Posted on 12/20/2011 4:20:21 AM PST by sauropod
Always asserted, never supported.
Just...Holy...Crap. They used Trojan Condoms as a polling source?
People who are higher up in the organization usually take time off.....RHIP.
Perhaps the author didn't get the memo, but our modern culture is just about done purging the remaining religious elements from the day. You're not supposed to even acknowledge the existence of the religious elements in public any more.
Always asserted, never supported.
We had a senior employee ask a diversity "trainer" to put a dollar figure on that...hehehe. The trainer didn't have a good day that day.
“Guilty. Thats how I met my wife”.
I guess the mistletoe worked for you!
One benefit is that if a big job comes in, people who don't usually get the high-profile work will be able to take it because they're the only ones around.
Because we all know that off-the-radar "big jobs" just slink right in the door without the knowledge or aid of sales, marketing or management. And neither the client nor the folks who shepherded that "big job" sure as heck don't care if the job is handled by senior staff or the Untouchable contract labor that was brought on last week.
This article reminds of of another article in cracked.com where Hollywood manages to have a real skewed idea of what the average workplace looks like. I'm guessing Penelope drinks from that same well of "knowledge".
>>I tried commenting, but found out that one can only comment if one has an American Express card that is registered with them. <<
Isn’t that part of Number 1?
1. The Christmas Caste System
(you have no AMEX, you can’t post)
Sure, they get more time, but it’s also less disruptive for them to take it.
Are you going to pay them "high-profile" money for doing the "high-profile" work while the "high-profile" people are away on vacation?
If not, this is just another demoralizer.
>>I actually liked having the senior management away from the office - we got a lot more done, there was a more casual atmosphere and we did real planning.<<
Isn’t that the truth!
I worked in a company that was ruled by the owner. This guy cycled manic to depressed and back 10 times a day.
When he was gone for Christmas, the company boomed and we were all happy. All our techs did the jobs that he shunned and we made googoobs of money. We brought in cookies and pizza, worked through lunch and were happy.
Apparently the author is cranky and gullible.
1. There may be (and in fact often are) benefits to working your normal hours while the boss is off in some beautiful, exotic and warm vacation spot instead of up your lower GI. I just don’t necessarily want to get lectured about them by the boss.
2. The Christmas-party tryst, although it does occasionally happen, is and has always been a tradition more honored in the hope or the chase than the capture.
3. If you don’t celebrate Christmas as one of the faithful, that’s not a reason that you and I can’t work, play and have fun together. Y’all come. It’ll be fun. You can probably even get me to join in your festivities, too. If you’re annoyed by celebrating Christmas, and especially if you’re annoying about celebrating it, you are a bore and a boor, and I’d probably rather not work with you, over you, or (God forbid) under you.
Sounds like a truly awful person . . .
Watch for a rebuttal from Donald Trunk.
I have found that not to be true, in fact, in my experience, it’s just the same 4 or 5 slutty women and the same 4 or 5 man-whore guys just trading each other off each year.
Yep. If 40% say they’ve had a Christmas party fling I’d bet 35% are lying.
Bull crap.
"Diversity", and all that it stands for, has got to be one of the most divisive concepts ever devised by those evil liberal bastards to balkanize Americans into little enclaves of color and ethnicity.
Diversity is utter pap.
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