Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras! I’m home right now, enjoying a four-day weekend.
I must take New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas off, or the Monday or Friday closest if Christmas or New Year’s falls on a weekend, as it did last year. But I must pay for the time off from my vacation time, and I don’t have the option of working if I want to save the vacation for time I want to use for other reasons. I would rather they put up or shut up – I’d rather have unpaid time or have the option to work than have my vacation time essentially hijacked from me.
Paid holidays are New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and Christmas. I’d personally rather have Christmas Eve than the day after Thanksgiving, but it doesn’t really matter.
My sister works for Fender Guitar and she gets almost all holidays off with pay. She’s off today, as a matter of fact.
My company lumps all our sick and vacation time together as Paid Time Off. I get 26 days per year. This is great for me, because I’m never sick, and used to lose accumulated sick time. Now it’s all vacation time.
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That ain’t happenin’ with Easter. Ever.
I work for an NGO in DC, and we get all the official OPM holidays (including Inauguration Day). We also get the day after Thanksgiving on the basis that almost nobody would show up for that day anyway.
Sometimes, if a major holiday falls on a weekend OPM will give a different day off–that happened in December when the 25th fell on a Sunday, so OPM declared that 12/26 was a federal holiday.
My university closes the week between Christmas and New Year’s, MLK Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving plus Black Friday. I really wish we got President’s Day, but I guess that week at the end of the year makes up for it.
The county public schools close for the first day of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
I work at a resort (known for skiing, but summers are huge for us as well). We don’t get holidays, unless said holidays fall on our scheduled days off. President’s Day weekend is huge for us, actually.
I don’t mind this nearly as much as I did when I was working retail. Look, people, it’s Thanksgiving, couldn’t you wait to buy a pair of jeans? Seriously? I can understand a last-minute run for some food-related item, but very little else.
If I happen to be scheduled off on the day of a holiday, I technically get that holiday off. 
I work nights in a 24 hour operation, and unless we use our PTO time to arrange for time off around a holiday, we are to be at work as scheduled.
And, since so many people take that PTO day, and the rest are still in the holiday spirit, if you catch my drift, you really don’t get much work done. Might as well give 'em the day off.
Now if you’re asking when people started thinking of it as being off on Black Friday rather than getting an extra day after Thanksgiving, I couldn’t tell ya. I still don’t think of Black Friday as a day of its own.
Also, I think I’ll go ahead and answer the poll on my previous experience, rather than not answer because I’m currently unemployed.
It always has been a paid holiday with my company. Most of our facilities we work with are closed, and the call volume doesn’t support a full staff. As I said, we have a skeleton crew that comes in that day: but that’s a crew of 12-13 opposed to the entire call center of 100+. Those of us that work don’t stay a whole 8: we open at 7 and close at 1 or 2. And we get holiday pay as well as pay for hours worked. Except for me, that is. I’m salary. I just do it because I enjoy it.
It has always been a holiday. The four non fast food places I have worked Thanksgiving was a four day weekend.
This.
Also in addition to the normal federal holidays, because I work on a military base, I’ll also get the occasional “administrative leave” day for site closings for various military events/activities that they don’t want or need the civvies around for.
I’ve never understood this logic. If you’re getting paid X for the day if you stay home, and 3X if you work, then you’re getting paid double time for working, not triple time.
Back in my youth, I worked for a place that paid just the same time and a half on paid holidays as they would’ve for any other overtime, but they could always get more people to work on a paid holiday, because the idiots would brag about how they were getting paid double time and a half for the day, which was technically true, but they weren’t getting paid any more for working that day than they would have gotten from working a random Saturday.
I get any holidays I want off, so long as there isn’t any work to do. But I don’t get paid for them.
I work for the state of Texas, which means that while I don’t get Columbus Day off (it was dropped when MLK Day was added), I have numerous optional state holidays, like San Jacinto Day, Confederate Heroes Day, Texas Indepenence Day, Juneteenth, and Lyndon Johnson’s Birthday.
We just did this same poll less than a month ago