Today is Leap Day, the extra day that comes about once every four years!
Let’s think of some of the winners and losers when it comes a Leap Year!
- Winner - Stores – They get an extra day in the month to report sales. If sales go up 3% does that mean they really went up or was it because of an extra day of spending?
- Loser – Salaried employees – If you get paid twice a month, then February is a pretty good month since you will have more pay over less days. But, this year you’ll work an extra day in February.
- Winner – Companies that pay salaried employees – They get an extra day of productivity with no extra labor costs.
- Winner – Hourly workers – If you get paid by the hour, you’ll get an extra 8 hours this month.
- Loser – People that hate February – Though this winter (for us anyways) has been pretty mild, February is usually one of the snowiest and most depressing months of winter. An extra day typically does nothing to improve ones mood who cannot wait for the seasons to start changing
- Winner – People born on February 29th – You get a birthday this year! Go celebrate!
Who else wins and loses on Leap Day? Do you treat it as just another day?
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I saw your thread on Yakezie (1000 BOH, tweets, etc). Congrats!
Thanks!
I get paid hourly, but Im not sure which paycheque I’ll be seeing my pay on. Hopefully the one coming up sooner.
The sooner the better in your case!
Winners… Irish ladies who want to propose to their boyfriends? Or ladies in Ireland who wants to propose to their boyfriends. Apparently, it’s a tradition that on Leap Day women can propose to men. It’s the whole premise of the movie…Leap Year.
I actually had never heard of that until yesterday! LOL!
Ahh! I loved that movie. The Irish guy was hot! Loved their accent too.
That makes me a loser I guess. But if you asked The Sheconomist he would say I’m a loser every day.
LOL, nothing like some self-depreciating humor
My grandma is celebrating her 80th birthday today! (Although she argues that because of the leap year birthday, her cake should only have 20 candles this year)
Well let her know that it will be 2016 before she’s legal to take a drink by that calculation
Aww I’m a loser (salaried employee)! Oh well, guess I’ll be happier 3 out of 4 years anyway.
True enough, the other three years feel much better in that regard!
Ha, didn’t even think about that. Now that I think about it maybe I should have taken a sick day, get one back for the good guys.
Let’s go one step further and make it a national holiday!
What about bloggers? We get one additional day of traffic. It is not bad, right?
That is definitely a great benefit. The extra day actually helped February be the second highest month for page views, where it would have been third otherwise. So you’re right!