Comments on: Holidays at Work: Culturally Competent or Offensive? What You SHOULD Know

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:34:21 +0000

Since many workplaces schedule employees to work weekdays — that is, Monday-Friday — it is difficult to see why your unavailability to work on Saturday would result in “no employer will hire me.” My own (small) office has an employee who devotes Saturdays to Church and family, but, in many years, the issue has never come up. I only learned of it during an off-hours social conversation with her.

By: tiki

tiki — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:50:59 +0000

Dream on about accomodations. As a Sabbath observer, I do not work on the Sabbath. For this reason alone no employer will hire me.
I have offered to work Sun through Friday plus legal holidays. The discrimination is blatant….or is it that the employers just don’t want to be bothered with scheduling issues???????????????

By: Steven Izard

Steven Izard — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:52:18 +0000

I wish you all and your families, a very Merry Christmas!

For all others who do not recognize Christmaw, Happy Holidays.

God Bless you all.

By: Gary M. Morin

Gary M. Morin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:22:26 +0000

This is an excellent topic as most of the time, it’s a perfect joke. The EEO office, at [deleted], once sent out a memo advising managers not to hold Christmas parties that are simply renamed “holiday parties,” to LOOK LIKE it was diverse. At the same time, that’s exactly what [deleted] EEO and so-called diversity office DID.

I’d rather people just discriminate or not care and call it what it is. It is a Christmas party, don’t pretend otherwise. I’d rather know to my face that you don’t care about me and about inclusion than pretend that you do.