Girls who work for foreign companies

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What happens when your main office is celebrating a holiday that isn't celebrated in your country? Do you get the day off? A short day? Business as usual?

[casmgn]

I work for a US-based global company, and our employees outside the US don't get our holidays. Holidays are really set per country. Personally, I'd like to be on the European holiday schedule!

[boiler717]

Holidays are country specific

[drloretta]

DH works for a French company. His office only has US holidays.

[makingithappen]

At my grown up job, holidays are by country. At my old retail job, we actually closed for Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur, although that's more religion and not location based I guess.

[Deleted]

Okay, good -- I guess I'm not crazy for thinking it is odd that my husband gets to come in late on Canadian Thanksgiving!

I too would prefer to get the holidays that our main and other European offices get! Boo to America! (Although I guess good call to whoever decided that Thanksgiving will always be on a Thursday)

[cep1976]

I worked for the British Embassy in DC at one point, and we followed the US holiday schedule, with the exception of getting Good Friday off.

[definitelyO]

Oct 8, 2012 9:02:50 GMT -5 casmgn said:

I work for a US-based global company, and our employees outside the US don't get our holidays. Holidays are really set per country. Personally, I'd like to be on the European holiday schedule!

this. Our French and German locations get the month of August off... I want to work over there.

[Deleted]

At my last job, we went by US holidays, but then we got the day off for 1 random one which the home country had off. It was awesome, as I always made appts and the like that day and could get in last minute.

[cjeanette]

I work for a Canadian company but for regulatory reasons the US is considered a different entity. We do get an e-mail on Canadian holidays in English and French.

[LoveTrains]

V, why are you guys even working today?! It's a holiday int he states, too, today.

[anna7602]

I've worked for foreign companies in the past and I only got the holidays celebrated in the country where I worked. If the home office was closed, it was business as usual. But on the sucky side, if our office was closed and the home office was open, many times we still had to put in part of a day or at least do some work from home.

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Oct 8, 2012 10:11:32 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

V, why are you guys even working today?! It's a holiday int he states, too, today.

I've never had Columbus Day off! (I don't remember ever getting it off when I was in school either).

[cjeanette]

Oct 8, 2012 10:17:34 GMT -5 v said:

Oct 8, 2012 10:11:32 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

V, why are you guys even working today?! It's a holiday int he states, too, today.

I've never had Columbus Day off! (I don't remember ever getting it off when I was in school either).

I never had it off until I worked for a bank. Only federal buildings, banks, and Post office have it off here. Even public school is open.

[fbf2006]

I've never had Columbus day off either!!

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Oct 8, 2012 10:26:42 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

Oct 8, 2012 10:17:34 GMT -5 v said:

I've never had Columbus Day off! (I don't remember ever getting it off when I was in school either).

I never had it off until I worked for a bank. Only federal buildings, banks, and Post office have it off here. Even public school is open.

My husband doesn't have it off and he works for a bank! The markets are open today, right?

[fbf2006]

Yes, the stock market is open. Bond markets are closed though.

[cjeanette]

Oct 8, 2012 10:31:07 GMT -5 v said:

Oct 8, 2012 10:26:42 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

I never had it off until I worked for a bank. Only federal buildings, banks, and Post office have it off here. Even public school is open.

My husband doesn't have it off and he works for a bank! The markets are open today, right?

Yes. Our branch locations are closed. Since I work in one I can't go in. Our client support people and portfolio managmet are in their offices though.

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Oct 8, 2012 10:17:34 GMT -5 v said:

Oct 8, 2012 10:11:32 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

V, why are you guys even working today?! It's a holiday int he states, too, today.

I've never had Columbus Day off! (I don't remember ever getting it off when I was in school either).

Yeah we're not off either. H is off from his clinic at the VA hospital, though.

[LoveTrains]

Hrmm, most people up here have off. The schools are closed, too.

I remember having off as a kid in NJ, too.

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Oct 8, 2012 14:57:21 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Hrmm, most people up here have off. The schools are closed, too.

I remember having off as a kid in NJ, too.

I noticed no difference on the subway today from a normal Monday, though coworkers from Westchester said that MetroNorth was really quiet. The schools in my hometown in NJ are all open -- not that many Italians in those parts!

[GailGoldie]

here in the US we have different schedules than in japan.

most places around here (northern NJ - full of Italians) are still open - schools etc... it's not much of a holiday around here anymore since the schools now are off for quite a few jewish holidays- they had to cut back on some of the "lesser" days that used to be off.