Well, the Bigfoot wanted to go to work at the North Pole factory rather than for Irving with low wages and a slave driving workplace, but the head faerie, Sandy Claws (that's his true native peoples name which he was give because of his affinity for otters who frolicked on the banks of the sandy streams in the spawning grounds of the Miramichi drainage... which were made sandy by the runoff from the lumbering), and his tribe had built the factory and all the housing before the National Building Code of Canada was enforced in Cold Weather Construction Regions, so Bigfoot just didn't fit in.

Besides, there ain't a lot of fruit and berries up in the far north and, since the Bigfoot are BIG omnivores, and the only transportion up there is, like, just ten tiny reindeer, well, whddya think... Sandy ain't gonna hire them eh? Geeze oh eh?