Happy Capitalist Holidays!
As of yesterday I'm officially on my Christmas break, which at over two weeks long is my longest holiday of the year. I've really been looking forward to it, and this year I think I also really needed it. After my mental health hiatus things at work initially got a bit better. To my employer's credit, they did take the whole thing seriously and made some changes to alleviate the worst of my issues when I came back. Things were a bit awkward for a while, but at least not quite as bad. Then Black Friday/Cyber week came around and all hell broke loose again. Lots of unpaid overtime and artificially created stress. The only thing that helped me power through that one was that I knew it affected others just as badly and that at least there was a definite end date to this particular craziness. On my penultimate day of work, the leader of the division back at HQ gave what was supposed to be a Christmas speech, broadcast to several hundred people at once, and it was some of the mo...