Well finally!
The last bridging day of the year, Corpus Christi, is behind us.
Nothing against this important Catholic holiday, which is not valid in all federal states, but in some, Hesse for example.
Only: The hustle and bustle surrounding the bridging days and their cleverest use can get on your nerves.
A business of its own has emerged on the Internet, which is dedicated to the creative use of bridge days to flog additional vacations.
Uwe Marx
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And it would not come as a surprise if there would soon be a new apprenticeship: clerk for bridge day management.
There's potential there.
This is increased by those colleagues who at the beginning of the year - better still: early in the previous year - can no longer put the calendar down in order to be optimally prepared for the next bridging day season.
There is also a lot of potential here: potential for disputes.
If some people literally tear themselves apart to tinker with long weekends at most, then there are also some who feel disadvantaged, get nothing, are too slow, and do not have enough foresight.
A solution to this dilemma is difficult: Keeping track of who used how many bridge days and when to optimize their absence from work is a Sisyphus task that hardly anyone wants to take on.
After all, it's deadly work, it also looks like snooping, and in the end there are always people who are dissatisfied with the solution anyway.
No chance.
The bridging day creative planners definitely have the staying power.
A little note: May 19, 2023, Friday after Ascension Day, is the first bridge day of the next year.
Surely something can be done there.
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