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Secret Santa In Software Engineering
Ideal gifts for the Festive Season, perhaps? Let’s get in early, like the shops.
It’s right what they say, you can’t prepare early enough for the major festivals of the economic year¹ that keep the consumers consuming, the producers producing, and the endless wheels of the cheap plastic imported throwaway landfill spinning away.
There are many such festivals, to be fair, that have especially either kept the greetings card industry afloat (St Valentine’s Day), the chocolate factories in business (Ostara / Easter, St Valentine’s Day), or the farmers planting vegetables that few people tend to eat² (Samhain / Halloween).
One of those festivals that has in modern times become more about spending money than celebrating actual Midwinter, the Winter Solstice, Yule, or Christmas (depending on your interpretation, which is rightfully yours to choose) is the one that occurs on December 25th every year.
And, most very unfortunately, it’s the only one that often encroaches into the modern day workplace³.
Will The Real Secret Santa Please Stand Up
Call it ‘Secret Santa’ for our cousins or commonly Kris kindle on the other side of the pond it’s a somewhat tedious annual ritual at best, especially in the workplace, whereby everyone draws…
