No doubt, it's deliberate...

[MrScorpio]

[rurallib]

1. based on that schedule, I could justify

paying them minimum wage and no benefits.

[ZX86]

2. Their mantra is "Government doesn't work"

So this is no surprise.

[Sirveri]

3. Do people no longer get day after Thanksgiving off anymore?

I always got both days at most every job I have ever held (with the obvious exception of the US Navy, FTN unionize now!).

[Fumesucker]

4. Obviously you have never worked retail

[Sirveri]

5. ...I forgot about that, lots more of those folks around lately.

Worked Baskin Robbins, technically food service but that's a retail subset. Also worked at a hardware store after the dotcom crash, but they got rid of me one week before my health care would have activated...

[magical thyme]

8. I'll be working in the hospital lab on Thanksgiving this year

and then working at my shitty financial call center the day after Thanksgiving this year.

Last year I was scheduled to work both on Christmas Day and on the Winter Solstice, so I couldn't celebrate either pagan Yule or Christmas.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

6. 2014-113 days, 2013-126 days, 2012-107 days

That's average for these schmucks.

Would like to see how the days work fluctuate when between parties but I can't find that info.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Well, kissing all that ass WILL tend to cut into productive time a little.

And they've got to do SOMETHING to keep busy while ALEC is writing up the next piece of legislation they're expected to introduce.

Zombies have a better work ethic. As a matter of fact, Americans prefer zombies, hemorrhoids, IRS to Congress