Different Company Different Holidays

Thomson and Citi outsource to different places - so I have all new holidays to accommodate. Now, of course, we have Catholic / Christian Christmas + the Jewish Hanukkah and Dawli (everyone knows Dawli - it is the Indian / Hindi Festival of Lights).

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At Citi, Chinese New Year's was a big thing too.

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We outsourced a lot to a Shanghai Development center - so forget about work for at least 2 weeks at the new of January / beginning of February.

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Persian New Year was big too, but only 1 day long.

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Here are Thomson there is a lot of outsourcing to Belarus - Minsk in particular (Belarus is also know as Belorussia or White Russia) - so I know have to learn when Russian Orthadox Christmas is. (January 7th - fyi)

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What is funny is they have have a contractor furlough over Christmas (Western Christmas) but then all the developers are off for their Christmas.