Double Holiday Week in Argentina: Banks Open Only Tuesday to Thursday

[earlyretirement]

Double Holiday Week in Argentina: Banks Open Only Tuesday to Thursday

Big surprise! Another month, another holiday! Argentina has holiday after holiday. These people are allergic to work and love their official holidays!

Next week in Argentina will feature two national holidays, affecting the operation of banks and other institutions:

Monday, June 16: National holiday for the Anniversary of the Passing of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes. This holiday is moved from June 17 to Monday, June 16, creating a long weekend.

Friday, June 20: National holiday for Flag Day, commemorating the death of General Manuel Belgrano.

Impact on Banks:

During that week, banks will only be open on Tuesday, June 17; Wednesday, June 18; and Thursday, June 19. Both Monday and Friday will be closed due to the national holidays.

Week Summary:

Monday, June 16: Closed (holiday)
Tuesday, June 17: Open
Wednesday, June 18: Open
Thursday, June 19: Open
Friday, June 20: Closed (holiday)

These holidays provide an opportunity for a long weekend at both the beginning and end of the week, so it is recommended to plan banking transactions and other procedures in advance.

 

[Avocado]

We all love our holidays! It important for the people to enjoy life and spend time with family. That very important. Argentina need more holidays.

 

[CraigM]

These people are allergic to work and love their official holidays!

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

 

[Avocado]

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

I read your original post about your friend's girlfriend. That was funny. I will admit that we like our vacation. I prefer not to say we are lazy but I will say we prefer not to work than work. 🤣

 

[Wally]

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

I joke with my wife all the time and use that phrase about being allergic to work. People here just don't care about making money vs. taking time off from work. It is strange. My brother in law was down on his luck and my wife offered to hire him and employ him. But the job involved weekend work. He claimed to be desperate to make money but when he found out he had to work a Saturday he turned her down. The crazy thing is he claimed he didn't have enough money to put food on the table for his kids. Very strange here.

 

[JoeTrip]

March and April this year were utterly ridiculous, a feriado every week. My coworking closes and I work to do. Why not scrap feriados and mandate companies give more holiday time to employees? Business don’t have to close operations and workers still get the same holiday.

 

[TonyTigre]

There's nothing wrong with being lazy. I am lazy. That laziness drives me to be more efficient, not be wasteful, save, and invest, so that I don't have to work so much.

Laziness is the primary source of motivation for most of the inventions we enjoy today.

 

[JoeTrip]

There's nothing wrong with being lazy. I am lazy. That laziness drives me to be more efficient, not be wasteful, save, and invest, so that I don't have to work so much.

Laziness is the primary source of motivation for most of the inventions we enjoy today.

But the problem in Argentina is that laziness does NOT make them more efficient. 🤣🤣🤣

 

[Betsy Ross]

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

I remember reading that the first time you posted that Craig. That is the thing here that many of my local friends are the same way. They have the same attitude and will admit they don't like working. I am retired so I don't have to work but I can't imagine owning a business here or being part of management and depending on productivity. You can't be productive when there are holidays every other week.

 

[Johnny]

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

Hilarious Craig! I remember reading that and laughing. After spending the past 2 weeks in Buenos Aires with Mike I can definitely see this. I went from meeting to meeting with Mike. Not sure how he keeps up. I don't think anyone can keep up with him. We went from developer to developer and they were arguing to try to get him to do his hotel project. In one meeting, he flat out told them they weren't good enough. The guy actually cried.

Part of me believes that in their culture they aren't accustomed to working hard. They are also not too direct. Some of the expressions I got during the two weeks was interesting.

 

[camberiu]

They really ought to caught down on the mandated holidays here. There are too many of them.

 

[nikad]

There's nothing wrong with being lazy. I am lazy. That laziness drives me to be more efficient, not be wasteful, save, and invest, so that I don't have to work so much.

Laziness is the primary source of motivation for most of the inventions we enjoy today.

Agree. I believe nothing wrong with separating work life from time off. I wouldn't say people here get more efficient from the downtime. From my experience no one thinks about work on time off. They just turn off. Which may not be a bad thing.

 

[Cali Baby]

Double Holiday Week in Argentina: Banks Open Only Tuesday to Thursday

Big surprise! Another month, another holiday! Argentina has holiday after holiday. These people are allergic to work and love their official holidays!

Next week in Argentina will feature two national holidays, affecting the operation of banks and other institutions:

Monday, June 16: National holiday for the Anniversary of the Passing of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes. This holiday is moved from June 17 to Monday, June 16, creating a long weekend.

Friday, June 20: National holiday for Flag Day, commemorating the death of General Manuel Belgrano.

Impact on Banks:

During that week, banks will only be open on Tuesday, June 17; Wednesday, June 18; and Thursday, June 19. Both Monday and Friday will be closed due to the national holidays.

Week Summary:

Monday, June 16: Closed (holiday)
Tuesday, June 17: Open
Wednesday, June 18: Open
Thursday, June 19: Open
Friday, June 20: Closed (holiday)

These holidays provide an opportunity for a long weekend at both the beginning and end of the week, so it is recommended to plan banking transactions and other procedures in advance.

Seriously way way way too many holidays here.

 

[TonyTigre]

My point is that laziness isn't the problem. What has been lacking is the motivation to be more efficient at the workplace. A perfect example of that is at the restaurants. If being more efficient (getting more customers in and out faster) doesn't translate to more pay (propinas, if any at all), then being more efficient just means more work. No one wants to be more efficient in that situation.

I imagine most jobs in the country do not have a merit based total compensation where performance reviews determine a wide range of salary increases and a wide range in the amount of bonus for the same title). Union contracts or labor laws probably enforce very limited variations in compensation and also very little risk of being fired for bad performance?

With some changes in labor laws, more international employers, and an increase in immigration, I think you will see a shift in attitude in the coming years. Frankly, that's the only way the country can survive. It's a competitive world. You will be left behind if you don't step up.

 

[nikad]

My point is that laziness isn't the problem. What has been lacking is the motivation to be more efficient at the workplace. A perfect example of that is at the restaurants. If being more efficient (getting more customers in and out faster) doesn't translate to more pay (propinas, if any at all), then being more efficient just means more work. No one wants to be more efficient in that situation.

I imagine most jobs in the country do not have a merit based total compensation where performance reviews determine a wide range of salary increases and a wide range in the amount of bonus for the same title). Union contracts or labor laws probably enforce very limited variations in compensation and also very little risk of being fired for bad performance?

With some changes in labor laws, more international employers, and an increase in immigration, I think you will see a shift in attitude in the coming years. Frankly, that's the only way the country can survive. It's a competitive world. You will be left behind if you don't step up.

The problem is most locals working in jobs simply don't care if their boss makes more money. And it is as you say Tony many of these people can't get fired or want to get fired so they can get a payout. The labor unions are too strong.

 

[BA Bound]

"I'm a lazy person from a lazy country" 🙂 Almost a year later and I'm still laughing about that

Didn't see your first post @CraigM. What are you referring to? I assume this means some local admitted they are lazy from a lazy country? Who was it? A friend? Many of my friends from Argentina admit they don't like to work much. They don't look at working hard as a positive but a big negative.

 

[CraigM]

With some changes in labor laws, more international employers, and an increase in immigration, I think you will see a shift in attitude in the coming years. Frankly, that's the only way the country can survive. It's a competitive world. You will be left behind if you don't step up.

Well said Tony. I supposed you could be both hopeful and worried for Argentinians. Hopeful because more international companies, with their compensation systems and standards of work, will motivate locals. Work can be very empowering but not if you're shuffling paper at some worthless government job (that could only feel like punching a clock where 5pm and public holidays can't come soon enough). The worried part is that a generation or two has never known real work and the motivation that comes with doing something useful for profit, so how will they respond?

 

[Uncle Wong]

Well said Tony. I supposed you could be both hopeful and worried for Argentinians. Hopeful because more international companies, with their compensation systems and standards of work, will motivate locals. Work can be very empowering but not if you're shuffling paper at some worthless government job (that could only feel like punching a clock where 5pm and public holidays can't come soon enough). The worried part is that a generation or two has never known real work and the motivation that comes with doing something useful for profit, so how will they respond?

It was an eye opener going to dinner with @earlyretirement and @Johnny and Mike was telling us horror stories about some things that happened while he owned businesses in Argentina. It sounds like a hopeless situation until they change employment laws. He was telling us story after story of other friends he knew that owns big companies and lost lawsuits against employees.

After hearing all of those stories it doesn't sounds like foreign companies are going to come down to Argentina without changing all of those labor laws. IIRC, guys like BowTiedMara on X also had employee lawsuits that he lost that were bogus.

If I was a foreign company I would NOT have employees in Argentina until these laws change. Hopefully in October.