Do your work colleagues actually know it's Easter this weekend and that Friday and Monday are Bank Holidays?

Eh? It's not just people with children that get bank holidays off work!

(I know not everyone gets bank holidays off, but a large proportion of people do)

Yes and no, only Monday is a holiday here. Get public hols added to annual allowance which sounds good but in reality is difficult in a small team as everyone wants the time off; wish the whole organisation closed as public transport is decreased so tricky travelling in and nobody expects us to be open anyway.

I am a practising Christian and to be honest had forgotten that we are having Friday and Monday off - but that is because work is so busy that I am not yet in winding down mode.

I hardly ever know when Easter is. I'm not religious, and bank holidays are just added into our holiday allowance to take whenever we want.

Some of my colleagues will definitely know, as some take bank holidays, some are religious and some have children involved with Easter events. I suspect that not everyone will know, because not everyone needs to or is interested.

I’m retired and childless and not forgotten about Easter. I don’t think of it as predominantly for children. DH and I exchange eggs (grown up ones!).

Loads of people work bank holidays as normal.

Who is "they"?
So many professions don't get them off. I've never had them off in any job I've had and I've done lots of different things.
So yes I definitely forgot
And whoever said surely people are making plans to see family.. bloody hell look outside your bubble 😆

We all work in retail. We are only too well aware... sigh.

I work in retail and bank holidays are a big deal so yes, we all know it’s Easter this weekend. Pretty sure I’m not the only one sick of the sight of Easter eggs and looking forward to it being over.

I can see why it hasn’t registered for some people though as it’s early this year.

Not everyone gets bank holidays off work. I do get them off work but they're not marked in my work calendar and they were a pleasant surprise when I found out this week

Everyone knows where I am, even the English. We get Thursday and Friday off.

How could anyone forget? They get an extra two days off work, I don't know how anyone could forget that.

@IloveAslan We've been hounded with Easter stuff for months 🤣

Fair point Zonder...it's a good clue 😂

That is so true! Anyone would think it was a moveable feast 😆

To be fair, the Easter confectionery isn't a great clue as to when Easter actually is as they start putting them out on Boxing Day!

And I do think that's led to people not really knowing exactly when Easter falls as we've been seeing the stuff in the shop for months.

Some of us find it a very positive change, that most people aren't bound by religion any more.

We may have a state religion but in practice we're a largely secular country. Many of the people who tick a religion box on the census (it had a leading question) are likely 'apatheists' if not agnostic/atheist judging from the numbers who actually participate.

Oh have a (bank holiday) day off! Christian country by whose standards? I don't mean to be rude but if you're a practicing Christian and celebrate Easter than great, go ahead and hopefully it will be meaningful and spiritual for you. But a lot of the time when people make comments like this, it's just a rose-tinted veiled criticism of other religions and those with no religion. It's fine to have no religion - we're not a moral vacuum and there's nothing sad about it.

In Northern Ireland Good Friday is a Bank Holiday but not a Public Holiday so almost a normal working day for most. By the way I think NI is the only place in the world to have Easter Tuesday as a Public but not a Bank Holiday.

I work with Americans.

They know. They just don't care. Same as usual really.

IME it doesn't matter when Easter actually is, you will ALWAYS get someone telling you it's early or late this year.

No-one ever says "Easter's just at the right time this year, isn't it?"

That's why I'm never actually surprised at when it is - I always just assume it's going to be later or earlier than I expected 😁

I did know, but I forgot. I work for myself though, so no colleagues to remind me, and all my clients are in North America so their holidays tend to differ from ours. Had not clocked that this Fri was a bank hol til I read your post, but I did know Sunday was Easter Sunday!

No idea. We get bank holidays off as a given at my work but most people (myself included) all seem to work them by choice and get a day in lieu as our work is flexible and most people don’t seem to care about bank holidays. The only time people don’t do this tends to be Christmas.

You know, not everyone does family gatherings just because it's Easter. We only do a very small gathering at Christmas, never Easter.

Easter weekend isn't for celebrating for us, it's just a nice long weekend off to catch up on life admin, jobs, extra time with the horses and maybe a little day out if the weather is ok.

We don't have children but I never forget when "free" my long weekend is each year 😁

The supermarkets have been selling Easter stuff for over two months, it is mostly contained to a display at the front of the store and one aisle that we don't go down so I've managed to ignore it assuming Easter was still a while off.