The day after Thanksgiving is a paid day off for everyone in my office. This is, in large part, because they realized some years ago that they might as well just close the office. After the tenth year in a row featuring an absentee rate of over 80% (almost all scheduled vacation days, with a leavening of call-ins), my office just said “Screw it” and declared the office closed on Black Friday. This had the effect of giving all regular staff (excluding the security guys) a paid day off.
For the same reason, if Chrismas is on a Tuesday or Thursday, we get the Monday/Friday off as paid, also. Ditto New Year’s. Nobody expects us to be in, anyways. Courts are closed, most of our clients are closed, even if staff were in (which they never are), nothing really gets done.
Me, I’m doing the Black Friday thing. Because I’m crazy.
Nope, we’re open Friday - I happen to not work it, but that’s because I’m working this weekend, an even deeper pool of suck. We only get Thanksgiving day.
White collar office job here and we’re working. To be fair, I fully expect to see everyone leave early.
The official office handbook holidays are New Years, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas. They’re giving us Xmas Eve & NY Eve off (paid) this season so we can have 4-day weekends there so I won’t complain about this Friday.
I think my professional career has been split between places that have that Friday off and places that expect you to come to work. When I worked at the Seattle Macy’s (as a contractor, thank god), people not only had to work on Friday, they had to (or were at least strongly encouraged to) march in the parade that morning. You couldn’t pay me enough, but some people loved it.
I have no idea. They never tell us until the 11th hour, but the decision is always the same – take the day off. This year, we have a new office manager.
It’s really inconvenient to people who want to make travel plans.
I worked in the financial industry until about 3 years ago, and typically I had to come in when the markets were open. Now that I’m working for a media company, everyone except those required to be on-site for broadcast activities will probably be home. Our data center folks will be on call (as will someone on my team, since I’m also in a production support area).
I get Thanksgiving off paid, but the day after Thanksgiving is an unpaid day for me if I take it off. I will just use some vacation or flex time hours to cover the day off.
I have a friend who works in management (corporate) for a major chain selling Things You Slather On Yourself – let’s call it “The Corpus Store.” They are strongly encouraged to go down to their local mall outlet and assist in setting up the Christmas and sales displays for Black Friday – on Thursday afternoon. She’s pretty cheesed about it – it basically boils down to “Forget your Thanksgiving or you are not a team player!” It’s too bad I don’t work there instead, since I’d be happy to do it, given my Thanksgiving ambivalence.
I work friday, but we’ll leave early. Typically, we leave at 3 on the wednesday before and the friday after, but sometimes the friday goes as early as 12.
I just want everyone to think of me on Black Friday when their ATM cards work, and their credit card purchases go through without a burp. I don’t support those things directly, but I do support the people that keep that stuff running.
We have Friday off. For New Years, we have off January 1 (of course), which is a Tuesday. So - work Monday, off Tues, in rest of week? I decided to take off the 31st too. My parents will be visiting, and besides - it’s my birthday!
My husband doesn’t. We’re visiting relatives for the holiday, so we’re leaving Wednesday after he gets home from work, and coming home Thursday afternoon so he can be up for work on Friday. It’s probably a good thing, because it gives him an excuse to spend less time with his father.
For me it is an “optional day.” The office is closed, but if we take it off we must use a vacation day. I’m going to work because the days before and after Christmas are also “optional days” and I’d like to take them both off.
My SO gets no vacation or benefits (as a post secondary instructor) and they get one week, Christmas week, off every year unpaid. It sucketh verily.
I do. It’s our “floating” holiday. The local offices decide when the floating holiday will be, and the majority choose Black Friday. The one time I didn’t get Friday off was the year I worked in an office at an outlet mall. It wasn’t a mall store; the company just had an office at the mall. It was truly hideous.
Nope, I’ll be here Friday. Most people are taking paid time off, but since I’m taking a leave of absence in December to go to India, I don’t get any more time off until well into next year. Too bad my son’s daycare isn’t operating that day. I’m actually a little miffed because if my husband weren’t able to take that day off to watch him, I’d be SOL. I do have the capability to work from home, but my manager told me it’d look bad if I did, so I’ll be in at least part of the day. Oh, well. At least it’ll be quiet for once.
It’s an “optional holiday” for us. The market is open, so we’re open. That said, all but five (out of forty) people are taking the day off, and those of us who are taking one for the team expect to leave by 2:00 at the latest.
Our office is open but almost everyone takes a vacation day. I’m in a small dept so I always volunteer to work it so the other guys can be off. It gets me out of all sorts of shopping trips. I usually take my vacation day some other time when the malls are not as crazy.