Are you going to your work Christmas party?

c68zapdsm5i1ru

I'll just be showing my face at mine for an hour or so. It's drinks and platters of gougons, sausages etc in a pub in town. Not really my cup of tea anymore, I'd prefer to go for a meal somewhere.

What is your workplace organising and will you be going?

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Small team dinner and drinks - yes
Department party - yes
company party - hell no

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Freelancer, so chances are I'd be the only one showing up anyway...

Magic ]=)

Each department in my company have a separate Christmas party.
Ours starts with dinner then drinks in local hotel.
I stopped going to company parties and events years ago.

Nettle Soup

They usually are a chore. Almost as bad as a wedding.
So much pretence.

dr.fuzzenstein

Medium sized IT company, party thrown by the owners, gorgeous food, drinks all night and a crazy bunch of co-workers, hell yeah!
I thought a German company can't possibly throw parties as wild as my Irish ex-employer, but boy was I wrong.
You just need to work for the right bunch of lunatics. Glad I don't work for some buttoned down, stuffed shirt crowd where the boss looks at you sideways if the shade of your slacks is ever so slightly different than your jacket and you may need a half a day every now and then to go to the bank.

Yes, we're pretty much obliged to, or else you're ostracised.

NIMAN

Yeah as usual.

But tbh I couldn't be bothered with them any more.

Probably getting too old.

OldMrBrennan83

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ancapailldorcha

Title amended and not if I can avoid it.

seamus

Ah yeah. These days I usually end up home by midnight because I'm too old and too tired to do the ridiculously drunk thing. They also tend to end up in a nightclub or something which is always jammed in December, and I'm done with that nonsense. Retiring to a lounge with seats and stuff where you can have a laugh is way better.

FTA69

I work in a fairly male dominated environment in a team of around ten people. Every few months we go for team drinks which is basically an evening long p*ss-up on a Friday and a general rampage around town. This year some eejit decided he wants to bring his missus and now they're all bringing their wives and my one is on about going as well. It has also been changed to a sit down meal. I couldn't be arsed going now.

Iseedeadpixels

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Freelancer, so chances are I'd be the only one showing up anyway...

Skingey fecker wont even throw a party and invite us boardsies :mad:

DaeryssaOne

Thankfully have something booked for the same night this year so have a valid excuse, I just didn't go last year. It's probably just down to me getting old but find they are absolutely no fun in my current company and they're really only good when you're young and part of a group of juniors who can have the craic together.

Hector Savage

Eh mine is the same night as the Star Wars premiere .... so I know where I'll be ... and it won't be at a poxy false Christmas party ...

OldMrBrennan83

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Teyla Emmagan

It's highly unlikely.

Ms Doubtfire1

ugh. i work with these people all year round. I'm REALLY NOT going to spend my free time with them.

rainbow kirby

Unlikely. It's black tie and I'll have already outgrown my maternity party dress by then and can't take advantage of the free wine to dull the pain of heels so not much interest.

mfceiling

I'll go with my work mate for a bit of grub and a few pints in dublin.

Was working for a fairly big crowd last year and we went to galway. Never again. Lads coked off their head and whatever else they were on. Boss lad hired strippers who had lads on the floor like dogs and whipping them with their belts. Lads openly cheating on their other halfs and telling stories about their infedelity.

I'd worked with these lads over the years and it was then that I realised I had nothing in common with them.

AnneFrank

not for me, woke up with enough dodgy colleagues the next day, makes work even worse!

Yes. I will go, not drink, drive home, and be in bed by midnight.

It worked out well last year.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Ms Doubtfire1 wrote: »

ugh. i work with these people all year round. I'm REALLY NOT going to spend my free time with them.

I have to say, attitudes like that annoy me. I don't spend that much time socialising with colleagues, but I wouldn't speak about them like that and I would make an effort to go to something that was obviously important to a colleague, eg someone's retirement drinks.

hairyslug

I'll be quietly sipping tequila under my stairs (that's where my wife let me put my office)

Mrs OBumble

Nah, my boss is too mean to host one.









(Am currently self employed )

Lollipops23

Just another perspective; part of my job is to organise our party. I do my best to do something that will keep as many happy as possible. A lot of time and effort goes into it, as, if I half assed it, my boss would be pissed off with me.

That's why it really pisses me off that half the team are annoyed that it's even taking place. Get over yourselves, it's a free feckin meal.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A man I worked with summed it up as "More to be endured than enjoyed".

razorblunt

I'm organising the Dept one so I have to be seen to be at that. The team one, is a late lunch with no return to the office so I'll be home by 7 from that.

The bigger one is usually what I avoid but a friend of mine is working in the hotel that's holding it and I've got a room on mates rates, so I'll drag myself along!

bee06

Probably not. Normally I would and had a good laugh last year but will be heavily pregnant at the time and really don't want to be the girl who goes into labour of the Christmas party!

AnneFrank

bee06 wrote: »

Probably not. Normally I would and had a good laugh last year but will be heavily pregnant at the time and really don't want to be the girl who goes into labour of the Christmas party!

Baby Jesus

The Backwards Man

If I wanted to chat ****e to co-workers I'd go to work drunk.

__..__

I always throw my head in for an hour or two and then head off to a better party.
The boss really hates it when you don't go to a party he had paid for.

_Kaiser_

Nope... it'll be in town somewhere which is a pain to get in and out of (plus I'm driving so wouldn't be drinking anyway), there's very few left in the place that I'd want to socialise with anyway, and to be honest I just couldn't be bothered with office Christmas parties anymore anyway

Pac1Man

hairyslug wrote: »

I'll be quietly sipping tequila under my stairs (that's where my wife let me put my office)

You're a wizard Hairy.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Nope... it'll be in town somewhere which is a pain to get in and out of (plus I'm driving so wouldn't be drinking anyway), there's very few left in the place that I'd want to socialise with anyway, and to be honest I just couldn't be bothered with office Christmas parties anymore anyway

Yes, I've got like that too. The only ones I really enjoyed were long boozy lunches in a restaurant close to work, followed by an optional trip to the pub or just simply heading home because you'd had enough.

Where I work now the party always takes place in the evening and usually involves having to go home first and then head into town. I'd far rather spend the Friday before Christmas having a couple of glasses of wine at home or meeting a couple of friends locally somewhere. I just have no interest in sitting in a rammed city centre pub for hours, shouting to be heard over the crowds and loud music, and then waiting hours to get a taxi home.

Showing my age, probably

heldel00

Lollipops23 wrote: »

That's why it really pisses me off that half the team are annoyed that it's even taking place. Get over yourselves, it's a free feckin meal.

Imagine not wanting to go, feeling forced to because staff is so small, being 8 months pregnant amd then having to pay for your own feckin meal!!!

jamesbere

I doubt it, not my kinda scene.

Yamanoto

If you're competent, professional & courteous to your clients & colleagues, that's where your work commitments end.

It's a no from me.

afatbollix

When did a free meal and drinks become so uncool.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

afatbollix wrote: »

When did a free meal and drinks become so uncool.

It's not free where I work. We have to pay.

Kimbot

afatbollix wrote: »

When did a free meal and drinks become so uncool.

When you have to pay for it, thats when. :pac:

wexdevil

Nah, only because I won't be in the country at the time.

Wabbit Ears

Ill go. its a free night out and I like a lot of the people I work with.

daheff

nope. its done on the cheap and feels like a forced attempt. They even ask people to pay a deposit to go :eek::eek:

went last year, but wont be wasting my time again.

drake70

In my place it's usually a lunch (paid for by ourselves), then a few pints in the pub.

I usually only go for the pints.

There will be a few and I'll go to them all, always great craic and big sessions. I'd be out nearly weekly with work friends anyway so its not something reserved for Christmas.

Hector Bellend

The only reason I'm going is because I want to empty my sac into an aussie with an arse on her.

pconn062

I would go, but there's one asshole in the place I work so screw that.




I'm self employed and work by myself.

dr.fuzzenstein

afatbollix wrote: »

When did a free meal and drinks become so uncool.

Well, it's a typical Boardsies view and this is a cranky lot. Every second thread is "I hate..." (insert co workers, hipsters, craft beer, donuts, children, cats, dogs, people in general, work, rain, sun, Sundays, Mondays, cyclists, motorists, pedestrians as required) and those are still the lighthearted threads...
I count myself lucky that I work in a company where I am happy to see the people I work with even outside of work.

FTA69

Yeah I don't get this hatred of coworkers, it seems to be more common amongst tension-ridden white collar office environments with a lot of competitiveness etc. When I worked on site or in a hotel we used to always go on the lash or for a game of football or something, same with my current job we'd often go for a drink or even an event if something was on. One lad I work with lives close to me and we'll often pop into each other's gaff on the way home for a brew.

There was always a lot more camaraderie in blue collar type jobs I found.

cagefactor

If there was overtime being paid I would attend.