‘Thousands’ turned away after private company books out Christmas market on a Saturday
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/cambridge-christmas-market-company-books-5HjdP9q_2/
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‘Thousands’ turned away after private company books out Christmas market on a Saturday
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/cambridge-christmas-market-company-books-5HjdP9q_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
13 Comments
Honestly I’m more just curious how much Arm paid to rent out an entire Christmas market for its employees. I know Arm is doing very well but thats legitimately a crazy expense to spend just on treating your staff.
Welcome to the future, proles. Step aside for your betters. And don’t forget you’re allowed to buy food only on every second Wednesday.
I get why people are unhappy, but should always check on an event’s website before visiting it. Although in reality I might not either.
why would you travel from Kent without checking the website?
**Please note we are closed on the following dates :**
4th December – from 4pm
6th December – 10am until 6:30pm
“Days were ruined. It’s not in the spirit of Christmas, it’s the anti-spirit of Christmas”
It seems like the exact spirit of Christmas to me.
It’s ostensibly exclusively about consumerism and this is peak consumerism.
Morons, all they had to do was walk another 200 yards to the Mill Road Christmas fair/party and would have had much more fun that the annual “sheet” show on Parker’s piece.
of course on a saturday, wouldn’t want to give people a day off work! Now they had mandatory office fun on a saturday.
The way people are carrying on, you’d think ARM had paid Santa to punt kids into a lake, rather than paying a commercial Christmas park operator to rent it on Dec 6.
Really a bit ridiculous to see adults carrying on about the “meaning of Christmas” when deprived of a free market for 8 hours.
Given the company probably has to pay a huge fee to the council to host the event, ARM is basically paying extra council tax for everyone and getting a party as a thank you.
>Denise Richards, 62, got a two-hour train from Ruislip, London, for an “old girls’ weekend” with five friends, which they had planned together in June.
I didn’t realise that Denise had moved to the UK or that she was so old now.
I don’t understand why a company renting a venue is considered the villain for the venue allowing itself to be rented out, and not communicating with the public.
If I was to book a venue for, let’s say, my kids birthday, should I now be worried about being the villain in the eyes of people who will be turned away from the venue due to the venue not making it clear enough I’ve booked it? Generally that’s not how the world works. Someone makes a venue available for booking, someone else books it, it’s then unavailable to anyone else.
> “One woman said she took three trains to get there. She had three kids, all were distressed and crying because their mum was upset.”
Absolutely top class parenting there, good on you lass.
Man I laughed at them quoting the LibDem councilor in a labour run council.
Gee I’m sure her outrage is entirely honest.