Working on Good Friday

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Please move this if it doesn’t need to be here, I just thought this might be a better place for it.

Obviously I know that Good Friday is a religious holiday, not a federal holiday, but when you work for an employer who says he is a church going, bible based, Christian and a deacon at his church (He is Southern Baptist), shouldn’t you think that maybe he should maybe close his office on such a holy day? Well…I guess I do think he should but he doesn’t. I don’t know if Good Friday isn’t as holy/important to some Protestants as it is to Catholics and others, so that would be a good point, but I have never understood it. Personally I think that if you claim to be such a religious person you should be just that. (BTW, there are other things that he does that would make him hypocritical that he does such as supporting the homosexual lifestyle and he is having an affair and has a child with the other woman, but that is beside the point here).

Anyway, I guess I just think that is a day we should be off. He controls the office and controls when we have office-wide days off. I just think this should be one of them. Everyone in our office is a church going person by the way, 2 of us go to the Catholic Church and the rest are either Baptist, Pentecostal, Church of God, or Assembly of God, so we wouldn’t be offending anyone that may not celebrate Christian holidays.

I am considering taking a personal day that day so I can pray, etc.

What do you guys think about the day off for the whole office and me taking a personal day since we aren’t going to be closed?

Sorry that was so long BTW!!!
 
AngelRose81 said:
Please move this if it doesn’t need to be here, I just thought this might be a better place for it.

Obviously I know that Good Friday is a religious holiday, not a federal holiday, but when you work for an employer who says he is a church going, bible based, Christian and a deacon at his church (He is Southern Baptist), shouldn’t you think that maybe he should maybe close his office on such a holy day? Well…I guess I do think he should but he doesn’t. I don’t know if Good Friday isn’t as holy/important to some Protestants as it is to Catholics and others, so that would be a good point, but I have never understood it. Personally I think that if you claim to be such a religious person you should be just that. (BTW, there are other things that he does that would make him hypocritical that he does such as supporting the homosexual lifestyle and he is having an affair and has a child with the other woman, but that is beside the point here).

Anyway, I guess I just think that is a day we should be off. He controls the office and controls when we have office-wide days off. I just think this should be one of them. Everyone in our office is a church going person by the way, 2 of us go to the Catholic Church and the rest are either Baptist, Pentecostal, Church of God, or Assembly of God, so we wouldn’t be offending anyone that may not celebrate Christian holidays.

I am considering taking a personal day that day so I can pray, etc.

What do you guys think about the day off for the whole office and me taking a personal day since we aren’t going to be closed?

Sorry that was so long BTW!!!
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If this were a Christian society today everything would be closed, except the necessary services. Many, many people take a sick day or PTO day on Good Friday so that they can attend the veneration of the Cross.
 
I’m lucky- my schools are all closed on Good Friday. When I worked in health care, we always had to work, though- it’s not a recognized medicare holiday, so therefore we had to see our patients. I like the school systems schedule so much better!

I’m sorry you don’t have the day off. Can you take a personal day?
 
I think I am going to take a sick day, since those are really our personal days. I just wish I understood why he won’t close the office when all of the PUBLIC schools in my area get that day off! Not that public school and attorney’s offices are related but just a thought!

My only reasoning is that he doesn’t want to close b/c it is a Friday and he doesn’t want to tell anyone “no” when they want to do a real estate closing. I guess that’s why we do 15 a day and 30 at the end of the month sometimes…with only 4 of us doing closings.

But we aren’t busy that day so far…Just 3 closings. Hopefully it will stay that way, but I still think I am going to take the day off.
 
In my younger days, even when raising my kids, everything was closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, since during those years we always lived in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, most businesses and schools also either were closed, or gave time off for the High Holy Days, Passover etc. and my Jewish employers bent over backwards to be generous with time off to attend Mass on Holy Days, did not schedule CAtholics to work on Sunday, closed for Good Friday etc.

I guess the world has grown much more intolerant.
 
Being raised in a Baptist family ( went to a Southern Baptist church when I lived in Florida and went back to northern Baptist when I moved to Michigan) I can tell you they’re pretty hypocritical. Good Friday is supposed to be an important day but (at least in my family…with the exception of my sister whos a fundamentalist) it doesn’t mean much. No one even bothered to tell me what it was all about until I was 10 🤷 I don’t think my family is the norm though, my family in Florida is much more in tune with the church for lack of a better term.
 
Good Friday is not a Holy Day of Obligation; there is no requirement to abstain from labor. Bemoaning that your boss doesn’t respect your beliefs is meaningless in this case.

Your willingness to take a personal day is admirable 👍, and I hope you also do it on real Holy Days of Obligation when avoiding servile labor is a precept of your faith.
 
I work for the Post Office. If I want Friday off, I have to request a vacation day. In fact, I have asked for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off, as this will be my first (and last) Easter as an RCIA Candidate. That is three days of vacation time. I have Saturdays and Sundays off as my scheduled days off, so do not need to ask for those days as well. Easter Vigil and all that. 🙂
 
I am glad that I have requested to be off on the Holy Friday.

I remember when I had my temp. job, I did not have any day off for most of holidays throughout the year.

Thanks God for my new job.
 
May God’s peace, love and mercy be with you all!

It is a good thing to be able to take the day off during Good Friday even though it is not a holy day of obligation to be able to contemplate the Passion and Death that Our Good Lord Jesus underwent, out of great love for us, for our redemption.

Ask your boss if he will allow you to take that day off, if a whole day is not possible at least ask him if he will allow you to the lenten service. It usually starts at 1 pm. and lasts about 1 hr. and 30 min. I may take half a day off or a whole day off depending on God’s will. I’m still praying about it.

Also, some companies have paid time off (sick and personal days off combined) but there are some like where I currently work that has a separate sick and personal days off so we can’t just use sick days unless we are truly sick or not feeling well. We all have to make sure that we are following the company policy and procedure for requesting days off.

About your boss, co-workers and for all, let us pray that they may finally come to know the fullness of Truth found in the Catholic Church, the real presence of Jesus, Our God (Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity) in the most Holy Eucharist and be deeply united to Him. God bless!

Also, welcome nichjake! God loves you!

Blessed be Jesus and Mary!
 
Timidity said:
Good Friday is not a Holy Day of Obligation; there is no requirement to abstain from labor. Bemoaning that your boss doesn’t respect your beliefs is meaningless in this case.

Your willingness to take a personal day is admirable 👍, and I hope you also do it on real Holy Days of Obligation when avoiding servile labor is a precept of your faith.
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Good Friday almost became a new National Holiday many years ago. Legislation was introduced in congress to make Good Friday a national federal holiday in the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. I have an actual news clipping but the specific date of the paper or name of the paper is not on it. It was supported it says by over 50 national civic and religious organizations.
 
Years ago, both my husband’s company and my company would give holidays for Good Friday…

Now they don’t… and I’m pretty sure it’s deliberate. Now they give off a random day in spring as a “spring holiday” because they don’t want to be acussed of giving preferential treatment to any ONE religion over another.
D@#n political correctness changes everything. :rolleyes:

We’re both taking off a “personal day” for Good Friday.
 
Br.Rich_SFO said:
Good Friday almost became a new National Holiday many years ago. Legislation was introduced in congress to make Good Friday a national federal holiday in the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. I have an actual news clipping but the specific date of the paper or name of the paper is not on it. It was supported it says by over 50 national civic and religious organizations.
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Wouldn’t that have been nice?
 
I know that Holy Week doesn’t have any days of obligation but I guess I just watned Good Friday to reflect and pray. Especially since my “big day” of confirmation will be Saturday at the Easter Vigil. I want to be mentally and spiritually ready for that.

I can’t wait until I’m a teacher so that at least I’ll have that day off. I guess that’s the good thing of living in the bible belt–public schools get religious holidays off and no one has a fit! 👍
 
I’m quite blessed that we have both Good Friday AND Easter Monday off as holidays (not using up vacation days). But before I worked where I currently do now, I would take a vacation day for Good Friday.

~Liza
 
Just wanted to thank you for asking this question! I have been searching and searching to see if Friday was a Holy Day of Obligation - now I know.

My office is also open on Good Friday but is thankfully most understanding in my request to take the afternoon to observe this important day.

God Bless.
 
I work security, so I will am supposed to work on Friday. Ironically, the factory where I am security chief (owned by a Japanese consortium) is closed for Good Friday. I am considering calling one of our Protestant “spare guards” to work for me.

DaveBj
 
Last year I arranged my schedule for time to go to all the special services and I had Friday and Sunday off. This year I have Sunday off and I am working all of the other times. But, I have tried not to HOG the time all the time.

I was even willing to work Easter if it meant that some of those that never go to church services would go. But, the boss gave me Easter off anyway.
 
Protestants in general don’t normally do Church services on Good Friday. It probably hasn’t even occurred to him that you want the day off in order to attend the Good Friday liturgies.

My husband’s church actually does one, but it is quite poorly attended, and it is one of only a very few in that particular denomination that even bother with it.
 
We use to get Good Friday as a holiday, even though our CEO is Jewish. However, this year, the operations manager, decided to move the holiday to Christmas Eve.

So, I’m taking a vacation day.

Jim
 
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