Are you feeling Christmassy yet? With just 57 sleeps to go, I must admit the festive mood is soaring; the tinsel-fuelled TV ads are raising a smile, I’ve sorted the Decision Marketing Christmas Night Out AND I’ve already started my Advent Calendar (I will get another one in December for sure).
In fact, everyone seems to be feeling chipper. Roxy’s new fella has obviously now found his way to her heart, and elsewhere, after a few rounds of Bajingo Bingo, as she can’t stop smiling.
Even Peggy and Meggy from Skeggy are throwing round the confetti after they managed to blag half a dozen “press pack” tubs of the “No Bounty” Celebrations, which include additional Mars, Snickers, Milky Way, Galaxy and Maltesers bars to make up for the missing coconuts.
In fact, my esteemed bosses are the only ones who seem to be putting a downer on the place (was it ever thus?) because apparently the cost of living crisis is hitting their Christmas lunch schedule.
In what they see as a 9.5 Richter-scale disaster, on some weeks in the run-up to the festivities they only have three lunches instead of the usual back-to-back piss-ups.
Still, I thought they were raging tyrants until I started reading about what the “Chief Twit” is doing at his newly acquired social media empire, where it certainly is not the season of goodwill to all men or women.
You see, the world’s richest man has decreed that all staff will receive an email with the subject “Your Role at Twitter” by 09:00 Pacific time on Friday (16:00 GMT), with up to half of the 8,000 workforce predicted to be out on their ear within minutes.
An internal email reads: “If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email. If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.”
I can only think Mad Musk is getting employment advice from one of my former bosses, who when London was under terrorist attack back in day demanded that all staff stay at their desks.
And I quote: “We want you to keep secure so please keep on working, you will be much safer in the office than if you try to go home early…”
Oh happy days!
You can now follow Foxy on Twitter and Instagram (although don’t expect too much)
