executive order december 26 2013

[vontar]

Got an email about this at work and had to look it up.

 

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/06/executive-order-closing-executive-departments-and-agencies-federal-gover

 

 

Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2014, the day after Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 of this order.

 

 

This is strange the way it falls this year.

 

Where I work, We normally have the 24th and 25th off, but we are going to work the 24th and have 25 and 26th so we have a 4 day week end.

 

My wife on the other hand working for the state gets the 24th and 25th off and had to work on the 26th.  So most plans kinda get screwed up for us.

 

But nice to know the government has a way around minor details like that for themselves.

 

 

BTW, I would not be opposes to making Christmas a floating holiday like Thanksgiving.   So that Christmas Eve always lands on a Thursday and Christmas Day lands on a Friday.  I mean an exact date isn't truly available and it may actually already be in the wrong season.

[Oh Shoot]

BTW, I would not be opposes to making Christmas a floating holiday like Thanksgiving.   So that Christmas Eve always lands on a Thursday and Christmas Day lands on a Friday.  I mean an exact date isn't truly available and it may actually already be in the wrong season.

 

274 AD, winter solstice fell on December 25, an important time for the pagans, and pagan Emperor Aurelian proclaimed the date official "birth of the sun" festival day. Then in 320 a Pope also decided the date was when Christ was born. Then in 325 Emperor Constantine made Dec. 25 official state holiday of Christ's birth, thus giving both the pagans and the  Christians the same special festival date, was less disruptive of the workaday biz of the empire to have everyone goofing off on same day. :)

 

- OS

Edited December 18, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[btq96r]

I remember in 2002, Xmas and New Years Day were on Wednesday's.  I decided not to take the block holiday leave because I had gone home in August after coming home from Afghanistan and spent Thanksgiving at my father's house.  When you're a lower enlisted Joe, travel money isn't abundant.

 

The Army takes all the federal holidays for 4day weekends, this made a really weird schedule where we had three day weekends, and the actual holidays off to compensate.  For a period of about two weeks, we didn't show up for work for more than two days in a row, and those were little more than doing PT and some work around the office.  We were dismissed around lunchtime.  It was awesome.

[A.J. Holst]

An EO for a long weekend, but he issues memorandum to usurp legislative power. Cool.

[Sam1]

Got an email about this at work and had to look it up.

 

 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/06/executive-order-closing-executive-departments-and-agencies-federal-gover

 

 

 

This is strange the way it falls this year.

 

Where I work, We normally have the 24th and 25th off, but we are going to work the 24th and have 25 and 26th so we have a 4 day week end.

 

My wife on the other hand working for the state gets the 24th and 25th off and had to work on the 26th.  So most plans kinda get screwed up for us.

 

But nice to know the government has a way around minor details like that for themselves.

 

 

BTW, I would not be opposes to making Christmas a floating holiday like Thanksgiving.   So that Christmas Eve always lands on a Thursday and Christmas Day lands on a Friday.  I mean an exact date isn't truly available and it may actually already be in the wrong season.

 

It's been common practice for decades for the government to do things like that.  When I was in the Army B. Clinton loved to give us off the day between a weekend and a holiday, then our unit would sometimes give us an extra 1/2 to 1 day off before that so we ended up getting a 4-5 day weekend. 

[btq96r]

It's been common practice for decades for the government to do things like that.  When I was in the Army B. Clinton loved to give us off the day between a weekend and a holiday, then our unit would sometimes give us an extra 1/2 to 1 day off before that so we ended up getting a 4-5 day weekend. 

 

I remember one 4th of July, the 101st CG declared that no unit would have Soldiers at work past 12:30 hours so they could hit the road while still rested.  He had officers and senior NCO's from the division HQ go around to the units and check that the order was being implemented.

[Sam1]

Yeah seen that stuff before too because you would have wannabe-super hard core company level people that thought making everyone work instead would make them look good.

[bersaguy]

Back when I was a young boy very few to almost no businesses where open on Christmas. Then as more and more businesses began to get really greedy they would be open on Christmas eve till Midnight and then reopen on Christmas Day. I have made it a practice of not going to any store or business on Christmas Day or New Years Day for any reason. It is my way of not supporting companies that don't respect the "Reason for this Season" or their employees for forcing them to work.....................jmho

[btq96r]

Back when I was a young boy very few to almost no businesses where open on Christmas. Then as more and more businesses began to get really greedy they would be open on Christmas eve till Midnight and then reopen on Christmas Day. I have made it a practice of not going to any store or business on Christmas Day or New Years Day for any reason. It is my way of not supporting companies that don't respect the "Reason for this Season" or their employees for forcing them to work.....................jmho

 

As a kid, I worked at a local convenience store.  We were always open on Thanksgiving and Christmas until about 3 or 4pm.  The people in the neighborhood appreciated the chance to come get some last minute supplies, or things they realized they needed more of for their family get-togethers without having to make a drive to find an open place.  I personally appreciated the chance to pick up 3-4 more hours of pay at 1.5x my salary re-stocking the shelves those days.

 

Just because you have a "reason for the season" doesn't mean others don't have needs or don't want to take those hours quite willingly. 

[bersaguy]

As a kid, I worked at a local convenience store.  We were always open on Thanksgiving and Christmas until about 3 or 4pm.  The people in the neighborhood appreciated the chance to come get some last minute supplies, or things they realized they needed more of for their family get-togethers without having to make a drive to find an open place.  I personally appreciated the chance to pick up 3-4 more hours of pay at 1.5x my salary re-stocking the shelves those days.

 

Just because you have a "reason for the season" doesn't mean others don't have needs or don't want to take those hours quite willingly. 

Well, back when I was kid there were no such things as Convenience Stores in the town I lived in. Back when I was a kid folks new to make lists and get everything they needed before the Christmas holiday or did without. You could not even buy gasoline anywhere near where I lived which was 65 miles southwest of Chicago. 

[-boatman-]

Well, back when I was kid there were no such things as Convenience Stores in the town I lived in. Back when I was a kid folks new to make lists and get everything they needed before the Christmas holiday or did without. You could not even buy gasoline anywhere near where I lived which was 65 miles southwest of Chicago. 

IMO that's the way it still should be. You also ALWAYS made sure you had batteries for everything that needed them because you sure would not be getting any Christmas day. I miss those days and feel for people who have to work.