Christmas party is no more

Specialun

Soooo im on the social board at work which organises the work parties and all that craic. We submitted out christmas party idea to our global parent company

They have come back to us and said we cant call it christmas party anymore because its not christmas to everyone and not everyone in the company is irish catholic

Has anyone had this before..is it pc gone mad

OU812

tell them its an Xmas party

Caybar

Call it an End of Year party,

A thank you for everyone's hard work during the year.

solomafioso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vbMv9gbmM

The Backwards Man

Know exactly how you feel. As head of the social board for my company I emailed the global HQ with my submission for the big Christmas party bash and quick as a flash, they popped back a reply.

Away and have a good sh1te to yourself.

SparkySpitfire

F-ck off PC (American?) multinational tosh. Christmas is far more a cultural thing than a religious thing nowadays. I'll stop now before a rain of profanity falls from my fingertips.

mikemac1

Happy holidays to you OP

fleet_admiral

Tell them its a Christmas party to the vast majority of people

MagicMarker

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

Sunnyisland

Have a thanks given one instead





And tell them your having it in December due to the Irish wether...

My name is URL

It's Festivus for the rest of us!

The Backwards Man

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

What's love but a second hand emotion?

fleet_admiral

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

Exactly. The catholic cult is as far removed from Christianity than any other religion

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sorry to see this kind of bullsh1t getting traction over here, I thought it had been largely contained to parts of the US.

vicwatson

Seasons greetings y'all

mikemac1

15 posts in and nobody mentioned burn down the business?

You show them OP!

Lumbo

Poxy foreigners. Coming over here and giving us jobs.

fleet_admiral

In the words of billy bob thornton in bad santa: 'Up your ass'

wendell borton

Lets forgot two thousand or so years of history so Johnny come lately doesn't get offended, or even worse pompous pc goons that get offended on their behalf.

Guy:Incognito

Specialun wrote: »

and not everyone in the company is irish catholic

Do foreign Catholics not celebrate Christmas?

liz lemoncello

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Sorry to see this kind of bullsh1t getting traction over here, I thought it had been largely contained to parts of the US.

It's made it way into Canada as well. About five years ago, our work changed it to a "Holiday Party". Last year, the woman organising took it upon herself to call a Christmas party again, and everyone thanked her. The only reason we have a party at that time of year is because it's Christmas.

Tefral

wendell borton wrote: »

Lets forgot two thousand or so years of history so Johnny come lately doesn't get offended, or even worse pompous pc goons that get offended on their behalf.

Yes.... "History"

AnonoBoy

wendell borton wrote: »

Lets forgot two thousand or so years of history so Johnny come lately doesn't get offended, or even worse pompous pc goons that get offended on their behalf.

Jaysus - have we been celebrating Christmas for 2000 years in Ireland?

We must have invented it!

MagicMarker

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

No multi national would be that specific, so I doubt it's happened at all.

What's most likely happened is that they don't want to spend money on a staff party and are pretending it's in the interests of inclusiveness.

What the Op should have done was call it an end-of-year party.

Nodin

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

He didn't give it that much thought when he was making up his story.

AnonoBoy

Specialun wrote: »

They have come back to us and said we cant call it christmas party anymore because its not christmas to everyone and not everyone in the company is irish catholic

Now I'm no religionologist but I thought this Christmas lark might have spread further than the Catholic church.

Still though - at least you get to have a party and let's face it - ye don't really care what the f*ck it's called as long as you can get rat-arsed and try to get off with Sharon from accounts.

My boss, who is also my landlady and my grandmother said I wasn't allowed one this year because she can still see the stains after the 'incident'.

:mad:

MagicMarker

wendell borton wrote: »

Lets forgot two thousand or so years of history so Johnny come lately doesn't get offended, or even worse pompous pc goons that get offended on their behalf.

Jaysus, I wonder what the window display in Brown Thomas looked like 2000 years ago?

morrga

If they don't respect our wish to celebrate Christmas, they can go back to where they are from or don't bother attending.

Hate how other groups think we must adopt to their beliefs and we are offending them otherwise. If we go to live in their country would we tell them to stop their beliefs and culture because we don't like it!! No.

These cretins are the ruination of this world.

DoYouEvenLift

Be sure to only give presents to the people who celebrate Christmas in that case, would be pretty strange to give presents to colleagues on a certain occasion every year for no reason

Guy:Incognito

After a long absence from Catholicism I'm liking the new show they've put out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhV7Zusnd0s

Specialun

Candie wrote: »

No multi national would be that specific, so I doubt it's happened at all.

What's most likely happened is that they don't want to spend money on a staff party and are pretending it's in the interests of inclusiveness.

What the Op should have done was call it an end-of-year party.

They dont mind the party going ahead.....just not for it to be known as a christmas party

AnonoBoy

MagicMarker wrote: »

Jaysus, I wonder what the window display in Brown Thomas looked like 2000 years ago?

Shows what you know - it was Switzer's back then!

Nodin

Specialun wrote: »

They dont mind the party going ahead.....just not for it to be known as a christmas party

What's the name of the company? If its a multinational, they won't be able to guess who you are IRL - far too many staff.

Specialun

Specialun wrote: »

They dont mind the party going ahead.....just not for it to be known as a christmas party

Well then, so what? You're getting your party and everyones included.

Does it matter that much to anyone that Party is preceded by Christmas? Is anyone asking where the Christ is in Christmas party or is this all just a reason to get annoyed?

AnonoBoy

Specialun wrote: »

They dont mind the party going ahead.....just not for it to be known as a christmas party

If you get free gargle who cares what they call it?

Ammint I rightsh?

Whose whish me ladses?

*raises pint*

*falls off stool*













*soils Santa outfit*

wexie

Maybe you should try calling it the Winter Solstice Party

Or WSP for short, multinational corporate cultures love their acronyms

Specialun

Candie wrote: »

Well then, so what? You're getting your party and everyones included.

Does it matter that much to anyone that Party is preceded by Christmas? Is anyone asking where the Christ is in Christmas party or is this all just a reason to get annoyed?

You what now..who said anything about being annoyed..i just asked a question...

Specialun

Specialun wrote: »

You what now..who said anything about being annoyed..i just asked a question...

Ok then, assuming not everyone is Irish Catholic and since you're still getting your party then I'm going to go with...no. It's not PC gone made, it's just a rebrand.

efb

Holiday Rapist

donegaLroad

Last year there were two Muslim doctors in the local hospital who objected to having the nativity crib in the hospital foyer and asked to have it removed.

I respect everyone's religious beliefs etc. but see if you or I tried the same thing on in certain muslim countries, we would be told where to go, in no uncertain terms.

wexie

donegaLroad wrote: »

Last year there were two Muslim doctors in the local hospital who objected to having the nativity crib in the hospital foyer and asked to have it removed.

I respect everyone's religious beliefs etc. but see if you or I tried the same thing on in certain muslim countries, we would be told where to go, in no uncertain terms.

having the nativity crib removed?

(just messing, you're absolutely right though, in the simplest of terms : my ball, my ****ing rules :mad: and, to be fair, I think many Muslims would be embarrassed by that kind of nonsense, certainly the ones I know have much more of a live and let live attitude)

wendell borton

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Jaysus - have we been celebrating Christmas for 2000 years in Ireland?

We must have invented it!

Yeah, we had baby Jesus over to celebrate the first one as there was a hit out on him in judea. :pac:

shruikan2553

My name is URL wrote: »

It's Festivus for the rest of us!

Im offended, it is Annual Gift Giving Day

Nodin

donegaLroad wrote: »

Last year there were two Muslim doctors in the local hospital who objected to having the nativity crib in the hospital foyer and asked to have it removed.

I respect everyone's religious beliefs etc. but see if you or I tried the same thing on in certain muslim countries, we would be told where to go, in no uncertain terms.

What was the name of the hospital?

Deenie123

donegaLroad wrote: »

Last year there were two Muslim doctors in the local hospital who objected to having the nativity crib in the hospital foyer and asked to have it removed.

I respect everyone's religious beliefs etc. but see if you or I tried the same thing on in certain muslim countries, we would be told where to go, in no uncertain terms.

Madness. Especially as many Irish hospitals actually have a religious ethos!

On the other hand, I worked with A number of Iranians who had no objections to the Christmas party, gave everyone Christmas cards and joined in celebrating Christmas with us. They - like the majority of non-religious ethnically Irish people - could see that really the holiday is far more cultural than specifically religious.

Also, in Ireland, Christmas is listed as a national public holiday. Are the parent company going to refuse to allow celebration of an official public holiday?

Guy:Incognito

Nodin wrote: »

What was the name of the hospital?

St muhammads

Think its a Jewish hospital.

efb

donegaLroad wrote: »

Last year there were two Muslim doctors in the local hospital who objected to having the nativity crib in the hospital foyer and asked to have it removed.

I respect everyone's religious beliefs etc. but see if you or I tried the same thing on in certain muslim countries, we would be told where to go, in no uncertain terms.

We are a Repulic not a Christian country

donegaLroad

efb wrote: »

We are a Repulic not a Christian country

yes I agree with, but at the same time you do know where Im coming from.. general consensus and all of that.

efb

donegaLroad wrote: »

yes I agree with, but at the same time you do know where Im coming from.. general consensus and all of that.

They built a brand new hospital in tullamore and they are already putting religious crap everywhere

The Church didn't psy for it, keep your stuff in the chapel

Nodin

donegaLroad wrote: »

yes I agree with, but at the same time you do know where Im coming from.. general consensus and all of that.

It never happened, as far as I can tell. Unless you've evidence denied the rest of us?

Son Of A Vidic

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?

I think the OP meant to say alcoholism.