Today would have been a good day to be allowed to work from home. It would have been nice for Fidelity to give us the day to do our civic duty and vote. If you look at India, they get the day out of work on election days. Heck, we'll take a work from home day, we don't need the entire day off. That would have been a nice gesture.
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Looks like we needed more red people to vote.
@cb Yeah! Abby Johnson needs another sprawling new England manor 🤣🤣🤣
The polls open early and close late. You have plenty of time outside of your workday to vote.
Don’t think I’d trust mail in
@bc I voted by ballot but before that convenience it was difficult to vote when commuting hours away. There’s no excuse now with mail in.
tough to vote after work when you have to drive an hour home. I vote in person to make sure it counts....
@b9 Yes, a federal holiday but I was speaking about Corporate America. Maybe you're the one who should be paying attention.
President's Day is still a federal holiday. You're not paying attention.
Voting is overrated.
@aa it doesn't take five minutes to vote because you need to get the polling location you're assigned to and that's likely not near your office. But, you should still do it.
America as a country needs to do better allowing us the time to vote, but there are people in power that would rather we don't vote.
@aa what! No Presidents’ Day?!?! When did they take that away. They took away Good Friday even though the stock market is closed. What’s next? Christmas? Thanksgiving? They don’t want to lose any productivity.
@a1 wow, it must be miserable being so hateful. Go to therapy or something.
Fidelity does not care if you vote or not. They do not care about what is best for you. They only care about what is best for the company.
@OP It takes 5 minutes to vote which means after work you can stop by your polling place and vote. You can vote by mail. No need for a work from home day to vote.
I don't know the dynamics of voting in India but I don't favor that preferential treatment so I'm with you there. Also, it seems like India has 275 holidays annually. It's absolutely ridiculous how much time off they get.
American workers get the shaft all the time. Decades ago, we got TWO holidays in February (Lincoln AND Washington's birthdays). Then it became one (Presidents Day). Now no Presidents Day which got axed to make room for MLK in January.
Columbus Day gone. Vets Day (Nov) gone. But all hail Diwali.
Do whatever you have to do to do it. You have to be allowed to do it. So if it means leaving early, leave early. Work from home. They have to let you do it.
Many states have weeks of early voting. I believe fidelity also gives time off for voting
Mailing in voting, gives you the convenience needed to ensure you vote.
Whah whah, grow up and do your job you whiner