Work in an office in a professional role? Are you off the Day After Thanksgiving? (employers, company)

[pvande55]

Too many deadlines we have to come in. But most of the jobs I held it was a day off.

[Jwo85]

My office is closed today and Tommorow. We worked yesterday but many people took it off. Half the lights were off until 1030 am. We are off for Christmas eve all the way to Jan 2 when we return back to work.

[mangomadness]

I'm off whenever the bank holidays occur. However, our company went ahead and gave everyone Friday off as a paid holiday as well. Working that day will be optional for us and for those of us that do work, we can come in and leave whenever.

We will have Christmas Eve off as a paid holiday as well. Not sure about New Year's Eve just yet, though we do have New's Day off.

[MAtheBanker]

My work gives you the option of taking the time off with holiday pay (no PTO used) or working for double pay.

Needless to say, I'm getting 20 hours of double pay this week

[smarterguy]

Originally Posted by mitsguy2001

But you get paid holidays for MLK Day, Presidents Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day, none of which are paid holidays for most private sector workers (although, I do get Presidents Day off, but not the others that I mentiond). You also get a pension (which almost nobody in the private sector gets). You get retiree health insurance (which nobody in the private sector gets). And you get job security, which nobody in the private sector gets. So stop complaining. I'd be willing to work tomorrow or use a vacation day in exchange for all of the benefits that you get, especially the job security, pension, and retiree health insurance.

I don't get those as a fed when I'm deployed to Afghanistan as a civilian.

[azspeedbullet]

i work for nyc and i have work tomorrow , mostly due to the storm last month that killed one of our office locations

[Kibbiekat]

I work for local govt and our office is closed tomorrow. It is not normally closed Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve though.

[Gatornation]

Used to have to use PTO at private job. Now I have off day after Thanksgiving and week of Christmas at public job.

[BigDGeek]

This year I am sort of off on Friday....on call but not at work, might as well be at the office. The job I had last year did not have black fri as a holiday.

[manderly6]

Personally I like a system with more floating holidays and then the employee can decide what days to take.