The war on Christmas is over...
I don't care what title we give the holidays, because to me the holidays is a time to spend time with the people we love and enjoy the festivities.
It is a time of joy! And our company loves to share that joy. We share it with eachother, with our families, with our amazing clients and friends.
This year, one of the ways we shared the joy was by sending an e-mail blast that said "seasons greetings" and included this picture:
We didn't say "Seasons Greetings" because we were scared of offending people with "Merry Christmas", or "Happy Hanukkah" (though we do celebrate both at the office). We said "Seasons Greetings" because we genuinely wanted to share our joy with people we care about and this doesn't have anything to do with Christmas or any other religious event.
Unfortunately the e-mail was also sent to a moron. Someone who is disgusted when companies don't have the "balls" to say Merry Christmas. Someone who can't understand that all we wanted to do was share joy and in fact chose not to say Merry Christmas because it wasn't relevant to the message we were sending.
This was the message he wrote in reply to our holiday e-blast:
"What "Season" Greeting are you referring to? If you can't say Christmas we can't work with you. By excluding Christmas you offend far more people than if would wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I've never met a Jewish, Muslim or African person or any individual for that matter who has ever been offended by being include in Christmas. I would never be offended by some wishing me a happy Hanukkah or Ramadan or any other religious holiday for that matter. That is being inclusive and accepting. If corporations can't grow a pair we can't work or prompt them.Christmas is not a bad a word. If we continue to dilute the Canadian fabric we are no longer Canadians but rather a melting pot of nobody's without an identity."
First of all, I'd like to clarify, we weren't ever planning on working together.
Second. It has nothing to do with being scared of offending anyone. I am a very up front person, in fact you can probably tell, as I am calling this guy a moron in my public blog. He is everything that is wrong with society. He is worried about the war on Christmas, he is worried about the politically correct who threaten "his holiday". If he knew us, he would realize that "Seasons Greetings" had nothing to do with being politically correct, because our team is the farthest thing from politically correct.
If he knew us he would realize that we don't see the holidays, as Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other religious event. We see it as an opportunity to take a break, spend time with the people we love and share the joy of the holidays.
No matter how hard people like this try to ruin that, they wont succeed.
Seasons Greetings!
Kyle
