Bell Cheeses at work

Flex Your Head said:

Vaguely appropriate?

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Badger said:

My company does a raffle at the Christmas party. We don't need to buy tickets, they just put all our names into a hat and draw them out. They have about 40 prizes to hand out, so it goes on forever - especially when half the people who get drawn out aren't at the party, when it comes down to deciding whether it's a good enough prize to keep back from them or should we just draw another person out. I'd say at least 80% of the people at the party come away with a raffle prize, which makes it all the more impressive my name hasn't been drawn for either of the two Christmas parties I've attended. I look forward to making it 3 out of 3 next month, although I might miss the draw completely as I have a ready made excuse to leave early.

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hans kraay fan club said:

At this time of the year, various suppliers drop in boxes of chocolates, etc. that's no biggie - a box of Quality Street sat in the middle of the office I can live with - I have headphones to battle to incessant rustling and chomping, after all.

However, one supplier, has today tossed in the hand grenade that is an M&S luxury hamper.

So. There's four of us here, and two others that ought to be considered. Contents of said hamper:

Christmas cake
Bottle of Prosecco
Tin of biscuits
Posh bag of jars of jam
Box of chocolates
Tin of posh cookies
Tin of 'special' tea bags

Noise machine takes bustly charge of the situation. "Who wants to take what? What shall we send to the other two? What do you want? I'll have whatever is left"

"I don't mind, whatever. You all choose"

Crisps "BISCUITS" (obviously)

Crisps "Ooh, or chocolates"

Noise "what about James. Wouldn't he like the chocolates?"

I like James. "Leave the Prosecco on James' desk. His mrs will want that"

Crisps "I'm not sure if I want that, though"

Noise "You wanted the biscuits"

Crisps "oooh"

Both "what do you want?"

"Seriously, whatever. I don't care" (a bit too snappily)

Both sit down sulking, pretending to do work.

10 minutes later, I wander over "I'll take the Christmas cake"

Noise "Oh great. I'm left with the tea bags, am I? thanks very much..."



Happy ****ing Christmas.

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Badger said:

So, the Christmas party came and went on Friday afternoon. When I said there were 40 prizes in the raffle draw I was being very conservative. This year they drew out 87 (EIGHTY SEVEN) prizes. That's basically a prize for every person, so I did actually win this time (a company branded jacket, yay!) It was a ridiculous spectacle though. They had 2 pots; one with all the names in and one with all the prizes in. So, a name is drawn out of pot A and the person has to come up and draw their prize out from pot B. This had to happen 87 times, in a room which was quite noisy and very difficult to hear the names being shouted out. I'm not sure how long it went on for, I was one of the first names drawn out, so I wandered off and they were still going 30 minutes later.

The rest of the party was pretty good. It was a free bar and we could order hot dogs, nachos, chips etc. Then we spent a few hours playing retro games and generally having a laugh. They just need to ditch this raffle farce next year.

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

Should have put all the names in an empty crisp packet and drawn a person to win the lot

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

Should have put all the names in an empty crisp packet and drawn a person to win the lot

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Badger said:

Just got my raffle "prize" delivered by one of the HR ladies. The company branded jacket I won is a cheap fleece thing from a batch they made 2 years ago with our old logo on it. It's also size XXL (I usually wear Small). I said there's no point me having it and I'm happy to give it back and not take a prize. That's not an option because apparently I can just find someone in the office who does want it. I guess I'm going to have to ask some of the chubsters if they want to trade raffle prizes.

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Badger said:

Just got my raffle "prize" delivered by one of the HR ladies. The company branded jacket I won is a cheap fleece thing from a batch they made 2 years ago with our old logo on it. It's also size XXL (I usually wear Small). I said there's no point me having it and I'm happy to give it back and not take a prize. That's not an option because apparently I can just find someone in the office who does want it. I guess I'm going to have to ask some of the chubsters if they want to trade raffle prizes.

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hans kraay fan club said:

At this time of the year, various suppliers drop in boxes of chocolates, etc. that's no biggie - a box of Quality Street sat in the middle of the office I can live with - I have headphones to battle to incessant rustling and chomping, after all.

However, one supplier, has today tossed in the hand grenade that is an M&S luxury hamper.

So. There's four of us here, and two others that ought to be considered. Contents of said hamper:

Christmas cake
Bottle of Prosecco
Tin of biscuits
Posh bag of jars of jam
Box of chocolates
Tin of posh cookies
Tin of 'special' tea bags

Noise machine takes bustly charge of the situation. "Who wants to take what? What shall we send to the other two? What do you want? I'll have whatever is left"

"I don't mind, whatever. You all choose"

Crisps "BISCUITS" (obviously)

Crisps "Ooh, or chocolates"

Noise "what about James. Wouldn't he like the chocolates?"

I like James. "Leave the Prosecco on James' desk. His mrs will want that"

Crisps "I'm not sure if I want that, though"

Noise "You wanted the biscuits"

Crisps "oooh"

Both "what do you want?"

"Seriously, whatever. I don't care" (a bit too snappily)

Both sit down sulking, pretending to do work.

10 minutes later, I wander over "I'll take the Christmas cake"

Noise "Oh great. I'm left with the tea bags, am I? thanks very much..."



Happy ****ing Christmas.

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hans kraay fan club said:

Noise machine takes bustly charge of the situation.

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hans kraay fan club said:

At this time of the year, various suppliers drop in boxes of chocolates, etc. that's no biggie - a box of Quality Street sat in the middle of the office I can live with - I have headphones to battle to incessant rustling and chomping, after all.

However, one supplier, has today tossed in the hand grenade that is an M&S luxury hamper.

So. There's four of us here, and two others that ought to be considered. Contents of said hamper:

Christmas cake
Bottle of Prosecco
Tin of biscuits
Posh bag of jars of jam
Box of chocolates
Tin of posh cookies
Tin of 'special' tea bags

Noise machine takes bustly charge of the situation. "Who wants to take what? What shall we send to the other two? What do you want? I'll have whatever is left"

"I don't mind, whatever. You all choose"

Crisps "BISCUITS" (obviously)

Crisps "Ooh, or chocolates"

Noise "what about James. Wouldn't he like the chocolates?"

I like James. "Leave the Prosecco on James' desk. His mrs will want that"

Crisps "I'm not sure if I want that, though"

Noise "You wanted the biscuits"

Crisps "oooh"

Both "what do you want?"

"Seriously, whatever. I don't care" (a bit too snappily)

Both sit down sulking, pretending to do work.

10 minutes later, I wander over "I'll take the Christmas cake"

Noise "Oh great. I'm left with the tea bags, am I? thanks very much..."



Happy ****ing Christmas.

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pearl said:

Not sure this is Bell Cheese, but there seems to be a new trend here of eating breakfast at work (all at the same time), some opt for the healthy option bowl of fruit/yoghurt, cereal, porridge, but I spotted one colleague tucking into a particularly weird looking omelette thing. I questioned what their breakfast was all about and they said they needed to improve their diet (really? )
It will be a short lived trend though, once the big boss pays an unexpected visit and goes gorilla shit mental ..... food embargo in the NY

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pearl said:

Not sure this is Bell Cheese, but there seems to be a new trend here of eating breakfast at work (all at the same time), some opt for the healthy option bowl of fruit/yoghurt, cereal, porridge, but I spotted one colleague tucking into a particularly weird looking omelette thing. I questioned what their breakfast was all about and they said they needed to improve their diet (really? )
It will be a short lived trend though, once the big boss pays an unexpected visit and goes gorilla shit mental ..... food embargo in the NY

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timbha said:

always a pet hate of mine. First 30 mins of working day spent preparing, eating and then washing up. Eat you breakfast at home or on the way to work....or get in early FFS

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pearl said:

Not sure this is Bell Cheese, but there seems to be a new trend here of eating breakfast at work (all at the same time), some opt for the healthy option bowl of fruit/yoghurt, cereal, porridge, but I spotted one colleague tucking into a particularly weird looking omelette thing. I questioned what their breakfast was all about and they said they needed to improve their diet (really? )
It will be a short lived trend though, once the big boss pays an unexpected visit and goes gorilla shit mental ..... food embargo in the NY

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Easy 10 said:

How very DARE you.

My opening half-hour of tea / marmite crumpet / news and NSC perusal is the BEDROCK to the start of my working day. How else am I supposed to be so erudite and well informed for you all throughout the remainder of the day ? I like to ease myself into the morning, like a probing foot into a warm moccasin slipper.

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