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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?
How about a link to the source. In fact, what was the joke?
http://consumerist.com/2010/12/naughty-joke-puts-santa-on-unemployment-line.html
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“Santa says that he was by-the-book when it came to the little kids that sat on his lap, but when adult visitors to Macy’s would perch on his lap, he had a special shtick worked out for them.
“When I ask the older people who sit on my lap if they’ve been good and they say, ‘Yes,’ I say, ‘Gee, that’s too bad,’ ” Recalled Kris Kringle to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Then, if they ask why Santa is so jolly, I joke that it’s because I know where all the naughty boys and girls live.”
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Who Cares!!!
[A little girl cried. A puppy died. That's why! -- eds]
Hey John,
Were the elderly b*tches who complained about this “joke” from New York City or from the SF Bay Area, or from someplace else?
If they are in fact from the Bay Area, I think this seriously calls your blanket condemnation of people from NYC into question.
[Why should New York butt into the management of the SF store. They are clueless. That's why. What's that got to do with where the couple was from>-- j.c.d.]
I would join a boycott of Macy’s over this, except for the fact that I don’t buy their overpriced merchandise in the first place!
I was hoping Macy’s would go bankrupt this year. They can take their fucking Union Square “Holiday Tree” and shove it, branches and all.
I have not shopped there in over forty years. The place is full of overpriced, overtrendy, faggy merchandise.
Dead santas’ boots.
John you should go be the tech santa!
Then you can text all the kids and never have to have them sit on your lap.
I mean you have that Yukon Cornelius look going on already. He was in a xmas show. So santa should be easy.
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#4 Nalgadas:
The vast majority of people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing from the tri-state area have been assholes. It’s a great source of pride for them to be considered so.
miracle on 34th street?
Have a hunch this error in judgement will be corrected soon.
I’ve always wondered which was worse. The politically correct left or the morally outraged right? Both are hemorrhoids.
Real Santa Claus’ (not Santa’s helpers) are rare and this guy was one of the best. First saw him about 6 years ago and he is fantastic. Kids love him.
All you’ll get at Macy’s now are stuck up, heavily made up princesses in Chanel heels. And I’m not talking about women either.
I would have told them why Mrs. Santa Claus doesn’t have children. Because he only comes once a year and that’s down the chimney.
Christmas, Bah-humbug. He can join the rest of us on the unemployment line.
No Cursor_, John is more like the Tech Grinch…
I was not involved.
I nominate Tech Grouch for the job! He would be awesome…
TG: So Billy… what do you want for Christmast?
Kid: I want a PS3!
TG: What? Are you kidding? Heck, when I was a kid, we got sticks, and we liked them! Get off my lap you little ungrateful snot.
So, what was risque about the “joke?” Perhaps Santa’s elves just unionized and were engaged in a work slow down to mandate Santa provide jars they could piss into while working on the production line?
Having bad kiddies would reduce the work load.
Its not about sex unless your mind is in one gutter rather than the other gutter. Actually, given Macy’s and Santa are in direct competition with one another, the sex angle is obviously a ruse.
Congratulations for the content of your blog, which incidentally is very interesting to see.
Gee, is that a spam attack or attempted take down of a server or sumptin like that? Cross language spam seems like a “real” waste of time. Spam can be eaten and its even good every once in a while. This ain’t spam.
Santa working blue?
Now I’ve heard everything.