday!!!

Shitty hey? Well NOW imagine that this dodgy family company you work for, isnt a company, but the fucking government!!! Yes, a week before the freakin government calls a holiday, and the whole bloody country has to work the following saturday!! There was not a flight left, leaving this island, even before the 'decree'. Hotels, buses, and trains were booked within the island. A lady I work with was supposed to get married yesterday. She had to change her wedding, honeymoon, everything!!!

To top it off, my evening job decided to ignore the 'decree'. I had to work last monday night, and this saturday!!! Win-Win!! I could just see them sitting in there office the week before..."Hey, we could have a 5 day weekend here....I really don't want to come in for that one day....Hey, let's call a holiday, the peeps will really love us then...Oh, but we will lose a day's worth of money...Ok, well, let's just make every one work next weekend, they don't have lives...Cool!!!!" You would think they were running a dodgy family business rather than a government.....oh, right, they are!!