Catching up on friends list

[sparkindarkness]

Or trying to. Samhain ate my weekend (in a good way) and most of last night (also in a good way) and I've spent faaaar too long reading my own archives, but I'm catching up and organised soon.

Hopefully.


Oh, and the SPs have decided to do one of their sensitivity awareness months and updating and implementing their sensitivity policy (whenever they do this, those of minority race, ethnicity, religion or sexuality in the office generally try to hide) and are trying to be overly accomodating of my holy day. I'm torn between shuffling away from the vast awkwardness (watching them try and invent politically correct terms to use for pagan lawyers is not as fun as you'd think), milking it for all the shinies I can (why, yes, it's traditional that i should get a week off and shiny presents. Honest) and seeing how much humour I can wring from the situation (I prefer to be called broomstick enabled).

Ah well, I suppose I should be grateful that my firm IS so accomodating of minroity faiths, sexualities, races, ethnicities and cultures.

Comments

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Heh.

In theory it's amusing, in practice it can be a little uncomfy, yes?

I'd go for the presents though. Oh yes.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's their SINCERITY that is quite quite disturbing


aaaah, they're not falling for that one (getting money out of lawyers? Hmmm, where did I leave that crowbar?)

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Ummm... sincere lawyers?

Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

now now, lawyers are always sincere

even when they're lying

[zero_pixel_count]

*eyebrow-raise*

surely the really-correct (as opposed to politically correct) term is 'lawyer'

it's not like your religion has an impact on your competence for work purposes...

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

SHHHH, don't tell them that. At the minute I'm working on Broomstick-enabled-deity-enhanced-nature-enabled Lawyer. Office Dyke (I can call me that since she calls me Queenie and we're on the same team) has bet me lunch I can't make it to 5 hyphenates.


But yes, that's what I keep saying to them "my faith makes absolutely NO difference to the job. You don't need to say/do anything special on my account." But they don't seem to be getting it.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Would pranking yourself make them uncomfortable enough to amuse you?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

it maaaaay break through to their sense of the ridiculous :)

[zero_pixel_count]

Meh. People are dumb. But then we already knew that...

My boss's favourite running joke for things that have no impact on the job is: 'was that on your CV?' (Him: "you're limping" Me: "yeah, I broke my ankle five years ago. it's playing up" Him: "was that on your CV?" or today's - Him: "you're not having another bonfire next week?" Me: "nah, well guy fawkes is kind of an english thing" Him: "it's kind of a protestant thing" Me: "Yeah, well, that too, and I'm catholic" Him: "was that on your CV?")

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

d probably be funn y for the first 3 seconds... then very very very annoying

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

'lawyers who have no religious reason to object to being on call on Christmas?' ;p

[procris.livejournal.com]

sure, but what about Midwinter's Eve? That's typically damn close to Christmas. Or given the type of Pagan Sparky is (which I don't know) There's the birthday of Mithras, Saturnalia, and various other fun holidays around that time too. I'm sure he can come up with something.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I go for Yule and Saturnalia. i think they balance well together - my Yule is more reflective and ritual laden while my Saturnalia is more an explosive celebration of life in the winter's cold.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Hm,mm... nope, methinks we will avoid that none. yes, yes we will.

[mnemsyne.livejournal.com]

My boss told us to keep our opinions to ourselves because someone said they hate pagans and I said that's bullshit and was going to get really pissed off.

I also ended up working all day yesterday.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I would have to be a random axe murderer in that condition.

Even when people do share their opinions, it's not much to ask for them to be polite