Takitothemacs wrote:There's something indefinable about the Christmas season that makes the whole workplace seem a little brighter. It could be the impending arrival of relatives, the promise of presents or just the knowledge that for a short space of time you're free of the horrors of the workplace. Whatever it is, the workplace becomes a much nicer place to work and people often put aside their petty differences in the spirit of goodwill.
"We can't call it Christmas any more," the HR Droid says, reading from his memo. "From now on it's got to be called the holiday season."
"Why?" the PFY asks.
"Because not everyone celebrates Christmas. It's not PC."
"So the non-Christmas lot will be working through then?"
"Well, obviously not. It's a public holiday!"
"So this is a cake-and-eat-it-too situation then?"
Sums it up nicely
ahh we dont have that problem at our work.
Mainly cuz if anyone complained to us we would laugh until we threw up
Being an equal thingy department we encourage any faith to celebrate - still havnt convinced the ladys at work to wear their saris for divali yet which is a pity
but i always put my little nativity sceane up and it botheres no one
Its more the US who seem to have these problems
Tho i was really looking forward to a showdown with the health and saftey guy after last year when he told the dept near ours to take their hanging decorations as it apparently interferred with the alarm,
Reasonable we thought and quite possibly true so we didnt complain (much
).
This year in february (yes ive been waiting that long) we had peeps in to test the alarm,
Apparently its sound activated.
Never heard tinsel sound like broken glass when hitting the ground.
Such a pity none of us could be bothered to put hanging stuff up this year though
really wanted to laugh in the H&S face for being such a muppet
Maybe next year
