I worked from home today. The reason being that we had a National Strike today that shut my office down. Oddly enough, the strike was not becuase we have not had a government for more than 250 days. Nope, nobody cares about that. As I understand it, the strike was called because there is a movement to eliminate the mandatory cost of living adjustment to pay. Typical pay raises in Belgium are not very high each year, but when combined with the cost of living, it tends to be about the same as are typical in the US for companies with a regular review cycle. So, understandably, the unions are a bit perturbed.
The upside to this, is that Belgians tend to strike on Mondays or Fridays and seldom for more than 4 hours. Although today's was the full day. I guess they wanted to let everyone know they are really serious. I am not sure if anything was accomplished by the strike, but it was kind of nice to be able to see the sun during the day.
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