Comments on: HR Advice, Family & Holidays

By: Corporate Daycare

Corporate Daycare — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:04:52 +0000

OMIGOD – it’s like you’ve seen into my home at Christmas.

I went over the edge of the shit-disturber fence(with my husband egging me on) with a few well placed comments along the line of what you suggested. As a result, I know have an estranged uncle and aunt. It couldn’t have worked out better if I had planned it.

This year – probably the STFU and eat another cookie

By: I Don’t Need Your Two Cents | YourHRGuy.com

I Don’t Need Your Two Cents | YourHRGuy.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:21:54 +0000

[...] wrote about this phenomenon earlier about the person in your family that wants to tell you how the Federal Reserve is bogus or [...]

By: HR Underling

HR Underling — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:34:30 +0000

I sat on the couch at my sister-in-laws with the men and watched the Hunting Channel (yes, there is such a thing) and no one spoke to me and I let my kids run wild. It was aswesome.

By: Resume Docket

Resume Docket — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:20:07 +0000

STFU and eat another cookie.

By: spacedcowgirl

spacedcowgirl — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:26:26 +0000

Probably the cookie option. I’m a fan of cookies myself.

By: Memphis Steve

Memphis Steve — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:04:05 +0000

Generally anyone who wears a baseball hat so often that they have a white forehead and tanned face isn’t worth arguing with. If it can’t be explained in the span of a bumpersticker or t-shirt they aren’t going to get it anyway. The same is often true of family members who wear all black with Birkenstock shoes and a page-boy haircut to go with their ugly Betty glasses, except that you have to throw in a lot of pretentious terms that imply victimhood and a hatred of America just to get them to even acknowledge that you’re speaking. People are funny. We tend to dress ourselves in such a way as to communicate how to communicate with us, or not.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:03:33 +0000

@Lexy I’m rolling my eyes, too. Good lord.

@Meg Bear I’ve been known to advocate the cookie strategy on many occasions.

@Average Jane Lucky dog!

@HR Maven Wow, your holiday is so great. You need to write a self-help book for those of us with huge, extended families!

By: HR Maven

HR Maven — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:51:29 +0000

We ended the ‘extended family’ get-togethers. We volunteer at the veteran’s home and shelter, spend time in our house with our dog, hang with the neighbors who are so totally normal and cool it’s embarrassing and do not exchange gifts. We do exchange gift cards so we can buy cool things in all the after the holiday sales.

It is the best way for me to spend the holidays.

By: Average Jane

Average Jane — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:57:08 +0000

The only good thing about a steadily-shrinking family is that the odds of someone coming to a holiday celebration and being a huge pain get smaller and smaller.

By: Meg Bear

Meg Bear — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:54:31 +0000

I’m taking the cookie defense for sure.