The office building is eerily empty. The cafe is closed, and the bathroom is all quiet. The bank is open, but other than that I think most people are closed.
We are getting out early this afternoon, but until that, we’re here.
Who’s with me?
We are considered ‘essential’ employees, so several of us are here- but I get to leave at 11 today! Hooray!
June is my last month with every other Friday a half day, though, then I will be stuck on the 9-5
But yeah, the building is on lockdown, we have to dodge people at the doors who don’t know we are closed, etc-
I like it all empty at work.
I would like it better if my coworkers had all taken the day off. 
But it’s cool.
I can’t remember the last time I worked someplace where we had Good Friday off. I mean, I guess I could take it off if I wanted to now, since I’m self-employed, but back when I worked outside the house, it wasn’t considered a holiday.
People get Good Friday off?
Apparently so!
Not anyone I personally know. But I bet the phones go completely quiet after lunch today.
I work in the clinic part of a medical center (hospital/clinic complex). It’s business as usual for the entire facility, such that I’m always surprised whenever someone asks me if I have today off. (I spoke to a friend, who’s a teacher, earlier in the week, and she asked me the same question; I couldn’t figure out why I might until I thought about it for a bit.) Our clinic is open today, doctors are in, we’re seeing patients, and I have a lunch meeting with a pharmaceutical company rep as well.
Aside from some short periods in my life where I’ve had other jobs, I’ve worked in universities or hospitals my entire adult life, so I’ve never really had that as an option.
For us it is just a ‘work-furlough’ day, and most of us DON’T get it off- so I am glad I signed up to get the half fridays- not that I am Catholic; I am one gen away from anything with a cross…
But we do get Malcolm X day off- and I guess that pretty much narrows down where I work if you care… 
Here in Panama people do. Actually, a lot of people take off Holy Thursday too to make a four-day weekend. I went in to my office yesterday to find no one else around.
Today I’m working from home, but on consulting work and other outside projects.
Weekends like this one are the best time to do shopping and errands around town (at least at places that are still open). There’s almost no traffic (which is usually horrendous) or crowds and the city is nearly a ghost town.
I had forgotten that this was Easter weekend until a coworker mentioned it. I hope we end up leaving early.
In this neck of the woods (Seattle area), everyone appears to be working as normal.
Including, famously (well, evidently not so famously), the New York Stock Exchange and other financial markets.
Not getting paid, but I’m hoping to “work” in the ER tonight. A friend of mine is an RN there, and checking with her boss to see if I can shadow her on the 3P to 3AM shift. I hope Boss says yes, I really need more clinical experience than I’m getting in school, so even if I can’t *do *anything for legal reasons, I’d really like to see what an overnight shift in the ER looks like.
And if I just *happen *to make a great impression and they want to hire me when I get my license in July, that’d be okay, too! 
I hadn’t considered that it’s Good Friday, though. Wonder if that will raise or lower the patient census…
I work for the government, obviously we are fully operational and have a normal workday. Church, meet state.
I took a half day on monday for Passover.
I’m at work but taking the afternoon off just cause I can.
This. Our office is fully functional today. There are probably some religious people who scheduled the day off, but it’s a call center and we have a low absence tolerance. Incoming phone calls can’t be put off 'til Monday, unlike other forms of work.
I didn’t even know Easter was this weekend until my boss gave me a chocolate rabbit this morning. Thanks, boss !
Yup, going into the call center in a couple hours. That’s one of the few things I miss about factory work- we always got a 3 day weekend for Easter.
I’m traveling on Monday, so I expect to be in the office late tonight, and possibly tomorrow. Sigh.
Not only am I working, but I’ve been in the office since 5:30 AM and I don’t get to leave until 4:00 - 4:30 PM. We pushed a release out to our client databases this morning and I had to be here for testing, then work a normal day as support. Our clients are doctors, so most of them are working today.
I’m really tired, though. It’s only 12:30 and I’ve already done 7 hours…