Christmas comes but once a year
Christmas comes but once a year to Cavan and Ireland: if it came any more frequently nobody would bother working at all.
As I write it is December 29th – four days since Christmas. Transport services are working, as are the emergency services and the police. Yet the place is still suffused with the sense of inactivity. Non-emergency County Council staff won’t return to work until Wednesday – New Year’s Eve. This effectively means that they have a one day week – nice work if you can get it! Non-essential County Council staff – the really important people who never do anything like work – well, no one knows when they’ll be back. But they work so hard for the rest of the year no one can begrudge them taking a fortnight off at Christmas. In fact a lot of people wouldn’t care if they took the whole year off – but not look for payment for their inactivity.
I hear on the grapevine that tomorrow is a public holiday. How come? What does this celebrate?
I inhabit a type of Chinese maze: I know when the denizens of Cavan’s offices are not working – visits to this blog-site decline.
I really feel pity for those folk who, this Christmas, have no jobs to go back to in the New Year.
