Who here's workplace traded the day after Thanksgiving for Columbus day?

[underpants]

Becasue don't ya know they can't let us have TWO such holidays.

OH NO! That might let the worker bees think they have some control. OH NO!

So I have 11 paid holidays and not 12. Hell in Germany that have that many in freakin' February alone! But then that is probably why countries such as Germany and France haven't been able to produce huge multinational corporations, right?

[Skittles]

1. you have *11* paid holidays??

Shut UP already.

[underpants]

5. The only one I really don't understand is "Easter Monday"

We are a non profit that used to be part of the city government so I don't know how they could have gotten away with that. The others are:

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Presidents Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
2 days at Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day

Nothing out of the ordinary is there?

[Skittles]

15. hey

I get Good Friday off, I kid you not.

[bif]

2. We don't celebrate Columbus Day around here.

n/t

[Wickerman]

3. Our union did it for us.

Hard to complain, I was on the negotiating team. It would be nice to have this day off, though.

Hey, Its also Candian Thanksgiving Day, and that is pretty significant here in Minnesota.

[GOPisEvil]

4. The State of Texas did.

That is why I am at work today, but will not be at work Nov. 28. :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. my awesome six

New Years Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Though our management imposed deadlines ALWAYS fall two days before these holidays. I've worked over both Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th, and Labor day to meet deadlines that meant NOTHING.

Don't do it anymore though.

[bikebloke]

7. We get them both

I'm going to miss the generous holiday time when the pink slip arrives and I have to return to sweat shopping, while pulling the slack for privileged relatives and their cronies.

[CO Liberal]

8. We Give Up All the "Minor" Holidays.....

... in order to get the entire week between Christmas and New Year's off.

[Throckmorton]

9. Actually, we traded Southern European Arrival Day,

into a floating holiday. We all work Southern European Arrival Day.

[Philosophy]

10. Today is a holiday for me but of course I have to work anyway

I just started a new job a month ago, and apparently I have been doing such a good job that I have become the official person that all the managers give their projects with imminent deadlines to on Friday so they can have a stress-free weekend. I've only had two days off, including weekends, the entire time I've been here, and that was only to let me move 500 miles from my old town.

[Kellanved]

11. Sorry, but it's not that many

But it's 9 holidays a year in Berlin, with two probably being cut soon. Ok, it's 13 in religious Bavaria - holidays are a state thing.

The vacations are still very long - however no law demands them to be as long as they are and thus they're getting cut.

[underpants]

13. I was stationed in Schweinfurt they seemed to be off all February

"Fasching" I think it was called.

[Kellanved]

14. Yes, I can understand how one could get that impression

I myself stay clear of the catholic regions during february, as I can't stand carnival German-style.
However those days in february are no proper holidays: they're not protected by law; it's just common for people to get the day(s) off.
Not so in Eastern/Northern Germany.


A table with the holidays:
http://www.feiertage.net/bundeslaender.php

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. my hospital did

I prefer it, actually.

Columbus Day is a stupid holiday anyway.

I'd much rather have the Friday off and get a 4-day weekend.