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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
CellarDweller:
Hello Bettermost!
Happy Longerdays and Solstice to you all!
Yes, with the Leap Year in 2020, next year's holidays will be long weekends for me. Off early Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, off Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and then no work on Saturday or Sunday.
;D
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 21, 2019, 09:44:59 pm ---Nice set of questions. Thanks for posing them!
Not directly related, but since you bring up Leap Year, I'm glad 2020 will turn this year's awkwardly mid-week Christmas and New Years Day into convenient weekend or weekend-adjacent holidays for the next four years.
2019 Wed
2020 Fri
2021 Sat
2022 Sun
2023 Mon
2024 Wed
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We don't particularly like that calender. We never get a free weekday to make up for a holiday falling on a weekend. That's just a lost free day :'(.
OTOH, Xmas here is three days off. The 24th, which is when people celebrate; the 25th, which is when people recover, and the 26th, boxing day, which is when people start picking fights with their annoying relatives ;D
So this year, xmas falls on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and a lot of people are able to take Monday and/or Friday off.
The next four years we'll lose 1 or even 2 days off :'( :'( :'(
brianr:
I am surprised that you lose holidays in Sweden. In Australia such holidays are always Mondayised if on Sunday and generally if on Saturday although next year Anzac day is on Saturday and only the state of Western Australia has declared a holiday for Monday 27th April. It is only since I moved here that NZ has begun doing the same for Anzac Day and Waitangi Day and Monday 27th April will also be a holiday in NZ next year. Australia Day was Saturday this year and the whole country had a holiday on the Monday.
Sason:
It's always been like that, AFAIK. No compensation for lost holidays, ever. :'(
In fact, it was only when I started hanging out with brokies on the forums that I found out that other contries (at least some other countries) get Monday off instead of a lost holiday.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 23, 2019, 07:31:04 pm ---It's always been like that, AFAIK. No compensation for lost holidays, ever. :'(
In fact, it was only when I started hanging out with brokies on the forums that I found out that other contries (at least some other countries) get Monday off instead of a lost holiday.
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In my job, we may get the Monday, or we'll be given a "floating day".
Next year Christmas is on Friday, so we'll get out early Thursday, be off Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
When Christmas falls on Saturday, the branches will be closed. Back office locations (like mine) will be given a floating day, meaning an extra day off during the year to use whenever we want.
When Christmas falls on Sunday, the bank will either give everyone a floating day, or we'll be closed Monday, whichever the company decides to do.
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