V-Day

Valentine’s Day needs to be a day off. How do you schedule a lunch or breakfast meeting on that day without coming across as trying to be romantic? And then you have the roaming tuxedoed barbershop quartet guys in the restaurants and you sit there in your business meeting in fear, hoping they don’t mistakenly come to your booth, ‘cause you’re not there for romance.

I get it. Valentine’s Day is when these guys make their money and they sure beat the birthday singing waiters at Applebees where one of the requirements of employment is to be tone deaf. What do these quartet members do the rest of the year?  And why aren’t they working their day jobs on Valentine’s Day? Do they have day jobs?

Here’s my recommendation: approach your boss about getting Valentine’s Day off. Nobody’s gonna apply themselves on that day anyway with so much romance in the air. Tell your boss you’ll work that extra day on the 29^th if you get the 14^th off. Sounds like a win-win to me. Yeah.