Office Christmas PartiesMy office this year is having Christmas lunch. In the office. On some desks we are going to clear the monitors off. The computers underneath will keep running as we are behind on some deadlines and need to keep rendering.
OK, so some people aren't getting anything, but how Scrooge-like are your bosses when it comes to Christmas?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Dec 2004, 14:42)
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that reminds meMy Christmas present from the FT, Christmas 2002, while I was moving house after just having signed up to a large mortgage and my wife having recently (two months) given birth:
Close down the entire ft.com multimedia (online TV and radio, doncha know) on 22nd December.
As if that wasn't bad enough, it turns out they'd actually made the decision in August and deliberately postponed the announcement until Christmas.
This is apparently a common tactic with redundancies. Staff have two or three weeks over Christmas during which they're less inclined to actually harass people about the "change", so therefore they have less time to respond legally.
Merry Christmas, Britain.
[edit] in fairness, I've got my dates mixed up. My baby was actually 14 months old. But one of the radio people was still on maternity leave when she got the news.
(, Tue 21 Dec 2004, 23:04, Reply)
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