I work as a baker in a cafe located in our public library. We would probably stay open if we could, but are closed for the day since the library closes and we don’t have our own entrance.
Many large companies will take off on MLK Day. I always had it off when working as an office drone in the telecommunications field. Anyone that works in finance, insurance, etc. will likely have off.
Service-industry occupations (retail, hotel/tourism, travel, restaurants, etc.) will typically not have MLK Day off.
Yep, I gots Monday off.
I get it off. I don’t get President’s Day, though.
We have a weird schedule. We used to not get Columbus Day off (this is a college), but had a “President’s Holiday” the next week. Then we had a second “President’s Holiday” in the spring – but not in February.
A few years ago, though, the college decided to shut down over the Christmas break. We lost the President’s Holidays in exchange. We get 16 days off, but 12 of them are between November 26 and January 19.
I don’t get it off from work, but I think my boyfriend gets it off (he works for the government). And the next college semester doesn’t start until Tuesday.
I don’t get hardly anything off from work. 
When I worked for a Virginia state agency, I got MLK day off. As others have said, before MLK day was a national holiday, Jan 15 (or a close Monday) was Lee-Jackson Day, a Virginia holiday. So state workers got to take the day off. Then I guess the seismic disturbances from all the grave-rolling forced them to split the holidays up into a Friday and a Monday. So state workers got a 4-day weekend 2 weeks after New Years. Sometimes I miss having all those holidays off…
Used to be a day off at other jobs, but here we get only the major holidays and a winter break. No Veterans Day, Pres Day, MLK Day.
Got it off at my last job (ad agency) but don’t have it off at my current job (major retailer - corporate office). I believe I had it off throughout school.
The only time I have ever had it off was when I was attending the University of Minnesota. My high school did not have it as a day off–they felt that we would learn more about Dr. King by going to school on that day. That and it’s too close to President’s Day. The high school changed their mind a few years later when my sister attended, but she lost President’s Day.
I work in a factory now, and we don’t get MLK day or President’s Day off. In fact, we get no paid holidays between New Year’s Day and Memorial Day.
I work in a factory and it’s been a paid day off for my entire 14 years there. Schools are off here too, they called a ‘weather emergency’ day off today and then called us back a few hours later to remind everyone school doesn’t resume until Tuesday.
This is the first place I’ve ever worked that gets it off. (Yay!) I was in high school when he died, and our district shockingly did not consult psychics, so I never got it off in school.
ETA: And not that way either.
I have never had MLK holiday. Either in school or work. In fact, I went to Ga Tech back in the early 80’s, and IIRC, we never had Prez Day as a holiday. Nor was Memorial Day or the 4th of July when I was a summer student.
I grew up in the midwest and never thought of MLK Day as a holiday until it was made such in the eighties, when I was in high school. At that time I remember thinking “alright! we’ll get another day off!” but in fact I don’t remember ever getting it as a holiday for school or work or whatever. Maybe I did, but it didn’t make a big enough impression to stick in my mind.
I’ve worked mostly for non-profits and arts organizations in three states, and as far as I recall none of them have given me that day off, but that is true for the corporate jobs I’ve had as well. Most jobs I’ve had we get five* paid holidays off - New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I routinely expect to work MLK day as well as Presidents Day and Columbus Day.
I’ll be at work Monday, but things will be pretty quiet.
*ETA: I forgot Independence Day (4th of July). I guess it is normally six paid holidays, though I remember one job where we only got five. I guess we had to choose one of the six to work, or take it as a vacation day or something. Hm.