Our HR department is hosting a lecture on “how to deal with holiday stresses.” I’d rather they offered a workshop on how to deal with the stress of having a useless HR department. Holidays we’ll handle just fine.
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We had a workshop on teaching given by a Cirque-du-Soleil clown. Since then, I wear heavy makeup in class and I reach my toes with my tongue while explaining the subjunctive.
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This is hilarious. 😃
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Not that I like to defend HR departments, but a lot of people don’t handle holidays well. This is a big time of year for divorces and emergency court orders of protection. While actual suicides are not all that common, people do get depressed, and grief for lost loved ones can be acute this time of year. It’s something to notice among your students.
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Jesus. Why, though? Because people drink more alcohol?
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The holiday season is wrapped in gauze and sentiment. A lot of people feel pressure to pretend they have a better life than they have and more happiness than they feel.
The contrast between the image they put out and what is actually happening is more than a lot of people can bear.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you “Be of good cheer”
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
It’s the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It’s the hap- happiest season of all
There’ll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There’ll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
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One would think that lectures on dealing with work-related stresses would be more relevant.
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Americans, you know? They are stressed to death by the horror of not working for two days.
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Or your HR department wants you to believe not working is the worst thing ever.
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They are really not that complex.
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