Celebrations → Noël – Christmas – Navidad – 圣诞节
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I hope you all had a nice Christmas!
Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, for religious, cultural or geographical reasons!
For Christmas, the CEO, owner and son of the founder of the company I work for, came to see the workers at the cafeteria. All employees – except one – got a free meal. We could talk to the CEO, if we wanted to. I asked him if I could take a picture of him alone and he said that we could take a picture together instead. This picture was taken last year, although it could have been taken this year, as both of us were wearing exactly the same clothes (furthermore, I had the same beard and he was wearing the same necktie!). Everyone was glad to get a free meal which consisted in traditional Quebec cuisine (beans, potatoes, omelette, bacon and ham, all covered with maple syrup). We were all loudly enjoying our meal, while the only employee who did not get the free meal was working inside the cafeteria. He is the cook. He cooks food for the workers. He is the bitch of the company, or to be more polite, a “paid slave”. He works on minimum wage. His shift starts at 5am, so he has to get up very early in the morning to get to work. He cooks omelettes and toasts bread, he spreads butter on them, and sometimes, he talks to the girl at the till, who is his only coworker. He never smiles and has no contact with anybody inside the company. I cannot try to talk to him, as our schedules don’t coincide. Actually, to say the truth, he doesn’t work for the company, but instead for a subcontracting firm. Anyway, I am talking about him here because I think it was very interesting to observe in the same room two people with completely different backgrounds. The multimillionaire, owner of one of the biggest companies in Canada and the poor guy who probably struggles to make both ends meet. They both ignored each other. Magical Christmas only exists in Disney’s fairy tales.
