Anonymous wrote:You all knew bill was coming. WTF?

If I owned a biz, I'd probably close too. What impression does non-closure give? Best to just close and celebrate. It's 1 day. And a friday this year. Monday next year.

You wouldn’t be in business long. Glad you chose otherwise.

Ours closed but it is in a government building. It was going to be a half day anyway. It's a little inconvenient but I am glad they closed. They have a lot of AA employees and I am glad they got the day off..

Anonymous wrote:You all knew bill was coming. WTF?

If I owned a biz, I'd probably close too. What impression does non-closure give? Best to just close and celebrate. It's 1 day. And a friday this year. Monday next year.

Nowhere has closed in years past. So it already looks bad that you didn’t acknowledge this before. If a business wanted to close for this, they could have decided a while ago. Jumping on the bandwagon with less than 24 hours’ notice isn’t fooling anyone into thinking you care all that much.

Anonymous wrote:You all knew bill was coming. WTF?

If I owned a biz, I'd probably close too. What impression does non-closure give? Best to just close and celebrate. It's 1 day. And a friday this year. Monday next year.

No one knew if it was going to go into effect this year or next. Once nothing was signed by the end of last week, it seemed pretty clear they’d sign something symbolic to change the calendar for next fiscal year. It’s hard enough being a working parent this past year with hybrid school and reduced hours at daycares/preschools. This was just salt in the wound to leave us hanging.

Anonymous wrote:We got an email at 9:20 which I thought was incredibly obnoxious. Especially since they follow DC, not OPM. The director has a history of not paying teachers for holidays unless parents pressure her so I suspect she's doing it to give herself a boost. We're going elsewhere in fall

DC public schools were closed, so I guess it makes sense. But still, super awful for parents.

Our private, non-profit center did not close with such short notice, but we will for sure close fron 2022 onward!!!

You all knew bill was coming. WTF?

If I owned a biz, I'd probably close too. What impression does non-closure give? Best to just close and celebrate. It's 1 day. And a friday this year. Monday next year.

Ours was planning to close today for pd. They closed today and moved the pd to Monday. Uggggggggg

We got an email at 9:20 which I thought was incredibly obnoxious. Especially since they follow DC, not OPM. The director has a history of not paying teachers for holidays unless parents pressure her so I suspect she's doing it to give herself a boost. We're going elsewhere in fall

Ours announced that they will open at regular time but close early at 3 pm. They will observe the holiday from 2022. I am very thankful as we are not Feds and my workplace is not observing the holiday at such short notice.

Ours just announced closure in an email sent at 8 pm. I get that they normally take federal holidays, but many parents aren’t feds. We’re now left scrambling for care for tomorrow with 12 hours’ notice. It should have been incorporated into the calendar for next year, but this feels like just another way this year has been absolutely crappy for working parents. Sigh.

If it follows OPM guidance then yes that would be expected. If it does not then I would be very interested since contractually all of their holidays need to be listed.

lol Well the bill isn't even signed for another 30 minutes so how were they supposed to give you notice?

Our daycare closed for Juneteenth with 1 day notice to families. Anyone else?