I don't think athiests should get christmas bonus checks

[Ramo]

Ok, but then we deserve festivus bonuses.

BTW, most atheists do participate in Christmas festivities (presents, family gathering with a big meal, etc.). Hell, I'm in a Moslem family, and we do that. It's like Thanksgiving.

[Al'Kimiya]

It should be called yule as it was intended. Another christian theft

[Bereta_Eder]

i almost fell off my chair reading this title

[Poppa Bear]

I didn't know that there still was such a thing as Christmas Bonuses?

All that they have given out where I work in many years is a damned turkey and they even quit doing that several years ago!

[Giancarlo]

Re: I don't think athiests should get christmas bonus checks

Originally posted by Dissident
This is sure to make me popular in a forum full of athiests

If athiests don't buy presents for people and don't have holiday gatherings why should they get christmas bonus'? And this is even more controversial, but non-christians should not get christmas bonus'. Maybe they can get a bonus on their religions major holy day, I don't know. These are just some random thoughts, please don't take them too seriously.

Granted, if a company had that policy you wouldn't have people saying they are athiests, everyone would be a christian.

Umm... no... I don't celebrate Christmas but the month of December just happens to be a month where I travel with my parents and buy things. My dad is agnostic (like most of my family, except with my grandmother on my mom's side who is a devout catholic) but he still should get his bonus check every christmas. Why shouldn't we? And by the way Christmas is more capitalist than it is Christian nowadays.

BTW, not to be a nick picker it is spelled atheists.

[Kepler]

This is a dumb thread, but what the hell.

I'm an atheist who celebrates Christmas as devotedly as any Christian. It has wonderful traditions and is about gift giving within the family -- especially to children.

I personal couldn't care less that it falls on the once-supposed birthday of a quasi-mythical figure in some religion that I don't believe in. The date has IMHO far more lasting and significant value in human history as approximating the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and the re-emergence as the days get longer again.

Christians are certainly welcome to use the day to commemorate their god. I have always maintained that August needs a holiday, and would serve well to host the Birth Celebration of the Great Green Pixie, and I'm more than willing to let Christians have the month off as well as we holders of the one, true GGP faith.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I think that Christians should give their Christmas bonus away to charity.

[MikeH]

And that they shouldn't have hijacked our perfectly good pagan celebration.

[Bereta_Eder]

Being Christian is not financially sound.

Being Christian is very close to being a socialist which is its most apealing aspect.

[Kepler]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Being Christian is not financially sound.

It doesn't make financial sense in a consumerist world. But in a world of flat growth, little investment, and most people operating at a level of bare self-sufficiency, it's probably the most finanically sound philosophy out there.

Also, people who flake out on Christianity and abandon their worldly goods often turn out a lot more interesting than people who flake out on Capitalism. Granted, they don't smell nearly as nice...

[Bereta_Eder]

The worse of them all are Christian Capitalists. (besides the oxymoron)

[Az]

you really like DF, don't you.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Dissident
bonus checks aren't for hard work.

That is what your regular paycheck is for. Bonus checks are to help people make it through the holiday season because they have to buy gifts and plan events.

Do you even work? I'm asking because it seems you have a pretty antiquated view of how companies view bonuses.

The 'Christmas bonus' went out with the Edsel and the stay-at-home mom. Companies don't have the inclination to give out freebies for Xmas shopping anymore. Now, shareholders would axe any directors who did that sort of thing.

Of course, people still get bonuses around Xmas... however, Xmas conveniently happens to fall right around the year end. And the year end bonus is typically given, in companies where it exists, for hard work/meeting targets/being an employee in good standing. If Canada Day fell on Dec 24 and Xmas was in July, it'd be called the Canada Day bonus...

Oh, and I doubt many companies would be allowed to discriminate on a religious basis like that, anyway. Too many human rights codes out there for that.

[St Leo]

Back in the Evil Empire, Santa Claus (well, Geezer Frost, a fat guy with a beard and stuff) came and gave gifts on New Year's. Gift-giving isn't just for Eksians on their Eksmas.

[Dis]

yes I work and I got my bonus yesterday. It wasn't much. Damn cheap company.