I've never had US holidays off

Go work for the government. They get national ice cream day off

banking holidays are a joke.

I worked for a company headquartered in Australia and we still had Labor Day and Memorial Day off.

What kind of nonsense do you work for?

Restaurant owner here. I'm open 361 days a year.

Over the last 5 or 6 years scheduling around banking holidays has become increasingly difficult. I use to have employees knocking on my door to work on holidays but now the standard request off for things like Labor Day is Thursday through Monday. Five days off is their idea of Labor Day weekend.

Exam week is even worse. I use to clear out my office so the employees could study or do homework but now they all want to take 10 days off for finals.

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We have too many holidays.

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Wut. It's the opposite. We work way too god damn much.

I think banks are closely tied to the government’s days off schedule. Something to do with regulators and a run on a bank years ago and no feds were working. I could be way off though.

I work all of them but thanksgiving day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day. I get floating holidays to use later though.

We don't get at paid extra to work today

Go brush your teeth

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I agreed we recognize entirely too many holidays.

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Workers in the US work too much. Well, spend too much time in the office anyway. Dependent on industry of course. But for a great many industries, sitting at a desk watching a clock for 40 hours just because hurts productivity.