Monday Poll results: Readers are grateful on Labor Day

This week’s Monday Poll participants were in a grateful mood — grateful for a day off to spend with family and friends, and grateful to the labor movement for creating the end-of-summer holiday appropriately called Labor Day.

Spirits were light, and so were our queries and this week’s turnout of about 100 respondents. We’ll get back to more serious matters in next week’s poll.

1) I plan to spend most of my time on Labor Day...

With family or friends 87%

Working and getting paid overtime 3%

Working because I have little else to do 10%

2) My favorite food to throw on the grill will be ....

Hot dogs 16%

Hamburgers 43%

Chicken 10%

Vegetables 7%

All of the above (it’s a holiday) 24%

3) At least give the labor movement — which isn’t embraced by everyone these days — credit for creating this holiday.

Absolutely. Everyone needs time off from work 84%

Nope. This country has too many fake holidays 16%

4) After a long weekend, I re-enter the work week ...

Energized and rarin’ to go. 34%

Stressed out because of the short week ahead. 6%

Whatever; looking forward to TGIF. 60%

This story was originally published September 8, 2015 at 5:36 PM with the headline "Monday Poll results: Readers are grateful on Labor Day."