our christmas meal cancelled!!!!

[november90]

i'm SO annoyed. i have don't absolutely everything and complied with everything this whole time but i am getting SO fed up with having my own happiness and needs taken away.
christmas smell CANCELLED and employer asked we don't meet outside work until 2022.
christmas new cancelled last year. i'm a single mum and barry get any interaction from anyone. i was SO looking forward to this :(
i know there's no point to this but how bloody long can this go on for?!?!?!!!!

Couldn't agree more. Sad thing is he keeps getting away with it!

[quote ravenmum]@Hoppinggreen Now also realise it sounds like I've got him a Peppa Pig video 😂[/quote]
Maybe he can do some colouring in too before his nap?
Or is that just my OH?

@KateLumley

That's crap OP. Hope Barry's ok.

Snort.

I’ve heard a lot of this today clearly the government is sending such mixed messages they are hoping companies will take it upon themselves to impose restrictions just to play it safe, so they don’t have to.

I saw on the news today a Christmas meal in Norway May have affected half the people there with omicron, and that was after they only invited double vaccinated people (!) and asked for a negative test to attend! So I can see why companies might be getting a bit nervy. It’s disappointing though.

DH has his next week with the whole company and I’m wondering if it will be going ahead

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

So are you saying an employer can say who we can and can't spend time with outside of work?

No, I"m saying have a bit of personal responsibility instead of 'I want, I need, I deserve' a party.

These are not normal times.

Everything fun and Christmasy has now been cancelled at our school too, both for kids and teachers.

It feels like an over reaction. So much for vaccines giving us our freedoms and lives back.

As for Boris and his parties ... I can't muster any energy to be annoyed about this. Which I feel is bad. It's like we've gone back a few hundred years where the gentry live as flamboyantly and corruptly as they please whilst we plebs stick to the shitty rules made by them.

@WheelieBinPrincess

I didn't say I was

BoredZelda - so you aren't going to your work Christmas dinner anyway and yet are happy for it to be cancelled so no one gets to go? You don't enjoy seeing your DCs nativity, so you think they should all be cancelled so you don't have to sit through it? What a strange person you are! Lots of people disappointed about missing a night out that is well over due, lots of families worried about keeping their hospitality jobs with all these cancellations, lots of disappointed kids and parents in schools.... but so long as you don't have to tell people why you don't want to go to a dinner and don't have to sit through a play - you are happy. OK

My daughters first nativity has been cancelled what a load of shit!

It's difficult. Could you book and plan for something in the summer? I know that's a long way off but makes much more sense to me for an office party. Hog roast, fairy lights, hay bales, sangria that sort of thing.

Not sure why cancelled as if seeing each other daily at work, what’s the difference

As for Boris and his parties ... I can't muster any energy to be annoyed about this. Which I feel is bad. It's like we've gone back a few hundred years where the gentry live as flamboyantly and corruptly as they please whilst we plebs stick to the shitty rules made by them

I know what you mean, but you’ve highlighted exactly why we should be annoyed.

The Tory MP for Romford recently said that withdrawing the universal credit £20 uplift was the right thing to do and people just ‘liked’ it, they didn’t ‘need’ it. Then within weeks commented on MP’s pay needing to be £80k because their humans with responsibilities… this is just another example of their contempt for us and applying rules they’re not prepared to live by.

Ours is booked for next week and should be going ahead. Everyone will do a LFT on the day and hopefully that will be fine.

Ours is going ahead both work dos and friends. We are all on same page and know not to name anyone is T&T anyway. So it wont impact any of the rest of the group is one test positive. We are well over it.

We aren't having our usual Christmas meal out either. It won't make any difference to the Covid situation as I have a number of other events to attend but I like getting dressed up and spending social time with my colleagues when we are all run off our feet at work and don't get time to chat. In a fit of pique I shall acquire some mistletoe and snog every stranger in sight.

So much for everyone getting jabbed....Ridiculous to be cancelling plans. Life goes on. No way I'm hiding away. Already had Covid (and survived, as will the vast majority of people who get it) and been jabbed. I refuse to spend anymore time hiding away. Merry Christmas!!

No, I"m saying have a bit of personal responsibility instead of 'I want, I need, I deserve' a party

So are you not doing anything, going anywhere until Covid has gone?
The majority of humans need human contact. Maybe not a party, but telling people they can't socialise with colleagues outside of work is wrong. My two best friends are two of my colleagues and yes, I have seen them outside of work and continue to do so. Taking personal responsibility doesn't mean locking yourself away indefinitely.

I felt this way about not getting to watch my girls nativity play and potentially having my sons makaton performance cancelled too. His confidence has taken a massive leap since he joined makaton choir and he is so excited (mainly to get a free hat albeit!). If the combination of vaccinations, face coverings and social distancing isn't enough then it makes me fear nothing ever will be.

I feel a lot of people are jogging along with low-level depression, I have just had a party cancelled too and I just feel sad again and so disappointed that 'normal life' isn't resuming whatsoever- for those who need some social interaction, or to meet other people to feel a bit human, it all seems very flat and quite horrible now. People back in their own homes, not mixing, seeing others as vectors of disease, not having fun. Everyone at my work seems flat and no-one seems happy.

I'm going to do as much with local friends/the kids as possible. They are horrified at the thought of another year in or without friends, birthday parties, all that stuff. They are teens.

@CaMePlaitPas

Sorry to hear about your cancelled Christmas smell Barry. Very sad.

@PrivateHall - I think we are seeing crawling out of the woodwork those who hate any social occasions; the ones who bellowed for pubs and restaurants to close “because I never go to pubs”. And the grim miseries who questioned why young people should want to go out when they can socialise online

I can't get annoyed about number 10 either , why is it a shock to anyone after all the other revelations ? Plus I bet that people had huge parties indoors over Christmas / New Years last year as well.
It's only on mumsnet that people play 100 percent by the rules.
I understand why people are refusing to go out etc, but it is sad for the hospitality industry which must be in despair :(

I can't get worked up about this. We're in the middle of a pandemic and it sounds like they are being sensible. It doesn't mean you can't still informally meet up with some work colleagues for drinks or a meal. Ours was cancelled as well. But I work in infectious diseases research and the heads of our department who cancelled it are consultants in infectious disease. I'm pretty confident trusting their judgement on this one and it was definitely the right thing to do (several of our team actually have COVID or are quarantined at the moment anyway).

I think it's pretty normal for people to get upset even if we are in the middle pandemic. Some people like to have fun in their life.

I know someone who doesn't care if we can't do anything because they don't like people and love to just stay at home.

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