Santa calls EAP helpline due to 'post-traumatic stress'

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Adam Saville
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Kringle Enterprises Ltd confirms CEO is taking leave until Christmas Eve due to 'unmanageable' workload

Santa Claus, known as Father Christmas in the UK, has resorted to phoning his company's employee assistance programme (EAP) after receiving more than six billion letters in the space of a week, COVER has learned. On Thursday, a source close to the Elf & Safety Executive, based in Lapland, said an unmanageable onslaught of Christmas mail caused Santa to suffer a sudden bout of stress and anxiety, commonly known in the festive sector as ‘post-traumatic stress'.   While Santa was unavailable for comment, his wife and head of HR, Mrs Claus, did confirm that he was happy for us to report o...

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