Good Friday off work?

[Liep]

Also, most people in Denmark (except retail/medical) takes the entire week off getting a 10 day holiday.

[MadBurgerMaker]

State Holiday.

BUT you can work and get comp time which you can then use to take your other Easter day off.

Not at UTHSCSA.  It's just a regular work day. 

We do have the 22nd as one of those mission critical days next month though.

[Savonarola]

I get extra vacations days and Sunday pay for working on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and 2nd Easter Day (Monday).

"Maundy Thursday"?? "2nd Easter Day"??

What are those?? And what are the religious significance to those?

The Thursday is the day Jebus washed his disciples' feet, I don't know what Maudy means but we call it "Skærtorsdag" and it means Clean Thursday. And Easter Monday is him meeting his disciples.

In the United States we usually call "Maundy Thursday", "Holy Thursday."  In Britain "Holy Thursday" is the Feast of the Ascension (or at least it was in Blake's time.  That's what the poems "Holy Thursday"from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience refer to.)

[derspiess]

Never had Good Friday off as far as I can remember.  I don't get paid holidays or vacation with my current gig anyway.

[Valmy]

State Holiday.

BUT you can work and get comp time which you can then use to take your other Easter day off.

Not at UTHSCSA.  It's just a regular work day. 

We do have the 22nd as one of those mission critical days next month though.

I didn't get it off at UT Austin either. The Universities have a different schedule.

[viper37]

I had a conversation with a co-worker today regarding Good Friday as a holiday. He thought that it was a given that companies give that day off work. It got me thinking about it. Growing up in Iowa and then moving to Illinois, Good Friday has never been a state holiday, so I never thought about it being a Federal one. My co-worker has only ever had jobs in Indiana - where it is a state holiday - and in Illinois at very small companies owned by very religious individuals.

So who gets this Friday off work? And how does it work for Eastern Orthodox people with their different Easter calendar?

We get either Friday or Monday off, employer's choice.  In my line of work, it's both for most employees, so I usually take Monday and work on Friday while everyone is at home and nobody calls me.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Technically yes, but in practice it is another day of vacation that can be taken at any time.

[Phillip V]

Luckily, at least half of my work (tech/management) is done from home, so I don't care too much about holidays or vacation.  I am still in my underwear in front of a computer.

[celedhring]

I'll be working this Friday, but that's because I'm a freelancer. Most businesses will be closed tomorrow in here.

[derspiess]

Luckily, at least half of my work (tech/management) is done from home, so I don't care too much about holidays or vacation.  I am still in my underwear in front of a computer.

  I work from home every day.  Amazing how much more productive I am without people interrupting me at my desk.

[Valmy]

Never had Good Friday off as far as I can remember.  I don't get paid holidays or vacation with my current gig anyway.

What horrible Godless business do you work in?

[MadBurgerMaker]

I didn't get it off at UT Austin either. The Universities have a different schedule.

Kindof a bummer.  I like those mission critical days, because they tend to be more quiet and as you said, you get comp days for them.  When I was less lazy and would show up for them (my department doesn't have any "critical" stuff in that sense, but we can be here if we want, and researchers seem to be all obsessive-like so they're always around), I'd just sit and watch movies all day with my empty inbox on the other screen.  I don't think anyone really knew I was here.

[derspiess]

Never had Good Friday off as far as I can remember.  I don't get paid holidays or vacation with my current gig anyway.

What horrible Godless business do you work in?

Project Management consulting.  I can take time off; I just don't get paid for it.  But that's a small sacrifice for the flexibility I have working from home, plus making almost twice what I used to get in my previous job.

[garbon]

Never had Good Friday off as far as I can remember.  I don't get paid holidays or vacation with my current gig anyway.

What horrible Godless business do you work in?

Project Management consulting.  I can take time off; I just don't get paid for it.  But that's a small sacrifice for the flexibility I have working from home, plus making almost twice what I used to get in my previous job.

That sounds like the bit then. When I was in New York, I could work from home everyday but they also let me have paid vacation.

[Brazen]

"Maundy Thursday"??

The Queen hands out Maundy money to the same number of deserving individuals as her age every year. Seeing as she's 90 it's getting expensive 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35890750