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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re not comfortable, have a colleague send a note pointing out that it’s the first night of Passover. Most non-Jews wouldn’t have put it together. That would give him the opportunity to reschedule. If there isn’t such a person, then decline the dinner on account of Passover. [/quote]

+1. Most likely an oversight. Most non-Jews probably don’t know the exact dates of Passover off the top of their head. [/quote]

I hate excuses like this. It’s on every calendar. No one scheduled anything on Christian holidays. It is time to do better. [/quote]

I hate this woke attitude. With all the different religions out there, if we had to schedule everything around every religious holidays, there would be very few days left to schedule anything. People will also start complaining about meetings being scheduled on the day they have a cultural event to celebrate. With all the different cultures out there,  there would be even fewer days left to schedule anything.

Stop this madness.

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Nope, you're wrong.

Also, many calendars autofill Jewish holidays and list them for the first day - not the first night when Jews actually start the observance. [/quote]

So life is supposed to stop for everyone for 2% of the population, maybe half of whom care about the holiday anyway?[/quote]

+1. I'm sorry, but in most parts of the country, observant Jewish people are less than a percent of the population. There needs to be give and take on things that fall on a weekday.

The most holy Christian holiday of Easter is always a Sunday, and Good Friday is obv a Friday and not too many work dinners happen on Fridays! That leaves Christmas. There aren't a lot of Christian holidays that affect business. There seem to be a lot of Jewish holidays. Someone in a group I'm in gets upset when our STANDING meeting falls on a Jewish holiday. Like, come on.[/quote]

The only reason there aren’t a lot of Christian holidays that affect business is that the calendar is based around Christian holidays and schedules.[/quote]

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