# Did you get MLK Day off? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761 "2012-01-17T02:38:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/21 "2012-01-17T14:52:08Z")
We get a choice: MLK Day, Presidents Day, or a floating holiday. I’ll take the floating holiday, probably in June. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/22 "2012-01-17T15:22:06Z")
No, but I got to park all day without having to pay or move my car. That was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/23 "2012-01-17T15:27:42Z")
> [@JuliaSqueezer](#): > > Same here. I was surprised that the university chose to remain open. They did have commemorative events, but many students took the day off in protest, so attendance was low. During both undergrad and grad school, the only holiday we got any time off for was Thanksgiving (2 days). Everything else either fell outside of the semester (e.g. Christmas, Independence Day) or was a normal school day. In fact in undergrad we always started each semester on a holiday, Labor Day and MLK Day. School offices were often closed. I usually didn’t notice it was a holiday until I went to check my mail or buy something from the stockroom. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/24 "2012-01-17T15:28:07Z")
> [@JuliaSqueezer](#): > > Same here. I was surprised that the university chose to remain open. They did have commemorative events, but many students took the day off in protest, so attendance was low. Hey, I went to one of the few universites that remained open all September 11, 2001. It(U of Mich - Dearborn) is highly Muslim and did not want to look like they were closing because of that. Few people attended classes, though. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/25 "2012-01-17T15:32:05Z")
I work for a union; we got it off. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/26 "2012-01-17T15:34:39Z")
No. I ain’t some slacker Federal, state or bank employee. Working class motherfucker I is. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/27 "2012-01-17T16:51:30Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I know, we usually do. However, this year the day was too close to our return from Christmas break(Jan. 9), so we did not have it off. Very odd. When I went to college, my school (Gonzaga University) would start fall semester on or near Labor Day, so we never got that day off. We would have an observed Labor Day–in October. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/28 "2012-01-17T17:09:56Z")
Ugh, I hate MLK and Presidents’ Day. They’re mandatory, unpaid days and I work 4-10’s at an engineering firm, why do we have the day off, it just means we have to work on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/29 "2012-01-17T17:28:44Z")
No. Typical large business office. At least traffic was really light yesterday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/30 "2012-01-17T17:48:05Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > Ugh, I hate MLK and Presidents’ Day. They’re mandatory, unpaid days and I work 4-10’s at an engineering firm, why do we have the day off, it just means we have to work on Friday. Mandatory unpaid? That sucks. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/31 "2012-01-17T17:50:51Z")
Yes, I had MLK Day off, as it’s both a Federal (bank) and a NYSE holiday. Most if not all financial services firms in NYC are closed that day, as with Good Friday which is an Exchange holiday. We don’t get the US bank holidays off though when the Exchange is open (Columbus Day or Veteran’s Day). ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/32 "2012-01-17T19:09:55Z")
I had the day off, but it wasn’t part of our scheduled time off. I had to go to an out of town funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/33 "2012-01-18T15:47:38Z")
Yes, I did – IT worker. We used to have the day after Thanksgiving off, but they switched it a couple of years ago for MLK Day. (Or, as a certain office dipshit said loudly on what thankfully turned out to be his last day here “Oh, so we’re trading Black Friday for Black Monday? Hur hur hur!!”) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/34 "2012-01-18T16:57:59Z")
No but I did call my boss a “honky oppressor” at least half a dozen times. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/35 "2012-01-18T17:06:17Z")
Me: corporate, nope. Mr. Horseshoe: retail, nope. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/36 "2012-01-18T17:09:30Z")
Yep I was off. Government employee (not higher ed). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/37 "2012-01-18T17:14:33Z")
oops ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/38 "2012-01-18T17:33:53Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/39 "2012-01-19T12:50:26Z")
I did. I work for a church charity office. We get off any day city school students are out except for the first week of winter break. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761/40 "2012-01-19T19:23:22Z")
I work as a baker in a cafe, and we probably would have been open, but the cafe is located inside the city’s public library. Since that was closed for the day, we had to close as well. On account of this policy I get all the federal holidays off, plus Christmas Eve/Day and New Year’s Eve/Day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761.md?page=3)