But Mr. Scrooge, It’s Christmas
Around seven years ago we used to have a manager who was no joy to work for. He was the kind of guy who would breathe down your neck while you were working. On any given day of the year, he would go around and visit as many cubicles as he could. He poked annoying questions at everyone, asking them what they were doing and why they were doing it. But around Christmas time he was even worse.
A lot of people use office hours to look for Christmas gifts. and I know that’s not right but as long as the work gets done on time I don’t see what the big deal is. So in an attempt to make sure no one was buying Christmas holiday gifts during office hours, the manager appointed ‘deputies’ to help him keep a watch on everyone. These deputies were a bunch of suck-ups that monitored our online activity since we didn’t have CCTV or cruel people in the IT department. This made us unable to shop online for Christmas gifts and since we were pressed for ideas for Unique Christmas gifts we began discussing them in any spare time we got. This was unacceptable to our manager. If it weren’t for free speech and the necessity of communication, he would ban all speech in the office. Finally someone in the accounts department snapped. The guy was determined to give the manager a piece of his mind. He went to his office and yelled for fifteen minutes and was fired for ‘insubordination’.
The accounts guy said it was worth. When he came back the next day to pick up his things, his mood had changed. He knew he wasn’t getting his job back but he felt bad about yelling at someone during the Christmas holiday season. He had said a lot of things that would have hurt anybody’s feelings. So in an attempt to apologize he brought two Christmas gift baskets to the office. The big one was for all of us and the smaller one was for his now ex-boss. He also put a DVD of ‘A Christmas Carol’ with it and gave it to the boss. The effect was astonishing. He got his job back and the manger eased up about our online activities.
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