What do you prefer to be greeted during Christmas & Holiday season? (money, claim)
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Living in Florida I need mutiple greetings but "Happy Holidays" seems to be the "one fits all" greeting! My Jewish friends? I have to remember which days are "Happy Hanukkah" or my Muslim friends and "Ramadan"! Christmas is easy because every capitalist retailer in the US won't let you forget it!
Now I have to remember "kwanza" and "feliz Navidad" (oh and that horrible song as well).
Anyways! Happy Holidays to all of you no matter what you celebrate!
Kwanzaa? I'm black and i've never heard that one before.
In any case, just say hi or hello. No one will be offended by that.
Bull. It's ONLY a greeting. Statement by butt. Something said that many times by that many people ain't no damn "statement." Please. You're trying to make it bigger than what it is. It's no more a statement than saying "hello" to someone. Come on...stop it.
I don't know how you guys walk around with politics in your head all day waiting to be offended by something as innocuous as a holiday greeting. Seriously, your blood pressure must be 200/150. SMH..
If it's only a greeting than why should Merry Christmas be so taboo? If we lived in a culture where both Merry christmas and happy holidays were used equally and where no business told employees not to say Merry Christmas then Happy Holidays would be harmless like it used to be.
Getting PO'd because someone wished you well but didn't use your preferred verbiage is PC to the max.
No it's not. Anything Christian in origin is never PC.
Also I don't get POd if someone wishes me Happy Holidays. I hear it so much it's like wallpaper, I barely notice it and it means nothing to me. The only time I get angry is when I hear about a company who forbids it's employees from saying "Marry Christmas".
No it's not. Anything Christian in origin is never PC.
Also I don't get POd if someone wishes me Happy Holidays. I hear it so much it's like wallpaper, I barely notice it and it means nothing to me. The only time I get angry is when I hear about a company who forbids it's employees from saying "Marry Christmas".
Well why not apply the same standards to big business (or small) in this case that you have in every other situation?
It's not your company, and the boss has the right to tell people what they can or can't say to customers. If the employee doesn't like it, then can go find another job, right?
It's amazing that the same people that think corporations should be able to bully employees at will have a problem if that same corporation does something deemed to be "Un-Christian."
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Originally Posted by Jay F
If it's only a greeting than why should Merry Christmas be so taboo? If we lived in a culture where both Merry christmas and happy holidays were used equally and where no business told employees not to say Merry Christmas then Happy Holidays would be harmless like it used to be.
Living in Florida I need mutiple greetings but "Happy Holidays" seems to be the "one fits all" greeting! My Jewish friends? I have to remember which days are "Happy Hanukkah" or my Muslim friends and "Ramadan"! Christmas is easy because every capitalist retailer in the US won't let you forget it!
Now I have to remember "kwanza" and "feliz Navidad" (oh and that horrible song as well).
Anyways! Happy Holidays to all of you no matter what you celebrate!
Not sure about kwanza. It's a holiday made up in the 60's by a Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at Berkeley.
Not sure about kwanza. It's a holiday made up in the 60's by a Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at Berkeley.
Yea, i've never once heard about a person expecting to be greeted with Happy Kwanzaa. About the only thing some people do is have a small Kwanzaa party or celebration at their homes. Nothing wrong with it, and the principles of the holiday are just fine. I really don't give a damn about the guy who invented it as long as the observers aren't bothering anyone. And they aren't....at least not from what i've seen.
As for it being "made up," hell, they're all made up by some random dude. (shoulder shrug)
Well why not apply the same standards to big business (or small) in this case that you have in every other situation?
It's not your company, and the boss has the right to tell people what they can or can't say to customers. If the employee doesn't like it, then can go find another job, right?
It's amazing that the same people that think corporations should be able to bully employees at will have a problem if that same corporation does something deemed to be "Un-Christian."
My God? Still with the Drama Queen nonsense?
You're making a big deal out of nothing.
Just as the company can order it's employees not to say Merry Christmas...I as a consumer have a right to boycott that company.
You have a double standard on the drama queen nonsense. It's the ones who were offended by Merry christmas who are the true drama queens. They are the ones that forced everything to change.
Just as the company can order it's employees not to say Merry Christmas...I as a consumer have a right to boycott that company.
You have a double standard on the drama queen nonsense. It's the ones who were offended by Merry christmas who are the true drama queens. They are the ones that forced everything to change.
Will you boycott that same company if they slash employee pay and benefits, then give the top executives higher pay and bonuses and you found out about it?
Why do we say anything it isn't the holidays yet? Should we be saying something like have a contemplative Advent - prepare well.
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