This is something we could all get behind.
We’re sure you’ve noticed, but it’s bloody hot all over the country today and seeing as we don’t get to experience such balmy conditions very often, most of us would like to be out enjoying the fine weather before it inevitably comes to a premature end.
Apart from a minority of people complaining that it’s “too hot”, of course, but don’t get us started on those folk.
Annoying things like, you know, a job that requires you to be inside for nine hours a day, puts paid to those plans for a lot of us, but not for much longer if this petition has its way.
The petition, on gosiesta.org, calls for Irish employees to be given an official day off should the temperature exceed 24 degrees, which it has in numerous parts of Ireland today.
“We are not used to these barbaric conditions,” the petition, which also includes a letter to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, reads.
“It’s a breach of Human rights (probably), and we won’t stand for it any longer.
“If the thermometer above reaches 24 degrees or over, and this petition fills its quota, then our government must act.
“Thousands of workers are spending every waking minute of these hot-working days uncomfortably, with their underpants lodged up into themselves like moist baling-twine.”
At the time of writing, the petition is some 7,000 supporters short of its intended target, but if this weather keeps up we can’t see it staying that way for too long, especially for those of us whose office environment is just like this…
If you want to sign the petition, you can do so here.
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