Well I just found out this minute…from my roommate who just found out a few minutes ago.
I phoned my Taiwanese girlfriend at work to ask her to confirm…and she didn’t know either.
So just thought I’d post a warning/reminder to anyone else who wasn’t told by their workplace.
Well, I did know about it, but my company seems to have found a loophole(sp?) to avoid letting us off work. So, we still have to work.
What loophole? It’s just as much an official holiday as Double 10 or the Lunar New Year.
Well, the HR dept has explained that we work less than the mandatory minimum hours per week, so they have the right to make up the difference by making us work either in the weekend or a holiday.
Can that be legal? Can I report them to some authority?
sound sketchy to me tash.
228 isnt seen as a ‘legitimate’ reason by some folk in taiwan. morons 
No one at my work seems to know anything about it (very conveniently) either… :fume:
i think the fact they dont acknowledge it is worse than not having a day off per se
Just don’t show up. And when they ask why just show them any calander.
You think that’s bad tash? My girlfriend’s friend is in design, and her company made or is making them work every Saturday and Sunday to make up for the days they missed during Chinese New Year.
Not only is that disgusting…it’s also counter productive since happy rested workers would do more work in 5 days than pathetic bullied workers.
There was a thing on TV that showed if you threw a two hour nap time into an office workers day…at the end of the day they had done more work on average than people who worked for those two hours.
Get a clue management!
Oh…and for any that don’t know, 2/28 is a holiday made to remember the victims of a government massacre.
Started with some police beating an old woman…lead to violent protesting…and finished with the KTM government killing many of the protestors as well as whomever they thought might trouble them.
It wasn’t allowed to be spoken of and was erased from history until not too long ago (forget which year).
AND NOW FOR MY TASTLESS JOKE OF THE DAY
At my work as I left I went around and said:
“Happy, Goverment Killed a Bunch of People Day!!!”
To which 2 workers laughed loudly, one quitely (might have been a sympathy laugh) and one just shook her head at me.
Use at your own discretion.
I also like “Happy, Slaughter Day!” but slaughter is not an easy word.
I think politics might have something to do with the fact that some people do not observe the day. One of my former laobans didn’t give us off and they happened to be KTM members.
[quote=“Mordeth”]Oh…and for any that don’t know, 2/28 is a holiday made to remember the victims of a government massacre.
Started with some police beating an old woman…lead to violent protesting…and finished with the KTM government killing many of the protestors as well as whomever they thought might trouble them.
It wasn’t allowed to be spoken of and was erased from history until not too long ago (forget which year).
AND NOW FOR MY TASTLESS JOKE OF THE DAY
At my work as I left I went around and said:
“Happy, Goverment Killed a Bunch of People Day!!!”
To which 2 workers laughed loudly, one quitely (might have been a sympathy laugh) and one just shook her head at me.
Use at your own discretion.
I also like “Happy, Slaughter Day!” but slaughter is not an easy word.[/quote]
I’ve got to remember that one when I’m in America and it’s Memorial Day. I’ll say, “Happy bunch of dead soldiers day!” and see what the reaction is. 
Or for Martin Luther King Day, “Happy American Clergyman and Civil-rights Leader Got Smoked in a Conspiratorial Plot Day!”
The crude and tasteless joke - “Happy Dick Missed the Duck Day!” - will be reserved for the national holiday in honor of the man that Cheney shot at close range with his shotgun.
yeah thx for the tasteless joke and the history lesson mordeth. :s
Well if you were KMT you wouldn’t want to recognise that tragedy either…
228…what’s 228? The last day in February right? Of course you need to work… Silly wai guo ren… :loco:
Hehehe…My grandmother used to call that a “selective memory…”
so the us shouldnt recognise the atrocities against the native americans, nz against the maori, australia against the aboriginie?
Not when the holiday is just a thin guise use for Hoklo racism on Taiwan. The novelty has worn off and the DPP administration has been shown to be less than convincing as stewards of Taiwan. The holiday has never been used as healing experience on Taiwan. It has always been used by one political party to create and accentuate the ethnic divide on the island. Hands across Taiwan anyone
I expect the holiday to be renamed and moved in the next couple of years.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]Not when the holiday is just a thin guise use for Hoklo racism on Taiwan. The novelty has worn off and the DPP administration has been shown to be less than convincing as stewards of Taiwan. The holiday has never been used as healing experience on Taiwan. It has always been used by one political party to create and accentuate the ethnic divide on the island. Hands across Taiwan anyone
I expect the holiday to be renamed and moved in the next couple of years.[/quote]
As if the KMT have tried to make an effort for this day in history. They tried to deny it ever took places for decades. It was an untruth according to the KMT. They’d rather it went away like so many other things that the KMT have lied about.
My girlfriend’s boss kept phoning her this morning…so she turned off her phone. Let them walk on you once…they’ll do it again and again.
They never lied about it, most KMT members see 228 as the day WSR civilians and public servants died at the hands of angry Hoklo Formosans, because some Hoklo decided it was okay not to pay ROC tax on cigarettes.
So what is this holiday suppose to celebrate. That it is okay to kill WSR because your enthic group is angry someone their ethnic group decided not to pay their taxes. Not to mention this individual was distributing a carcinogenic substance.
Taiwan economy is going to crapper. The TI supporters got to milk their years of sentimental guilt from the public.
Sorry but most Taiwanese are still realist when it comes to money, time to go back to six day week and 14 hour days to make a living now. This ain’t Socialist Europe, you get 1 week off for Chinese New Years and Sundays. Just be glad you’re not treated like a PRC, SE Asian, or Filipino worker on Taiwan.
If the TI administration kept a better eye on the economy, maybe companies could afford take this day off.
i thought you were on my ignore list, had forgotten how ridiculous your statements often are.
why is ma at the 228 peace park today then ac? he knows how important it is to at least ‘appear’ sympathetic to this event. typcial politician…
oh yeah… you are back on my ignore list. :raspberry:
Great, tomorrow is a hollyday!! :bravo: :bravo: