One thing that always amuses me is that all those businesses that use the term “holiday” are almost always Christmas only. For example “holiday” business parties tend to have only Christmas decorations and themes. Does your December business parties have even token decorations for Hanukkah, Kwanza, or other celebrations?
Not mine. But then, all but one of our current staff all celebrate Christmas. The one who doesn’t is a Jehovah’s Witness.
Our work ‘Holiday Party’ excludes any reference to any sort of religiosity. The boss is devoutly Jewish (so no wish on his part to promote Xmas) and the rest of us range from rabidly Atheist to moderate Buddhist to liberal Christian (I don’t think there’s any Hindus or Muslims on the payroll at the moment).
Any mention like, ‘Hey, what’s happening with the Chrissy party this year?’ is met with a stern look and lots of :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I worked for a buncha catholics and they went out of their way to disrespect the two jews we worked with. They bought ham for the meal, and when I reminded them about the jews, they told me they could bring their own food. :eek:
Our office decorations are decidedly multicultural. Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year, Diwali – hey, last year we won the big prize (pizza party) for my Boxing Day idea.
It was very definitely anti-New York Yankees, though.
Our office is the same. However, since they took us to a really nice steak house and spent probably $15,000 on dinner for the company I could care less if they called it the “people who celebrate holidays are big jerks” party.
Token decorations only, but the persistent reference is to “Holday Party”. The person responsible for organizing the thing even signs the relevant emails “Santa”. But it’s not a Christmas party, oh no.
We have a holiday party with no decorations or references to to any religious event. It is one of the benefits of working with scientists.
I’m a student, but my husband’s company has a Holiday Party, since they are a world-wide organization with people from many different cultures. I think they managed to satisfy most of the 2300 people at the party; this year it was a Caribbean/Fun in the Sun party with Dollarama masquerade masks and a Latin band (who later played more well-known songs to dance to). And for the first time in 3 years, the food was actually GOOD!