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The work christmas party



Goring Gull

New member
Jul 5, 2003
6,725
Huddersfield
Do you love or hate these annual gatherings?

I used to think they were great plenty of free booze etc however these days now being in Management I view them more as minefield and an accident waiting to happen as i fully expect to have HR on my case around the behaviour of one of my team or the like. My usual response, well if the company will ply them with free booze in an environment when alot of people don't really like each other that much what do you expect?
 


Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,865
Guiseley
I'd rather be out with my mates TBH although my current colleagues are alright.

Can't say I've ever been to one where anything particularly interesting has happened though, are your lot a bit mad?
 


TheJasperCo

Well-known member
Jan 20, 2012
4,590
Exeter
It's my first one next Friday since I entered the scary world of work earlier this year. Have to say I'm looking forward to it, despite all the horror stories I so often read about on forums such as this and Digital Spy :ohmy: Gotta say I'm not entirely sure what to expect, wondering whether I should fork out for some cologne for the first time in my life or whether to just go out smelling of my usual Lynx deodorant.
 


vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,867
My old company paid for a decent nosh up at a hotel with overnight stay and free booze and paid for our partners as well. This year it's just staff, no overnight stay, no partners. so it's one pint of piss then a drive home after the god awful disco. Not fun.
 


vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,867
double post
 






nwgull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
13,653
Manchester
It's my first one next Friday since I entered the scary world of work earlier this year. Have to say I'm looking forward to it, despite all the horror stories I so often read about on forums such as this and Digital Spy :ohmy: Gotta say I'm not entirely sure what to expect, wondering whether I should fork out for some cologne for the first time in my life or whether to just go out smelling of my usual Lynx deodorant.

If this really is your first office Xmas party then I'd advise extreme caution. They can be lots of fun but do not drop your guard. I'd go so far as to advise you to alternate soft and alcoholic drinks for the first 2-3 hours just to ensure that most of your more professionally established colleagues are more drunk than you.

You'll probably also find that there are birds that you work with who've been waiting all year for an excuse to socialise with you and get to know you outside of the office environment. You don't want to let yourself down with a bird that you may have similar feelings for; likewise, you don't want the alcohol to cloud your judgement too much that you end up waking up the following day with fat Tracy from accounts.
 


pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
30,180
West, West, West Sussex
Hate them. Fortunately as I work in North London, which is where the "do" is normally held, I always have the perfect excuse not to go.
 




vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,867
If this really is your first office Xmas party then I'd advise extreme caution. They can be lots of fun but do not drop your guard. I'd go so far as to advise you to alternate soft and alcoholic drinks for the first 2-3 hours just to ensure that most of your more professionally established colleagues are more drunk than you.

You'll probably also find that there are birds that you work with who've been waiting all year for an excuse to socialise with you and get to know you outside of the office environment. You don't want to let yourself down with a bird that you may have similar feelings for; likewise, you don't want the alcohol to cloud your judgement too much that you end up waking up the following day with fat Tracy from accounts.

Boring fart. Ignore him, get ratted and rut.
 




Jul 7, 2003
8,575
Usually end up eating a poor quality, overpriced meal in a soulless hotel with a crap disco or other theme surrounded by a large number of people you can barely stand being in the same room as. Anything that says it is a 'themed evening' is to be avoided.

Some examples over the years. The Donkey Cart, Petersfield - a long coach journey for a supposed medieval Christmas banquet that was just a poor turkey dinner without cutlery and with a glass of mead. Metropole Brighton - turned up at 7pm to find the other groups in the large room had already not only camped out in the bar but left the toilets awash with puke on our arrival. Staff couldn't be arsed to clean up so it just turned into a sea of vomit and urine. Sussex Pad - meal was bog standard turkey dinner but they managed to server the main course over about half an hour. The sprouts turned up and then we waited, eventually some carrots also arrived. Every component of the meal was dished up long after the previous bit had gone cold.

I have a small group of former colleagues and get together with them every Christmas for something we want to do and have control over. Better than any organised Christmas party I have ever been to.
 



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