I found out today I didn't get invited to my company holiday potluck because I'm at a satellite office. Four miles away.
Edit: I get it and I agree. Office functions suck. This is just a lunch potluck at work. The only reason I wanted to go was because they draw names out of a hat for prizes. I wanted to see if so could manage to get dead last for the 4th year in a row and go home with a random $10 gift card for some place on the opposite side of the metro I will never visit. Or if this was the year I would actually get one of the high $$ prizes.
And it's four miles in a Milwaukee suburb. It takes no time and like two stops lights.
I ignored the real company holiday invite. I am not about to give up my Saturday night for co workers.
The only reason I wanted to go is because they give everyone who brings a dish a prize. Order drawn out of a hat. I wanted to see if I would be dead last for the fourth year in a row. Ending up with a shitty $10 gift card I don't use when some of the early prizes are actually pretty nice and valued at way more than $10.
I am for sure skipping the actual company holiday party this weekend.
Its because Tony chocolate’s entire thing is showing the inequality in chocolate production, that the producers of the cacoa beans are being unfairly treated via poor working conditions, and poor pay while other major choclate companies profit. Their chocolate bars are deliberatley shaoed to look a bit like West Africa and each piece is a different size. Whether they actually follow their philosophy, idk, i doubt it that a company can actually be fair nowadays
They try to follow their own policies but have been honest about the difficulties of ensuring 100% of the cacao they get is truly fair trade as they don't have control over every source.
The brand isn’t unfair. In fact, the brand is the complete opposite of unfair. The whole reason the brand exists is because a journalist was doing a TV news story about enslaved child labor in the chocolate industry and was so appalled that virtually all chocolate in the world is the product of enslaved child labor and so appalled that no one cared and so appalled that no one was doing anything to try to stop it that he started a chocolate company dedicated to free and fair labor.
He called the brand Tony’s Chocolonely because he felt he was alone in the fight against child slavery in the chocolate industry.
And he was right. Because everyone says they’re anti slavery and everyone says they’re against child labor but everyone knows their chocolate is the product of enslaved child labor and everyone keeps eating chocolate anyway.
I don’t eat chocolate at all, not even Tony’s because it’s not currently possible to purchase chocolate without supporting slavery but as far as chocolate brands go, but it is absolutely absurd to call Tony’s “unfair”. Fairness is their whole thing. They might not be perfect but they’re far and away more fair than the overwhelming majority of chocolate companies.
You may have missed the point of the comment you’re replying to, but I just wanted to say I still found this really interesting and enjoyed learning about the company’s history.
Even a normal advent calendar is usually not equal each day. At least here in Germany they rarely are. We have usually bigger things behind number 6 (Sankt Nikolaus) and Number 24 (Heiligabend). So if you share one, getting those numbers would always result in an obvious advantage.
Its more then I've gotten at plenty of company's in the past 10 years
I've even had 1 company steal my christmas package from the agency (uitzendbureau in dutch)
With the message "it wouldn't be fair for the others that work here, so we gonna raffle the items away" 🤡
That is truly incredibly greedy. I have been working in the Netherlands for two decades and I’ve always received Christmas gifts I do have to say. Cash, giftcards or at a bare minimum packages with stuff I neither need nor want.
Reminds me of the language school I worked at. The head office sent us all a gift for teacher's day. The manager of the service department decided the gifts were too nice for us, so she gave them out to her favourite staff members to give out as "gifts" for parents.
We got this calendar for my two year old and she was sooooo excited to see two yesterday. My husband was suspicious and read the next day, so he slipped a different chocolate in there. I appreciate the messaging but I'm also not going to try and explain it her.
No. Tony’s is a socially conscious company that wants you to understand that a lot of people in the chocolate business are exploited and never get paid for their work. They are drawing an analogy between modern slavery and a first world child not getting chocolate one day in December.
That's as dumb as "eat everything on your plate, there's kids in Africa who don't even have plates!" Yes please take away even the littlest spark of joy.
It’s dumb, but also an advent calendar isn’t meant to be shared like this. Why is OP’s company sharing a single advent calendar? That’s the crime if anything.
It’s like going to McDonald’s with friends and having each friend blindly pull something out of the bag to eat, and you pull out the ketchup packet; then getting upset with McDonalds.
Yeah, does it suck for OP— for sure. But it’s also like a poignant way of discussing the very morally bankrupt chocolate industry to presumably kids and folks who might not even know about it. You’d be surprised how many people don’t even know what cacao is, or how chocolate is made.
I mean personally for me, I'd be fine getting a little piece of chocolate at work lol. I'm not someone to look super deep into it though, I'd just be like "hey cool, chocolate"
Someone at head office was concerned about the cost of last years pizza party. Had to come up with a cheaper way to show the employees that they dont give a fuck about them. Probably also had to give some pointless middle manager son of a friend a couple of days worth of work to devise a schedule for who's turn is when.
The company's whole ethos is based on raising awareness about the unfairness of the chocolate industry and cocoa supply chain. People can be cynical about that if they like but they don't have to buy the chocolate or the advent calendar.
The calendar still gives you all the chocolate btw.
Tony's has been fighting against slavery in the industry, through being transparent and trying to eliminate it in every way they can actively handle. But the entire chocolate industry is infested with it
Even for a company trying their best, there will still be slavery, because the industry is unequal. So is their chocolate. Their bars are in unequal shapes to share etc.
This isn't some hollow capitalist virtue signaling that is just a hollow mouth. There's actual legitimate work by then to back it up
Is it unfair for op? Sure it is, but don't blame Tony's for it
Usually, there’s a chocolate behind each door, right? Well, as you’ve noticed now that you’ve opened door num quite. But it’s for a very good reason..
At Tony’s Chocolonely, our chocolate bars are unequally divided because the chocolate industry is unequally divided.
Big chocolate companies make big profits, while cocoa farmers aren’t paid enough for their cocoa. The result? Many of them still live way below the poverty line. Sometimes this leaves them little choice but to use illegal labour to farm their cocoa. Right now, there are 1.56 million children working illegally and at least 30,000 instances of forced labour on cocoa farms in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Child labour and forced labour just so some folks can enjoy a sweet chocolate treat? Unacceptable!
Tony’s Chocolonely exists to change this. But we can’t do it alone. Choose change in the chocolate industry by sharing our chocolate and sharing our story this festive season.
Sincerely,
Your Tiny Tony’s elves
PS. You’ll still get 25 chocolates in 24 doors. There’s still an extra goodie waiting for you closer to Christmas.. "
I think the mildly infuriating is the disparity inequality across the industry. I'm curious if the co-workers who get two chocolates shared it with the people who got no chocolates... I don't think activism and education is infuriating (I'd rather mildly performative activism than no activism at all). You have a one chocolate mind at least
No one pointing out that ops company is sharing a single advent calender for the whole office? What's the point? Seems more insulting rather than morale boosting.
I had a whole rambling paragraph that included the fact that if you buy your own Advent calendar this shouldn't/wouldn't be mildly infuriating but the fact that it's in a shared office setting actually makes the statement from Tony's chocolates more provocative and effective in a way. But that is why I pointed out that I bet the people who got two chocolates probably didn't share them with the people who had no chocolates. They probably either kept them or shared them with their best friends in the office. I cut it out because I noticed that I was ADHD rambling but you hit the nail on the head. It really depends on what else is done for the holiday season by the company, What the company's moral background is, etc.
Usually, there’s a chocolate behind each door, right? Well, as you’ve noticed now that you’ve opened door number 10, not quite. But it’s for a very good reason..
At Tony’s Chocolonely, our chocolate bars are unequally divided because the chocolate industry is unequally divided.
Big chocolate companies make big profits, while cocoa farmers aren’t paid enough for their cocoa. The result? Many of them still live way below the poverty line. Sometimes this leaves them little choice but to use illegal labour to farm their cocoa. Right now, there are 1.56 million children working illegally and at least 30,000 instances of forced labour on cocoa farms in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Child labour and forced labour just so some folks can enjoy a sweet chocolate treat? Unacceptable!
Tony’s Chocolonely exists to change this. But we can’t do it alone. Choose change in the chocolate industry by sharing our chocolate and sharing our story this festive season.
Sincerely,
Your Tiny Tony’s elves
PS. You’ll still get 25 chocolates in 24 doors. There’s still an extra goodie waiting for you closer to Christmas.”
Except for Tony’s it’s all performative. They say they are changing the chocolate industry from the “inside” as an excuse as to why they use manufacturers that use child labor and slavery. Their major manufacturer has over 1300 instances of child labor in their chocolate production
I'm not going to say that the person above you is just spouting bullshit but Tony's does release reports on where they find issues in their supply chain and with any partners, and publish how they address those issues and what they're doing, and also how they reinvest in the areas to prevent unethical cocoa production. They are widely considered to be quite ethical. I also found no sources that said any of their current suppliers or manufacturers have 1300 unaddressed instances of child labour.
It's a misunderstanding of what the company is trying to do. It's trying to pay enough for the cocoa to change the economics enough that child labor is no longer necessary.
The child slaves are "normal". Almost all cocoa is harvested by children because the giant importer companies pay cents on the dollar to those who actually produce it. It's the same for jasmin flowers and other natural aromas btw, most perfumes have child labor in them somewhere along the supply chain.
They also take immediate steps to address these problems as they discover them. You're literally quoting a hit piece funded by other chocolate companies to try and discredit one of the few major competitors that's actively trying to address the problem.
I mean, yea it's terrible they can't snap their fingers and instantly change the entire chocolate economy, but let's not pretend they're evil secret geniuses either mate, come on.
The execution works if the advent was eaten by a single person. As a group yeah its questionable. But this actually is a good way to educate people on chocolate industry. Granted I am pretty sure whomever bought Tony's advent calendar is a big fan of their chocolate and therefore is aware about this (their chocolate bars are unequally divided for this reason)
I rarely eat Tony's but of all chocolate brands. Its the best taste wise and I love their campaign.
I picked one up from the grocery checkout aisle randomly and got a toffee crunch bar that was amazing. I grew up eating Hershey's which is ass so was completely surprised at just how much better another brand can be lol
Their whole point is that they try to not use child or slave labor but they know the pipeline from farm to table is so messy they cannot guarantee it, and they shame other companies who try to claim it’s slave or child free because Tony’s knows that’s not 100% possible to claim.
They also have a blog on their website where they show every instance they found of issues in their supply chain where child slave labor is used, and the correction they executed after.
The company is famous for employing fairly, it's their whole thing. I haven't actually looked into them so it could always be a front for marketing, but the QR doesn't need to explain it
They unfortunatrly don't succeed in not emplying exploitative supply chains but they are leagues better than others and have explained that it's almost impossible to get a supply chain that's not expoitative somewhere. Iirc they try to change the eithics of the companies they do use as an attempt to do something.
Every single chocolate company in existence will have slave labour present somewhere in the process. It's why the chocolate industry is so barbaric
Even the companies at the top of the moral list, the ones actively combating against it, will have in present in areas they have no control over, due to how ingrained and widespread it is
The entire idea is to try and get as many companies as possible to combat this slavery as heavily as they can
What kind of hell is a shared company advent calander? Sounds cringe and weird. Who at head office through the pizza party last yesr cost to much so thought they would downgrade to a single shared advent calander.
Omg initially misread this as “family” instead of “company” and was all ready to tell you to stop being mean, here I am with my reading skills on and joining you 😂😂
A lot of people seem to be getting confused. But the explanation for this is on the back of the box, the door OP opened IS number 10.
And for anyone who thinks Tony fucking sucks for this and is scamming you out of chocolate you pay for, you get 2 chocolates on day 9. The point is just about uneven distribution
yeah it seems like a perfectly reasonable lighthearted way to discuss issues in the industry. unfortunately, their office is sharing one advent calendar amongst however many people. so the plot is lost a little and instead just leaves for one sucker, who happened to be OP
Ideally. Maybe it would’ve been more likely if it came the day after, but I’m sure the person the day before thought nothing of an extra square of chocolate
Actually, the text on Tony's page states that you will receive an extra treat "closer to Christmas", so realistically someone else should share with OP
This is actually a $50-$60 advent calendar. Still the company should have got one for each person or not done it at all. Sharing an advent calendar is fucking weird
So this chocolate advent calendar has been known to do this. They did it last year as well and it went viral online for it. It’s wild that your company chose an advent calendar for the whole company to share that was already known to have some empty days.
Still doesn't really explain it. If it was like- 1 person per day, but they all open 'their' day on the same day eg 1st December, then it may make sense. Because then everyone, including person 10, 21 and 22 would open their doors together, presumably whenever the calender was given out. But OP is person 10, and opened hers on the 10th (today), which suggests each person is given a number and they open theirs on that date. So no reason for 21 and 22 to be gone. Either someone got greedy and did theirs early or this is BS made up for a post lol or maybe I'm thinking too much about this haha
memories of sharing an advent calendar in kindergarten, but one kid stole the rest of the chocolates after only a few days, so barely any of us got our assigned day (no, the teacher did not buy another, punishing the whole class). anyway. it's only been 40 years. i'm not still bitter or anything.
Yeah everyone’s in here like “Tony’s Sucks!” but nah it’s your cheap employer giving the “gift” of their employee getting one day in a calendar and not even looking up any info about the calendar.
They did this before and got tons of negative press from parents who weren't keen on explaining wealth inequality to their crying children who hadn't got their chocolate that day.
But that dilutes the message. Getting it on 9 then opening 10 it reads “isn’t it great to get more… but at the cost of others?” While getting a second on 11 gives more “that wasn’t fair so let’s make it up to you.”
Yeah that is the point. It says so on their website. As long as the chocolate industry is unfair, so are their products (in terms of portions and apparently advent calendars)
I once participated in a Bad Santa gift exchange, Someone stole my gift and I had to take the last gift from the pile. A 2 pack of Double A batteries, because someone thought it would be funny.
The real question is - did the person assigning the days read the back before and know #10 was empty, giving it to you on purpose depriving you of your chocolate?
I don't see the purpose of this. Nobody buys an advent calender that costs 5x more than the normal ones by accident. It's preaching to the choir.
The enshittification of advent calenders needs to be studied. They used to sell themselves with cartoons or illustrations that looked fun hung up on the wall, now they're all just the company's christmas branding they put on everything but bigger. They don't even do a new design. Joyless.
One advent calendar for the whole company is... generous.
I found out today I didn't get invited to my company holiday potluck because I'm at a satellite office. Four miles away.
Edit: I get it and I agree. Office functions suck. This is just a lunch potluck at work. The only reason I wanted to go was because they draw names out of a hat for prizes. I wanted to see if so could manage to get dead last for the 4th year in a row and go home with a random $10 gift card for some place on the opposite side of the metro I will never visit. Or if this was the year I would actually get one of the high $$ prizes.
And it's four miles in a Milwaukee suburb. It takes no time and like two stops lights.
I ignored the real company holiday invite. I am not about to give up my Saturday night for co workers.
No way you could've got there to be fair.
To be fair, sometimes 4 miles seems like a dreadful drive to go to work.
I also didn’t get invited to my company’s holiday party. Thankfully it was in my office so it was hard to miss.
Then the party ran out of food because more people showed up than had RSVP’d. I was like “well if you had invited me I would have RSVP’d”
This must have been a Grinch collab
4 miles can be 5 minutes or an hour.. depending where you live
Fixed that for ya!!
In all seriousness though, there are jobs that are wonderful to work at. It really depends on the company and its management tho.
Living in LA, I feel this in my soul.
It's simply too far
They're working all the way up in the Stars in the satellite office
4 miles is tough travelling in space.
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That's terrible management. I'm sorry to hear that.
nah i would’ve ended up on the fucking news. that’s just insane.
I HATE office potlucks and would consider this a Christmas miracle.
The only reason I wanted to go is because they give everyone who brings a dish a prize. Order drawn out of a hat. I wanted to see if I would be dead last for the fourth year in a row. Ending up with a shitty $10 gift card I don't use when some of the early prizes are actually pretty nice and valued at way more than $10.
I am for sure skipping the actual company holiday party this weekend.
Depends. Office potlucks during work hours : I'm in. Office potluck afterwork : sorry, I'm too busy.
Especially when you know the brand is apparently unfair in it’s distribution.
Advent calendars aren't made to be shared, I don't think it's on them but the company making the poor decision
The only counter I have to this is if it was a gift from a vendor or something and this was the best way to accept the gift within policy.
However, then you just want to well communicate that so that people understand why you’re sharing an advent calendar.
Just empty the thing into a bowl and share them out then! Don’t make a whole ritual out of it
Agreed!!
Lidl has advent calendars for $2. This company made 30 people share 1 advent calendar. WTF.
Its because Tony chocolate’s entire thing is showing the inequality in chocolate production, that the producers of the cacoa beans are being unfairly treated via poor working conditions, and poor pay while other major choclate companies profit. Their chocolate bars are deliberatley shaoed to look a bit like West Africa and each piece is a different size. Whether they actually follow their philosophy, idk, i doubt it that a company can actually be fair nowadays
They try to follow their own policies but have been honest about the difficulties of ensuring 100% of the cacao they get is truly fair trade as they don't have control over every source.
The brand isn’t unfair. In fact, the brand is the complete opposite of unfair. The whole reason the brand exists is because a journalist was doing a TV news story about enslaved child labor in the chocolate industry and was so appalled that virtually all chocolate in the world is the product of enslaved child labor and so appalled that no one cared and so appalled that no one was doing anything to try to stop it that he started a chocolate company dedicated to free and fair labor.
He called the brand Tony’s Chocolonely because he felt he was alone in the fight against child slavery in the chocolate industry.
And he was right. Because everyone says they’re anti slavery and everyone says they’re against child labor but everyone knows their chocolate is the product of enslaved child labor and everyone keeps eating chocolate anyway.
I don’t eat chocolate at all, not even Tony’s because it’s not currently possible to purchase chocolate without supporting slavery but as far as chocolate brands go, but it is absolutely absurd to call Tony’s “unfair”. Fairness is their whole thing. They might not be perfect but they’re far and away more fair than the overwhelming majority of chocolate companies.
I think they meant tony's bars are famously unfairly distributed in terms of the bar itself like the way the pieces are seperated
Shades of Patagonia attempting to source slave free textiles for like a decade so far
You may have missed the point of the comment you’re replying to, but I just wanted to say I still found this really interesting and enjoyed learning about the company’s history.
Even a normal advent calendar is usually not equal each day. At least here in Germany they rarely are. We have usually bigger things behind number 6 (Sankt Nikolaus) and Number 24 (Heiligabend). So if you share one, getting those numbers would always result in an obvious advantage.
Today I learned. 😊
It's not. They are drawing attention to the extreme inequality in the chocolate industry. The fault here clearly lies with the company.
Yeah we actually got these as a corporate gift as well, but it was one per person obviously 😅
What a dick move for OP's team.
And employees get assigned days to open it, like it’s a kitchen cleaning assignment. It’s quite the case of “forced fun”.
Its more then I've gotten at plenty of company's in the past 10 years
I've even had 1 company steal my christmas package from the agency (uitzendbureau in dutch) With the message "it wouldn't be fair for the others that work here, so we gonna raffle the items away" 🤡
That is truly incredibly greedy. I have been working in the Netherlands for two decades and I’ve always received Christmas gifts I do have to say. Cash, giftcards or at a bare minimum packages with stuff I neither need nor want.
Reminds me of the language school I worked at. The head office sent us all a gift for teacher's day. The manager of the service department decided the gifts were too nice for us, so she gave them out to her favourite staff members to give out as "gifts" for parents.
For those wondering what's in 10. This was 10, it just refers to the explanation of why 10 is empty on the other side.
https://preview.redd.it/zz8g43ogad6g1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=106517c85beb27caa51178ca0b2e39f814005862
So yesterday's person got two then?
Whoever got 9 and ate both… an opp
I think you will find, 7 ate 9 so 10 ran off
I say this alllll the time. I'm just a Dapper Dan man!
Same! It's one of my favorite movies ☺️
https://i.redd.it/1ndjukyf1f6g1.gif
Not since you got hit by that train
Damn, we're in a tight spot!
I say this more often than I should.
Also I will grunt out, "Mah hair."
Them sirens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a... horny toad.
He said we wouldn't never get the treasure we seek on account of our ob stacles.
I don’t want Fop, god dammit!
I found my Soggy Bottom Boys 😭😭 no one ever understands this quote when i say it 😂
Tis why im a Man of Constant Sorrow 😞
One of my Favourite Jokes is: Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 was a registered Six offender.
Why did number 1 break into jail? 2,3,4
10 ran off because it was in between 9 11 😳
It's "in the middle of 9/11" you kinda flubbed the joke
Bro being 10 double sucks 😢
I don’t think 9 knew 10 would be empty though, just thought they’d struck lucky.
Yeah fair, unless they read the side thing too
Boss got #9...?
Yeah they got 2 and they're both gone. No way they could have known though
Your boss owes you a full size bar now. Only way to make this right.
We got this calendar for my two year old and she was sooooo excited to see two yesterday. My husband was suspicious and read the next day, so he slipped a different chocolate in there. I appreciate the messaging but I'm also not going to try and explain it her.
You guys did the right thing. That would just be sad for a two-year-old and they wouldn't understand anything but the disappointment.
You didn’t rant on the company Slack about it on the 9th?
Sue them for discrimination
Actually I have the calendar. The day prior had 3
No. Tony’s is a socially conscious company that wants you to understand that a lot of people in the chocolate business are exploited and never get paid for their work. They are drawing an analogy between modern slavery and a first world child not getting chocolate one day in December.
That's as dumb as "eat everything on your plate, there's kids in Africa who don't even have plates!" Yes please take away even the littlest spark of joy.
It’s dumb, but also an advent calendar isn’t meant to be shared like this. Why is OP’s company sharing a single advent calendar? That’s the crime if anything.
It’s like going to McDonald’s with friends and having each friend blindly pull something out of the bag to eat, and you pull out the ketchup packet; then getting upset with McDonalds.
Yeah, does it suck for OP— for sure. But it’s also like a poignant way of discussing the very morally bankrupt chocolate industry to presumably kids and folks who might not even know about it. You’d be surprised how many people don’t even know what cacao is, or how chocolate is made.
Making a bunch of grown adults take turns opening advent calendar doors for one measly piece of chocolate has to be a bit from the office.
I mean personally for me, I'd be fine getting a little piece of chocolate at work lol. I'm not someone to look super deep into it though, I'd just be like "hey cool, chocolate"
Someone at head office was concerned about the cost of last years pizza party. Had to come up with a cheaper way to show the employees that they dont give a fuck about them. Probably also had to give some pointless middle manager son of a friend a couple of days worth of work to devise a schedule for who's turn is when.
Fwiw we did one but it was a massive Lindt one thst weighed like 50 lbs and everyone got full sizes chocolate
Now that's the way. Especially since Lindt chocolate prices have straight doubled this year.
Blaming the maker of the calendar while the company is only spending $10,- for the entire team is wild
My grandma did that once. I had a moment of realization and shit back, "well why can't we send this food to them?" She 404'd and accepted it lol
The company's whole ethos is based on raising awareness about the unfairness of the chocolate industry and cocoa supply chain. People can be cynical about that if they like but they don't have to buy the chocolate or the advent calendar. The calendar still gives you all the chocolate btw.
It's really not the same as your example.
It's not dumb in the slightest
Tony's has been fighting against slavery in the industry, through being transparent and trying to eliminate it in every way they can actively handle. But the entire chocolate industry is infested with it
Even for a company trying their best, there will still be slavery, because the industry is unequal. So is their chocolate. Their bars are in unequal shapes to share etc.
This isn't some hollow capitalist virtue signaling that is just a hollow mouth. There's actual legitimate work by then to back it up
Is it unfair for op? Sure it is, but don't blame Tony's for it
"Hey there Choco Fan,
Usually, there’s a chocolate behind each door, right? Well, as you’ve noticed now that you’ve opened door num quite. But it’s for a very good reason..
At Tony’s Chocolonely, our chocolate bars are unequally divided because the chocolate industry is unequally divided.
Big chocolate companies make big profits, while cocoa farmers aren’t paid enough for their cocoa. The result? Many of them still live way below the poverty line. Sometimes this leaves them little choice but to use illegal labour to farm their cocoa. Right now, there are 1.56 million children working illegally and at least 30,000 instances of forced labour on cocoa farms in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Child labour and forced labour just so some folks can enjoy a sweet chocolate treat? Unacceptable!
Tony’s Chocolonely exists to change this. But we can’t do it alone. Choose change in the chocolate industry by sharing our chocolate and sharing our story this festive season.
Sincerely,
Your Tiny Tony’s elves
PS. You’ll still get 25 chocolates in 24 doors. There’s still an extra goodie waiting for you closer to Christmas.. "
I think the mildly infuriating is the disparity inequality across the industry. I'm curious if the co-workers who get two chocolates shared it with the people who got no chocolates... I don't think activism and education is infuriating (I'd rather mildly performative activism than no activism at all). You have a one chocolate mind at least
No one pointing out that ops company is sharing a single advent calender for the whole office? What's the point? Seems more insulting rather than morale boosting.
I had a whole rambling paragraph that included the fact that if you buy your own Advent calendar this shouldn't/wouldn't be mildly infuriating but the fact that it's in a shared office setting actually makes the statement from Tony's chocolates more provocative and effective in a way. But that is why I pointed out that I bet the people who got two chocolates probably didn't share them with the people who had no chocolates. They probably either kept them or shared them with their best friends in the office. I cut it out because I noticed that I was ADHD rambling but you hit the nail on the head. It really depends on what else is done for the holiday season by the company, What the company's moral background is, etc.
Well I hope OP learned their lesson
I won't rest until OP apologizes for the use of slavery in the chocolate industry personally
Haha! Ethical chocolate Advent calendar? This is hilarious, they're trying to lecture you and you're just like, "where's my goddamn chocolate?"
Splitting an advent calendar between an office is the dumb part of this post.
Nothing like splitting a £17 advent calendar 24 ways to spread christmas cheer lol
Not really. There's 2 behind another door so you still get the same amount
Look who cares if my food has a little slavery in it? I'm sure they're extremely happy to be enslaved for the profit of nestlé
How quaint… fuck you also
The more infuriating this is the company got a single calendar for multiple employees. That's some bullshit right there.
Those dairy milk ones are like 3 euros, how many employees do they have?
For those wondering, the QR code says:
“Hey there Choco Fan,
Usually, there’s a chocolate behind each door, right? Well, as you’ve noticed now that you’ve opened door number 10, not quite. But it’s for a very good reason..
At Tony’s Chocolonely, our chocolate bars are unequally divided because the chocolate industry is unequally divided.
Big chocolate companies make big profits, while cocoa farmers aren’t paid enough for their cocoa. The result? Many of them still live way below the poverty line. Sometimes this leaves them little choice but to use illegal labour to farm their cocoa. Right now, there are 1.56 million children working illegally and at least 30,000 instances of forced labour on cocoa farms in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Child labour and forced labour just so some folks can enjoy a sweet chocolate treat? Unacceptable!
Tony’s Chocolonely exists to change this. But we can’t do it alone. Choose change in the chocolate industry by sharing our chocolate and sharing our story this festive season.
Sincerely, Your Tiny Tony’s elves PS. You’ll still get 25 chocolates in 24 doors. There’s still an extra goodie waiting for you closer to Christmas.”
Execution is questionable but the sentiment’s good
Works fine if the calendar is for 1 person, I doubt they had this much corporate greed in mind when designing this...
Except for Tony’s it’s all performative. They say they are changing the chocolate industry from the “inside” as an excuse as to why they use manufacturers that use child labor and slavery. Their major manufacturer has over 1300 instances of child labor in their chocolate production
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I would like some additional evidence before I stop buying from a company that's at least raising awareness
I'm not going to say that the person above you is just spouting bullshit but Tony's does release reports on where they find issues in their supply chain and with any partners, and publish how they address those issues and what they're doing, and also how they reinvest in the areas to prevent unethical cocoa production. They are widely considered to be quite ethical. I also found no sources that said any of their current suppliers or manufacturers have 1300 unaddressed instances of child labour.
I'll do it for you, they are spouting bullshit.
I appreciate you.
It's a misunderstanding of what the company is trying to do. It's trying to pay enough for the cocoa to change the economics enough that child labor is no longer necessary.
The child slaves are "normal". Almost all cocoa is harvested by children because the giant importer companies pay cents on the dollar to those who actually produce it. It's the same for jasmin flowers and other natural aromas btw, most perfumes have child labor in them somewhere along the supply chain.
Just about every product uses child labor somewhere in the supply chain. Child labor laws are very much a western/first world country thing.
They also take immediate steps to address these problems as they discover them. You're literally quoting a hit piece funded by other chocolate companies to try and discredit one of the few major competitors that's actively trying to address the problem.
I mean, yea it's terrible they can't snap their fingers and instantly change the entire chocolate economy, but let's not pretend they're evil secret geniuses either mate, come on.
Can I get some sauce for that?
The execution works if the advent was eaten by a single person. As a group yeah its questionable. But this actually is a good way to educate people on chocolate industry. Granted I am pretty sure whomever bought Tony's advent calendar is a big fan of their chocolate and therefore is aware about this (their chocolate bars are unequally divided for this reason)
I rarely eat Tony's but of all chocolate brands. Its the best taste wise and I love their campaign.
I picked one up from the grocery checkout aisle randomly and got a toffee crunch bar that was amazing. I grew up eating Hershey's which is ass so was completely surprised at just how much better another brand can be lol
This is fine for 9ne person, not like OP's situation
Like their designs. They all have irregular designs, specifically to make sharing them uneven.
Did I miss the part where they say they don’t use the exploitative labor or are they explaining the reason it’s empty is because of that
Their whole point is that they try to not use child or slave labor but they know the pipeline from farm to table is so messy they cannot guarantee it, and they shame other companies who try to claim it’s slave or child free because Tony’s knows that’s not 100% possible to claim.
They also have a blog on their website where they show every instance they found of issues in their supply chain where child slave labor is used, and the correction they executed after.
The company is famous for employing fairly, it's their whole thing. I haven't actually looked into them so it could always be a front for marketing, but the QR doesn't need to explain it
They unfortunatrly don't succeed in not emplying exploitative supply chains but they are leagues better than others and have explained that it's almost impossible to get a supply chain that's not expoitative somewhere. Iirc they try to change the eithics of the companies they do use as an attempt to do something.
What a beautiful world 😞
Every single chocolate company in existence will have slave labour present somewhere in the process. It's why the chocolate industry is so barbaric
Even the companies at the top of the moral list, the ones actively combating against it, will have in present in areas they have no control over, due to how ingrained and widespread it is
The entire idea is to try and get as many companies as possible to combat this slavery as heavily as they can
And Dec 10 is international human rights day :)
I would.. IF YOU HAD CHOCKOLATE IN THE CALLENDAR
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What kind of hell is a shared company advent calander? Sounds cringe and weird. Who at head office through the pizza party last yesr cost to much so thought they would downgrade to a single shared advent calander.
At my previous office, there was a lottery for who could open the next day on the advent calendar… There were around 50 people working there…
Did you work at a grade school?? That's some Kindergarten shit.
Worse. A call center.
What, for whole company you got one advert calendar to share? hahahahahahahaah
Omg initially misread this as “family” instead of “company” and was all ready to tell you to stop being mean, here I am with my reading skills on and joining you 😂😂
No chocolate = 1/2 day off in consideration 🤣
Yea I'm gonna need to take the rest of the day off to mourn both for myself and the inequality in the chocolate industry.
A lot of people seem to be getting confused. But the explanation for this is on the back of the box, the door OP opened IS number 10.
And for anyone who thinks Tony fucking sucks for this and is scamming you out of chocolate you pay for, you get 2 chocolates on day 9. The point is just about uneven distribution
yeah it seems like a perfectly reasonable lighthearted way to discuss issues in the industry. unfortunately, their office is sharing one advent calendar amongst however many people. so the plot is lost a little and instead just leaves for one sucker, who happened to be OP
however many people probably has an upper limit of like 25
Actually it's 35 people in the office. I'm assigned door number 28
Well it does showcase Tony's point rather well lol.
People don’t read before reacting
Yeah I don't think they were thinking this advent calendar would be used this way 💀
So Person 9 should have ideally shared their second with person 10
Ideally. Maybe it would’ve been more likely if it came the day after, but I’m sure the person the day before thought nothing of an extra square of chocolate
That would only work if person 9 knew what was coming on day 10, or if they hadn't yet eaten/shared their 2 pieces of candy.
Actually, the text on Tony's page states that you will receive an extra treat "closer to Christmas", so realistically someone else should share with OP
Sure, or OPs company could just not be cheap af and split up a $10 advent calendar amongst all the employees.
This is actually a $50-$60 advent calendar. Still the company should have got one for each person or not done it at all. Sharing an advent calendar is fucking weird
Somebody didn't realize this is the worst possible Avent calendar to buy to split between people.
Seems like a good time to bring up inequality in workplace and salaries.
Pretty sure no advent calendar next year :)
Ah, that's an important point. Because as a non-insane person with their own advent calendar you'd already know this.
There’s a door with 2 pcs in it. What company makes the whole team share an advent calendar??????
Sorry but this is hilarious 😭
Wow. A shared advent calendar. Your company is so generous
So this chocolate advent calendar has been known to do this. They did it last year as well and it went viral online for it. It’s wild that your company chose an advent calendar for the whole company to share that was already known to have some empty days.
Maybe they're just trying to really get the point across.
I mean, obviously OP's company is just being cheap but at least a bunch of people learnt something about the chocolate industry because of it.
yeah why is the 20th, and 22nd opened though?
got a bit hungry
Everyone had one day assigned not a calendar for themselves. Basically the company is greedy.
Still doesn't really explain it. If it was like- 1 person per day, but they all open 'their' day on the same day eg 1st December, then it may make sense. Because then everyone, including person 10, 21 and 22 would open their doors together, presumably whenever the calender was given out. But OP is person 10, and opened hers on the 10th (today), which suggests each person is given a number and they open theirs on that date. So no reason for 21 and 22 to be gone. Either someone got greedy and did theirs early or this is BS made up for a post lol or maybe I'm thinking too much about this haha
Open number 10, after all you want to find out why you didn’t get anything
This was number 10. It refers to an explanation of why no.10 is empty on the other side, that just says Bummer!
Their explanation for why it was empty just said, “Bummer.”?
No, it talks about inequality in the world and unfair distribution of wealth, slavery in the chocolate industry
Bummer!
I hardly know 'er!
Wait, there was one chocolate window per employee? Not wad of money, but chocolate?
memories of sharing an advent calendar in kindergarten, but one kid stole the rest of the chocolates after only a few days, so barely any of us got our assigned day (no, the teacher did not buy another, punishing the whole class). anyway. it's only been 40 years. i'm not still bitter or anything.
Well the person the day before you got two so if they were nice theyd share 😂
🤣🤣🤣 who the fuck is your employer? Mr Burns? That's the worst work benefit I've ever seen!!!
Advent calendars are $1.49 at Trader Joe's. Your employer is a cheapskate.
Yeah everyone’s in here like “Tony’s Sucks!” but nah it’s your cheap employer giving the “gift” of their employee getting one day in a calendar and not even looking up any info about the calendar.
Pretty sure Tony's gave 30 chocolates anyways just 2 on some days
Along with the parent whining about this calendar that they forced multiple children to share lol
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So you opened ten right??? Right????
This is to teach you to never expect anything good from your job.
Tell HR you're owed a chocolate ..if they cant get one have the person who picked the calander give up their number instead
Honestly, I would die laughing. I have always had this kind of luck, without fail. Lmao
They did this before and got tons of negative press from parents who weren't keen on explaining wealth inequality to their crying children who hadn't got their chocolate that day.
Kind of sucks, but it’s a tiny piece of chocolate. I’d rather have the mildly funny story of opening the empty square
They are making a point about slavery in chocolate.
Slavery is quite a chocolate ingredient
I feel tony giving two on 11 may have helped with some issues instead of two on 9
But that dilutes the message. Getting it on 9 then opening 10 it reads “isn’t it great to get more… but at the cost of others?” While getting a second on 11 gives more “that wasn’t fair so let’s make it up to you.”
I can't stand Tony's whole uneven gimmick. Makes it impossible to portion out correctly.
Not when the serving size is 1.
I read a low stakes conspiracy that suggests that is the point
Yeah that is the point. It says so on their website. As long as the chocolate industry is unfair, so are their products (in terms of portions and apparently advent calendars)
No, no he means the real point is to make the chocolate hard to portion thus encouraging people to overeat
Ooooooh never thought of it like that!
The Chair Company Season Two: The Chocolate Company
Yeah I just eat it all alone anyways
I once participated in a Bad Santa gift exchange, Someone stole my gift and I had to take the last gift from the pile. A 2 pack of Double A batteries, because someone thought it would be funny.
The real question is - did the person assigning the days read the back before and know #10 was empty, giving it to you on purpose depriving you of your chocolate?
I'm sorry, a shared advent calendar? What? 🤣 Bunch of cheap bastards
When life says f--- you.
I don't see the purpose of this. Nobody buys an advent calender that costs 5x more than the normal ones by accident. It's preaching to the choir.
The enshittification of advent calenders needs to be studied. They used to sell themselves with cartoons or illustrations that looked fun hung up on the wall, now they're all just the company's christmas branding they put on everything but bigger. They don't even do a new design. Joyless.
Because the chocolate is unequally divided, so we’ve passed that inequality to you after you’ve paid us for the calendar! Merry Christmas 🎄
Man, this year's incentives are terrible!
Thats pizza party type appreciation.
This is just a dick move tbh.
The fuck type of advent calendar is that? And your boss is a pos for giving 1 chocolate advent calendar to your whole workplace.
Wow what a bunch of cunts
The prize was learning more about the chocolate industry.
The real chocolate was the friends we made along the way.
You had a day assigned to get.....a single fun sized piece of chocolate? Lol fuck your company dude
This doesn’t even affect me and it still pisses me off lol, even more so after reading that “explanation”