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There are times when the disruption caused by Christmas can prove to be very literal, as one woman found out when she got to work one day and found a large Christmas tree on her desk. The tree being there meant she couldn't work comfortably, and she had to recover many important documents that had been moved to make way for it.
She asked her manager if it would be possible to move it, but she insisted that it stay put and that she use another desk. In response, she asked HR to move it from her workspace.
While she felt she had the right to use her desk and computer freely, she worried that she had overstepped, as due to differing circumstances the previous year, she had allowed colleagues to put the Christmas tree on her desk. She looked for a second opinion.
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Am I wrong for calling HR to get a Christmas tree removed from my desk?
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Manager places 4ft Christmas tree on employees desk, protests when she calls HR to get it moved: 'The lights are constantly blinking in my eyes'
The average workplace can only handle so much festive cheer.
It may be true that a few decorations and a Christmas party can offer a welcome break from the relentless gray of corporate life, but the fact remains that unless you are one of Santa's elves, doing your job is never going to be very Christmassy. There is a reason people are always quitting their high-flying positions in seasonal Hallmark movies.
This means that you don't have to be a grinch to be overwhelmed when work tries to be festive. When you are just trying to keep it together and do just enough to make it to the holidays, it can all serve as a big and annoying distraction. It doesn't help that it is often a vehicle for the most irritating coworkers to step things up a notch, causing problems at a time that should be all about peace.
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