re: Would you be OK with changing Christmas to a certain day of the week, like Thanksgiving?

Once my kids grew past certain Christmas beliefs, I sought out working those holiday weeks. Everyone was off and I didn't have to put up with all the normal bs.

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causing many to have to go to work the day after, limiting some people's full day of celebration.

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Well, there is vacation or the one nobody likes to use but available Leave Without Pay.

No. But Halloween on the otherhand should always be on the last Saturday in October. There is ZERO reason for it not to be.

That's how the communist win....

Discuss Orthodox views on Jesus' birthday, January 6th. Christians fight!

I DGAF when it's celebrated, we should dump a bunch of other holidays and block off non essential work like school districts do Christmas break. I'll take a couple of conference calls, but I'm not driving in and pretending with the other 10% of people that have no PTO left and are just marking time.

July 4th. Hence, Christmas in July

Yes

Jesus isn’t real. Buying plastic shite for tradition is.

I was already over my head when I posted about it. I'm confused as shite, especially when Catholic stuff starts getting involved. At least you have one calendar, unlike us. It's apparently the year 5785, didn't ya know? (I can't explain that either.)

When the Christians in "secular" Europe check out varies, even if they're not Orthodox. I actually like the variability, because if you do international work, you can just shrug and say, "we will see in mid January" starting in late November if you deal with the EU/EEA. The Italians are gnarly, they open a door in this building somewhere in Rome, and 25% of Catholics in Europe show up and the city shuts down. I guess working in the UAE may be the penultimate way to avoid work for the max possible; you have every religion on the planet, and people just disappear for random reasons, and nobody skips a beat. Ramadan? St. Crispin's day? ANZAC day? Who knows, but someone isn't working.