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10 days off work in March!

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  • 14-01-2008 3:32pm
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    cfennelll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    Can anybody tell me the days to take off around paddys day to get the coveted 10 days away from work.

    A friend was telling me it featured on Ray Darcy. That if you take 3 certain days off around that time, you can get yourself 10 days away from work.


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    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I would imagine it's if you take the 18th 19th and 29th off work. That's the tues wed and thurs after paddy's day which is the monday. Then it;s good Friday on the 21st and then you ahve easter monday on the 24th. So counting from Saturday the 15th March, you'd have 10 days off.

    Easy!


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    eve
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    The 10 days are from March 15th to March 24th (inclusive). It depends on the company that you work for as to how many days you'll have to take. Presuming they are closed/off on the 21st (and that you get weekends and bank holdays off) then you only have to take then 18th, 19th and 20th as holidays to benefit from 10 days off


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    The Hill Billy
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    cfennelll wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me the days to take off around paddys day to get the coveted 10 days away from work.

    A friend was telling me it featured on Ray Darcy. That if you take 3 certain days off around that time, you can get yourself 10 days away from work.

    C'mon, if you have that much difficulty using a calendar & doing simple maths I sincerely doubt if you're actually employable.


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    watna
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    Hill Billy wrote: »
    C'mon, if you have that much difficulty using a calendar & doing simple maths I sincerely doubt if you're actually employable.

    I was too polite to say this but yes, it's fairly simple stuff!


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    seamus
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    You'll actually have to take four days.

    Monday 17th and the following Monday 24th are public holidays. So you need to take off the 18, 19, 20 and 21st (Good Friday), and you have ten days off from 15th-24th.


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    Lux23
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    I get Good Friday as a free holiday so I only have to take three days off which Im planning on doing. It will be great buts its a long way off.


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    eve
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    seamus wrote: »
    You'll actually have to take four days.

    Monday 17th and the following Monday 24th are public holidays. So you need to take off the 18, 19, 20 and 21st (Good Friday), and you have ten days off from 15th-24th.

    Some companies are closed on Good Friday and don't force staff to take it out of their official holidays.


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    cfennelll
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    Hill Billy wrote: »
    C'mon, if you have that much difficulty using a calendar & doing simple maths I sincerely doubt if you're actually employable.

    Ill give you that.

    But I wasnt sure about good Friday being a national holiday.
    Because its not, 3 days wont do me.

    Thanks for the answers.


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    seamus
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    eve wrote: »
    Some companies are closed on Good Friday and don't force staff to take it out of their official holidays.
    Few and far between these days. Many places even give their staff an extra day but then close on Good Friday, so you still have to take four days out of your holidays :)


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    The Hill Billy
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    watna wrote: »
    I was too polite to say this but yes, it's fairly simple stuff!
    Great minds, eh?


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    l3LoWnA
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    I only need to take 2 days and I've a full ten away from work :D Good job!


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    Maximilian
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    I'm going to be skiiing in Breckenridge that week. Nice to know its not going to cost me in holidays now either. I think the whole country should take the week off. Why not? Let's party for Jebus and his super magic trick.


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    kaimera
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    ...18, 19, 20 March

    it's 10 days incl weekends however.

    /me goes to book a trip away for a week.


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    Agamemnon
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    Maximilian wrote: »
    I'm going to be skiiing in Breckenridge that week. Nice to know its not going to cost me in holidays now either. I think the whole country should take the week off. Why not? Let's party for Jebus and his super magic trick.
    Sounds good to me. I'll have to take Good Friday off but taking four days holidays to get ten is a good deal. Between the 15th and the 24th I intend to be in a perpetual drunken stupor.


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    watna
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    Maximilian wrote: »
    I'm going to be skiiing in Breckenridge that week. Nice to know its not going to cost me in holidays now either. I think the whole country should take the week off. Why not? Let's party for Jebus and his super magic trick.

    I've skied in Breckinridge. It's fab! I'm so jealous / shakes fist at maximilian!


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    Terry
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    seamus wrote: »
    You'll actually have to take four days.

    Monday 17th and the following Monday 24th are public holidays. So you need to take off the 18, 19, 20 and 21st (Good Friday), and you have ten days off from 15th-24th.
    Hamburglars birthday.


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    Maximilian
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    watna wrote: »
    I've skied in Breckinridge. It's fab! I'm so jealous / shakes fist at maximilian!

    Your the third person in the last week to tell me that, which is encouraging. Weak dollar too is nice.


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    Gillo
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    Damn you & your Monday to Friday jobs


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    rubadub
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    eve wrote: »
    Some companies are closed on Good Friday and don't force staff to take it out of their official holidays.
    Yes, so it is an unofficial holiday which is forced. Dunno why companies are not upfront about this. If I owned a company I would rather tell people you have 21 holidays and one is forced, than say you get 20 holidays, and then when good friday comes tell them they are off. Many presume it is rightfully off, and do not appreciate it at all. I dont get it off, I take it off 50% of the time though, just like any holiday I want. IIRC A company must give you a months notice of "forced holidays", many do not.

    There is nothing special about it, almost everyday of the year is some sort of holy day, I remember getting calendars from a religious aunt with them listed.

    It is like people being jealous if they hear about people getting long xmas holidays, which are also forced. If you wanted them off then ask for them in the usual way!


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    Overheal
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    Yeah I cant see how this is going to work - suddenly the country stops working for 10 days? :rolleyes: your boss will laugh at you. Some will get the 10 days, many more will not. Good luck winning the lotto.


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    markw999
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    I would only have to take three days off but the breeders with all of their children to look after got there ahead of me!


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    justsomebloke
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Yeah I cant see how this is going to work - suddenly the country stops working for 10 days? :rolleyes: your boss will laugh at you. Some will get the 10 days, many more will not. Good luck winning the lotto.

    booked the days off last september so no lotto for me, oh and I am going to spending part of the 10 days in new york over paddy's day


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    rubadub
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Yeah I cant see how this is going to work - suddenly the country stops working for 10 days? .

    It does when the lad was born, why not when he dies, I can usually blag more time off for a death than a birth...

    If Dan Browne was born at the right time he might have got his story in with the other fictional stories in the bible, and we could have got another few days off for his wedding every year.


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