Quote Originally Posted by slick
Jen, I agree with you and some might get down my throat about this but I just hate to see the word "Xmas". It's Christmas, folks.

Late in reading this thread/posting this but actually, Xmas isn't meant to be an offensive term.

"This usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for 'Christ' is 'chi,' and the Greek letter 'chi' is represented by a symbol similar to the letter 'X' in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence 'Xmas' is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word 'Christmas' (just as 'Xian' is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word 'Christian')."

I had heard this before at Church but had to look it up to explain it (Snopes).


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Add me to the list of "No problem-ers." And I "take" money, too. (Technically, it just goes into their accout - much like a bank deposit - I don't sell anything.) I'll be more aware of this now.


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I LOATHE the "get her done" or "git 'er done" or whatever that saying is! *shudder*


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When I'm sick, we have "substitutes" that come in. These guys are suppose to know everything that I know about the industry, workings of the company, etc. (Not hard at all considering they are trained the same way as the full-timers, etc.) My boss's wife is the substitute for our office.

Recently, I was out for a week for my grandmother's funeral (which I ended up being too sick to go to - another story entirely). I came back to find not a d@mn thing done - the mail wasn't opened, no faxes were faxed, etc - the reason? She was in the hospital.

Ok. Well, I can certainly understand why she didn't do anything. But my boss was running his biz in the mornings and spending the afternoons at the hospital. Why didn't he do the faxing? HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO WORK THE FAX MACHINE! (He's only had a fax machine for 17 yrs.)

I assume he didn't know how to use a letter opener as well...

Edited to add:
I hope this post didn't come across as cold-hearted.

I can understand him being concerned about his wife being hospitalized and thus, perhaps his response was just a cop out. But if he wasn't in the right frame of mind to even fax documents, maybe he shouldn't have been in the office at all.

On the other hand, I've never seen him fax anything so it is quite possible that he doesn't know how.

There are some simple office procedures that people just need to learn.