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

[cakeorwine]

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 only find out a couple of days ago. I work on the weekends so I don't really take note of public holidays . I have take this Sunday off for my nephews birthday not realising it's Easter. I don't think many people in the uk really celebrate Easter expect if you're Christian.

Myself and my colleagues are all very aware.

I work in leisure. None of us have those days off unless they are our usual days off. Every attraction we operate in will be busy.

But the guests never seem to appreciate that it is a Bank Holiday weekend for everyone else. We always get complaints that it is busy, queues too long, not enough parking or seats in the cafe... as if every school and a lot of businesses being closed wouldn't mean that lots of people all want to go for days out. Every year we have to explain Bank Holidays (and polling day, school strike days or anything that causes all/most schools to be off).

The fun ones, in some attractions near Jewish Schools, are the Jewish holidays. Those schools are closed but others are not. We always get some confused parents who remark they didn't think it would be busy because most schools are open... and then their kid points out that the 300 other kids present are all in the same schools 🤣

Some people are off some people are working. I live in a resort so this weekend will be packed

I no longer work, and even I know it's Easter this weekend. In all my working life I never encountered anyone who didn't know it was Easter at the correct time.

I hope the people in NZ will know, given that Friday and Monday are public holidays here, and shops will mostly be shut on Friday and Sunday 😅

Some of us have to work

Not all of us get bank holidays off so while it’s Easter I don’t care as I’ll be working it

No. Everyone seems to have forgotten. Resulting in 2 day bacs payments not being done yesterday. Not happy.

My office is in Ireland so Friday is a working day. I'm based in Uk so I get it as a holiday but I only remembered a couple of days ago.

Yes, they are all pleased about no meetings and a period of concentrated work on grant applications!
I’m feeling guilty about plans for Saturday pm and Monday!!

My boss knows but doesn't care. She casually announced that people could use their Easter break to do a half-day of compulsory CPD.

😂😂😂

Yes. Our customers on the other hand don't seem to!

I work with dogs so I'm pretty sure they're completely oblivious 😉

But many of their owners did seem shocked when I said I wasn't working Friday or Monday.

Actually I know what you mean. It has surprised people by being earlier than usual. Our school term finishes on Thursday rather than Friday this week due to the BH. I am having a random selection of kids over on Friday as their parents are suddenly scrambling for childcare and I'm on ML! We're in Scotland and while it is an official BH, it's one of the "optional" ones for a lot of public sector people. I'm NHS and usually we'll work good Friday/Easter Monday but get to take them in lieu elsewhere. It's not like Christmas.

I don't know why but every time Easter happens in March people comment on how unusual it is for it to be so early. Good Friday was in March in 2013, 2016 and 2018 as well as 2024.
Not that unusual!

Cake you're quite right. I've no idea what I was thinking when I posted. I definitely wasn't thinking straight.

Note to self don't post when dog- tired.

😔

That was 6 years ago!

Plenty of time for a new thread on it!

True! 4 times out of 11 just doesn't seem that unusual to me.

Yes. Especially as some have chosen to work it, and others have not.

The civil service takes bank holidays in accordance with the UK constituent countries bank holidays.

Most are common but England & Wales have the same and Northern Ireland & Scotland have their own bank holidays

People across the UK work accordingly, if services need to be national then staff get alternate leave days instead, and also there are people who don’t get bank holidays off - only their annual leave contract that may be the statutory minimum

Love that some people assume no-one will be working. Most people I know work bank holidays, the country doesn't shut down. So yes we've forgotten! The kids are on half term anyway so the back holidays are just amongst that.

"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?!"

The kind who get a set number of bank holidays added to their annual holiday allowance and therefore can take them when they want?

I've not worked somewhere that closed for bank holidays, other than Christmas, for at least 15 years. Instead I can take the time when it suits me. Much better for me.

I was vaguely aware that Easter was soon but only if I thought about it. I don't usually work a Friday but typically swapped my days to help out this week. Also had an opticians appointment booked for Friday.

Banks may be shut but little else locally is.

It does seem to have come out of nowhere this year.

That's a whole other thread, but I'll screen shot you as exhibit A on the "IT'S NOT BLOODY HALF TERM!" Thread, which is a split three ways between people getting pedantically wound up about it, people saying to get a grip because it doesn't matter, and people saying "this thread is silly, surely nobody actually says that!"