Handling Holidays At the Office

How do you effectively navigate your way around celebrating -or not celebrating the holiday at work? Christmas time, New Year's Day and several others are all heavy holidays that require extra effort on the part of workers. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to actually tell your co-worker you don't celebrate Christmas. Everyone in earshot would turn around to hear who would ever be saying such a thing. Not to mention when the office coordinator or busy body is organizing a Secret Santa and you have to be viewed as Scrooge --just because you just don't want to participate. I love to subscribe to the belief that I do not like any pressure of any sort. I don't buy gifts and I don't expect gifts. In a good year I'll pass out Christmas cards to a selected few. What about the co-workers who don't celebrate the holidays for religious reasons? Doesn't it always seem like they may be against giving a gift- but never against receiving a gift. Well, the way I enjoy the holidays at work- Pot Luck. I love it when the office busy body organizes the pot luck.. that's when everyone brings in a dish and it's shared with the workers. That seems to be the best way to me to celebrate the holdiay at work. So, no gifts, please.. just food! Enjoy.