Is the calendar year in Trinbago longer than 365 days?

Question

The reason I ask this question is because I want to know how many woking day Trinbagonians does wok?

With all the vacation time when is wok time?

For example if Christmas fall on a Wednesday people taking Christmas eve, Christmas, Boxing day, it make no sense going to wok on Friday so ah taking that too. Then yuh MIGHT, JUST MIGHT go to wok the 2 days before New Year's and then yuh taking the two after New Year's. So in two weeks you gone to wok for maybe 3 days?

Tell meh, please tell meh when Trinibagonians does wok?

Answer 1

YES!

The calender day is longer that 365 days.

Its 365 1/4 days !!

Sorry to break it to you, Trinbagonians don't work .

However, they do wok more that there are days in the year !



So am told.

Answer 2

Nope its the same 365 days with 16 public holidays [including Carnival Mon & Tues which isn't a public holiday but it might as well be lol].

Doh knock our calendar... cuz I LOVE the many holidays... we are a laid back people and we like to duck work to go Maracas, or river or run across to Tobago for a long wknd k!

Same thing like carni... if you not going to work monday and tuesday... and not weds... why go thurs&fri *coughs* it's the logical thing to do lol

Answer 3

Well firstly it doesn't make sense when a holiday falls during the middle of the week (Tuesday - Thursday) It kills the spirit of the holiday, since we have much to celebrate for in T&T we need those extra weekend days to show our appreaciation.

I'm glad July is nearly done and over with!  Lets see in August we have 2 holidays, in September we have Republic Day which falls on a Wednesday (silly day).  In October we are supposed to have Eid on the 2nd and Divali on the 28th.  November is a pretty boring month - and in December we have two holidays

That isn't quite enough, I think we need a few more!

Answer 4

wham yuh gettin ah tabanca nah. Daz whey dem questions coming from.

Le me bruk dong de maths for yuh --- 52 weeks in de year....rite ?

Almost every month have a holiday or two so take out 4 working days

Every month is somebody birthday take out 2 working days

Take out 4 days for your birthday

Take out carnival days -- 5 (oh gorm yes 5 !  de Thur Friday, Mon. Tue. Wed.)

Take yuh 14 sick days yuh entitled to

Take yuh 5 casual days

Take yuh shopping days (2 - one granted and one run away) for Christmas

Take yuh vacation appprox 15 days avg.

Now take out de days yuh gone to wuk and TTEC strike

ALso take out de days when WASA strike

Take 3 bomb scare days

Take out 4 no Air Con days

NOw after all dem days yuh take out lets check work hours per day.

Work day -- 8am -4pm

Arrive to wuk --- 8:45am - go and get breakfast sit dong and eat

9:30am Check out mail and YA, spend de next hour dey.

10:30am yuh eyes huttin yuh time for break -- 15 mins. Then yuh say i better go and pay da cable bill yes

11:45am Reach back from break stand up and ole talk with yuh co-workers who jes come back from the car place in St. James --- de man lookin for rims so yuh proceed to tell he whey to go for some wicked dubs

12:30pm But wha de morocoy !!! lunch time nearly done and yuh eh start to eat. Now yuh have to line up by de roti shop

1:45pm Roti and solo in hand

2:50pm yuh done eat and yuh "digesting"

3:30pm yuh looking to duck out early today ....trying to beat dat friggin traffic

There i hope dat de mystries of work in T&T is now solved now let meh go and do de people wuk cause if i follow de above ah sure have to pick up bottle

Answer 5

i will answer this question on monday when i go to work hehehe today i took a sick day, tommorow is a holiday and well then there is the weekend hehehehehehehehehehe

Answer 6

julien i dunno bout u but i does get 14 sick leave, 7 casual and 21 days vacation....lol....plus 4 flood days

Answer 7

TS yuh sound real jealous right now lol!. I here in the states but I still have de Trinidad mentality when it come to workin cuz nobody putting me in a early grave(and that's only because i'm married now).

Answer 8

I have had friends in the US ask me that same question. I am so Jealous. Julien you are too funny that is the best description I have ever heard. We work too much in the good old USA. Europe is similar to trinidad but they have one better. Some countries they have 2 hour for lunch. You can catch a nap/movie or even go shoppin!

Answer 9

Buh hear you nah TS, you sounding like ah sour puss because we does enjoy we life more than usual! You should know...trinbagonians does maximise all free time!! Life too short and we doh like stress! I telling yuh flat out 365 days of the year and I making sure no wuk going to kill my a$$. Ah serious when it come to wuk and more serious when it come to play!

Doh worry, ah go take a drink fuh yuh. All the peeps in foreign, who missing out on we long weekends, and middle ah the week runway to maracas and the buss it from wuk early friday to get the lime going. Doh vex with we nah. We know allyuh missing the one love and goodtimes but we does make sure and remember allyuh hard wuking folks. We loves allyuh still!

Anyways, what ever you guys decide to do for the long weekend..keep it safe and fun! Allyuh come with the stories next week.

And Jules, that is de bestest bruk down of ah trinibagonian year ah ever hear!

Answer 10

Give Julien bes answer one time! Das de best calendar breakdown ah see yet!

Answer 11

Welllll, on the three days that we reach to work, obviously.  listen, just because we did it right the first time is no reason for you to complain cause we have the time to be on Y!A, and have public holidays ok.

yuh know we didnt quarrel when allyuh get 4th of july and we work for the ENTIRE month of July come rain, sun, snow and hail.  why would you begrudge us ONE single day after that :-(( huh!

and TS why yuh hadda go by christmas, we does make sure and do everythink before christmas week so we wont have to go to work man, you should know that.lol

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lemme tell yuh d truth...and yuh hadda keep it a secret eh, cause den everybody go want one to, but here in trini we all have a little elf-y person who does do the work for we......yeah, just like d elf and d shoemakers.  so we ent have to work.  

Think about it, how else we go find d time to come on Y!A whole day and ole talk or have beach lime in d middle of d week or even be this happy ALL the time.  

remember to keep it on d down low, shhhhhhhhhhh

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breaking news!!! we might get an additional holiday this year.  Thank you Caribs!!!!! im just hoping its in November and its a Friday or a Monday!  i mean, Patos could do that for our indigenous (sp) people, right!?!?!?

that would make it at least one-a-month for the rest of the year. yeahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Edit: Jules, you forgot fixing make-up, combing hair, reading papers and checking mail, facebook, myspace, messenger, chatrooms etc.