No I haven't taken holiday at my pleasure but forced to spend mini vacation on this weekend. This month has nearly 12 holidays, it is lot of fun, isn't it?
But really we ,in India , are having too many holidays, isn't it simply criminal waste of billions of human hours.
I was looking for list of public holidays to see how many public holidays we, Indians, have every year. Then I saw this messgae where participants were fighting about why Gujarat Govt. Cancelled holiday of Good Friday. There was a flow of criticism on CM of Gujarat about aggression and intolerance towards minorities like Muslim and Christians, for canceling the holiday on Good Friday.
Then the thread went to chaos when someone promptly wrote , from USA, that even USA is not having holiday on Good Friday or Easter.
We have holiday on Sunday and there are public holidays. Again High Courts and supreme Court relaxes on every Saturday also. Lower courts and revenue departments are also closed on 2nd and 4th Saturday.
We poor India loose few of our great politician every year and entire nation mourn for them for a day or two, depending on their greatness.
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More holidays, the better. People in the US dont get more than 10-12 days every year, so enjoy!
But too many makes me dull.
I agree, we waste too much of time celebrating holidays. Sometimes around diwali there almost a week full of holidays, which means all govt agencies are closed losing so much of business.
I liked the way they do it in our company, we have the govt's list of public holidays (about 25 in a year) and we are free to take any 10 of them based on our religious inclinations, faith or need. that works well everyone, i generally select those which fall on friday/monday making it a long weekend :-)
Private enterprises limit the holidays, and its good thing. But on public holidays govt. departments dont function, which makes entire business activites handicap upto certain extent.
Hmm that's really interesting.
I think most of our govt offices are closed every Sat. and Sun, as well as most of the banks.
A lot of places offer employees two weeks "vacation" per year. That is time they will take off but still get paid.
Holidays are to take a break from routine but too many holidays break the routine.
Well..I agree with u JV..too many holidays in India..and i liked what Amitken..shared abt his company...i think even the govt shd follow the same system..
Govt. wants to keep every one happy, and that is the saddest part.
Happy boredom days, if I may say?
I hate long holiday!
holidays ARE crappy. is more fun than shitty mundane tho...
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