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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone in the private sector have Columbus Day off, or even the public sector?
Its a federal holiday and state holiday in Missouri (probably Kansas too) but the schools are still open and its a normal day for most people. UPS and FedEx are still running normally. Only thing in the private sector closed is banks. Same with Veterans Day. I don't ever remember having school off on Columbus Day and graduated high school a long time ago. My college also had class on President's Day but not MLK Day. Is Columbus Day some kind of Northeastern thing, it's not much of a Midwestern thing?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)But at least I get holiday pay. Luckier than some I'd wager.
we can do it
(12,189 posts)DLevine
(1,788 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)She works at the local City Hall and is represented by SEIU. She and her co-workers get every major holiday off.
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)Including election day.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)Normal day for the state government in Missouri, schools are still in session. Would turnout be higher if it was on a Monday or Friday or would it just become another vacation day?
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)If I'm going to get another holiday, I prefer one that doesn't honor the individual who ushered in the era of conquest and genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Besides, I'd rather have a holiday when the weather is nicer.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)pstokely
(10,528 posts)Or is that only in Miami?
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)However, full time employees can save up enough leave to request days off. I and the other supervisors I knew would have let people take off for any religious holiday if they had leave and asked enough in advance. I didn't have many employees under me, but none of them were Jewish, so it never came up.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Small private employer in Naples.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)pstokely
(10,528 posts)You wouldn't know if you don't have the day off
doc03
(35,348 posts)ellenfl
(8,660 posts)i work for attorneys who rely on all but schools all day every day. columbus day for me is usually doctor/dentist appointment day.
ellen fl
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)and I definitely have the day off on federal holidays...
I can guarantee my lawyer does too....
cuz I couldn't get them on the phone this afternoon...
when I realized I probably wouldn't be talking to them until Tuesday.
Luckily for me, I can get stuff done at doctors, mechanics, etc...
Some DFW Texas area schools use Columbus day as a Fair Day, to allow students to attend the Texas State Fair, which is in Dallas.
I don't think the teachers have off, but the students do.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)I never had the day off in the private sector, but it is one of our 12 or 13 paid holidays at the county.
Laura
pstokely
(10,528 posts)?
davsand
(13,421 posts)In fact, they had a 4 day weekend because Friday was also a day off for them... From what I can tell most of the schools in Illinois are closed Monday.
Laura
BlueinOhio
(238 posts)It is nice when my children were in school they had it go and my husband had to go to work so I had the day to myself to do whatever I wanted
Whovian
(2,866 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)When the fed is closed... The banks are closed.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)But we have a good percentage of Jews here, and we has Rosh Hoshannah and Yom Kippur off. (apologies for any misspellings).
RagAss
(13,832 posts)listening to this on the way to work Monday...
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)on the train!!!
best live album ever?
I have Monday off
damn NEA
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I work for a financial institution and she works for the county CS.
treestar
(82,383 posts)It doesn't seem to have caught on. I don't remember having it off at any job or school.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Colombia was not just responsible for opening up the new world for exploitation, he was personally responsible for the wholesale slaughter of what some historians estimate to be millions of American Indians.
But leaving aside the genocide for a moment, what are we celebrating? He was an incompetent navigator; he was from Spain and/or Italy; he never came to North America. So why the hell do we have a holiday in the US for him?
I (and others) propose Armstrong Day (or at least Explorers Day), a day on which we can celebrate American heroes who did things far more amazing than Christopher Columbus ever dreamed of -- like walking on another planet.
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)I'd much rather have that four day weekend.
onenote
(42,714 posts)BlueInPhilly
(870 posts)And I don't care what Cristobal Colon did, I have the day off. Banking.