Time off during internship?

My daughter framed it as “my parents want to know if they should plan on coming to me, or if I’ll be able to have time to go home.”

July 4th is a National Holiday and one I think many companies have off.

I would ask my mentor if July 4th is a holiday at that company and one I would expect to have off.

@bopper they want to know if July 5th can be taken off.

D’s 10 weeks internship includes 2 day off. OP, does your D’s internship includes days off?

I also wouldn’t and will wait and see.

Wow. You just ask. You aren’t demanding to have the time off.

Just ask! The worst that can happen is they say no. If they are mad about her asking that may be some insight into the culture and give her more info about accepting a position if she’s offered one at the end of her internship.

When D1 was an analyst, there was an unspoken rule that analysts were expected to work the day after Thanksgiving. It was nothing off D1’s back because we lived around NYC, but there was an analyst whose family lived in Chicago. He didn’t ask for the day off and was a bit sad leading up to the holiday, but his family surprised him by coming to NYC for the weekend. When his manager found out his family was in town, he let the analyst have Fri off. It was nice, but I think if the analyst had asked his manager probably would have let him go home.

Thank you all for your input

My daughter had one co-op where they were very flexible about time off. Her boss would hear I was visiting on a Friday and make her leave early. No problems for time off for being sick, jury duty, etc.

Her second co-op was the opposite. She had to work late the day before Thanksgiving and work a full day the day after Thanksgiving.

For the full-time job she has now, her first year she had a great boss who told all his people to take off the day after Thanksgiving and not use a vacation day.

Reminds me of summer clerkships at law firms. Take them out to dinners, sporting events, theater shows, evenings out at partner’s houses, etc. Then when they start full time after law school and that all stops and they find themselves chained to a desk day and night, they ask what happened to all that fun stuff. That was the summer program is the response.

My daughter has a internship this semester. When she got the schedule, she knew she would be working on the day of her brother (my son) college graduation. She thought about asking for it off but there are not that many of the interns and they are staffed 24/7. They work in teams so moving around shifts isn’t easy. She decided not to ask for that day off. Its fine.

Maybe she can ask around and see what the July 4 holiday weekend will look like. Some companies people will take off so asking for the day off won’t matter. Other places the expectation may be people will work the Friday. Seems to me its good to know the culture/environment you are in. If its not what you want, work out the internship and find another place to work.

I worked for a company where we could only take vacation in week long blocks, so if you wanted the day after Thanksgiving off, you had to take the whole week. You also had to have seniority to do that because many of the execs wanted it off for deer hunting seasons. We didn’t have interns, but a new hire wouldn’t have the day off.

Same with working for the government. You could take the day if you had vacation, but I always found working the day after thanksgiving to be one of the best days. A group of us would go to Hooters for lunch because it was one of the only sports bars downtown (at that time) and watch the Colorado- Nebraska game while eating wings.

If you’re in retail, you work the day after Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas, and probably New Years Day. Teachers don’t get to take weeks off during the school year.

I am working this summer. Summer school for gigs schools start July 1. July 5 is a summer school instructional day, you must come to work unless you have scheduled to be on vacation (which in unlikely for administrators because you want to make sure your students are programmed corrective).

In the world of work unless it is a company holiday or company floater day your daughter is going to find herself working Friday before Memorial Day, July 3-5, Friday/Tuesday Labor Day, Wednesday/Friday thanksgiving, December 24/26. She will be the last person getting this time off due to seniority. Unless the companies is giving all interns the Friday off, company holiday, be prepared for the strong possibility that no intern is getting the time off