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

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cakeorwine · 26/03/2024 19:50

After some recent emails and conversations, I think some people just don't know. Maybe they are just out of the loop on these things.

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JellyIegs · 26/03/2024 22:45

I’m in Scotland and get both Good Friday and Easter Monday off work. In my last workplace (in Scotland) we worked both, however we seemed to be the only office in a 100-mile radius with people in it and it DRAGGED by.

I can’t imagine anyone I work with not knowing the ins and outs of all days they’re entitled to be off!

FangsForTheMemory · 26/03/2024 22:44

ByUmberViewer · 26/03/2024 19:54

Yes of course they know. It's Easter and we live in a Christian country so they know about Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Its taught in school.

It’s only a Christian country if you’re Christian.

Rudolftheorange · 26/03/2024 22:42

WickerMam · 26/03/2024 20:09

Depends where you are, maybe? Local to me, most office workers get bank holidays as "floating days" and hardly anyone takes Easter off, unless it coincides with time they would be taking off for school holidays anyway. Often, schools are even in on Easter Monday.

At work, we wouldn't think twice about arranging meetings on Easter friday/monday, and that goes for everywhere I have ever worked, including clients.

Really? I find that very surprising. Are people not travelling and planning get togethers with their families?

NickMarlow · 26/03/2024 22:37

Yes. But I work for a church, so it would be fairly worrying if anyone had missed the fact that it's Holy Week....! Many many different types of services this week 😊

MissMarchple · 26/03/2024 22:31

It's early and it isn't at all springlike yet. Feels weird to me that Easter is this weekend.

I can imagine if I didn't have a child and a teacher for a husband I'd probably be a bit absent minded about it too. Obviously the chocolate everywhere is a reminder but I'd probably still think it was a couple of weeks away.

WimbyAce · 26/03/2024 22:23

I can understand some not being on the ball as it's so early this year. But if your holidays are April to April you should have clocked it as had 10 Bank Holidays 23/24 and only 7 24/25.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 26/03/2024 22:13

penjil · 26/03/2024 21:55

Surely you look at the calendar at the start of the year and make a rough mental note of when things are..... particularly Easter, which is a moveable feast.

Honestly I don’t. I figure it out usually around Mardi Gras. The last 2 years I’ve been pleasantly surprised that I’ve been on holiday in the Caribbean over Easter… I’ve met both the Jamaican and the Grenadian Easter Bunny!

saltinesandcoffeecups · 26/03/2024 22:09

It is early this year, although I had the light bulb moment back in October during a work budgeting meeting. I’ve also taken on the role of town crier as it’s my company fiscal YE so it has some big implications that don’t normally have to deal with. Add to that at least 4 different countries with varying Good Friday practices and ….yeah

Most people didn’t clock until last week that it’s really early.

My favorite Easter timing story of all time was a friend of mine decided with his (soon to be) wife that they would get married on Easter. He was smugly telling us that he’d never forget his anniversary. To our credit we all just smiled and quietly giggled at his future misery. I lost track of him over the years but often wondered how that worked out for him.

LuluBlakey1 · 26/03/2024 22:06

Easter is very early this year. It's the only time in the last 5 years that it has been in March.It has been at least a week-10 days later and was as late as mid April in 2022.

ConfusedGin · 26/03/2024 22:03

DigitalDust · 26/03/2024 21:57

My Outlook calendar adds the bank holidays in automatically! Not sure about other software - actually, just checked and my phone calendar has it as well

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This was about to be my point! Google calendar, optional overlay of UK Bank Holidays, even those that only occur in one nation. Days blocked out early.

It also helps that I observe Lent for personal, non religious reasons and we have a big work event in early April so we've set significant deadlines before Easter weekend

SaltBlossom · 26/03/2024 22:03

My workplace now allows people to choose to work bank holidays and take other days off. Part of EDI initiative.

DigitalDust · 26/03/2024 21:57

LlynTegid · 26/03/2024 21:46

I'm sure all of them do.

As for the date being a surprise, perhaps given that many people don't have a paper diary or calendar, could be part of the reason.

My Outlook calendar adds the bank holidays in automatically! Not sure about other software - actually, just checked and my phone calendar has it as well

YourFogLightsAreOnTheresNoFog · 26/03/2024 21:57

One person in our company booked a holiday and included Friday in his days off so I adjusted it.

Everyone else remembered and is looking forward to it.

penjil · 26/03/2024 21:55

Surely you look at the calendar at the start of the year and make a rough mental note of when things are..... particularly Easter, which is a moveable feast.

stargirl1701 · 26/03/2024 21:55

Yes...I'm a teacher... My colleagues are counting the hours! 2 days to go...

MaryFuckingFerguson · 26/03/2024 21:51

No! People keep wanting teams meetings on both Friday and Monday.

LlynTegid · 26/03/2024 21:46

I'm sure all of them do.

As for the date being a surprise, perhaps given that many people don't have a paper diary or calendar, could be part of the reason.

Xmasbaby11 · 26/03/2024 21:44

SaySomethingMan · 26/03/2024 21:38

Why would international students knowing it’s Easter, mean the natives of this country must know. Do the students have different calendars in their country of origin?

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My (mostly Chinese) students live in their own bubble and aren’t that aware of British customs. They don’t use an English calendar, theirs is on their laptop in Chinese, so no bank holidays are on it. All their devices are in their native language.

SaySomethingMan · 26/03/2024 21:38

Xmasbaby11 · 26/03/2024 19:56

How can they not know? I teach international students .. they know.

Why would international students knowing it’s Easter, mean the natives of this country must know. Do the students have different calendars in their country of origin?

theriseandfallofFranklinSaint · 26/03/2024 20:59

Whaaaaat!!!!!

Everybody I know is aware it's a Bank Holiday this weekend - we've been looking forward to these 4-5 days off since Christmas!

Berlinlover · 26/03/2024 20:52

DomesticatedSavage · 26/03/2024 20:08

I can guarantee someone won’t have realised, same person will be fuming that Tesco is closed on Sunday

In Ireland Tesco is open Easter Sunday.

WickerMam · 26/03/2024 20:51

snoopyfanaccountant · 26/03/2024 20:43

I think what confuses things is that for those of us in Scotland, a bank holiday doesn't always equate to a public holiday; it just means that the banks are shut. The August bank holiday (whether it's the first Monday in August as listed by the Scottish government or the last Monday when the banks actually close) and St Andrews day are normal working days for the majority of the population (some council areas take St Andrews Day as a holiday but only a few).

Yes, and there are different "local bank holidays" between different council areas, just to confuse things. It's no wonder people don't even know when they are.

I do think it's all fairly irrelevant in most of Scotland unless you work for a bank or the council though.

JudgeJ · 26/03/2024 20:49

cakeorwine · 26/03/2024 19:50

After some recent emails and conversations, I think some people just don't know. Maybe they are just out of the loop on these things.

I have known for a while that it's Easter this next weekend but it came as a bit of a shock to learn that the clocks also change on Saturday night/Sunday morning, have to be up an hour earlier.

Squirrelblanket · 26/03/2024 20:47

Yes, of course they know. 😂

Londonrach1 · 26/03/2024 20:46

It's come around too early this year

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