Originally Posted by
theUpsideDown
My two year old doesn't know I missed Christmas years ago. Tom is a pragmatic man, that was actually a candid moment. You have to choose to see it as anything other than Tom being Tom.
Banks have Christmas off, if you need other options. People fly on Christmas so celebrate it on a day you have off with family. Next company I go to I'll be junior there too, and my kid will have Christmas without me, again. It'll be fine. Holidays off ain't gonna happen for all of us, make peace with it, or at the very least make a joke about it.
Snowflakes.
Pragmatic wouldn't be a word I would use to describe him. Working Christmas is a sacrifice I choose to make as party of this career. Our chief pilot could choose to respect that sacrifice instead of marginalizing it. He's out of touch at best.
Morale is dropping here. Spare me the "back in my day" speech. I lived the bad old days and wouldn't wish that on anyone. Before you start calling names, how about you use whatever education and common sense you may have and examine how a manager's empathy (or lack thereof) affects employees.