Easter Break: What are you up to?

[floriflee]

This thread hasn't got legs then... shame.

Average American's holiday allowance = 14-16 days, apparently. Not good.

I think two weeks is pretty standard for most employees starting out at a company in the U.S. But then you also typically get 10 holidays (or 8 holidays and 2 personal days) and 5 sick days.

My company does the Paid Time Off system where the vacation and sick are melded into one. It's nice if you're an employee that takes very little sick leave. We get our 8 holidays and 2 personal days in addition to 20 PTO days for all employees that have worked there less than 4 years, 25 PTO days for employees there between 4 and 8 years, and 30 PTO days for employees there for more than 8. Those vacation numbers aren't so bad if you have a job that doesn't demand weekend work or obsessive amounts of overtime (although I have a hard time not going over the standard 40/hr work week). I'm coming up on the 4 year mark in June and am looking forward to it. I made sure to negotiate with them to get my previous years with the company included into my official start date when they were looking to rehire me.

 

[floriflee]

Hmm.. I get even less than you. <sulk>

New Year's Day
MLK Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

I think the Feds have got it the best as far as holidays go... they get all the Federal holidays off. New Years, New Years Eve, MLK, Presidents, Memorial, July 4th, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Eve, Christmas, and Christmas Eve--some places even shutdown the week between Christmas and New Years (at least they do where my folks are). I could always tell when those holidays were because the DC Beltway commute in the morning/evening was like a dream!

 

[vniow]

I don't get any days off (I need the work right now so I don't mind) but Sunday I'm heading of to Dolores for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter Party.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

We have a bit more than a long weekend here in Norway on Easter:

Schools close already Friday before Palm Sunday, and lots of people start their Easter vacation that Friday.

Monday and Tuesday after Palm Sunday is ordinary work days, but since "half" the people already have "gone up in the mountains" that's only in name.

Wednesday before Easter is kind of like a Saturday, those shops that are open close early, often even earlier than on a regular Saturday.

Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are Public Holidays, and the holiest we have actually, up until a few years ago dancing was still not allowed on Good Friday in Norway...

Holy Saturday has loosened up a bit and some stores are open but they close really early.

Easter day, a Sunday is of course a holiday, and also Ester Monday (2nd Easter Day we call it in Norway) is also a public holiday in Norway.

To sum it up: Most people have almost a full week off, and many almost two whole weeks off come Easter, and the whole of Norway slows down. Much to the annoyance to us who don't celebrate Easter and don't have a mountain cabin to go to and have to stay home...

 

[notjustjay]

Well, by the sounds of things, Monday in the US is going to be business as usual?

Perhaps a road trip to the States is in order

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I think the Feds have got it the best as far as holidays go... they get all the Federal holidays off.

By 'Feds' you mean as in government workers? My girlfriend works for Revenue and Customs and they seem to get every holiday you can imagine going. Queen's Birthday, extra time of at Christmas and easter... if one of the Queen's corgis dies they're liable get the whole bloody week off.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Nothing at all.

 

[UKnjb]

Good Friday: Lie-in, rowing, lunch, more rowing, film - DVD at home
Saturday: Morning, dunno. Afternoon, rowing.
Easter Sunday: Lie-in with Easter Eggs!!!!! (*sigh* I hope), rowing. Lunch out, walk and dunno
Easter Monday: dunno.

Hmmmm - maybe I ought to get some social life organised.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Good Friday: Lie-in, rowing, lunch, more rowing, film - DVD at home
Saturday: Morning, dunno. Afternoon, rowing.
Easter Sunday: Lie-in with Easter Eggs!!!!! (*sigh* I hope), rowing. Lunch out, walk and dunno.

That's an awful lot of rowing. Either you're a very argumentative type or you're Sir Steve Redgrave.

 

[devilot]

rowing

You row?! :sniff: I miss coxing. Sort of.

Anyhow, no holidays for me... I'm not going to do anything. I'm sad though, I think my 'usual' coffee place will be closed. Sigh.

 

[UKnjb]

That's an awful lot of rowing. Either you're a very argumentative type or you're Sir Steve Redgrave.

LOL. Hmmm - I would like to argue with you about the first bit, but haven't got the skills. As for the second - I wish. It's pretty much a full-time sport.

 

[vniow]

Anyhow, no holidays for me... I'm not going to do anything. I'm sad though, I think my 'usual' coffee place will be closed. Sigh.

Well that doesn't sound like much fun. You could always come up here and picnic with a bunch of white faced queens.

 

[yg17]

Absolutely nothing




Well, actually my brother and I will be seeing Scary Movie 4 on Sunday. He works at a theater, so we get in free

 

[floriflee]

By 'Feds' you mean as in government workers? My girlfriend works for Revenue and Customs and they seem to get every holiday you can imagine going. Queen's Birthday, extra time of at Christmas and easter... if one of the Queen's corgis dies they're liable get the whole bloody week off.

Yup Fed=Federal Government worker, and they DO seem to get just about every holiday known to man off.

 

[UKnjb]

You row?! :sniff: I miss coxing. Sort of.

Anyhow, no holidays for me... I'm not going to do anything. I'm sad though, I think my 'usual' coffee place will be closed. Sigh.

Don't sigh!!!! 'usual' coffee place closed = ----- Go rowing (also = coxing; I started off with that as a lightweight kid and it was brilliant) !!!! Easy. Enjoy, whatever.

 

[puckhead193]

hopefully motivating myself to edit my final "package" on my slow and max out HD PB... plus i need to think of sound bytes and do a log sheet i have about 40 mins of so of footage and 20 mins of that are interviews
c'mon apple release a new final cut studio and PM!

 

[gauchogolfer]

I'm spending Easter by myself this year since my wife is back in the States visiting our new niece while I'm at work. No official vacation time off at CNRS, but then we do get 45 days off a year already, so I guess it's alright .

Maybe I'll hide eggs around my apartment on Saturday, then hunt for them in the morning.

 

[emw]

Spring Bank Holiday (Whitsun)
August Bank Holiday

I've always wondered - what exactly is a "Bank Holiday"? I mean, is it just a way to get a holiday in there, or is it of some historical significance.

In the U.S., there are a ton of potential holidays for employers to choose from, but the big ones seem to be:

New Years Day
Memorial Day
4th of July (and potentially the day before or after, if it's on a Tuesday or Thursday)
Labor Day (kind of a "made up" holiday, I think)
Thanksgiving (and sometimes the day after, though not for me)
Christmas Day

What else is odd is that very few days are observed as holidays almost unilaterally where the majority of stores are closed, etc. These days it seems that stores (at least in Chicago) are open 365 days a year. Sure, some retail will close Christmas, and many on Thanksgiving, but food stores (restaurants and grocery stores) and such are open all the time.

When you refer to a "public holiday" in Europe, does that mean pretty much that things are shut down, or just "public" services like banks, libraries, etc.?

BTW, I get 7 holidays this year.

we do get 45 days off a year already

Sure, rub it in!

 

[iShane]

Nothing, Computer, Sleep.

 

[amateurmacfreak]

Out for school Friday, back on Monday, so I'll be hanging out with some friends and writing a persuasive essay against intelligent design being taught in schools over the weekend. Oh, yeah, and a history project if I'll get off my lazy butt and work on that.
So, should be pretty fun. I mean, the friends part.
Oooooh, maybe I'll buy tons of music off iTunes too.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I've always wondered - what exactly is a "Bank Holiday"? I mean, is it just a way to get a holiday in there, or is it of some historical significance.

Here you go. They're so called because in the Olden Days bank staff would, well, take the day off as a holiday.

Basically, so far as Britain is concerned a Bank Holiday means most of us get a day off work, everything's shut and it rains a lot.

 

[emw]

Here you go. They're so called because in the Olden Days bank staff would, well, take the day off as a holiday.

Basically, so far as Britain is concerned a Bank Holiday means most of us get a day off work, everything's shut and it rains a lot.

Thanks for clarifying. I really should bookmark wikipedia.

 

[iGary]

Rob and I are going over to my sister Patty's house for dinner. My sister Mary and her kids will be there, too. I have like 7 sisters, so it's easy to score Easter dinner.

 

[floriflee]

Maybe I'll hide eggs around my apartment on Saturday, then hunt for them in the morning.

I hope you remember where you hide them all because that would really stink to forget one and it go rotten...

 

[devilot]

Well that doesn't sound like much fun. You could always come up here and picnic with a bunch of white faced queens.

I'm not quite sure what that entails... I'm intrigued and your link didn't quite give me the details that I'm curious about. Plus, SF seems soo far! And parking... ugh ugh.

Don't sigh!!!! 'usual' coffee place closed = ----- Go rowing (also = coxing; I started off with that as a lightweight kid and it was brilliant) !!!!

Except crew is a lost sport sort of around here and you have to pay exorbitant fees to be able to participate in the very few clubs in the area. I coxed for Cal women's crew team so that was whole different beast-- I didn't have to pay for anything, ya know?