# Who else has tomorrow (Good Friday) off. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665 "2015-04-03T00:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/1 "2015-04-03T00:01:25Z")
We get GF off. So Friday comes a day early this week. I’ll do a little drinking tonight (expect another CS thread on some old 80s rock band!) and probably move some more stuff from my old house to the new tomorrow. Maybe do some shooting if it’s not raining too hard (as the forecast calls for). I’ve been lucky in that the last place I worked and the current, GF is a paid day off. How common is that ? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/2 "2015-04-03T00:38:56Z")
Not very but it happens. The last place I worked prided itself on being “Christian” so we got almost all the New Testament holidays with pay. One law firm the wife was with did it for the major holidays and Good Friday. But I would say 95% of the places I’m aware of are business as usual. (In my current job, not only do I work tomorrow but Sunday as well at straight time. But since I knew that going in, no harm and no foul.) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/3 "2015-04-03T02:08:00Z")
Not me. We got some stuff to do. One of my clients (an industrial machinery resale) is closed. The forklift sales & support company my cousin works for is closed. My brother works at a church - he has Monday off (to decompress!) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/4 "2015-04-03T02:24:20Z")
I’m working tomorrow. Heck, I may go into the office Sunday and work a few hours. I’ll take some other day off when everyone else is at work. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/5 "2015-04-03T02:29:13Z")
We have 3 hours unpaid time off for “religious observance”. Some people people take it on Good Friday, others take it to get an early start on a weekend, some people don’t take it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/6 "2015-04-03T02:30:46Z")
It’s a stat holiday in Saskatchewan, so I get the day off. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/7 "2015-04-03T02:35:07Z")
People who work in the brokerage industry are off tomorrow. Howerver, the banks are open; hence the reason we called GR a “reverse half-assed holiday”. As opposed to Columbus & Veteran’s Days, when the banks are closed but NYSE is opened (Half-assed holidays). When I was in that industry, it was easy to have a holiday where everyone was off, but these three days were a Royal PITA because we had to go in to the system & turn off certain programs from running, but not others. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/8 "2015-04-03T02:54:20Z")
Not me, nor the school district my kids belong to ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/9 "2015-04-03T02:58:51Z")
I don’t get it off but I do get +100% pay for working during it. It is a day off (without pay) for most people here in Finland though. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/10 "2015-04-03T03:11:42Z")
I have tomorrow off. Of course I retired five years ago so a day off isn’t a big deal for me. ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/11 "2015-04-03T03:13:16Z")
Working at a Catholic school I get off Wednesday to Good Friday and all next week. It’s our Spring break. One is Holy Days, and the other is Holiday. 🙂 Better, when I worked in a rich kids’ private non-religious school in Louisiana we got off everything including Tet, Lunar New Year, Passover, Holy Week, Christmas and Hanukkah. We couldn’t have off all of Ramadan (a month) but we did have off Eid Al-Fitr. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/12 "2015-04-03T03:17:13Z")
My company is Swedish and I work with people in Stockholm and Uppsala (about an hour’s drive north). They have today and tomorrow off. It is their Easter break. We don’t get it off. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/13 "2015-04-03T03:18:21Z")
My wife does, she’s a middle school teacher. I’ve never had GF off in my career. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/14 "2015-04-03T03:27:24Z")
I work for the public schools and we start spring break tomorrow, so yes, I am off. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/15 "2015-04-03T03:38:05Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > It’s a stat holiday in Saskatchewan, so I get the day off. Good Friday is a [statutory holiday](http://www.statutoryholidays.com/easter.php) across Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/16 "2015-04-03T10:02:15Z")
AT the federal level, yes, but there’s some provincial variation, as the folks at [Time and Date](http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/good-friday) explain: > [@](#): > > Good Friday is a public holiday at a national level in Canada. Schools and many businesses and organizations are closed and many people have a day off work. Post offices are closed and in some areas, particularly in the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, stores are closed or have restricted opening hours. Public transport services many run to their usual or restricted timetables. In rural areas, public transport may close down completely. > > In Quebec, Good Friday or Easter Monday are a statutory general holidays at the option of the employer. Schools and post offices are closed. Public transport services many run to their usual or restricted timetables. In rural areas, public transport may close down completely. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/17 "2015-04-03T10:31:05Z")
I have the day off! first day off since Christmas/new year (and that was the first break since about the middle of last year. I started a new job in October and there is no capacity for leave until I implement the changes I need to make to my department. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-has-tomorrow-good-friday-off/716665/18 "2015-04-03T11:27:55Z")
I had today off. Good Friday is a public holiday throughout Australia.