'Silver Week' another excuse for an unpaid week

[Taro Toporific]

First 'Silver Week' fall holidays a bonanza for hard-pressed tourism industry
Mainichi -- September 12, 2009
Due to revisions to the Public Holiday Law, Japanese residents will for the first time enjoy a 5-day holiday break beginning Sep. 19 and dubbed "Sliver Week."
The 2003 holiday revisions shifted Respect for the Aged Day from Sep. 15 to the third Monday of September, creating this year's 5-day stretch, called "Silver Week" as a fall counterpart to the "Golden Week" holiday in May....more...

[Bucky]

Bucky Junior is taking advantage of the holiday period to return the base, see some college football and even watch a Mariner game and see mommy and daddy. His contribution to the tourism industry.

[Level3]

All these damn holidays mean for the ever-growing numbers of poor office temps is yet another day without pay.
Weekday temps basically have an effective 5-10% pay cut every month in the last half of the year due to all the friggin 3-day weekends. Silver week makes it even worse, losing 3 of 21 work days means losing about 15% of your paycheck.

How does this help the economy?

But hey, the bureaucrats who decide these thing have no such worries. Probably not even aware of this issue. Too busy planning trips to Guam.

[Marked Trail]

Originally Posted by Level3

All these damn holidays mean for the ever-growing numbers of poor office temps is yet another day without pay...

THIS.
Silver Week シルバーウィーク is another just another corporate excuse for a layoff and unpaid week since more than 40% of Japan’s workers are on part-time and subcontracts (and therefore all holidays are unpaid), meh.

[let`s talk]

Originally Posted by Level3

How does this help the economy?

Some kinds of business make more money on holidays.

[dimwit]

Hey I like five day holidays. Seeing as usually work seven days a week, a few days in a row off isn't tht bad an idea. Now if I could only convince my wife not to book us onto some dreary bus tour of the Nankoku Lint Museum.

[klimmer]

What's more important and pressing is, who's the chick in the picture?

[Greji]

Originally Posted by klimmer

What's more important and pressing is, who's the chick in the picture?

Got that right. That's some silver I can use....

[IkemenTommy]

Originally Posted by Greji

Got that right. That's some silver I can use....

You got enough silver-ing there, budday.

[Greji]

Originally Posted by IkemenTommy

You got enough silver-ing there, budday.

Why am I reminded about the old saw of the young bull and the old bull standing on the hill overlooking Roppongi bokujo and its endless supply of cows. Quote the young bull, "let's run down the hill and do a couple of those cows! Replied the old bull. "Let's walk down and do 'em all".

Never enough silver, that you can't use a little more...