Observed holidays

We got into a bit of an argument at our office today about observed holidays. My coworkers and I all wanted to follow written office policy, which says that Saturday holidays mean Fridays off (w00t). But my boss/father said that if a holiday fell on the weekend, then you shouldn’t have any time off (Christmas and New Year’s excepted).

Obviously, I tried as hard as I could to craft brilliant arguments in my favor. But I really couldn’t come up with anything good. Sure, almost everyone has a holiday tomorrow. And yes, it’s nice to have a certain number of expected days off – especially for me, since I have no vacation this year. But those aren’t particularly strong arguments.

The fact is that it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me, from a purely logical standpoint, to have tomorrow off as an “observed” holiday – after all, I won’t be celebrating July 4 until July 4, and I imagine that most of us who aren’t ten year old boys feel the same.

I hate to admit it when my dad is right – and you can bet I didn’t admit it to his face today – but I think I agree with him. Can anybody tell me how he’s wrong?

Luckily for me, we did have that written office policy. Now if I can just get C to let me sleep in tomorrow.