Take not the 5-day workweek for granted

October 9, 2006 - 4:02 PM by

Pixane sings the Western immigrant blues:

Beautiful long weekends
Oh how I miss you
Working on Sundays
Is way overrated

And now for the real kicker . . .

She asks:

PS: How crappy is it that we don’t get a single day off for Succot this year?

See, outside of Israel, the first and last days of Sukkot, when work is prohibited, are two days each. If sukkot starts during the week, then a person needs to take off four days from work. Therefore, it is much, much better when Sukkot starts on a Friday night, as it did this year: no need to use vacation days, since the holiday is Saturday-Sunday.

But here, the prohibited-from-work days are just one at the beginning and one at the end. And they are national holidays. And Sunday is a workday. So when the holiday falls on Saturday, it’s a downer — no extra vacation days. (Though many employers close their offices or give half days for the duration of the festival.)

Sorry, Pixane.

Tags: • Category: Holidays, Immigrant Moments, Life 

Comments

2 Comments on Take not the 5-day workweek for granted

  1. Gallil on Mon, Oct 9th 2006 5:55 PM

    2. proof positive that an israeli can whine about anything. even holiday.

  2. Idan on Mon, Oct 9th 2006 7:05 PM

    3. Hi Sarah,

    Although we are a dynamically married blogging duo, you should probably distinguish between our blogs & names:

    Idan: http://pixane.net/blog – AKA “pixane”
    Tif: http://tif.pixane.net – AKA “Are you kidding?”

    We aren’t the same person (although I guess we are, halakhicly speaking). To avoid gender confusion in the future please refer to the handy reference guide included above. :)

    Cheers,

    Idan & Tif

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