inappropriate holiday greeting cards

snowball
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:19:37 +0000

Thanks for the replies so far. Yes, the relationship between my husband and his partner is heading towards a divorce; we are just trying to get all our ducks in a row before a final split. They are currently in negotiations and there is a lot of “I want” not what would be best for both.

I have tried to back my husband up here, but I did tell him I felt he should have stuck with the general Christmas card for each staff member. One year I actually got the cards for him and purchased box sets with several different scenes on the front with Happy Holidays on the inside. That said, I would not have thought of the card he bought as inappropriate, but I now see why they could be thought of being so. Again, not that it matters, but each staff members bonus was to be placed in the card. As far as I know, there might have been cards in the past years that were questionable.

I guess it wouldn’t make a difference if the staff that received the so called offensive cards would give my husband a similar type card for his birthday. I guess it is time for my husband to be a boss and not be so friendly to his staff; at less that is what his partner wants. The partner says family discussions are off limits and my husband likes to talk to his staff and knows which child is playing baseball or has a dance recite coming up. While we are not going out to dinner with any of his staff, I know them by name and during a holiday party can sit at the same table with them and have a discussion. My husband doesn’t like the idea of being just the man that signs the paycheck, one of their biggest management differences; my husband care about his employees, his partner doesn’t.