War on Christmas: Boycott Christmas & Go To Work
Thursday November 13, 2008
Because American culture has been dominated for so long by Christianity and Christian traditions, Christmas is celebrated widely even by non-Christians. Indeed, it's getting to the point where Christmas is becoming less Christian in nature every year. Nevertheless, many non-Christians continue to perceive the day as fundamentally Christian and so don't want to celebrate it. Because of this, there are growing numbers of non-Christians who refuse to have anything to do with the holiday, even in a secular nature. They don't exchange gifts, they don't put up decorations, and they even go to work if it's a normal work day.
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I am working for the United Kingdom social services during the atheistic, satanic, politically correct ‘winterval’ night.
I look after the elderly and disabled as a full-time professional carer, and one can only say that Godless working is infinetly preferable to spending the day exchanging platitudes with insufferable relatives.
First, I get to keep essential services running in the community, and in sheltered extra care housing. Second, those who work on the 25th and 26th get two days off in lieu, and double-time [£26 per hour].
Not only shall I work from 19:30 on the 25th to 07:30 on the 26th, I shall work another shift from 17:00 - 22:00 later that same day, while others let fly thunder dents into sofas.
It is all worth it - the community and I gain emotionally, physically, and financially, and not a credit card in sight!
There is one downside however: social services are 20 staff members down on Winterval day. Any one prepared to fill the gaps in the roster?
Alan.
I don’t do the decorations of the gifts, but I do not typically go to work (although I often work from home). Going in to work wouldn’t be much of a statement since nobody would even know I was there. Besides, there is the laziness factor to consider.
Seeing as I work at a county club, Christmas is the only holiday I actually get off. In fact, I have to be in at 3:00 today. ~375 will be there, all at once. I don’t give a crap about Christmas, I just like going to my family’s house and enjoying a big meal. Good thing the club’s a Jewish one, otherwise we’d probably have to host a big party for 300
I work in customer service and since the business I work for is closed on Dec. 25, “just going to work” isn’t an option for me. I also celebrate Christmas as a family tradition - even if I objected to it, I live with my family, so it would be kind of hard not to.
Still, the only strictly religious element of the holiday is the Christmas Eve service, which I’m free to opt out of. And I often spend a generous amount of time around the holidays with my significant other’s family, who don’t bother even with that. So on the whole, I don’t see why the way others celebrate should stop me from enjoying the season myself, which I mostly do.