Good Friday
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I am wondering what other businesses do for good friday. We are getting requests from employees to attend mass on friday afternoon. Of course if we let everone off we would not have anyone left for production. Do we need to let these employee off to attend mass? (I'm thinking we do not have to, but I want to be sure)
Thank,
Spoden, MN
Thank,
Spoden, MN
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I'm in the south and most of the people in these parts don't celebrate Good Friday (well not that I have met anyway).
In the last company I worked for the CEO was Catholic so we had 1/2 a day at the corp. office. All other offices were open normal hours and ee's had to use ETO if they wanted off.
My $0.02 worth!
DJ The Balloonman
Marc: Ain't it amazin' how many people turn Catholic when they realize they can get off to attend mass. I'm not Catholic and Good Friday is a Christian Holy Day, not just Catholic. We used to call some people "C&E Christians" - Christmas and Easter Christians.
Don, I've always wondered what constitutes the "Deep South"? Seriously - when someone says that phrase I don't have a picture in my mind of what they are talking about. Can you enlighten me? Also, if one lives in the Northwest US are they considered a Yankee or is that term reserved for those who live in the Northeast? I've always wondered that too. x:-)
(Our second shift, which generally works 10 hours days Monday through Thursday, is scheduled off for Thursday to recognize their Good Friday holiday). What a nightmare.
If we would not be closed for this holiday, we would allow our employees time off to attend religous service if a service would not be offered before or after closing time.
It is not uncommon for us to get off on tangents, and that is what happened here. But, the goal was accomplished, too.
I hope you do stop back and join in and realize we are a good group to hang out with, but we are quite diverse in many ways.
Maybe you should read more and research the forum more; please look at the number of postings associated with "Dandy Don", While he may have put some wit or distatesful words to the honest posting of spoden. His first posting on this subject was not "flip" nor distasteful. This is a forum for professional HRs and for the most part we do not personally attack one another, but when we do please do not jump into the "fray" unless you can take the heat. Sit on the side and learn alot, participate with your words and thoughts regardless of what someone else may write. Toss those things aside that you do not care to retain. However, I would challange you to find anyone including myself that has NOT benefitted tremendously from the many postings of "Dandy Don". His experiences are very vast, his words are normally right on, his humor and wit usually score's an A+++ with most everyone.
Please don't leave the forum for we need your input and your insite to issues. Challenge when you want.
TOMORROW IS A HOLIDAY IN MOST PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT UNITS, BUT IF YOU HAVE TO WORK TOMORROW, YOU CAN STILL WORSHIP AND PRAY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THE SINS OF THE WORLD AND WE HAVE MANY.
PORK
Not everyone believes in the same religion. On that note, not everyone who claims to be of the same religion believe the same thing even (think of all of the denominations there are of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc).
I am a Christian and I would never think of chastizing other adults for discussing what their company does or does not do for Good Friday or any other religious holiday. Nor would I complain about people being excited about having a day or two off from work, whether it was because of a religious holiday or not. If I was offended by such thing, I would think I would have a very difficult time getting along in life. These people are just talking about their lives, professional AND personal. No one has said anything remotely offensive about Christianity or the holidays associated with it.
If Good Friday is a time of thoughtful reflection for you regarding your beliefs - good for you that is great. Many people share in this reflection, such as myself. However, I'm not going to sit here and tell people they aren't being respectful of the holiday when I 1) Don't know what they believe 2) Don't have any business telling them what to believe or not 3) Don't have any business telling them how they should or should not act according to their or my or anyone else's beliefs.
If someone were to answer the post saying Good Friday was a stupid holiday that only idiots recognize, I would have said "hey that offends me - I celebrate that holiday and what I believe is not stupid so quit being a jerk". But, Val, that was not the case. It was not even remotely close to the case.
We all live in different parts of the country. I have lived in the Pacific Northwest all of my life and I have honestly never heard of businesses being closed for Good Friday. I did not say businesses that are closed on Good Friday are stupid or backwards - I simply stated that it is different here than where Don lives. This interested me because I have never been to the South and find the cultural differences among geographical regions in my country to be facsinating. Thus, I asked some more questions about it. Why and how is this disrespectful to Spooden or the question or to Christianity?
Don doesn't make a joke of everything. He speaks his mind and leaves it at that. I for one find his direct nature a breath of much needed fresh air. Afterall, we are all adults, we are all professionals, we don't need to coddle each other. This is not some tea party where we're all wearing white gloves and politely discussing the weather. This is an HR professional forum where BS is left at the door.
We all work; most of us work pretty darn hard and you know what? Having a day off is a great thing. Just because we're not moping around because of the cicumstances of the holiday does not mean we are disrespectful of a belief system we may or may not share in. Just because the subject is changed in the course of a thread doesn't mean the original poster or subject of the question is being disrespected.
Cinderella