Crap christmas presents...

A frying pan & a block of pretty blunt knives. From a soon to be ex.

Back when I was 9 or 10....a FAKE United jersey.
It was so obviously fake too.

I was fired.

Christmas Eve - had worked like a slave all year - working between here & the USA - starting 7 am til typically 7 or 8 pm & often confrence calls to America at stupid o'clock - came up from the Christmas Party to find email from HR to me & 48 other staff - cc'd - classy - giving a weeks notice & saying we would no longer be needed in the new year because the department was being disbanded as part of strategic realignent.

Suffice to say I never went back.

I know you'll say they did me a favour with those working conditions but the shock & betrayal. Thankfully I never go OTT or spend too excessively at Christmas but there were a lot of people with families who would have been destroyed by that. Not to mention the callousness of the timing or the pure evil of yhe cowardly Irish HR department to sent that email at 7pm on Christmas eve.

bazz26 wrote: »

Lynx gift pack. I hate that stuff.

I hate this. Nearly every Christmas or birthday I end up with one of these, and I don't even wear Lynx. Even worse when it's Lynx Africa.

JustAThought wrote:

I was fired.

****, hope you nuked the place

Turtyturd wrote: »

A jigsaw?

I wish. A jigsaw would be more useful.

A Chelsea jersey











It was ment to be CELTIC ma..

Halloween Jack wrote: »

Remote control helicopter from a parent, I was 29....

Lucky bastard I'm 29 now I'd love that, I got a Dyson from my mam when I moved out at 21, that is how fast my gifts got practical and boring

JustAThought wrote: »

I was fired.

Christmas Eve - had worked like a slave all year - working between here & the USA - starting 7 am til typically 7 or 8 pm & often confrence calls to America at stupid o'clock - came up from the Christmas Party to find email from HR to me & 48 other staff - cc'd - classy - giving a weeks notice & saying we would no longer be needed in the new year because the department was being disbanded as part of strategic realignent.

Suffice to say I never went back.

I know you'll say they did me a favour with those working conditions but the shock & betrayal. Thankfully I never go OTT or spend too excessively at Christmas but there were a lot of people with families who would have been destroyed by that. Not to mention the callousness of the timing or the pure evil of yhe cowardly Irish HR department to sent that email at 7pm on Christmas eve.

Business next door to where I work let 3 go on the 23rd a few years back. Gave them one envelope with their Annual bonus and another with their p45 and 2 weeks notice of pay.

Absolute scumbags, I mean couldn't you have just given them their notice when they came back on the 2nd/3rd and let them have a happy Christmas, it made no difference and you could of got them to work the 2 weeks you just paid them for too.

Karma came back to bite the owner a few months later, his new Mercedes was parked outside the door and an old woman driving a Yaris tore her car off the side of it, I saw it and did I stop her? Like hell I did!