Is this a Christmas joke?

^NonGrannyMoll
Does anyone still read the Daily Mail, much less actually spend money buying it?^

The discrimination against people who read the DM gets worse.

This article was in The Times, and online.

Do civil servants send out printed invitations then?

Not in my day!
But then, we were a bit different 😁

Mollygo

^NonGrannyMoll
Does anyone still read the Daily Mail, much less actually spend money buying it?^

The discrimination against people who read the DM gets worse.

Does anyone still read the Daily Mail, much less actually spend money buying it?

Only Gransnetters who scour every bit online, then post links to it saying how dreadful it is 😁

Kate1949

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

So did I. In fact I just did not go,My son is a December Birthday, and I always had somewhere to be whenever they came up.

My daughter is a CS, she’s not been told or notified of this!

Like other posters I avoided Christmas “do” like the plague!

That sounds like the kind of nonsense the Daily Mail prints. Though the idea of people spending large sums of money on lawyers because their feelings were hurt and then losing the case is delightful. Anyway don't people tend to avoid Christmas parties? I know we did.

Haha me too

What’s an office party ?? 🤷‍♀️

One year - yes I know I said I avoided them but I was there 35 years and in the early days felt obliged/pressured into going - we were even 'advised' who to sit near.

A meeting was held and the bosses thought it would be a good idea if the lower ranks/support staff (of which I was one) sat next to a higher ranking staff member instead of our close colleagues so that the higher ups could find out a bit about our lives. How completely patronising. They weren't remotely interested in us. It was an uncomfortable couple of hours. They even ran a course once for the higher grades to learn how to speak to us lowly serfs. I'm sure things have changed. I hope so.

The Daily Mail is the very worst type of comic.

Ladyleftfieldlover

The Daily Mail is the very worst type of comic.

The people who read it can be pretty childish, I agree.

Today 14:13 keepingquiet

Ladyleftfieldlover
The Daily Mail is the very worst type of comic.
keepingquiet
The people who read it can be pretty childish, I agree.
Childishness brilliantly matched by the people who discriminate against DM readers.

Pathetic! Who will cover the cost of this nonesense! Talk about woke!

Typical Daily Mail blurb.

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.

Wangle or wrangle? Could have been either I suppose. Image conjured with wrangle more interesting.

I am an ex civil servant and so wish it could have been to sue IF invited to a Xmas party . They are usually so boring

As public servants working for the local authority we never had Christmas parties. Not ever, if we wanted a meal it was booked locally after work and we paid for it ourselves. If we wanted a drink we went to the tap! . Or better, the pub and bought our own drinks.
I used to wish I could go to a works party as a guest.just once. Never happened.

I starting to feel very discriminated against because I do read the Daily Mail! according to some GN’s that makes me childish and infers I read comics!
I don’t make fun or rude comments of people who ONLY read the Guardian or the Times, and I believe these people truely think they are morally right and better people than me, because I am a DM reader. Where as, to me they come across as sanctimonious, judgemental self righteous and intolerant snobs . I hope you feel satisfied that you make me feel very unwelcome on GNs and I am wondering whether to even bother with GN any more as a DM reader I’m not welcome!

keepingquiet

Ladyleftfieldlover

The Daily Mail is the very worst type of comic.

The people who read it can be pretty childish, I agree.

How do you know if you haven’t read it.

SparkyNan
Just treat the comments with the contempt they deserve. Or, get one in when one of them posts about the newspapers they read.

Thank you Petra.

sparkynan

I starting to feel very discriminated against because I do read the Daily Mail! according to some GN’s that makes me childish and infers I read comics!
I don’t make fun or rude comments of people who ONLY read the Guardian or the Times, and I believe these people truely think they are morally right and better people than me, because I am a DM reader. Where as, to me they come across as sanctimonious, judgemental self righteous and intolerant snobs . I hope you feel satisfied that you make me feel very unwelcome on GNs and I am wondering whether to even bother with GN any more as a DM reader I’m not welcome!

Don’t let them force you out sparkynan.
Your comments are just as valid as any of those you describe in your post.

petra

keepingquiet

Ladyleftfieldlover

The Daily Mail is the very worst type of comic.

The people who read it can be pretty childish, I agree.

How do you know if you haven’t read it.

SparkyNan
Just treat the comments with the contempt they deserve. Or, get one in when one of them posts about the newspapers they read.

How do you know if you haven’t read it.

As I mentioned before, many of us would never know what was in the DM unless Gransnetters provided links whilst clutching their pearls
😂😂😂

sparkynan
Take no notice, they wouldn't be able to comment on the content unless they were clandestine DM readers 😂

Allira

sparkynan
Take no notice, they wouldn't be able to comment on the content unless they were clandestine DM readers 😂

🤣🤣🤣