[OT] What is Labor day? (for Plane Sailing)

[Darkness]

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BTW: Why does the color of your collar depend on your vocation in the US? And how did it come to be like this?
(Also, I'm assuming that - at least nowadays -, these proverbial collar colors aren't actual collar colors, neh? )

 

[Furn_Darkside]

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heh, oops, a little freudian slip *chuckle*

BTW: Why does the color of your collar depend on your vocation in the US? And how did it come to be like this?

That is an interesting question.

My guess it would be the ease of cleaning clothes pre-dry cleaning times versus the how dirty the job would tend to be.

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[Maerdwyn]

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BTW: Why does the color of your collar depend on your vocation in the US? And how did it come to be like this?
(Also, I'm assuming that - at least nowadays -, these proverbial collar colors aren't actual collar colors, neh? )

Blue collar = wage workers, or manual/manufacturing workers
White collar = salaried workers, or office workers

The origin comes from the fact that suit shirts used to be much more uniformly white in American offices (white collar)

Factory worker uniforms at the same time were almost always blue. My grandfather worked in a dairy, for example, and wore such uniforms.

 

[Storminator]

Closet Threats?!

BTW: Why does the color of your collar depend on your vocation in the US? And how did it come to be like this?
(Also, I'm assuming that - at least nowadays -, these proverbial collar colors aren't actual collar colors, neh? )

Workmen wear denim, professionals business suits. At least in the old days. Denim's blue, suit shirts white.

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[Utrecht]

The origin comes from the fact that suit shirts used to be much more uniformly white in American offices (white collar)

Ah, the good ole IBM "uniform" : Blue Suit, White Shirt and appropriate but understated tie. Thanks that those days went away - of course if you do business in Latin America it is still very much that way.

Edit for spelling (my nemisis!)

 

[Sir Hawkeye]

This country was not made great by people sitting on the beach.

Great ideas are born of leisure time.
Rousseau
Locke
Voltaire
Washington
Jefferson
The principles of democracy were not developed by men working 12-hour days in coal mines.

Sitting on the beach has its place.

 

[apsuman]

Great ideas are born of leisure time.
Washington
Jefferson
The principles of democracy were not developed by men working 12-hour days in coal mines.

Without venom, I ask, when did Washington or Jefferson ever "sit on the beach"

And more specifically, what great ideas did Washington ever have?

Please no flames, these are real questions.


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[alsih2o]

Without venom, I ask, when did Washington or Jefferson ever "sit on the beach"

strangely enuf (tho not to me) jefferson liked to spend his freetime making bricks with the slaves, he is quoted as saying it was relaxing. he also ran a regular bet with some friends over who could grow the best peas. not quite beach sitting, but definitely hobbies that required a substantial amount of free time

 

[apsuman]

Um don't want to do the political thing either - but you know all that Japanese productivity and economic growth after WW2 - it was all supported and largely directed by Government...

... and it still is as I understand it. While incomplete, what little I know of "capitalistic" modern Japan is that it is basically the feudal system adapted to modern time.

The Nekkei (sp?) stock average hit a 19 year low just the other day. Their supposed high tech economy has been spinning it's wheel the past two decades -- the most high tech decades ever.

When conditions are bad (i.e. after a war) an ecomomy is like tundra, everything you do to it is an improvement.

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[apsuman]

please tell me this is a joke.... or else osha, bwc, w+m, atf, d of l, ag, and all the others may be shocked to find they are out of a job

While you are correct, compared to many other governments ours (well, mine) is much more hands off.

Labor Day might very well be a federal holiday, but there is no law that says that companies have to offer that day off to it's employees. Companies simply offer the day more because it is expected more than anything else.


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