It's not a written policy but it has always been our practice to let whomever has vacation days to use, use them whenever they want. This often results in more than one person in my department being gone at the same time and as the Manager, I am expected to work, if necessary, to cover any shortfall. I end up working all summer every year and almost always between Christmas and New Year. No use lamenting it - that's just the way it is.
I think you could try and apply that to everything couldn't you? Nowhere in my comment did I say offer. I said expect. And consider that you're talking about someone's entire career not just a time.
I didn't mean you wouldn't be members of a team. What if these were days these other employees already asked off for in advanced? That wasn't information given. Maybe the daughter didn't ask off but maybe she wasn't able to because she was so new.
I think you could try and apply that to everything couldn't you? Nowhere in my comment did I say offer. I said expect. And consider that you're talking about someone's entire career not just a time.
Surely one realizes how poor that would come off to tell someone because of your religion and culture and ethnicity you should offer to work every year on every time a holiday pops up? No one should expect it based on those alone; if you want to of course go for it but expecting is different, at least to me. Morally that's literally the whole point of someone's complaint. Someone who doesn't have kids be shouldn't be expected to work xyz day just because of that, nor should single people be expected to work on Valentine's Day or whatever. He tends to spend Christmastime with his family in another city when he is able to get it off . Pretty sure the person whose comment launched the discussion mentioned the place of employment forgot the daughter would want to spend time with her family. I'd like to give him the same consideration the poster is asking her daughter to get, irrespective of his religion
Expecting someone to work OR for another person to have a day off because of xyz that I was speaking about and what was being described. Whether the guy is Jewish or not doesn't matter to me and I would rather not use such things as qualifiers (there would become endless choices anyways), it would be that the same person repeatedly got the same day off year after year when someone else has expressed interest in being able to have that day off as well that is the issue. I would agree that certain religions have unique factors to them that mean taking off work is a big impact but there are people who still work in the world during religious periods as a means of necessity.
Apologies, wasn't how it was coming off with all the added information about a Jewish person and Jeovahs Witness and religious observations of other holidays as if a person of a certain faith should not take off a day just because of that. It's just people taking the same day off year after year, whether it's Christmas or the 4th of July or Memorial Day. Either way done for the night enjoy your evening
And 12/10 starts Hanukkah & 12/26 is kwanza & winter solstice is 12/21 & 1/1 is New Years...so perhaps instead of it being a conspiracy against Christmas, ppl who don’t know you are saying happy holidays to make sure they cover all the possibilities in their greeting to you to br POLITE.
Did anyone watch SNL last night? They did a skit on it.
You already know the answer to that question. I'm the one to say it wasn't because I'm the chosen one.
This is where I'm tempted to make a crack about the 1% but instead I'll just wish you and the staff a very warm and Merry Christmas. 
