Is this a Christmas joke?

Seriously?

Read it where?

I will 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Still laughing

I worked in the Civil Service. I tried very hard NOT to be invited to Christmas parties.

Daily Mail
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14176559/civil-servants-sue-bosses-discrimination-Christmas-parties.html

Ahh

If it is a joke it won't be one for long. We'll soon have Gnetters asserting that our civil Service is so woke that they can sue colleagues for hurt feelings...

Oh, I've read the article. Please ignore my last post. There is a grain of truth in the OP. But it's not quite how it's been presented in the OP.

It sounds a bit like the mothers of children who've been left off little Johnny/Hermione's birthday party list and feel very aggrieved, can't be true can it?

Personally, I'm with Kate, I didn't work in the public sector, but those office Christmas parties, well best to be avoided back in the day, you just knew you'd be fighting off some drunken letch Not a safe space as they like to say today but then we weren't accorded such deferential considerations.

If you actually read the full article is more enlightening. Nothing new, a few past cases going back in time,
Pointing out that parties are subject to the same guidelines as in the workplace daily, etc etc.
Usual D Mail mountain out of molehill who can we bash today.

I always said no, Kate
I just said "sorry, thank you but not my thing".
I expect I hurt their feelings!

I will 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Terribull. No drunken letches at the Civil Service parties I couldn't wangle my way out of. Just a lot of stuffed shirts standing around sipping orange juice and talking about work.

Oh God! Kate that sounds awful in a different way, forced boredom inflicted on the employee taking up non working hours, when you could have been letting your hair down and dancing round your handbag

MaizieD

Oh, I've read the article. Please ignore my last post. There is a grain of truth in the OP. But it's not quite how it's been presented in the OP.

I would say 'grain of truth' is rather diminishing the Senior Political Correspondent's efforts in the Times.

'Civil servants who are not invited to Christmas parties by their colleagues have been advised that they could bring legal claims for discrimination'.

There follows a whole raft of reasons, and advice that they could have an employment tribunal claim. I have presented it as I read it.

Precisely Terri. They used to tell us it wouldn't look good if we didn't go. I loved one chap's reply one year 'No thanks. I don't do enforced socialising'.

Kate1949

I worked in the Civil Service. I tried very hard NOT to be invited to Christmas parties.

😁

We didn't get invites, we just went.

Kate1949

*Terribull*. No drunken letches at the Civil Service parties I couldn't wangle my way out of. Just a lot of stuffed shirts standing around sipping orange juice and talking about work.

Ours weren't like that at all!
Of course, there was always the obligatory quiz and everyone was fiercely competitive 😂

Why is poor Hermione getting mentioned on threads - and in such a sneering way?
She's done nothing to deserve it! 🤬

I have presented it as I read it.

No you haven't, you put your own spin on it by characterising the reasons for bringing claims as 'hurt feelings'; a good dog whistle term which provokes derision, scorn and condemnation of the claimants.

Allira

Why is poor Hermione getting mentioned on threads - and in such a sneering way?
She's done nothing to deserve it! 🤬

Posh name, i'n'it *Allira 😂😂

What about poor old Johnny? Does he deserve some sympathy. too?...

No!

Is it a posh name? 🤔

MaizieD

^I have presented it as I read it.^

No you haven't, you put your own spin on it by characterising the reasons for bringing claims as 'hurt feelings'; a good dog whistle term which provokes derision, scorn and condemnation of the claimants.

That was not my intention, and doubtlessly this is an attempt to start a fight in an empty room. Don't have the temerity to tell me what I am thinking. Any of the reasons suggested would cause hurt feelings - I have put no 'spin', I have quoted what was written, and scorn, derision and condemnation of others was certainly not in my mind.