With the entry into the workforce – at least in “creative” fields – of a generation of people who’ve come to see their feelings as inviolable arbiters of how the world is and should be, the holiday season has become just a little more fraught.<\/p>\n
I”m here to help.<\/p>\n
Im’ attaching a list of the types of colleagues you can expect to encounter in the modern workplace this time of year.<\/p>\n
The NPR Malaise-o-holic<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you listen to National Public Radio, you’d think the nation was gripped by a wave of depression from Thanksgiving through New Years every year.\u00a0 \u00a0In the world of public broadcasting, the holidays seem to be perceived as a shared ordeal of awful food shared with un-hip, conservative, crassly-commercial relatives that is at best endured and at worst, succumbed to.\u00a0 Don’t believe me?\u00a0 Just ask them.\u00a0 They’ll be happy to share.<\/p>\n The PC Warrior<\/strong>:\u00a0 “Merry Christmas”.<\/p>\n “A-HEM.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0happy HOLidays<\/em>“.<\/p>\n This one will also be happy to inform you that “Christmas is really\u00a0pagan<\/em>“,\u00a0smugly unaware that\u00a0that’s the point<\/em>, if you’re a Christian.\u00a0 Nobody is\u00a0born\u00a0<\/em>Christian (except Christ, maybe); we’ve all converted from something else, or from nothing.<\/p>\n The Humbug<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0They hate the holidays\u00a0 \u00a0 And they’ll tell you every time the subject comes up.<\/p>\n The Triggerer<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 “Merry Christmas!”<\/p>\n “What’s so merry about it?”<\/p>\n Christmas is part of the aggressions foisted on indigenous societies by white male Christianist conquerors, donchaknow.<\/p>\n Father Festivus:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, yes, we get it; your mocking of other peoples’ traditions and petty joys is just as big a laugh now as it was when George Costanza talked about it in\u00a0Seinfeld<\/em>, what, 55 years ago?<\/p>\n The MacroAggressor<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/span>The Macro aggressor combines all the above – the theatrical assumed depression, the Urban Progressive Privilege, the roiling fog of fatigue, the intolerance and the self-adoring – and wraps it with a layer of overt hostility.\u00a0 The MacroAggressor\u00a0hates\u00a0<\/em>the Holiday season, especially Christmas, and anyone who partakes.\u00a0 And, like all the above, they’ll be happy to vent about it at the slightest opportujnity – or even without it.<\/p>\n Anyway – to all the rest of you, may you and your family be blessed by the joy this season brings.<\/p>\n And for the six groups I list above?\u00a0 MERRY CHRISTMAS.\u00a0 In your face.\u00a0 Over and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the entry into the workforce – at least in “creative” fields – of a generation of people who’ve come to see their feelings as inviolable arbiters of how the world is and should be, the holiday season has become just a little more fraught. I”m here to help. Im’ attaching a list of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65520,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions\/65520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}