There are some nice benefits to working for the government (Drew) or an educational institution (me).  You get most statuatory holidays off.  When I first started working out of college I loved working on stat holidays to gain the 2.5x pay amount for hours worked.  If you met all the prerequisites for stat pay and managed to please the gods and get scheduled off took the day off you’d be paid as if you’d gone to work that day.  But if you bowed down to the world of slave labour then working a stat holiday could result in a fancy night out to dinner or a new item for the home.  After a few years I was promoted to a management position with salary instead of hourly wages.  Gone were the days of working stats for extra money.  Instead we got stats off.  If we worked them we were entitled to days in lieu.  Since I worked for an American company with a different series of stats than Canada, we often worked our stats and used our days in lieu on US stats because the company was shut down on those days.  While the not so new job is salary it is a Canadian company and I get stats off again.  Wheeee!

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