If celebrating holidays and birthdays make the beady-eyed monster thing so mad, all the more reason to do them to the hilt (of course, spending within your means and not drink driving). Yes, Christmas is originally a pagan holiday to worship the sun. But, since the sun controls the solar system, what is so wrong with that? They pick and choose what is going to be the most fun, and ban it. This makes people all the more miserable, which serves the beady-eyed monster thing they worship.
And what about the ban on smoking, together with requiring something that is about 20 times worse (and I am assuming a 2 pack a day smoking habit)? Those torture shots are going to result in many health issues. Many of these are nuisances (prostate problems, UTI's, frequent headaches and not feeling well episodes, and so on) that people can go out in field circus anyways, ballyhooing them for serving the beady-eyed monster thing under more adversity. Others are much more serious (type 1 diabetes, cancer, serious heart trouble, strokes, and so on), not to mention getting AIDS directly from those shots (not even HIV, just plain AIDS). More colds and flu, and more serious ones. Hey, at least they are not allowed to smoke.
They need to get their priorities straight. Which of these pagan practices are actually going to cause problems? Celebrating holidays is certainly not going to cause trouble--unless, that is, people drink and drive as part of them or they spend beyond their means and get a whole year of debt to pay for it. As I see it, there is nothing wrong with attending an office event to commemorate a retirement, a birthday, or holiday--certainly you are not going to drink drive to get to and from such or spend more than you can afford. I, for one, will be enjoying whatever sun-worship events we do get at work. And no, I will not be getting that torture shot.