Three-day weekends for most people are just a normal workweek for me. Except, for all hours from midnight to midnight on the Holiday Monday, I get “worked-holiday” pay, which means I make double-and-a-half.
This is a great question, and it’s a debate I think about every time a holiday comes around. I’m a big fan of the Friday off long weekend. It feels like you get to start your weekend a day early, and you have the whole weekend to look forward to. There’s nothing like that feeling on a Thursday afternoon!
I’m so stinking busy at work that I haven’t gotten to take a regular weekend off (pretty much working 6-7 days per week) let alone a “long-weekend” off. The three bigs this year, Memorial, Independence & Labor, I’ve worked at least parts of one, two or even three days while everyone else at the place I work is enjoying themselves. (Definitely don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, as my company takes good care of me while racking up the hours/work. 1-1/2X pay over 40 hours, double time on Sundays as well as holiday days. Also got a nice “out of schedule” raise this past week thanking me for all I’ve been doing this year!) I do plan on taking this upcoming weekend off, and if successful, it will be the first one since mid-July. Please post pictures of what you guys are doing so that I might live vicariously through you!
Monday because I work 9/80 schedule and often already have Friday off. With a Monday holiday, I either have a 4 day weekend followed by a 4 day week or a 3 day weekend, 3 day week, then 3 day weekend. Either one is nice.
@macromeh so no NFL for you! But lots of college football. Side note: Bill Bellichick is making his college football coaching debut tonight (yes it’s Monday; weird holiday schedule)
Our ER schedule was 7 on/7 off, 8 hour shifts. The work week started on Monday and ended on Sunday. Since we are a 24/7 type of business, holidays were incorporated into the pay process. Every two weeks we got an extra 5.25 hours of hourly pay which we didn’t actually work. This was to cover 80 hours of vacation time a year as well as the (8) holidays for paid time off. Consequently, if the holiday fell on your work day, you worked it unless you could find someone else to cover it for you. Bottom line was every other week I had a 7-day weekend! Holiday falling on a Monday did not translate into a three-day weekend on any of our schedules.
Sunday through Saturday off.
Either, both, but never neither…
Yes
@hchavers I believe that this is one of the two correct answers, the other being “Both”.
@hchavers @werehatrack
/giphy both
Three-day weekends for most people are just a normal workweek for me. Except, for all hours from midnight to midnight on the Holiday Monday, I get “worked-holiday” pay, which means I make double-and-a-half.
Monday.
Because I like having a 3-day weekend for my birthday and my birthday rarely falls on a Friday. (It will be on a Friday in 2028)
This is a great question, and it’s a debate I think about every time a holiday comes around. I’m a big fan of the Friday off long weekend. It feels like you get to start your weekend a day early, and you have the whole weekend to look forward to. There’s nothing like that feeling on a Thursday afternoon!
I’m so stinking busy at work that I haven’t gotten to take a regular weekend off (pretty much working 6-7 days per week) let alone a “long-weekend” off. The three bigs this year, Memorial, Independence & Labor, I’ve worked at least parts of one, two or even three days while everyone else at the place I work is enjoying themselves. (Definitely don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, as my company takes good care of me while racking up the hours/work. 1-1/2X pay over 40 hours, double time on Sundays as well as holiday days. Also got a nice “out of schedule” raise this past week thanking me for all I’ve been doing this year!) I do plan on taking this upcoming weekend off, and if successful, it will be the first one since mid-July. Please post pictures of what you guys are doing so that I might live vicariously through you!
Who doesn’t need a full day to prepare for successful two day weekend?
Monday because I work 9/80 schedule and often already have Friday off. With a Monday holiday, I either have a 4 day weekend followed by a 4 day week or a 3 day weekend, 3 day week, then 3 day weekend. Either one is nice.
For the 11 years of my last job, I had a four-day work week (Fri, Sat and Sun off). Now I’m retired and everyday is Saturday.
@macromeh so no NFL for you! But lots of college football. Side note: Bill Bellichick is making his college football coaching debut tonight (yes it’s Monday; weird holiday schedule)
Our ER schedule was 7 on/7 off, 8 hour shifts. The work week started on Monday and ended on Sunday. Since we are a 24/7 type of business, holidays were incorporated into the pay process. Every two weeks we got an extra 5.25 hours of hourly pay which we didn’t actually work. This was to cover 80 hours of vacation time a year as well as the (8) holidays for paid time off. Consequently, if the holiday fell on your work day, you worked it unless you could find someone else to cover it for you. Bottom line was every other week I had a 7-day weekend! Holiday falling on a Monday did not translate into a three-day weekend on any of our schedules.
The Tuesday after a Monday always seems like a much worse Monday.