 Eideard? No, the fired Santa. |
This story is being retold all over the SF Bay Area. Apparently the long-time Santa was let go after one complaint in 20 years of service. Apparently some bureaucrat in NY found no reason to back the employee in this matter. It’s seriously disgusting. Everyone in SF is irked about this. I’m not shopping at Macy’s anymore. The company doesn’t deserve customers. The boneheads at Macy’s do not even know the California laws regarding employment and will probably be sued over this. I mean what court or jury will not award “Santa” a huge settlement. What idiots. It should be noted that all decisions come out of New York nowadays.
John Toomey, known for 20 years at the Union Square Macy’s in San Francisco as “Santa John,” was told Saturday he’ll have to take his “ho, ho, hos” elsewhere because an adult couple complained about a joke he cracked.
The joke has been in his Santa bag for decades. But after thousands of tellings, the 68-year-old retired caretaker for the elderly finally hit the wrong recipients – apparently an older woman and her husband, who considered it inappropriate.
Note that the two a-holes who complained were elderly and actually went on Santas LAP!! So the corporation takes them seriously?
I keep my beard shorter than that, nowadays.
#23 Spam. Mmmmmmmm. Hawaiian State Meat.
Those ladies must be serious Christians to have been offended by the reported lines. I’ve heard Amish aldermen say worse than that.
(Full disclosure: I know some pretty racy Amish aldermen.)
It was a misunderstanding. They got upset when he called them Ho’s.
I offered to be a Santa at a christmass party for a local catlick girls school. For some reason the nuns didn’t like my idea of sitting in one of the confessionals booths
But I thought SF’s idea of Santa Claus was Justin Bieber in nothing but red Daisy Dukes!
>Its not about sex unless your mind is in one gutter rather than the other gutter.
So what’s the other meaning of the joke?
Of course he knows where all the naughty boys live.
He’s from freaking San Francisco.
I am sure this guy will get a Santa gig somewhere else. This is a part time gig anyway.
So some idiot complained. He is lucky he got 20 some years without one. People today are all about complaining. Heck the media has convinced everyone that someone who likes kids must be a pediphile.
Mike==I see you in a different light now. You don’t lie as much as just don’t get it. I’m with you now.
The “other joke” was not a joke but an analysis of Santa’s labor relations. Now that is a joke, but the analogies was not to jokes but rather to gutters.
Now, if you tell me there are no gutters at the North Pole because all the piss is in the jars, I’ll know you are pulling my chain, and thats not very Merry this close to that time of year.
Ah Mickey–you do crack me up.
#8 ReadyKilowatt said,
I hear ya man, they’re so full of themselves someone had to smack a couple of planes into the WTC just to make them say words like “thanks” and “please.”
Unfortunately, since Macy’s gobbled up most of the other department stores over the years, there is no Gimbel’s down the street for him to go to.
I haven’t shopped at Macy’s since about 8 years ago when they put a bogus charge on my account, explained it incorrectly, charged my bank account for the damned thing, didn’t bother to send me statements, and so forth. A huge mess created over $80 that they could have cleared up in 5 minutes. The company just doesn’t give a shit, which this latest incident confirms. They deserve to go under. I wish we could get Mervyn’s back!
As for Mr. Toomey, I feel sorry for him, but hey, lots and lots of folks lost their gigs for nothing more than decades of unblemished service and loyalty to their employers. Besides, I don’t believe in Santa Claus.
The complainers, well, I’d say a large evergreen up the ass might loosen them up a bit. One with lots of glass lights and ornaments.
How bad for me would it be if I didn’t spend a dime at Macy’s this year?
Ho-hohoho-Oh, Shit!
I’m just happy to see that with over 30 posts nobody has blamed Bush or Obama. The political sniping on here is really getting boring.
#34 Lightbulb42,
That’s because it’s like poking fun at Mac users: It’s so easy to piss them off it’s not funny anymore.
I’ve been praying for years that Macy’s goes under. I’m a Bostonian and they’ve destroyed at least two of our own (far better) shopping institutions, Jordan Marsh and Filene’s. I vowed NEVER to set foot in a Macy’s and I never will. They are horrible people who sell overpriced garbage. Die, Macy’s DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!