# question for employed dopers re:9/11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 28, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868 "2002-08-28T01:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/1 "2002-08-28T01:58:31Z")
In various different places, articles, boards etc, i keep seeing people talking about what they are planning on doing this coming 09/11. People planning on going to church, or spending a day with family,whatever. Seeing as how the anniversary is on a wednsday, I will be at work. Is 9/11 an official holiday now? Are most businesses gonna be closed? Are any of you guys getting the day off? Have I missed something? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/2 "2002-08-28T02:04:44Z")
Not here - I’ve got class that day with a paper due. I think people may do things as a remembrance, and some employers may allow the time off, but at my former employer, you’d have to take it as vacation time, because it’s not an official holiday. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/3 "2002-08-28T02:08:45Z")
I have done a few web searches, and I cannot find 9/11 being an official holiday in any State - and it is not a Federal holiday. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/4 "2002-08-28T02:12:55Z")
I teach five college classes and Sep. 11 is most definitely not one of our days off. Sep. 2 is, but then, it has been for quite a while. There will be remembrance services, etc. on the 11th at the campuses but that’s the extent of it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/5 "2002-08-28T02:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*I have done a few web searches, and I cannot find 9/11 being an official holiday in any State - and it is not a Federal holiday. \*\* IIRC, there was talk of making 9/11 “Patriot’s Day” in honor of those who were killed, but I havn’t heard anything more about it. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/6 "2002-08-28T15:30:54Z")
Well, it’s not an official holiday of any kind, but I, and a few other New Yorkers, are naturally a little skittish. I know several people who will not be going into work in Manhattan that day. I probably won’t either–esp. if my wife has anything to say about it. Just some bad vibes, you understand. ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/7 "2002-08-28T15:37:10Z")
Nothing’s been said, neither officially or not, in this Wall Street office. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/8 "2002-08-28T15:45:03Z")
Heavens, no—we’ll be in the throes of getting our November issue to the printer, which means I’ll be working 12-hour days that week and not able to take a lunch break, let alone a day off. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/9 "2002-08-28T16:35:08Z")
As far as I know, the firm for which I work will be open. We have offices in NYC and I haven’t heard they’ll be closed, either. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/10 "2002-08-28T16:43:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\* > > IIRC, there was talk of making 9/11 “Patriot’s Day” in honor of those who were killed, but I havn’t heard anything more about it. \*\* September 11 is indeed Patriot’s Day, at least according to the “Patriot’s Day” cards I just put out at Hallmark. It’s just not a holiday in the sense that the banks are closed, etc. It is, as they say, a “Hallmark” holiday, like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, etc. You won’t get the day off work, but you should at least send everyone a card! ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/11 "2002-08-28T16:46:21Z")
No mention of a day off here… and I’m only about a block away from the WTC site. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/12 "2002-08-28T16:56:05Z")
Nope–I’m in DC, work for the feds and I’m going to work (plus taking a final in statistics) on the 11th. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/13 "2002-08-28T17:00:29Z")
“September 11 is indeed Patriot’s Day, at least according to the ‘Patriot’s Day’ cards I just put out at Hallmark.” —Yikes! Gives a whole new flavor to the phrase “a Hallmark moment.” ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/14 "2002-08-28T17:04:23Z")
FWIW, the NYSE will be opening 1.5 hours late on the 11th. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/15 "2002-08-28T17:10:56Z")
The New York courts will be operating. I have a motion returnable and a trial scheduled to start on the 11th. There may be some sort of commerative event, but I think that it will generally be business as usual, which I think is how it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Zoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6de8d8/32.png) [@Zoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoff)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/16 "2002-08-28T17:14:50Z")
Our firm is giving people up to two hours of administrative leave to do whatever they want to do in remembrance. As an aside, we already have a Patriot’s Day. It’s April 19 and celebrates the beginning of the American Revolution. ---
**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/17 "2002-08-28T17:57:55Z")
I’m sure sooner or later Massachusetts will make it a state holiday. Patriot’s Day, Evacuation Day, Bunker Hill Day… what’s one more holiday for government workers? IMHO, if we don’t go to work “THE TERRORISTS WIN!” or so the cliche goes 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/18 "2002-08-28T18:05:02Z")
I’ll be at work. “Patriot day” is a terrible name. As **Zoff** says, we already have one. Besides that, does anyone really think that the heros of that day - police, firefighters, the passengers on the plane in PA - did what they did out of political ideology rather than out of a desire to help people/thwart another hijacking? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/19 "2002-08-28T20:11:21Z")
Nobody’s mentioned anything at my workplace so I’m assuming it’s business as usual… ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868/20 "2002-08-28T20:42:07Z")
I was confused by that, too, **Quintas**. I am not employed, but my daughter’s still going to school and my husband’s still going to work. I don’t know anyone who’s got that day off or is even planning on taking that day off, especially since it is so soon after Labor Day. As far as I know, things are business as usual. Who’s going to be watching these umpteen hours of rehash footage? I hope they’re not counting on me to do it! I’m curious–did the US stop working of the first anniversary of other tragedies, like Pearl Harbor or JFK’s assassination? “Patriots’ Day”? Egad. Something about that name bothers me. I guess it’s a better name than “Terrorists’ Day”, but still… I bet my family receives a “Patriots’ Day” card from my MIL. She’s gone all gung-ho military lately, between her daughter marrying a Navy man and September 11. She celebrated the beginning of the war in Afghanistan with a “war party” and has a red, white, and blue bunting (the sort I associate with political campaigns and the 4th of July) permanently affixed to the front of her house. You know, perhaps I should actually send her a “Patriots’ Day” card. Seems appropriate, somehow. I bet even she still plans to go to work on Sept. 11, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-employed-dopers-re-9-11/125868.md?page=2)