A frightening or undesirable state of mind
people find themselves in prior to
Christmas—for instance, they might unfairly be
made redundant so that their companies could save on salaries and year-end bonuses.
Sanitation engineers at
Twitter's headquarters in San
Francisco were handed a cryptmas letter informing them that they were fired
sans retrenchment benefits, because robots would be taking over their wallet-unfriendly jobs.