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

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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.

Absolutely know and try book it off every year, as get 10 consecutive days off, for 4 days annual leave

So I've just checked that as well!!

Where are you?

I thought it was pretty standard in the UK for offices to close down over bank holidays? Certainly every where I've ever worked.

My poor US team mates don't get either off. I was😮!

And the clocks are changing 🥳

Aberdeen. It's not even a bank holiday here on the Monday. And even the council had to add an extra day onto the school year at short notice just before Christmas as they forgot that teachers contractually need a day off on Easter Friday 😂, and they had originally planned to be in.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6291622/aberdeen-council-scrooge/

I have a 3-hour meeting on a client site on Friday. Totally normal here.

Oh! Thank you!!

Clocks going
forward.

I forgot but I'm in retail so normal weekend for me.

where do you live? I've never heard of a school being in on easter, and everywhere I've ever worked they are clear bank holidays that you can't book meetings over, because nobody will be there! this despite the workplace otherwise being completely flexible in terms of annual life, flexitime etc

Also Aberdeenshire and have worked in offices, care and the NHS and never had Good Friday as a public holiday.

We do get Easter Monday as a holiday though.

Edited to add that I have a full patient list for Friday as it's just a normal working day for us.

No, but that's because the majority of my colleagues are in the US and it's not a public holiday so I have to keep reminding them I'm not available Friday and Monday, I've put it in my signature and I've blocked out my calendar. Still getting meeting invites though 😂

Don't forget clocks go forward this weekend too!

Which retail is open on Easter Sunday? Aee you in England?

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).

Small shops/businesses are allowed to be open on Easter Sunday. For many of them it is an important business day.

It's come around too early this year

Yes, of course they know. 😂

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.

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.

In Ireland Tesco is open Easter Sunday.

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!

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?

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.

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.