What holiday does your office get off?

[tbb113]

I always assumed that most people had the same holiday schedule as I did (with the exception of government and banks that get MORE holidays and retail that gets fewer and hospitality/health care that get none). Last year I realized that not everyone in the US gets President day off and that some people get Good Friday off.

So, what days do you get off as paid holidays?

I get New Years Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Years Eve.

[lhall]

Neither.

I get MLK, 4th of July, Labor Day, T-day & Day after, and Christmas Eve through New Years Day.

Leigh

[Angelina]

I get all the usual Bank Holidays, since I work in a bank.. :D

New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, President's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

However, we are required to work 4 holidays a year, since it's a big bank and they have so much work to catch up to.. :(

[MrsReber]

We get New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th (5th this year), Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and Christmas. We get a half day on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, but if we don't show up on those days, we have to take a whole vacation day. We also get four floating holidays to use throughout the year.

[hlao23]

I think we get New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. The governer usually grants us a couple extra days to take whenever we like. I work for a state university.

[boisewinesnob]

Neither. I work at a hospital (and a Catholic one at that!) and we don't get Good Friday off. I work in the billing office so we do get some of the standard ones:
New Year's Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

However, I have a wonderful boss who is very flexible about scheduling and whenever I've wanted the day before/after a holiday she always permits it.

[JenniferJJ]

Mine are dependant upon what the UAW negotiates. I work in the salaried division, but the salaried employees holiday schedule is the same as what's negotiated for the UAW employees. Also, I do not get paid for every holiday since I don't actually work for the company, but rather a contract house. That being said, the holidays that the "direct" employees got off and paid for are: New Year's Day, MLK Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Memorial Day, Independance Day, Labor Day, sometimes Election Day, a day in the middle of November for Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Also, depending on which day of the week the Christmastime holidays fall, there will be an additional day tacked on. For example, if New Year's Day falls on a Thursday, the employees will get Jan. 2 off, too since I guess someone felt like there's no sense in having people just come in for one day.

[KristinK]

Of the two, we only have off on Good Friday. We're a small business, and the majority of us are Catholic.

In general, we mostly just get the big holidays -- Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the days after, along with a half-day Christmas Eve and New Years Eve and a full day New Years Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day. We can have up to a 5-day weekend for Independence Day.

[Wendy w]

As a university employee, I get quite a few holidays off. They include:

New Year's Day
MLK Birthday
President's Day (my sister, a teacher, gets BOTH Lincoln & Washington's)
An "administrative holiday" at the end of March: this will be changed to Caesar Chavez' birthday for political correctness purposes next year
Memorial Day
4th of July
Memorial Day
Veteran's Day (just started last year)
Thanksgiving and the day after
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day

[Kismet]

Our lack of holidays is one of the big rants I have with my job. :mad: Otherwise, it's good! :D So, I have neither of those holidays off.

Our schedule changes a bit year to year. This year we have off New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 5 (since July 4 is a Sunday), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day (but not the day after), and Christmas Eve (since Christmas Day is a Saturday). Next year is going to be horrible - New Year's Day is on a weekend, so we won't get that as a holiday. Then, Christmas Eve & Day are both on the weekend, so we likely won't get any time off for those, either. That will leave a whopping 4 holdiays. GRRRRRR!

[layla14]

Our schedule changes a little every year. Like last year we had Christmas and the day after Christmas off because it was on Thursday. Our schedule for 2004 includes:

New Year’s Day
Day after New Year’s Day
Martin Luther King Day
President’s Day
Patriot’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day (This year we are getting the Monday off because it is on a weekend)
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas

[KristaMB]

We get:
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day and the day after
Christmas Day
New Year's Day

We typically get three floating days to be used during the two week period of Christmas and New Year's, so I guess that somehow makes up for MLK Jr, President's Day, Veteran's Day, Colombus Day, etc. :rolleyes: I have no idea which days we'll get off this year with so many holidays falling on a weekend.

I wish we had President's Day off, as New Year's Day to Memorial Day is a long stretch to go without a holiday!

[Laura]

I work for a large legal publishing company and we don't get either of those days. We get

New Year's Day
Memorial Day
July 4
Labor Day
Thanksgiving and the Day after
Christmas Day

Depending on the mood of the powers that be, and when Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall, they may give us anywhere from a full day to a 1/2 day off. This year we also got a 1/2 day the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

[kristalsnow7]

Neither. We have a pretty pathetic holiday schedule:

New Year's Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving (not the day after :mad: )
Christmas + 1 other day, either day after or day before

Thankfully, they're pretty generous with other benefits.

[badunnin]

I work in a school and we get both off. Actually, this is the first time I've ever had MLK off. My dad gets one or the other as a floating holiday. Who takes what off usually splits along racial/ethnic lines.

[HRJ]

I work for a private university, and, I have to say, they are very generous with holidays. We get:

New Year's Day
MLK Day
Presidents' Day
Patriots' Day (3rd Monday in April, a holiday in Mass. and Maine)
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas

It's also tradition for the university President to give employees Christmas Eve off, too. Last year, we got both Christmas Eve and Day After, since Christmas fell on a Thursday.


I kind of consider this "holiday karma," because in my previous life as a newspaper editor/reporter, we usually had no holidays off -- you'd get paid overtime for working on a holiday, but no guarantee you'd get time off.

About Good Friday -- in New Jersey, Good Friday is actually a state holiday. I was surprised to learn it's not a holiday in Massachusetts.

Helene

[stefania4]

I'll be darned - I've never heard of anyone having Good Friday as a work holiday.

I work for the State, and we've got some less-than-universal holidays (Confederate Memorial Day, somebody's birthday - maybe Robert E Lee?) that get moved around to more convenient times, like the day after Christmas.

Generally, we get: New Year's Day, MLK, Confederate Memorial Day, regular Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving (and usually the day after), and Christmas (and usually the day after).

[Escher]

My contract house gives us 7 paid Holidays a year, to be spent whenever we want as long as we give 2 weeks notice....(these will not carry over the calendar year)--so each of us can pick the holidays we feel most important....

Plus we get vacation days according to service (those do carry over)....


I think it's wonderfully flexible.....


the union workers at my company recently negotiated the first day of hunting season as a paid holiday.....

[eas11]

At my new job I get:

New Year's Day
MLK Day
Presidents' Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day

Additionally, since I now work for a jewish communal org, I get all the jewish holidays when they fall during the work week. This year that's 11 days!!!

Ellyn

[Peggy]

I had to vote "neither". Actually, I only work part-time so I don't get any paid holidays off but I do get paid time-and-a-half if I work a paid holiday. And, I work ALOT of paid holidays! Our paid holidays are Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Peggy

[oceanjasper]

These are the paid holidays where I work:

Good Friday
Easter Monday
(Queen)Victoria Day (May 24)
Canada Day (Jul 1)
BC Day (Aug 2)
Labour Day
Thanksgiving (Oct 11)
Remembrance Day (Nov 11)
Christmas
Boxing Day
3 days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day
New Year's Day