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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 😊

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

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

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!

Are we a Christian county, practically speaking? Three quarters of CofE clergy don’t seem to think so…!

https://anglican.ink/2023/08/30/britain-is-no-longer-a-christian-country-say-frontline-clergy/

The problem with Easter is that it keeps moving, so I can easily understand how, if you don’t have children at school, it’d be easy to miss the fact that it’s this weekend. Bar of course the commercial aspect of it, but as Easter eggs go on sale about 2 days after Christmas that doesn’t help pin down a date!

If you look at the Gov UK website https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays on a Bank Holiday it will display some bunting.

Although I don't think it appears for Good Friday but should be there on Easter Monday.

At Christmas it's tinsel :)
https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/issues/678

Jo

Our work doesn’t recognise any bank holidays other than Christmas Day, Boxing day and New Year’s Day. 🤷‍♀️

Where I work, I don't think anyone, ever, has not been aware that a BH is looming... we're all desperate for a couple of days off work!!

Like it or not, it's predominantly a Christian country.

You can opt out if you wish.

You can tell the people who love their jobs, can’t you?

I'm not sure that's legal?

You can tell the people who are burned out from their jobs, yes!

What kind of halfwit would love their job so much they would want to work bank holidays?!

I'm Orthodox, our Easter isn't until May. We've just started Lent and there's chocolate everywhere 😭😂