What’s up with all the mandatory happy hours and activities at work?!

In today’s story, a woman shares how she finally said NO and opted out of decorating her home for Christmas just to send a picture to her boss.

Would you have dealt with the situation differently?

Let’s read the whole story.

AITA for not decorating 🎄

Today my boss asked us to supply her with a picture of our holiday decorations.

For context, we are all remote employees on my team.

Next week she’s going to have a game where she shows the pictures and we have to guess whose decoration it is.

But she doesn’t want to participate.

I don’t decorate, at all.

I actually think decorating is kind of a waste of space/time.

Not to mention, temporary seasonal decorations end up in a landfill.

Permanent seasonal decorations must be rotated and stored. I can’t be bothered.

I guess in retrospect, I could have pulled a stock image and sent it to her from the internet.

She was just honest, but her boss didn’t like that.

Being neurodivergent, I told her I don’t decorate and left it at that.

She basically said I’m ruining the game… it isn’t my job to decorate for her 💀🤷

I am also not Christian.

I find no point in pretending to please others.

I’m not going to buy decorations for a picture at work when I’m a remote employee.

There is a pattern.

By the way, it’s my boss’s first time being a manager. She started about 4 months ago.

Last week, she told us there was mandatory overtime. She made us all sit through a 2-hour video together.

This was a 13-hour day for me.

We found out the next week that the overtime was not, in fact, mandatory, and she was just manipulating us.

AITA?

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I’m all for raw honesty, but maybe being too honest with a boss isn’t the best idea.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this.

This person agrees with her.

A hot take.

A good point.

Another reader shares their opinion.

I agree.

It’s a fun idea, but fun is rarely mandatory.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.