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I am Jewish-observant and draw the line strictly for Shabbat and holidays. There is some grumbling and off color sarcasm at times, but almost everyone is very respectful. Non-Jews are extremely respectful, some Jewish partners have made remarks. It has not impacted my career success, although, of course, it is hard to know what opportunities I may have missed.
I have learned to be confident when explaining it and not apologetic or wavering.
Awkward that the Jewish partners make remarks! Good point on being confident and not apologetic.
I’ve always taken off for the high holidays. I just draw the line in the sand and that’s that.
I don’t observe but there are two associates and a partner in my group that do and it seems hard but they just draw the line and it’s respected.
I think notice is probably the biggest thing. I forget national holidays all the time so I can’t really fault people for forgetting religious holidays—especially when they don’t observe or practice the same ones.
Following. I’ve been in tricky positions before with high holidays falling mid-week- a lot of random Tuesdays out for synagogue etc. Would love to hear how others deal with this.
it has never, ever been an issue, and it's quite nice to have a 24ish hour sanctuary from work even in a packed week.
Whatever our religion or life style, we should all draw lines to make sure the things that are equally, if not more important than our work, such as our souls, bodies, minds and families, are cared for.
Firms would grind to a halt if every lawyer "observed" a holy day. While it is important to have a reasonable work-life balance, I feel that weekly religious observances should not be an automatic greenlight to ignore the realities of law practice. It is also unfair to those who don't "observe" when they're forced to fill in because a colleague is purposely just not working for non-emergency personal reasons.
Agreed A3. What absolute bull. I work for a Jewish owned firm. We, as a firm, observe all high holidays as my bosses are not allowed to conduct business on those days. If we work on those days, as their employees, it still counts as business.
Every Friday the firm closes before sundown. All Jewish workers are given additional time to travel home beforehand. Then, no one is to work until sundown on Saturday.
All high holidays are fully paid, and everyone takes advantage of taking extended vacation, without using all your vacation days at once. For example, I plan to only take 3 days off in April, but I'll have 11 consecutive days off from work.