Office Christmas Parties. Do you go?

Archeron

Tis that time of year again where we'll all be invited to go and get merry with the bunches of respective idiots we work with, have a few/shedload of beers, a meal you dont really like, and then perhaps enjoy the wonder of making an arse of yourself in a nighclub while dancing like you're being electrocuted and drinking sickening sh*te like Tia Maria and Baileys.

Seeing as mine is in some scabby hotel near where I work, (with no trasnport options available, so would have to pay to stay overnight) costs €75 a head, and has no such thing as free drink, I've decided to be anti social and not go. Probably just as well anyway, as I normally just drink myself into oblivion in order to be able to succesfully make up inane conversations to have with the people beside me, so at least my liver will be pleased at this decision.

In fairness, I'm a 31 year old single bloke and 90% of my colleagues are frumpy middle aged married harpies, so I dont have too much in common with them. God knows I hear enough about recipes and noodles and how stupid men are through the day without getting it in my free time too. Were I working with a bunch of people my own age and some hot sexy ladies, I'd be there in a flash. Oh how I miss the days of working in a young sales team with many booootiful ladies and sound people that you could actually have a genuine conversation with while hiding sprouts everywhere.

So are you attending your office Crimbo party this year?

Awww , mine is in a hotel down the country all paid for !!

LadyMayBelle

Nope and never do.

KingOfFairview

Ours is drink shere in the office, I'm the only one who isnt middle aged, female, in his 40s or gay. so Its going to be a barrell of laughs


theyre all pretty sound but I have little in common with them

missmatty

Don't get a penny towards ours :mad:

It's on this Friday, should be a laugh though.

prendy

ours is free bar so im going!:)

Archeron

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Ours is drink shere in the office, I'm the only one who isnt middle aged, female, in his 40s or gay. so Its going to be a barrell of laughs

Best lock up the photocopier, for loads of reasons.

_blank_

Haven't decided if I'll go to mine or not.

But, I'll say one thing.

I hate people who spell that word with a H in it.

Crimbo.

H.O.T.A.S.

Being roped into it alright. Had some great ones in my old work place but moved job to a lot smaller company so there's only a few of us and I'm the youngest one. Shold be a barrel of laughs :rolleyes:

hottstuff

Yes i will be.
But only for the free drink and to see those 30-40 yr old workers lose their inhibitions in style!!!:D

Archeron

DesF wrote: »

I hate people who spell that word with a H in it.

Crimbo.

fixed. (at first I thought you meant the word photocopier).

Lux23

We are a small office so we just go to a really top restaurant for a few hours and normally head our separate ways at about 6pm. Its great because I get a free meal and booze but I don't have to hang around all night talking to 50 year old men who I have nothing in common with. I never went to them in any other job though, I just did my own thing with the people I am friendly with.

*Lees*

Archeron wrote: »

So are you attending your office Crimbo party this year?

Haven't been told if we are having a christmas get together yet!! It's just myself and my two bosses working here though and I can't stand the b*****ds!! So I have a big list of excuses incase they mention a night out!!!:rolleyes:

_blank_

Archeron wrote: »

fixed. (at first I thought you meant the word photocopier).

xzanti

Wine and finger food in the office.. I have no choice but to attend seeing as I'm the poor fecker who has to organise it :rolleyes: Oh the perks of the job :rolleyes:

moco

Our team party is on this Friday and I'm going and looking forward to it! We get the half day off work starting from lunch time. Most of the people in my team are oldish so I'll have to make my own fun.

KingOfFairview

*Lees* wrote: »

Haven't been told if we are having a christmas get together yet!! It's just myself and my two bosses working here though and I can't stand the b*****ds!! So I have a big list of excuses incase they mention a night out!!!:rolleyes:

Two words: "I've an awful dose of AIDS"

Cathmandooo

I go, I'm in a small office so we just go to a nice restaurant for some lunch with wine!

Although last year was the first year we went to the pub, arrived in pub at 3pm left at 1am, oops!

Car Mad

For our office party wer going to supermax
Unless there lieing

arybvtcw0eolkf

Nope, I have my Judo club party, my MMA gym (mix martial arts @ www.sbgnorthside.com), mates drinks .. blahdy, blah blah. All normal people so the last thing I want to do is socialise with a bunch of soldiers.

monkeyfudge

This saturday for my one... It's in a nice hotel... but we've been using the same one for years now... so I'm a bit sick of it...

There are a lot of people in work who I get on quite well with, so it should still be fun.

Suzywuzy

Yeah, I've mine on this Thursday in Dublin. Not staying for long though as I'm in work the next day and the big one is on the following week anyway in another location !!!

seamus

Ah ours is fine. Most of the people in my department are my age +- 5 years. Generally a mediocre meal with as much wine as we can drink, and then a free bar that works out at around €50 a head.
You need to pick your seat for dinner though. There's usually a male/female split so if you end up with the girls you have to hear about holidays and babies and weddings for the whole meal and if you sit with the guys, particularly the younger ones, it's jokes about football and women. Ironically enough, sitting with management is usually the best craic.

The free bar can get messy. You need to find a good group to chat in or you just end up spending too much time at the bar being "bought" shots.

connundrum

Ah yeah sure why not. Our staff do's are generally great, free food and drink, youngish staff so good craic all round.

Krieg

Always try to avoid but get dragged along anyway

humanji

I'm looking forward to mine. I work for a big company that owns the hotel that we're having the do at. Last year it was a 5 course meal and free drink til 6am! There were also discounted rooms if we wanted to stay, no cover charge for it and spot prizes, the best of which was a 40inch LCD tv. Oh, and apart from a handful of the women, the rest are all stunning. I love my job (well, I love my Christmas do).

ScumLord

I never miss ours, free booze. When ever we've had it in hotels I just sleep on those couches in the corridors. The staff just assume I'm too drunk to make it up to my room. The best is filling up the old ones with vodkas and red bull and watching them make an absolute tit out of themselves.

Heisenberg.

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Dave!

Yeah I go, usually a good laugh even if there's only a handful your own age...

Dont make the mistake a mate of mine made at one of the Christmas parties: go the pub all day before-hand, and then continue drinking and getting coked out of it during the party.

He was a mess......

cookie*

Archeron wrote: »

Tis that time of year again where we'll all be invited to go and get merry with the bunches of respective idiots we work with, have a few/shedload of beers, a meal you dont really like, and then perhaps enjoy the wonder of making an arse of yourself in a nighclub while dancing like you're being electrocuted and drinking sickening sh*te like Tia Maria and Baileys.

Seeing as mine is in some scabby hotel near where I work, (with no trasnport options available, so would have to pay to stay overnight) costs €75 a head, and has no such thing as free drink, I've decided to be anti social and not go. Probably just as well anyway, as I normally just drink myself into oblivion in order to be able to succesfully make up inane conversations to have with the people beside me, so at least my liver will be pleased at this decision.

In fairness, I'm a 31 year old single bloke and 90% of my colleagues are frumpy middle aged married harpies, so I dont have too much in common with them. God knows I hear enough about recipes and noodles and how stupid men are through the day without getting it in my free time too. Were I working with a bunch of people my own age and some hot sexy ladies, I'd be there in a flash. Oh how I miss the days of working in a young sales team with many booootiful ladies and sound people that you could actually have a genuine conversation with while hiding sprouts everywhere.

So are you attending your office Crimbo party this year?

i think im a female version of you!! all the people here are bloody married and thats all they seem to talk about. they are nice enough but there are very subtle hints about you if you are single when the conversation turns to the xmas party - ive been asked about 1000's times if i am bringing some one --. So a load of drink seems like a good option - some of ours will be free so i suppose i must go and have my share!!!!!:)

watna

My company are taking us all (plus partners) to Latvia for a weekend in February for our Christmas party. They pay for flights, axxomodation and a big meal and drink on the sat night! Hell yeah I'm going!

halfinch

watna wrote: »

My company are taking us all (plus partners) to Latvia for a weekend in February for our Christmas party. They pay for flights, axxomodation and a big meal and drink on the sat night! Hell yeah I'm going!

God that sounds great

Ours is the 21st December so looking forward to it....oh the free booze

connundrum

Any mad Christmas party stories?

I missed my first flight back from London after last year's Crimbo do. We'd a free bar and the Guinness was pants so I started on the JD and Red. I woke up in my hotel room with more pounds than I left the hotel room with in the first place

Then every tube was late, as was the Stanstead express.

I don't know if I'll count that as a good Crimbo do.

RxQueen

watna wrote: »

My company are taking us all (plus partners) to Latvia for a weekend in February for our Christmas party. They pay for flights, axxomodation and a big meal and drink on the sat night! Hell yeah I'm going!

ah i want to work there!! sounds like a right job:D

our head office gave us 800 to go and have our crimbo party, so lots of drink, screw the meal thats just for light weights!

JCDUB

DaveMcG wrote: »

Yeah I go, usually a good laugh even if there's only a handful your own age...

Dont make the mistake a mate of mine made at one of the Christmas parties: go the pub all day before-hand, and then continue drinking and getting coked out of it during the party.

He was a mess......

Is that not the norm for attending your office crimbo party??
If it's not then I've been doing something wrong for years....

Think I'll be in Thailand for mine this year, oh dear...

Dinxminx

I'm going! Can't wait! Twill be my first office party ever!

Alter-Ego

Said i'd go, but i'm regretting it now. Everybody worth talking to isin't going so it'll be me, management and lots of lithuanians that barely speak english.

seamus

Dinxminx wrote: »

I'm going! Can't wait! Twill be my first office party ever!

Be careful.

Getting drunk is OK, even if you're quite sloppy. Just don't be the one of the following people and it'll be fine;

1. The person who's so drunk they keep falling down. Falling asleep is OK - provided that it's after 2am and you're sitting on a couch.
2. The person who tells anyone (or everyone) what they think of anyone (or everyone) else in the office. Tell people you think they're great. But don't tell them what you actually think.
3. The person who spends the whole night flirting with every vaguely attractive member of the opposite sex and/or scores one who's otherwise attached (or you're otherwise attached yourself).

Mossy Monk

Haven't been for the last three years. On medication so cannot drink so that is another year I am not going.

Earthhorse

Does phoning in a bomb threat count as going?

Archeron

Earthhorse wrote: »

Does phoning in a bomb threat count as going?

Thats called Going+

MIN2511

2 parties for us, first one was a blast! Cheap drinks, yet i wasn't drunk!!
Next one is next week, happy days... dinner and drinks two nights in a row, i can't complain:D
I never say no to free booze

Heisenberg.

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cookie*

thats good advice seamus!! are you speaking from experience???:)

Earthhorse

Archeron wrote: »

Thats called Going+

Cool. Shoud be a blast anyway.

watna

The Scientist wrote: »

Riga...?
Make sure you check out SkyBar on top of Hotel Reval.
Unreal views of the city... whilst drinking large underpriced mixed drinks with little tiny umbrellas in them.

Thanks, many drinks will be had so I'll tell everyone to check this place out.

John Mason

nah...........i have to see the feckers 48 weeks a year, i definately dont want to be spending my free time with them

snickerpuss

I work in a really big organisation and i'm not full time so I never get invited. It's hard for 1,300+ people to have a party together. I won't be there. (Mainly cos I'm not meant to be)

Malteaser!

I usually go to mine.

It won't be till Januray though but Free bar and all that buzz plus I get on really well with most of the people I work with so it should be great fun!!

Terry

I've never worked in an office, so the answer would be no.

This caught my attention though:

Archeron wrote:

Tis that time of year again where we'll all be invited to go and get merry with the bunches of respective idiots we work with,

Now the chances are that your co-workers think the same of you.

If this is the case in all offices, then I never want to work in one.


I generally go for a few pints with some of my former co-workers.
None of us work together any more, but we all got on well and still keep in touch, which is nice.