Christmas Bonuses/meals in your company??

You are incorrect. Jews are - uniquely - a race as well as a faith group. Hitler didn't seek to wipe them from the earth for religious reasons, but racial ones.You don't have to follow Judaism to be a Jew.

Christians or Muslims, by contrast and for example, are purely faith groups which encompass a wide variety of races.

Although we now know that your former employers didn't celebrate Xmas themselves but were generous enough to give their employees Xmas gifts, your post did read as if you were using the old stereotype that Jews are stingy or mean, and I think this is what Paul (CBR600) was pointing out.

Kevin,

   You are quite correct in my (and possibly others) interpretation of the line item mentioned above.

This Is probably why the text has now been edited out.

I am sure it was not intended by David and probably best to stop the discussion here and move on

Paul

Jews WERE a "racial group" (the descendants of Abraham), but that would have been before the diaspora.  While many of the adherents of Judaism undoubtedly carry DNA from that bloodline, the mixing and marriage with originally non-Jewish bloodlines has left the genetic lineage in a murky state at best.  In the current state, I would view Judaism as a religious term, and certainly distinct from being, say, an Israeli.

FWIW, even in the days of a more defined bloodline, Yahweh certainly placed more stock in the religious versus the ethnic aspect; witness Ruth the Moabitess, and the railings of the prophets against the "ethnic" Jews during the periods preceding the captivity...this of course from the Jews' own scriptures.

I've always felt a Moonpig card (as often sent by my brother) meant so much less than nothing.

My boss hasn't given me a single Xmas bonus in 8 years. And never more than 3 consecutive days off. So much for being self-employed 

Ahh.  Modernity will indeed begin and end with Hegel-Adam.  G

LOL

reginald, I think you should sack yourself !!

My son works for a very well known bank in the City and has been told he's working on Boxing Day. So much for Bank Holidays. There is also no Xmas party because they're afraid it will be misconstrued as overindulgence. I think the bank is taking advise from Mr Scrooge this year.

Taking? Or giving?

John

Wow .. you get a digi-card ... more than I get ... you are a very lucky man, sir. 

Maybe I don't get one because the bosses hate me: perhaps they are prejudice against Goths ... and after I sent a track from Who's Next to the one who took over the group last Christmas .... it was a religious song that said I get on my knees and prey 

Self employed,  so no bonuses for us. 

Our Staff , we give them £250  bonus and a christmas meal , dinner dance at a rather nice hotel. 

My bonus , some fantastic staff, helping maintaining profitability in hard times.

in our firm, the boss gives everybody a whole ham, and recently added a turkey option, for those who decline ham for religious or health reasons.    The ham is great, too!  Never tried the turkey.  

Ah, yes.  What is life without racial prejudice.  Prior to retiring from U.S. government service, I made the mistake of confessing to a fellow employee that I had not voted for the black presidential candidate--because I strongly disagreed with his policies.  This particular lady, whom I had personally gotten promoted, told me she thought I was probably a racist.  I asked her if she thought it might not be racist to vote for a black candidate with whom I disagreed, on the assumption that he needed more help getting elected than the white candidate.  She repeated that I was a racist.  In the last election, although the President was re-elected, I noticed that several million of the people who proved their lack of racial prejudice by voting for him in 2008, suddenly had become racists and voted for somebody else. 

Happy New Year!

Russ

Nice ?

Ditto for life without religious discrimination.

Cheers

Don

+1 Don.