Christmas Party

Canyon86

Hi lads/ladies


Is it frowned upon not to turn up at the xmas party?


does it hamper career opportunities etc etc in yer experience


:cool::cool::cool:

NIMAN

You'll just be considered a sour git, but probably better than turning up and making a complete tit of yourself, which will probably hamper your career!

braddun

free drink,free sex with co workers

why would you not show up

Canyon86

braddun wrote: »

free drink,free sex with co workers

why would you not show up

if only!!

wardy2

get drunk and tell your boss what you really think of him ,
that should get you promoted early

Ruu

Go through each and every one of your co workers and tell them what you think of them, always great craic. Then act like nothing happened the next work day.

pragmatic1

Don't think it should matter either way unless your boss/colleagues are really petty.

The Wild Bunch

Bad enough having to work with these every day without also getting pissed up with them too

The One Doctor

I have never turned up at an Xmas party and never will, they're not worth the hassle. I'm paid to cooperate with my colleagues, not socialise with them.

braddun

braddun wrote: »

free drink,free sex with co workers

why would you not show up

I have mine tonight

:eek:

henryporter

wardy2 wrote: »

get drunk and tell your boss what you really think of him ,
that should get you promoted early

Did that - doesn't work funnily enough.

reetz

The one night where evey married woman is looking for their hole. They never bring the husband. Christmas party, everything goes

jamesbere

reetz wrote: »

The one night where evey married woman is looking for their hole. They never bring the husband. Christmas party, everything goes

You make it sound like a massive gangbang.

Rachiee

I think it would be frowned upon. Everyone has someplace else to be but it is a team building exercise all be it outside of work hours. If you don't go it looks like you've no interest in your company development and no interest in your colleagues. It wouldn't be a major black mark but it doesn't look good.

TwoShedsJackson

Rachiee wrote: »

I think it would be frowned upon. Everyone has someplace else to be but it is a team building exercise all be it outside of work hours. If you don't go it looks like you've no interest in your company development and no interest in your colleagues. It wouldn't be a major black mark but it doesn't look good.

'Going forward' 'low hanging fruit' 'blue sky thinking' - most employees don't give two shíts about the company development, and have no interest in their fellow drones.

pragmatic1

Rachiee wrote: »

I think it would be frowned upon. Everyone has someplace else to be but it is a team building exercise all be it outside of work hours. If you don't go it looks like you've no interest in your company development and no interest in your colleagues. It wouldn't be a major black mark but it doesn't look good.

That's imported corporate bullshyte.

SeaFields

I had one of our Christmas parties last night. My head hurts now.

The J Stands for Jay

I'm not going to mine tonight.

whiskeyman

Where I work, an email usually goes around on the morning of the Christmas party reminding everyone that the Christmas party is technically work time, and as such you must respect Company policy and all incidents may face disciplinary action.
Oh, and happy Christmas...

Buona Fortuna

henryporter wrote: »

Did that - doesn't work funnily enough.

You too

wilhelm roentgen

Our company Christmas 'punch up' is on the 19th in Cork, wouldn't miss it for the world.

whiskeyman

this thread needs more life.... does anyone have any good stories from past Christmas work parties?
Any mad scandal? Punch ups?

One of mine years ago, one of the women in the company got savagely drunk, and started shouting that she was having an affair with one of the contractors working there, and told him to leave his wife in front of everyone.
Morto for them both...someone had to bail her into a taxi pretty quickly.
She was very quiet the next week, as was he!

Badger2009

jamesbere wrote: »

You make it sound like a massive gangbang.

Is yours not? Ours always end up like that. I just thought that's how it works

tomwaterford

Rachiee wrote: »

I think it would be frowned upon. Everyone has someplace else to be but it is a team building exercise all be it outside of work hours. If you don't go it looks like you've no interest in your company development and no interest in your colleagues. It wouldn't be a major black mark but it doesn't look good.

What if you have nothing in common withyour work colleagues??

Why bother waste your free time listening.to them....im fairly sure they don't want to be listening to me on there free time aswell

UCDVet

It's pretty depressing for me to acknowledge that there exists jobs in this world, that would be impacted by someone's showing up to a Christmas party or not.

Sadly, I know it's true.

I used to work at a company that had generic business people and generic financial people. The financial people, everything they did was objective. They made money or they lost money. They were good at their job, or they weren't. There wasn't any need for office politics, beyond normal social niceties.

The generic business people....well, they didn't really have any measurable output. Nobody directly cared how many business meetings they scheduled or how many powerpoints they made. Their contributions were so fuzzily defined that nobody really knew who was a good business person or not. Did Bob do a good job this year, or was he just given a good team? Who knows. But hey, he sure is a lot of fun....remember the Christmas party? What a hooot! Let's promote Bob.

I remember one particularly useless business guy I worked with. Same deal, he had a job with loosely defined measures of success, so he focused on the appearance of success instead of his job. He was a sharp dresser, always in at 7:59am (surfing YouTube usually, but he was in a suit, at his desk early). He wouldn't use the company provided stationary - nope, he'd buy his one and carry it around in a leather portfolio. He had a fancy pen too - 'Executive style'. I'm pretty sure he made a calculated effort to chat up one coworker each day, ya know, to make sure everyone thought he was a nice guy. He attended each and every company gathering, and treated each one as his time to impress the higher ups.

The guy was absolutely horrible at his job though. He coasted for YEARS - until the company went bankrupt.

UCDVet

tomwaterford wrote: »

What if you have nothing in common withyour work colleagues??

Why bother waste your free time listening.to them....im fairly sure they don't want to be listening to me on there free time aswell

The company wants you to form an emotional attachment to your co-workers so that you are less likely to leave the company. Hiring/training staff is expensive; companies do that maths and they know it is more cost effective to have silly things like semi-required 'team building' events to increase employee retention than it is to create a more enjoyable/desirable work environment/increase wages.

AnonoBoy

braddun wrote: »

free drink,free sex with co workers

Do you normally pay for sex with your co-workers?

I thought brothel workers would get at least an employee discount?

Glebee

reetz wrote: »

The one night where evey married woman is looking for their hole. They never bring the husband. Christmas party, everything goes

My wife's Christmas party is tonight😞

Whosthis

Glebee wrote: »

My wife's Christmas party is tonight😞

Did she invite you?

Glebee

Whosthis wrote: »

Did she invite you?

No. That's bad isn't it.

AnonoBoy

Glebee wrote: »

No. That's bad isn't it.

Why would you invite your wife or husband to your work business party?

They'd be bored sh*tless having to talk to all your moronic co-workers.

Whosthis

Glebee wrote: »

No. That's bad isn't it.

You'd best be hoping it's an all female office.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Whosthis wrote: »

You'd best be hoping it's an all female office.

Giggidty.

Aidric

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Bad enough having to work with these every day without also getting pissed up with them too

Surprised to see so many people hating their colleagues. Your work day must be trying.

Social company events are a great way of developing friendships with people from other departments who you mightn't spend much time with in a professional capacity, especially in a big company. Add in some drinks and people are generally less uptight and up for having a laugh.

Coopaloop

We used to head off abroad every year for our Christmas party, Amsterdam was pretty wild from what I can remember, I know there was a sex show, a pretty dicey walk through the red light district and one of the managers copping just before we walked into the airport that he still had two joints in his pocket from the night before.
After Madrid I ended up on crutches for 6 weeks ...as you do!!!!
Berlin was fun too, we stopped going abroad after that when the recession as the boss men didn't think it would look good to other companies if we were swanning off abroad
Now we're stuck in good old Dublin with all the hens and stags...fun times.

MadsL

I remember complaining that the drink allowance at a company Xmas party was ridiculous. I think we got three drink vouchers. I complained about it to several people before someone clued me in that the previous year someone had enjoyed the unlimited open bar and then got themselves run over on the way home and died.

If your drink intake is limited well that is probably because that story has every HR department terrified of being sued.

weldoninhio

Mines on tonight. I'm here watching Gogglebox. I get paid to be in the same room as my colleagues 9-5ish during the year.

That's where my interaction with work begins and ends.

Fat Christy

I don't get all the hate for work Christmas parties, I usually enjoy mine and get along with most of my co-workers. We all have our bad days yeah but I still enjoy socialising with them.

Not going to mine because I don't wanna get hammered in front of my colleagues. I'm trying to take a more responsible attitude to alcohol which means no bingey nights out for the foreseeable future....

/typed with glass of wine in other hand

ArnoldJRimmer

I usually try and show for these things, they can be good fun and a chance to get to know some of my colleagues better. The trick is to know when to leave. I don't want to be the drunk person, or even worse, stuck talking to the drunk person while they bore the a*se off me moaning about work.

I did see a pretty hilarious meltdown at last years party though. One particularly nasty individual I worked with turned into Henry Sellers ('I MADE THE BBC!'). He had a crazy, very loud, rant about how he tried to single handedly revolutionise the company but he kept getting silenced by management. He followed it up by trying it on with various horrified female colleagues, then went outside and passed out on a wall. One of the lads had to take him home.

wilhelm roentgen

wilhelm roentgen wrote: »

Our company Christmas 'punch up' is on the 19th in Cork, wouldn't miss it for the world.

It didn't disappoint, just out of A & E now.

The_Valeyard

Im still recovering from mine



great night though

Nodin

Canyon86 wrote: »

Hi lads/ladies


Is it frowned upon not to turn up at the xmas party?


does it hamper career opportunities etc etc in yer experience


:cool::cool::cool:

It was frowned on not to show up at my place. Still never went, as the risk of clocking a few when I had drink on board was too high.

Wabbit Ears

Christmas party's are Effin great, free food, normally a good bit of free drink, guaranteed a hall pass from the wife and kids. The people I work with are sound and a great laugh. How often can you get fed and completely pissed, dance like a spachild, insult everybody you work with and sleep it off in a hotel?

LoganRice

say you have other important affairs to attend to like posting on boards.ie

nlgbbbblth

Hope you guys felt the solidarity vibe.
:rolleyes:
https://twitter.com/Sharrow_ie/status/545645810474811392

braddun

send your girlfriend instead

somefeen

The people I work with are the only people I socialise with anyway.