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Christmas party is no more

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  • 19-10-2014 11:16pm
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    Specialun
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    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
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    OU812
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    tell them its an Xmas party


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    Caybar
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    Call it an End of Year party,

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


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


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    The Backwards Man
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    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.


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    SparkySpitfire
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    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.


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    mikemac1
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    Happy holidays to you OP :)


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


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    MagicMarker
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    What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?


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    Sunnyisland
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    Have a thanks given one instead





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


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    It's Festivus for the rest of us!


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    The Backwards Man
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?
    What's love but a second hand emotion?


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    fleet_admiral
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    What's Christmas got to do with Catholicism?
    Exactly. The catholic cult is as far removed from Christianity than any other religion


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


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    vicwatson
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    Seasons greetings y'all


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    mikemac1
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    15 posts in and nobody mentioned burn down the business?

    You show them OP!


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    Lumbo
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    Poxy foreigners. Coming over here and giving us jobs.


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    #18
    fleet_admiral
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    In the words of billy bob thornton in bad santa: 'Up your ass'


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    wendell borton
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    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.


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    Guy:Incognito
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    Specialun wrote: »
    and not everyone in the company is irish catholic

    Do foreign Catholics not celebrate Christmas?


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    liz lemoncello
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    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.


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    Tefral
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    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"


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    AnonoBoy
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    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!


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    Nodin
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    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.


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    AnonoBoy
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    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:


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    MagicMarker
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    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?


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    morrga
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    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.


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    DoYouEvenLift
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    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


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

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


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    #31
    Specialun
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    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


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