On 07/03/2013 9:05 AM, jmcquown wrote:

>
> Around that same time one of my brothers dated a woman who was a
> Jehovah's Witness. She told him over and over again, they don't "do"
> birthday or Christmas presents. He took her at her word. Whew, I don't
> have to buy her a gift! Then she got ****ed off because he didn't.
>

I had a JH for a boss for a while and she always made a big deal of not
doing birthdays and Christmas. I always used to book vacation time
between Christmas and New Years and always had more than enough vacation
credit saved up for it. One year I put in vacation requests, booking
time for the summer and a separate one for Christmas. I waited and
waited for the approval for the Christmas vacation. We had a staff
meeting in early December and she announced that she had a number of
requests for vacation over Christmas and that her records showed that
some people had had Christmas vacations for a number of years and we
should think about sharing it around, so if anyone else wanted the time
off they should get their requests in soon so she could make her
decision on who would get the time off.

I was furious. I had a lot of seniority and I had had my request in 6
months earlier. It might have been different if there had been a number
of others already asking for it, but there wasn't. There she was,
inviting people to apply for vacation for that same time, looking to
create a problem. I was going to take the time anyway. I would have
filed a grievance and given my seniority and the timing of the requests,
I would have won it.

As it turned out, I got the time off. The woman who is a JH and who does
not celebrate Christmas and who tried to cause a conflict over vacation
times..... she took the week off too.