I work for a company in a Caribbean country where Easter is “Semana Santa”, and although it is not within the labor law. It is a tradition to give “Holy Thursday” as a day off starting at noon.
But the COO decided that the few staff that we have to come to the office full time needlessly had to come, completely ignoring the fact that most of us had plans.
And the worst thing about it is that we don't even have any projects or work to finish. We just had to come in and look at each other's faces because we are not even allowed to talk to each other without them starting the obsessive micro-management.
The truth is I don't even understand how capitalism works because they literally lose money by coming in and having the office fully operational without us even producing. It's like doing evil just for the sake of being able to do it.