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more about #holidaze more comments → DahlELama: Yes yes yes on the entree thing! And the waiting to order thing. And, yeah, the gift guide thing. And what else did he say? Because I'm sure that was ... more » Mediahohoho: So this is why they killed Christ? more » The Real JR: Mind you, these were Rudy Giuliani's rules to keep "people" from "unlawfully gathering" or whatever he called it so he could have the cops harass folk... more » The Real JR: So basically, they're inviting their employees to meet up en masse at some locale (OTHER than St. Barth's, of course) to party away, anonymously, beca... more » Lymed: So much for my speed-dating with Goldman bachelors event I was planning. more » BettyCrocker: 12 people = a ruckus, and 11 = a gaggle? Preposterous arbitrary corporate doublespeak lives, and its name is Goldman. more » Jim Topoleski: you know here is the thing. I dont think ANYONE would really have an issue with a christmas party (or holiday party or whatever) But if they did it a... more » drunkexpatwriter: If I was as rich as a Goldman's dude I wouldn't give a shit if the press or the public thought I was a greedy asshole. Seriously, when you are in the... more » Hiroine Protagonist: I cater part-time and this is why I'm having trouble paying my rent this month. Viva la revolucion! more » son of spam: Don't be a stranger over here, Carney. more » Lizawithazee: When parties are outlawed, only outlaws will have parties. more » Btwbfdimho: But what about Hannukkah? more » Seeräuber Jenny: No marzipan Santa statuettes peeing eggnog made with vintage rum? more » misslinda: So now the catering industry has to suffer, too? more » Lymed: Jewish employees will be receiving a list of their Christian coworkers addresses and are expected to show up on Christmas Day to make sure they are no... more » -
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New York Observer columnist Simon Doonan writes truth: "People HATE gift guides, universally."
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Goldman Employees Aren't Allowed to Hang Out in Groups of 12 or More
Goldman's Christmas celebration rules have a funny condition: they can't hang out in groups of twelve or more. More » -
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Goldman Tells Employees Not to Have Christmas Parties in Their Homes
Goldman Sachs employees received a voicemail announcement instructing them not to organize private Christmas parties for the firm's employees even at their own homes, a person familiar with the matter said. More » -
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The Incredible Shrinking AOL
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. More » -
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Adobe Joins Pre-Holiday Layoff Wave
Adobe will lay off 680 people, or nearly 10 percent of its workforce. The publishing software company joins Electronic Arts and AOL in making pre-Thanksgiving cutbacks. At least these workers won't be shocked during the holidays. Just broke. (Pic) -
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AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. More » -
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Most Comically Dylanesque Tracks on Bob Dylan's Christmas Album
Bob Dylan's much-anticipated Christmas album is out. And — huzzah — it doesn't sound horrible. Still, you can't help but imagine Dylan as a drunken interloper who stumbled into choir rehearsal at a prim suburban church. More » -
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The Early Show Pretends to Get Drunk for St. Paddy's, Hoda Kotb Does the Real Thing
Ohh Hoda Kotb. The perpetually drunk Today Show hostess was celebrating St. Paddy's day pretty hard on-air this morning. Over at CBS, they were only pretending to drink. Take a cue, Hodes. More » -
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TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
You just know Mike Sidel's Weather Channel colleagues will give him endless shit for slipping in the snow live on MSNBC Sunday. Instead of the ice at Wisconsin's Lambeau Field, blame Christmas! More » -
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MTV Pays $500 Guilt Bonus To Screwed-Over Bloggers
MTV tacked on a $500 stocking stuffer to the final paychecks of those charity bloggers it was avoiding paying. Could it be the raunchy Viacom network believes in God? Or at least karma? More » -
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The Week We Got Thee Behind Us, Santa
Even Christmas was a disappointment this year. Can we move on to 2009 already? This week, it was the holi-daze! More » -
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Holidays, Hooters Girl Drive Fox Anchor to Distraction
The holiday season gives an ever-scrutinized media elite the one true liberation: That feeling no one's really watching! The madness descends in this clip from Fox and Friends: -
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Great, Now We're Going to Have to Use Facebook
When you get laid off, you have to give people a new way to get in touch with you. Now we're regretting that, unlike Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici, we never became an "accidental Facebook slut." More » -
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Jann Wenner's Heartless Christmas Layoffs
Rolling Stone overlord Jann Wenner forgot to do some layoffs in his last round, two weeks ago, so he just fired some more people, less than a week before Christmas. More » -
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Celebrity Emails Exposed In Holiday Greeting Screw Up
Marie Claire just wanted to wish everyone a "sparkling, joyful and warm holiday," but the magazine's flack forgot to Bcc, exposing precious celebrity email addresses to 582 people. Christmas is ruined! More » -
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Huffington Post Pimps Designer 'Gifts' From Arianna
Other publishers are cutting back on holiday parties and bonuses, but not Arianna Huffington! It's designer sweaters for her long-suffering employees again this year. So long as they do an advertorial "thank you." More »
