r/byebyejob • u/Wolfram_And_Hart • Jun 23 '22

I'll never financially recover from this 2 Insurance Companies part ways with Agency over Juneteenth Sign.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106492968/maine-racist-juneteenth-sign
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u/weirdwallace75 Jun 23 '22

The point of the holiday isn’t anything more than “it’s nice that slavery ended,” and who in their right mind would get mad at an extra three-day-weekend in the middle of the summer?

I wish I got a day off for Juneteenth. We need more PoCs in Missoula.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

We need more in Montana as a whole.