Government Holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday-Do you find it disappointing?

This holiday on a saturday is a disappointment.....I would have been happier if the holiday had come on a monday .... saturday is a less stessful day in the office and I am able to complete a lot of my weeks pending work .... having a holiday on that day will make the following week more tiring for me.

Hi Kala! It appears a very interesting topic and most of us who are in 'service' either in private sector or in Govt. sector, would like to have an extra holiday. However, if a holiday happens to fall either on Saturday or Sunday, we have very little option to change it, except one holiday i.e. 'Eid' (which is celebrated as per the visibility of the Moon). We cannot change our Independence day, just because it is falling on Saturday and we are being deprived of one extra holiday.........LOL! We need to take all these things in our stride. In a way it is good because 'more working days' means 'more work' and 'more productivity'.

I am sure that schonol going students ,college students ,the working ladies,office going men would love to have the national holidays and feast days during the week days and not during the week ends because it would mean less holidays .The best day would be a Friday because then they can have a long week end and they can plan a trip to the resorts ot to other places for a visit or even to their relations houses .Though I am a home maker I also like the festivals to fall on the week days so that I can go out with my husband one more day .I am sure young parents would love to take their kids out one more day during the week .It will certainly be a disappointment to all the students and office goers if the public holidays fall on sundays.

In Australia we only have a couple that may fall on a weekend, that is Australia Day January 26 and Anzac Day April 25 if I recall correctly; if any of the other public holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday we are entitled to have the Monday off.

Hello friend, I am a fresh engineering graduate and would start working from next month only. Still, I have seen my father and brother working for a long time and i do feel a bit sad for them when something like this happens.However, this is all part of the game because sometimes a holiday would be there on Friday and then they get three days off in a row.

Not particularly.. MANY jobs here in the United States still have to work despite the fact that it is a government holiday. Often times, if the holiday falls on the weekend, many businesses or agencies will close the Friday before or the Monday just after the holiday..... I find THAT disappointing.

hello kalav56, Indeed if any holiday will fall on Saturdays and Sundays I will be disappointed for it will be much okey and better if it will fall during weekdays so I can have a longer rest. This way, I can spend more time with my family. More quality time means more fun and memories. Time flies, so enjoy while they are still kids for if they are already teens they have their own world.

I have never felt this disappointment. It is because I took up self employment very early of my career.In fact I don't need holidays at all. All the seven days are almost the same for me. Of course Sunday is a day I relax a little.

Hi dear, How are you? It will definitely feel some disappointments initially. But every year there must be some holidays on Sundays (Saturdays are working day for me). But no thrilling in the middle holidays and I think if it fall on Saturday then I will get two holidays together. This week, on Friday here holiday on account of Janmashtami and Saturday Independence Day then a Sunday so there is three holidays are there. The sad part is after three days holiday I will be busy with work in office, and no time for mylot (lol)

hi kalav, i do not know about the employees and other people holidays fall in Saturday and Sunday will not give any effect neither on me nor on my work,because i am not working with any govt rules,have a nice day

Of course, I am disappointed. Not for my sake, but for my children's sake. My business is such that, I can take an holiday any day I like and most of the times, I will be working even on a Sunday, so a Government Holiday on a weekday or a weekend makes very little difference to me. But my children would sure be disappointed, as is the case with most children. But spare a thought for those who have to work on a sunday, i.e, some Bank branches work on a Sunday, some BPO employees work on a Sunday, for them, a Govt holiday on a Sunday is a Bonus. So, it is a double edged sword. Some one's loss is someone's gain.

ofcourse yes. we find it disappointing when holiday merges with sundays or saturdays. We do not have five day week. Only second and fourth saturdays are holidays so this time we are happy as 15 th Aug coming as third saturday.

though it was triggered for independence day,i still find it worth a reply today as tomorrow ganesh chaturthi is falling on sunday..it really sucks to see such alignments. when a festival falls in middle of week,celebrations start from the moment u realise it..the excitement adds to happiness

This is only my personal opinion and only for what it's worth, but I believe that if the Holiday falls on a Saturday, then a Friday should be given off & if the holiday falls on a Sunday, well it should be a Monday. I think this would be a fair solution to Holiday on the weekend issue. I have worked for companies that have done it this way and it works out great but unfortunately these companies are few and far between.

I am the one who is more didappointed than my daughter if any of the public holdays happen to fall on week ends.I drive her to school every morning and picks her up after the school.Though it is not a big deal for me I like the days without that responsibility constantly blinking in my mind.

my hubby is a lecturer and does not get any holidays during the week and as my kids study in an convent school,they have holiday on thursday and it doesnot matter much to me as i am an house wife.but i am extremly glad if any holiday falls on weekends ,as then my kids get 2 consecutive holidays and then we can go to my parents place.

Hi Kalav56, Well if the hoilday falls on the weekend, they should have the day off on Friday so you'll have a long weekend, thats what they do over here, so the goverment should change the rules to suit the workers, don't you think? Tamara

Of course I will feel very upset with the management. It means we will lose one day off. It happens here too. but we can not do anything to change it, can we? So just accept it and try double enjoy it. It's a kind of bonus to us. happy mylotting.

It is natural that each one of us is thrilled when we receive an extra holiday in a week apart from saturdays and sundays but it is unfortunate that we indians celebrate our independence day as a holiday not as a day on which we make some strong committments for our nation.Independence day doesn't means that we are free from doing work but I think we should decide to do as much work as we can for our nation, on this day.This not only is for 15th Aug or 26th Jan but Indian govt. should also reduce the number of holidays in a year.And lets celebrate our independence day with joy rather than mourning over the fact that it has taken one day of day...thanks.

Obviously its disappointing. Everyone use to wait for the holidays and if even that falls on weekends then it doesn't feel right for anyone. Everyone loves holidays and don't want to miss any of them.