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As always around this time of year, there has been a lot of discussion lately of what is "politically correct" regarding holiday traditions in public.
Specifically, here at work there has been the ordeal about the Christmas holiday tree. This is a state agency, funding in large part by taxpayer dollars. So. Should we, or should we not, be allowed ( Read more... )
Apparently (and this is just a rumor, so I can't really substantiate it) some of the complaints came from at least one Jewish employee who feels that the presence of Christmas in the government workplace is distracting and unfair to him. I know for a fact that this particular employee uses his vacation time to take all Jewish holidays off, as is his right, and that the requests are never challenged (he gets priority on those days) BECAUSE they are religious holidays. The state would similarly honor any other request by someone of other religious affiliation. The part that gets me is that I doubt this same person is complaining that the whole building SHUTS DOWN on the 24th and 25th... and that all the permanent staff, including him, gets paid--from taxpayer dollars--anyway. (Woo, free days off!) Most of the complaints suposedly came from visitors though. To me, if I were a non-Christian who wanted to complain about something unfair in state service, the tax-funded holiday pay would be much higher on the list than the tree in the lobby.
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