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An employee was surprised when HR marked the wrong festival date as a holiday, but the company chose not to cancel the leave after many staff had already made plans.
The actual festival date was later treated as a regular working day. (AI Generated Image)
An employee was left surprised after their company’s HR team made a mistake on the holiday calendar but decided not to take back the day off. Instead of asking everyone to return to work after spotting the error, the company chose to stick with its original announcement.
The employee shared the experience on Reddit’s r/IndianWorkplace forum, where the decision sparked a debate. While some people appreciated the company for putting employees first, others argued that it should have declared both days as holidays.
HR Chooses Not To Reverse Its Mistake
The Reddit post was titled, “My company accidentally marked the wrong date as a public holiday and decided to honor it anyway.”
The employee explained that HR had listed the wrong date for an upcoming festival on the company’s internal holiday calendar. By the time the mistake was noticed, many employees had already made plans for the announced holiday.
Instead of cancelling the leave at the last moment, the company decided to let employees keep the day off. The actual festival date would now be treated as a normal working day.
The employee wrote, “My company’s HR team accidentally marked the wrong date as a public holiday on our internal calendar. Instead of reversing it at the last minute, they owned the mistake and let everyone keep the incorrect day off since people had already made plans. The correct festival date will now just be a normal working day.”
Sharing their reaction, they added, “Honestly, I expected the holiday to get cancelled once they caught the error. This was a pleasant surprise, and it says something good about how leadership handled it.”
Summing up the incident, the employee wrote, “TLDR: HR’s holiday calendar had the wrong date for a festival. Instead of un-doing the day off after people had made plans, they just kept it and made the real festival date a normal working day.”
Reddit Users Disagree Over The Decision
The post received mixed reactions from Reddit users. Some felt the company handled the situation well by accepting its mistake instead of forcing employees to change their plans at the last minute.
Others, however, believed the company should have also declared the actual festival day as a holiday. They argued that simply replacing one holiday with another was not enough.
One user wrote, “They should have given the actual festival day off. That’s what looks like employee centric one.” Another commented, “oh please even my toxic company did that- people with plans would have taken that day off anyway. Owning up to it would have been if they also gave the actual date. This is lower than bare minimum.”
A person said, “Bare minimum. Would be respect worthy if they made the festival a holiday as it should have been as well.”
Others shared similar views. A user wrote, “yeah that doesn’t seem much good anyway, they just would be under more fire if they didnt let you have that.” Another commented, “They are legally obligated to do so. If they were employee centric they’d have given both days off. In fact if they’re making you work on a public holiday, please file a complaint with your state’s Labour commission.”
Someone else added, “What’s good about it. They compensated it with the actual one. Complain at labour office.”
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August 07, 2026, 09:00 IST
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