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Happy Juneteenth! As the courts are closed are most firms closed today as well?
Typical “holiday for staff, workday for attorneys” day for us.
Our firm is nominally closed. I must admit, i have been surprised in that I have been contacted quite a bit more today by clients rather than other attorneys. I very much thought it would be the opposite.
Our firm is open but it’s a floating holiday. This year we’re doing a special lunch and had some decorations like any other holiday.
Ummmm… what decorations.
There are plenty of answers to be found if you only go forth and fucking google it.
None of the Google ones can be real. If anyone uses those they will get sued. Is that what your firm uses?
What in tarnation is a “floating holiday”? Sounds like a regular work day with decorations and an awkward lunch.
Some firms give “floating holidays” that you can use at your discretion for holidays when the entire office isn’t closed, such as MLKJ day, President’s Day, Nevada Day and the like. As opposed to Christmas, Independence Day etc. where the office is closed and everyone not madly prepping for trial or shagging their staff stays home.
11:24 here. How does one decorate
“Tarnation” is an unfortunate idiom for this day, Jim.
If you allude to slavery, you would be wrong.
The root of “tarnation” is “darnation,” a euphemistic modification of the word “damnation,” which at that time was considered unfit for polite conversation. “Darnation” became “tarnation” by being associated in popular speech with “tarnal,” an aphetic, or clipped, form of “eternal.”
Thanks ChatGPT
why?
My last firm employed the ‘floating holiday’ with frequency as a fake nod to worker wellness. Honestly i would rather have just not even existed. It caused confusion because on the floating holiday we did not really know who would not be present. And for said person on said floating holiday, they came back to being bombarded with work because 80%-90% of the firm was in office. So it was not relaxing to the floating holiday taker and inconvenient to the people not floating.
It sounds like a terrible idea, like something that exists to make the bosses feel gracious, when, in fact, they are not.
Let me give you a different perspective…. Veterans Day or day after Thanksgiving– pick your November holiday. Most people choose day after Thanksgiving. However we had a veteran who wanted to take 11/11. Fine.
Our firm gives all three days off because we aren’t giant dicks. You get your billing quotas in at the beginning of the year and then get to enjoy that nice run of holidays between Nevada Day and MLK Jr Day.
Good for you. Unfortunately for many of us litigators the courts jam hearings and trials into November because people are not available in December so closing a firm for 3 days in less than 20 days is not a luxury many firms can do. It is not about billing quotas; its about when the work needs to be done.
That “New to Las Vegas” site needs to be stopped. That is not a news site, and it reads like belligerent ramblings of a conspiracy theorist filled to the brim with school-yard taunts, which is obnoxious and grating to read.
I clicked to read the article about the parking lot hit and run and my eyes immediately glazed over.