October 9, 2008
Monday Metro Schedule May Annoy You
This coming Monday is Columbus Day, which is technically a federal holiday. That being the case, WMATA has announced as it always does that it will be following a holiday schedule for the day, meaning the Metrorail system will operate on a modified Saturday schedule, opening at 5 a.m. and closing at midnight. In other words, there won't be any peak service during rush hour. But how many of you actually have Monday off? More of you than, say, get Veterans Day off? About the same? We're curious.
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Don't get Columbus Day off in election years, get Veterans Day off every year.
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Columbus Day is the stupidest holiday ever, just another excuse for all of you federal employees to take another day off, even though you barely ever do any work anyway.
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i get neither columbus day or veterans day off (the latter counts for the day after thanksgiving, i believe), but i do get inauguration day. hoping this time around i won't spend it protesting.
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We don't get Columbus day (we get the day after thanksgiving instead) and we do get Veteran's day.
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It's my understanding - at least in non-profit workplaces - that many offices "trade" a holiday on Columbus Day for the day after Thanksgiving off. It's not a bad deal, honestly.
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We get neither Columbus Day nor Veteran's Day but we do get the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, so it works out.
Enjoy your red wine and spaghetti on Monday folks!
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I don't work for a non-profit or the Feds and I get Columbus Day and the day after Thanksgiving off.
Booya! In yr face!
but i do have to work the day after Christmas. yeah....
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The last place I worked was in an academic setting and the staff holidays that weren't taken during the academic term were traded out for a week around Christmas.
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What the hell is wrong with these people? Yes we get Columbus Day (the day of our great discoverer/destroyer (on what other holiday can you throw blood and piss off Italian people?)) and Veterans day, and every other god forsaken holiday which can somehow be excused and tolerated. You people need to tell your bosses to bring it motherf*&kers. So far the comments are a bunch of holiday bitches. Taking it up the holiday ass.
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got them both off. have to work day after xmas
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How can something "technically" be a federal holiday? Either it is, or it isn't, and in this case it is. I hate to break it to those of you stuck working, but a significant percentage of the workers in the DC metro area are employed by either federal, state and local governments, or by non-profits or contractors who deliberately follow the Feds' calendar.
That said, I agree that Metro should suck up the overtime wages and open for regular service on days like Columbus Day and Veterans Day. The delayed start time must be especially frustrating for people who still have to get work in those early morning hours, and it seems like it would be pretty easy to make a case for extending the service based simply on workplace/ridership stats.
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Working Columbus Day, off Veterans Day. Go figure.
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At least the MARC trains I ride are running on the holiday schedule. Not sure what I'm going to do MLK day when MARC is closed and work isn't.
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We get Columbus Day off, but we're just not allowed to tell our Native American clients.
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I get Columbus Day and Veteran's Day. But I don't get the day after Thanksgiving or sick leave (I have to use vacation time if I'm sick).
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here at NGS:
- columbus day off
- veterans day traded for day after thanksgiving
- day after christmas and day after new years off this year
plus, we get tomorrow off, and they announced yesterday that we will be getting every other friday off next year from april to october.at least we have that going for us. and the cafeteria.
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i work for a gov't contractor who's very particular about following the Federal schedule--so we get both Veteran's Day and Columbus Day, but none of that day-after-a-holiday stuff. my bday is the day after Christmas, and since i think no one should have to work on her birthday, i take a vacation day. not a big deal, but i used to work for a start-up that gave you your bday off automatically, which i thought was a really cool perk.
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Oops, just noticed that with the "modified vacation schedule" they actually do still open at 5 a.m., and thus the major "inconvenience" people will face is longer-than-normal-for-rush-hour delays between trains. So sorry ... I'll feel all kinds of sympathy for you while I'm sleeping in.
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I don't get Columbus Day off, but I do get Columbo Day off. Every September 16th I celebrate Peter Falk's birthday and go out and solve a homicide.
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The job I have now is the first job I've ever had where you get federal holidays off. And let me tell you, it is sweet.
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I work for the fed so I'll be sleeping in on Monday. Oh, and I'll be going out Sunday night to get my drink on!
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I get Columbus Day off, and I wish I had more days off.
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This Fed would happily trade Columbus Day for the day after Thanksgiving. *shrugs*
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"Columbus Day is the stupidest holiday ever, just another excuse for all of you federal employees to take another day off, even though you barely ever do any work anyway."
Jealous, definitely.
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God, I wish I worked in France so I would have so many holidays, I wouldn't care if I didn't get one or two off.
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Right now with the way things are going on outside the beltway i'm just happy i have a job with a few paid days off!
And WTF is up with STMOVE - did someone piss in his lemmonade?
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My office is on GW's campus (although I do not work for GW) and we follow their calendar. They are DC's second largest employer after the Federal Government and they are open. They observe neither Columbus Day nor Veterans Day.
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That is a sweet cafeteria, IMGoph.
Back when I was a contractor we didn't get Columbus Day off, but we weren't allowed to come into the building. And, of course, we weren't allowed to work at home. So we had to take a day of vacation or leave without pay.
Not to mention the year the feds got off Christmas Eve at the last minute, and we had to take leave without pay to cover it. Like a reverse Christmas bonus!
Not that I'm bitter or anything...
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"Columbus Day is the stupidest holiday ever, just another excuse for all of you federal employees to take another day off, even though you barely ever do any work anyway."
Spoken like a true self-hating federal employee -- bravo!
I prefer to think of it as Indigenous People's Day, and celebrate the fact that my ancestors weren't among the ones who were massacred.
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as an architect, i don't get columbus day or veterans day off. further, i don't know of ANY architects that get either of those days off. the general rule of thumb for our industry is... if construction companies are working, we are too.
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I work for the government and I have Monday off as well as every Friday. And I don't do much work Monday through Thursday either.
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In your face, Colonials. The Hoyas are taking a day off on Monday.
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According to the most recent numbers I can find (Fall 2005), GW is the third largest employer. Howard is number two.
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catholic u beats everyone because it has TWO FULL WEEKS of paid time off at christmas. l'chaim!!
:( i never should have taken this job in philly.
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More people work for Howard and GWU than work for the city?
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Nate, that's not totally surprising when you consider both universities have affiliated hospitals. In addition to probably having about 5,000 employees just for the university, that adds a significant chunk. Just a theory.
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We get the day after Thanksgiving off in lieu of Columbus Day, and in election years, we get Veteran's Day off. The logic behind that one eludes me.
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Time for my yearly annoyance that Metro doesn't seem able to create a real modified schedule.
Even though ridership is lower than a normal weekday, it's still quite a bit higher during peak times than a normal Saturday. So why oh why are they unable to run Saturday service but with enhanced service during peak hours? Either normal rush hour for just those times or even 9-minute headways instead of the normal 6?
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I don't get either off, but I do get 2 floating holidays that can be taken whenever I want to make up for them. I also get the Friday after Thanksgiving off.
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Awww, so sorry! I get Columbus day, Veteran's Day, the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Not to mention Election day off as well as MLK day. I work for an association. The pay may be crap but we get buckets of time off.
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i am a nanny and while other nannies on this hill get today off i did not for i work for docs not feds.....i do not get many fed holidays off. just memorial day, labor day and the fourth of july.
i only work four days so i get a three day weekend every week.
would have been cool to have a four day weekend!