I was wondering if there is someplace that taiwanese holidays and festivals could be announced. I thought maybe I was the only one who accidently comes to work on Dragonboat day or something, but Mordeth’s post made me realize that there may be others out there like me. Maybe I should start a support group as well.
Thanks!
You mean they didn’t tell you that you have a holiday? I’d be really pissed off if that happened to me.
L.
[quote=“ratbrain”]I was wondering if there is someplace that Taiwanese holidays and festivals could be announced. I thought maybe I was the only one who accidently comes to work on Dragonboat day or something, but Mordeth’s post made me realize that there may be others out there like me. Maybe I should start a support group as well.
Thanks![/quote]
Well, the events forum is one place - although it is better suited to discussing events. There is a scrollling events list at the top - HOWEVER, we are planning changes to the Forumosa Calendar (currently at forumosa.com.tw)
The events will have a seperate calendar system that offers an RSS feed.
There would be a submission for for events, holidays, performances and activities, and a calendar administrator would approve them before they are posted on to the calendar. We should have this up in a couple of weeks
[quote=“ratbrain”]I was wondering if there is someplace that Taiwanese holidays and festivals could be announced. I thought maybe I was the only one who accidently comes to work on Dragonboat day or something, but Mordeth’s post made me realize that there may be others out there like me. Maybe I should start a support group as well.
Thanks![/quote]
Or maybe you could get on the ball and realize what is going on around you. :s
[quote=“Durins Bane”]
Or maybe you could get on the ball and realize what is going on around you. :s[/quote]
Yes, since the Dragon boat thing I asked where the holiday calender is posted at work. I just thought some info on Taiwanese holidays might be something that other people are interested in too, that is all.
[quote=“Durins Bane”][quote=“ratbrain”]I was wondering if there is someplace that Taiwanese holidays and festivals could be announced. I thought maybe I was the only one who accidently comes to work on Dragonboat day or something, but Mordeth’s post made me realize that there may be others out there like me. Maybe I should start a support group as well.
Thanks![/quote]
Or maybe you could get on the ball and realize what is going on around you. :s[/quote]Obviously somebody had to be at work today. Hiss! Hiss!
bobepine
[quote=“bobepine”][quote=“Durins Bane”][quote=“ratbrain”]I was wondering if there is someplace that Taiwanese holidays and festivals could be announced. I thought maybe I was the only one who accidently comes to work on Dragonboat day or something, but Mordeth’s post made me realize that there may be others out there like me. Maybe I should start a support group as well.
Thanks![/quote]
Or maybe you could get on the ball and realize what is going on around you. :s[/quote]Obviously somebody had to be at work today. Hiss! Hiss!
bobepine[/quote]
Not me, I don’t work on holidays.
Are the official tomb sweeping day holidays now listed in the forumosa calendar?
Anyone got a handy-dandy list of gov’t days off?
cheers.
Tombsweeping’s on the 5th this year.
Yeah, but when are the holidays?
Apparently, I’ve got 4 days coming at one place.
Tombsweeping is in Thurs 5th (nat. Holiday).
The government also declared Fri 6th as a holiday (but a special work on a Saturday later in the month one). plus the weekend too 7 and 8. So that’s the four days.
As it is every year.
PS When I first arrived I had similar problems. The powers that be at work would generally tell me as I was leaving for the evening that the following day was a holiday. So much for making plans. Of course, they only wanted to sleep.
As it is every year.
PS When I first arrived I had similar problems. The powers that be at work would generally tell me as I was leaving for the evening that the following day was a holiday. So much for making plans. Of course, they only wanted to sleep.[/quote]
It is? I always thought it was a lunar calendar thing. Oh well.
As it is every year.
PS When I first arrived I had similar problems. The powers that be at work would generally tell me as I was leaving for the evening that the following day was a holiday. So much for making plans. Of course, they only wanted to sleep.[/quote]
Yeah, that happened to me the first year too. I was very close to not even getting told the first couple of times.
As it is every year.[/quote]It’s on the 4th on leap years or even years, or something.
Did anyone else notice that the word Calendar was spelt wrong in that link? 
It seems that things aren’t very standardized here. Often a certain day is a holiday but the days between it and the weekend aren’t. Then the government declares at the 11th hour that the in-between date will be a holiday, and some later Saturday will be a “make-up day”. Then the company you work for decides to make its own changes.
So much for being able to plan in advance.