As Memorial Day approaches (and SAs start soon after), I would love to hear which holidays actually get observed/time off and what the theme is (follows your seniors' religions/observances/politics, legit holidays only, other)?
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Your own funeral
Funny but probably not true. If you died, how much you want to bet that your MD still sends you slide deck revisions at 5 p.m. on Friday for the next couple of weeks?
Xmas, New Years, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving are typical. Depending on your group culture, other holidays are also observed. My bank / group does all market holidays. Of course if you have actual work, all bets are off, but seniors try not to be jerks at my place, but not the case everywhere.
What kind of firm is this and what location?
MM in NY
First of all, once you start full-time and get ramped up, work never stops. There will never be a single day when you don’t have work to do.
Christmas is probably the only “protected” holiday when seniors won’t hold it against you for wanting one day off. Night time on NYE is generally safe too.
Fourth of July is another one if you get lucky because most clients are off. But if you are working on international deals, then all bets are off.
Every other bank or federal holiday is just a normal work day.
Not true at all. Sounds like you should move to a different group
It’s true for me and yes I want to leave.
If anything, It would be misleading to argue that there is only one truth (i.e standardizing your own experience as the only possibility). Also, what incentive do I have to lie about something so shitty lol
Yom Kippur and Passover
I had 24th Dec til after nye off with very limited work like 2-4 hours a day & thanksgiving off. Nothing since nye to my recollection
Days off? In IB? Brother you’re a slave to that bank now, enjoy
At my bank the policy across IB is that for these Monday holidays, you get Sunday off but the holiday itself is a normal workday. Kind of shitty given most holiday stuff is on the actual day.
Xmas day is off (Xmas eve fair game to work all day), Thanksgiving day, Fourth of July, New Years Day and that's about it for actually observed holidays. Easter, Yom Kippur, Passover etc and other religious holidays are fair game for work unless you go through HR to get a religious exemption
Can confirm this is the case for Citi.
Damn the fact y'all are calling it xmas is making me sad. Find God
Thought this way too for a while but the X has roots to actually mean Christ. X is Chi in Greek, and Chi led the word “Christos” meaning Christ.
I prefer Christmas too but Xmas is not some pagan nonsense
Day you retire or get laid off
If you are a Jewish, you can take 'protected' time off for certain holidays
How does this work for summer interns/how do I get this cleared? There are days over the summer where I have to fast and such, and I don’t want to be held in contempt for taking these off….
What’s going to happen this yr for July 4th?
Will likely be dead since it's a Tuesday. Every reasonable person will take July 3rd off (unless on some urgent crunch time deal)
If you have July 3rd vacation I think you're chilling. If you don't I think Monday and Tuesday will be extremely quiet. Good timing, if it's like a Wednesday people start asking for work since the long weekend becomes harder
What about SA's? Do you think we're left to man the castles?
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I take all of June off for pride month. I'm diversity so my bank supports it.
What abt Juneteenth this year?
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