Easter Bank Holidays

evil_seed

I don't know whether to as this in after hours or not. Maybe here is more appropriate. Anyways.... for those that don't believe in God/Jesus, will you be working on Friday & Monday? These are holidays due to our countries religious beliefs or am I way off the mark?

Dades

I'm not working. And of course Good Friday is a Christian holiday - if an inaptly named one.

Galvasean

I'm working easter monday and being paid double. Thanks religion.

daveharnett

I always thought the bank holiday monday was to celebrate the easter rising (the political one rather than the religious one ).

I'll be celebrating good friday with the assistance of a rent-a-keg

Orion

If you want to go down that road then St. Patrick's Day, Christmas day and St. Stephen's Day are all religious holidays too. Should we work them as well? Ireland is a mostly christian country, as are most countries in the EU. For that reason we are closed for business on those days.

And just on a point of information - Good Friday is not a public holiday in Ireland - it's a bank holiday only - despite most companies closing for it. Monday is a public holiday.

PDN

daveharnett wrote: »

I always thought the bank holiday monday was to celebrate the easter rising (the political one rather than the religious one ).

I must say, then, that its dashed sporting of the jolly old Brits to celebrate it along with us.

BTW, I as a Christian have no problem celebrating Good Friday even though the day (like every Friday) is dedicated to the pagan goddess Freyja. So I don't think atheists should have any problem with taking the day off.

Tim_Murphy

I just got an autoreply back from a guy which said that today was a statutory Holiday in his jurisdiction. :mad: In Ireland of all places should I not have today off?

I had to take today out of my holidays to have the day off.

I was talking to a colleague in England yesterday who asked why as a Catholic country we don't get today off. I explained that as the pubs and butchers are closed what would be the point of having a day off.

Orion

Because the weather is lovely - what better day to fire up the bbq and have some burgers, steak, chicken wings and beer

kiffer

Just remember while bbqing to make an offering to Freyja. As PDN points out It's Her day too...
Gods love bbq because the smell of burning meat smells nice to them.

stevejazzx

Our MD didn't go for the religious angle we tried to spin (God won't be happy with us working etc) in an attempt to finish early - however when we showed him Pamela's 111frightening thread he acceded to 3 o' clock...you know, just in case.

velocirafter

It's just a cultural thing that we get it off, if I was living in UAE I would be taking Ramadan off. I have no problem with the role religion has played in shaping culture historically, they robbed most of the holidays off whatever religion they were converting anyway.

Mena

We don't celebrate it at all but our respective companies follow the trend and shutdown both days, so we get two free days off. I don't mind that much, except that work tends to pile up causing a terrible Tuesday :mad:

Nodin

evil_seed wrote: »

I don't know whether to as this in after hours or not. Maybe here is more appropriate. Anyways.... for those that don't believe in God/Jesus, will you be working on Friday & Monday? These are holidays due to our countries religious beliefs or am I way off the mark?

Whatever we do or don't worship, I think its important to not worship work.

fatmammycat

I'm self-employed, an atheist and working today. And by golly I will be having a drink later.

dceire

Galvasean wrote: »

I'm working easter monday and being paid double. Thanks religion.

+1

Now where did i leave all that good Friday meat?

dceire

daveharnett wrote: »

I'll be celebrating good friday with the assistance of a rent-a-keg

This holiday was brought to you in association with "Rent-a-Keg" #1 for all your drunken needs!

Galvasean

Waitaminute.... my fridge broke down this morning, that means my Good friday meat went funny and my beer is now warm...

Mysterious ways...

coffee_cake

evil_seed wrote: »

I don't know whether to as this in after hours or not. Maybe here is more appropriate. Anyways.... for those that don't believe in God/Jesus, will you be working on Friday & Monday? These are holidays due to our countries religious beliefs or am I way off the mark?

A holiday is a holiday , just like easter eggs are chocolate! so no
need the time off work for study anyway >(

rainbow kirby

I'm a final year student, I spent several hours working on my project and I will do likewise all through the weekend. The only difference Easter makes is that my Sunday long run might have to be a couple of miles longer to make up for the chocolate!

Zombrex

Good Friday isn't a national holiday, I was working today (er, yesterday)

Our boss told us that if anyone wanted to take the day off for religious reasons he was happy for that but it would be coming out of our annual leave.

I am not going in on Monday because it is a national holiday and the office will be closed.

I am not celebrating Easter beyond having an Easter egg (or 20). I celebrate Christmas because of the cultural significance but Easter has always seemed more religiousy than Christmas.

blogga

I have had a wonderful good friday. Two extra strong cosmopolitans to wash down a huge tea, yes tea not dinner, of rashers and sausages. Hehe. What a mixture. I think some sex with condom later. I'll dedicate it to the mad german aka benedict the nth.