30-year-old employee can't get off work for Christmas, forces entire family to celebrate another day, causing fierce backlash from sister: 'Why is my job suddenly not as important as [hers] is?'

In every family, there is one person who cannot help but make everything about themselves.

This often manifests itself at an early age, and hopefully, these culprits grow out of their main character syndrome. Unfortunately for this woman, her older sister did not mature very much at all.

When it came time to start planning their family Christmas gathering, the 30-year-old sister refused to schedule their event on Christmas day… a.k.a. when everyone else was off from work. For whatever reason, the older sister could not take off work on Christmas this year and asked for everyone to meet the weekend before.

This would have been convenient if it were easy for everyone else to request their PTO on that alternative date. However, as it turns out, taking off on that date was impossible for the author. Old family dynamics began to resurface as everyone went out of their way to accommodate the older sister, but no one was willing to take the younger sister's schedule into account. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of this online community.

This kind of reaction from the other family members just goes to show that everyone is culpable in some way here. Of course, the sister is guilty for being the center of attention, but their parents are also at fault here for letting these dynamics form in the way that they did. The fact that the author's schedule could not be respected, especially when that schedule was more convenient for everyone else in the family, says everything we need to know about where the parents' allegiances really lie here.
There is an easy compromise to be made that was never even considered. If there was no universe in which the sisters could both be present but their parents were able to attend both dates, could they not have just organized two mini Christmas events? Sounds like that would have at least appeased some folks.
"[Am I wrong] for not doing to my family’s Christmas party?"

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