Is your Federal agency getting Good Friday off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And for what it’s worth the email states that the chair plans to spend the day observing Good Friday

This is so dumb. Even the most devout Catholics don’t spend the day “observing Good Friday.” It’s not a day of religious obligation (ie you are not obligated to go to mass).

[Anonymous]

Yet you know if they gave Diwali or Chinese New Year or Yom Kippur off for the whole agency because the agency head celebrated that holiday, there'd be an uproar.

As there should be, frankly. Everyone in government has annual leave that they can take for their own religious holidays - Good Friday and Easter included. Nothing is stopping any Christians from using their leave on those days, just as the rest of us use our leave on our own holidays. This is just some performative cry for attention on the part of the EEOC chair. Ironic that it's EEOC of course, but that's how we roll now ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don’t get religious holidays off, other than Christmas because it’s celebrated secularly too.

We only get Christmas off because it is a federally declared holiday by Congress. Not because it’s celebrated secularly.

[Anonymous]

I actually heard some agencies were doing it, and I’m not a troll. Not mine though.

[Anonymous]

Every Friday that one has off is a Good Friday!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this administration is known for its generosity towards federal workers.

THIS and its a great way to boost Christian nationalism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's Good Friday and what does it have to do with the Government?

Srsly? The government is trying to promote Christian nationalism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually heard some agencies were doing it, and I’m not a troll. Not mine though.

+1 but it’s because the markets are closed in Good Friday. It’s nothing religious.

[Anonymous]

Mine is doing it for the first time ever (not EEOC). It’s definitely making a statement…

[Anonymous]

Apparently HUD is going to do 4 hours early release.

[Anonymous]

And the HUD release email is explicitly religious. In these times perhaps the troll allegations should cease.

[Anonymous]

We did once under the Bush Admin. We all got to leave early for Good Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the HUD release email is explicitly religious. In these times perhaps the troll allegations should cease.

What does it say? What is the reasoning? To go to services at church?

[Anonymous]

It’s a total rug pull. You are getting fired on Good Friday, and sent “off”.

[Anonymous]

Easter weekend is a holiday weekend for many.