Dreading the Xmas office party?

dd972

Good luck with your dilemma bud !


Un-em-ployed !! Ha Ha :pac:

Areyouwell

Specialun wrote: »

Not going to bother with mine

The biatches be all over me and they would jst look desperate...doing them afavour

First time I ever heard of a Christmas party down in the dog kennels.

branie2

I've been to an office Christmas meal

crybaby

I have always dreaded those work type of events but found they can be endured once alcohol is available

Luckily children are a great excuse to get out of almost anything in life

AndonHandon

swimming in a sea wrote: »

And you get free food in Google...

The same Google that doesn't pay tax to the Irish state and whose employees are the single biggest factor in driving up rents in Dublin City?

liz lemoncello

Remmy wrote: »

I have one coming up soon. I don't drink anymore except for the odd glass of wine with meals. I'm going to have to figure out how to look like I have a drink in my hand the whole night without actually drinking.

Could you not drink a non-alcoholic drink?

A friend posted pics on facebook from her workplace holiday party; it took place last weekend. :eek:

I used to work at a big company that had big Christmas parties, lost of free booze and decent food, everyone dressed up. There was always stuff going on. Once I turned the wrong corner on the way back from the ladies room and found my supervisor in an embrace with her supervisor. They left their spouses and married.

Nagin

I'm going to go to mine and get absolutely mouldy, as I do at every party.

B.A._Baracus

Work Christmas parties are fakery (if thats a word)
Like let's all be honest here... You are in a venue with people who aren't your friends. In fact, all too often these are the people who would step over you, not to mention said job would run you down the road if business takes a dip. It's just all so fake.

Odyssey 2005

Nagin wrote: »

I'm going to go to mine and get absolutely mouldy, as I do at every party.

By name and nature so. Carry on.....

Teyla Emmagan

Ours is a drinks and nibbles thing that starts in the afternoon. So no being stuck at a table all night with someone awful. Instead I will be making career compromising moves by trying to drop a tipsy hand on one of my colleagues at about 6pm. Looking forward to it!

Pwindedd

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Work Christmas parties are fakery (if thats a word)
Like let's all be honest here... You are in a venue with people who aren't your friends. In fact, all too often these are the people who would step over you, not to mention said job would run you down the road if business takes a dip. It's just all so fake.

Ahh that's an awful sad attitude to have. Not all companies are like that. I know to my company i'm just number. But i have a great laugh with the people I work with, we regularly socialise together, train together, do charity events etc.

We have our works Christmas party in a couple of weeks and it's created a bit of a buzz in the office. Everyone's chatting about what they're wearing (there's a kind of a theme)

I think you can still participate and "throw yourself" into work things without consuming any koolaid. We all know we could be let go tomorrow. No reason to be a bah humbug though.

I'm really surprised at the amount of people that are horrified at being invited to a dinner with a few free drinks thrown in if you're lucky - tis a free feed at worst.

Quin_Dub

Having read through the thread it's clear that the nature (and importance) of the Christmas party varies from company to company.

In my company (a very large global multi-national) there is no single "Christmas Party" as the company it too big to have a single event.
So , the company put on a Christmas lunch in the cafeteria - Decorate the place , bring in some live music etc. and everyone has a Christmas lunch.

Beyond that , it's up to the individual teams/departments to arrange something else if they wish. There really isn't any other meaning to anything other than going out for a drink with a few friends , so you either go or you don't it's not important in the grand scheme of things.

However I can totally see the pressure to attend that would exist in a smaller organisation that was having a Christmas event outside of the office.

B.A._Baracus

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Work Christmas parties are fakery (if thats a word)
Like let's all be honest here... You are in a venue with people who aren't your friends.

No you are in a venue with people you aren't friends with. I count some of my work colleagues among my best friends.

This thread is quite revealing though in that a lot of people appear to not want to make friends or socialise with the people they work with which I find strange to say the least.

crybaby wrote: »

Luckily children are a great excuse to get out of almost anything in life

You are doing it wrong, the work party should be an excuse to get out for a night out away from the kids not the other way around.