[sauropod]

This is one of those "I can't believe somebody actually wrote that" articles. I am subscribed to an engineering daily newsletter that links articles that they deem may be of interest to their audience.

It was posted on an American Express "Open Forum" website. I tried commenting, but found out that one can only comment if one has an American Express card that is registered with them.

If anyone has one of those, they are invited to comment.

Be nice. 'Pod

[Burkean Buckleyite]

The best way to combat the effects of this cultural division is to help lower-level people find the hidden benefits to working during holidays. 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.

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.

[Pan_Yan]

More than 40 percent of all men have said they had a romantic exchange with someone at an office Christmas party.

Apparently the author is cranky and gullible.

[RichInOC]

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.

[SZonian]

"Diversity increases productivity at most companies."

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.

[Flavious_Maximus]

It is very obvious that this woman is a liberal self loathing nonreligious Jew. The article screams of christian jealousy.

[NFHale]

Dear “American” Express:

Eff you. You should change your name to Liberal Express.

Oh, and Merry Christmas, too.

-Hale

[CodeToad]

To a liberal, excluding Christians, conservatives, and captialists is being “diverse”, more like perverse.