24 December 2009
Written by Rainer
Christmas is Cancelled Until Further Notice
(Korvatunturi)The weak economic downturn isn’t affecting just employers and employees of housing and banking companies. Also traditional businesses are reporting bad news. The latest addition to closures was Father Christmas (XMAS), aka SantaClaus, who sent an application for bankruptcy earlier today, just on the eve of Christmas. According to the papers filed “Santa” has outstanding taxes and salaries. Santa also owns to suppliers for goods manufactured between 2007 and 2009.
According to the officials thousands of elves haven’t received sufficient payment for their services and Santa was only paying to them in “goods” which they had to sell or trade to feed themselves. The Officials are also investigating Father Christmas for allegations of child labor, racial discrimination and for numerous copyright infringements.
The spokesperson for the elves and the co-founder of the Secret Village, inc., Shiny Upatree, stated that the bankruptcy didn’t come as a surprise for anyone who even cared to look at the business model of Santa. “Both Bashy [Evergreen, inventor of the ToyMachine®] and me warned Santa several times that we can’t continue this way much longer. The business idea, though nice, well, it sucks — big time. You can’t just give away your products for free and expect it to work. I mean, where do we get the money for all the crap we make — not to mention licensing fees? Nowhere that’s where!, Upatree ranted, “We were first wondering where we were getting the funding from, but eventually realised that we’re living on air. At some point we were sure he was running some sort of a ponzi scheme”.
Upatree reminds that though Santaclaus may not win the entrepreneur of the year award, he never mentioned any harm to anyone and tried his best always. Upatree refused to comment why he decided to join forces with Santa if he felt the business idea was not up to par. “Even if everything fell down like a deck of cards it was rewarding to work with Santa; he loved the fanmail and took every single customer experience as his own. That was probably his demise as well: he only got good feedback so his sense of reality faded away and was replaced with illusion. He tried to please and satisfy everyone, but it’s just not possible”, Evergreen adds.
Santa Claus has withdrawn from publicity and refuses to meet members of press or give any statements. Initial hearing of the bankruptcy application is scheduled to take place on the early 2010. All deliveries and orders for this year have been frozen and Christmas has officially been cancelled. What will happen to the business of Father Christmas remains an open question.
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