[HN Gopher] Meaningful Hypothetical Traditions
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       Meaningful Hypothetical Traditions
        
       Author : apsec112
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-06-28 03:51 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | _jal wrote:
       | Not quite the same thing, but a past startup I was at developed
       | the tradition of the Day of Peeves. It was a effectively a
       | floating day off, taken on-demand when you are having One of
       | Those Days.
       | 
       | Never would have survived growth, but I did rather like it.
        
         | elil17 wrote:
         | My company (15k employees, industrial equipment manufacturer)
         | has this currently. Survived growth just fine
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | I think that a large part of the popularity of Festivus is the
       | attractiveness of Feats of Strength and Airing of Grievances.
       | These have been part of our family's holiday celebrations since
       | long before Seinfeld. Turning them into official traditions is
       | the paving of desire paths.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
       | 
       | The Festivus Pole paves the desire path of not wanting to mess
       | with or clean up after an actual Christmas tree.
        
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