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mine's in 47 minutes. it's a stripped-down affair this year, since the company is in dire straits and anyway it's kinda in bad taste to spend buckets of money on a blowout two days after layoffs. my coworker and i bought a pie from the little pie company at grand central -- cranberry blueberry! i don't think there will be any beer, which is a bummer.

also no worries, i won't be making out in any closets with anyone because all the available space here has been converted into offices so we can handle people who didn't get laid off from offices that closed ...

― maura (maura), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

No sex, no booze, sounds bad, don't go.

― Dan I., Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Eat the pie with your friend while speaking in completely insane languages!!!

― Dan I., Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

The ones I go to never seem to involve shagging in stationery cupboards. I try not to imagine that this is because I am there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ours is going to be a big affair at a (supposedly) swank ballroom. Live band, tons o' food and booze... I'm pretty sure I won't be making out with anyone though.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

THe fancy office affair happens in January but I'll be in a different office then! Waahhh! I love free expensive food & drinks in fancy schmancy settings.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

We have ours tonight too, at a pub downtown. A bit of a step-down from previous affairs but there will be beer. Yay!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i. my team only came second in the office xmas quiz!! oh no!! (tower bridge wz built during the reign of queeen victoria!! oh no!!)
ii. however my fantastic DRAGON won the office satsuma-peel sculpture competition!! (no pix available yet)
iii. i am very extremely drunk

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

We had warm drinks and dispirited-looking tortilla wraps smeared with browned avocado and a tray of hacked-up fruit. This fuckwit who had pointedly ignored me all semester kept giving me scummy looks from under his thick grey eyebrows. Everyone was talking 'theory' except for me and my friend: we were 'engaged' in a rapturous 'discourse' about Owen Wilson.

I can't wait to see "Starsky and Hutch"!

― estela, Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha it's the morning after the night before (Thai food, copious wine, emotional farewells to my lovely boss) and I am the only one here (at 9:10). I feel so virtuous just for that that I have decided to do no further work today.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

ours is tonight. An 80s disco actually.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god, I think the bouze has addled my brain for, far from not doing anything, I have started compulsively DUSTING.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, I suppose I ought to be psyching myself up in preparation for Agadoo, the Birdie Song and Russ Abbott's "Atmosphere".

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha, personality disorder thread proves that I am moderately obsessive-compulsive. Hence dusting.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

morning! had ours last night, and the live band had a good selection of choons! normally you can only look forward to van morrison and MOR standards. pathetically i nicked a copy of the set list! :-) i didn't bring it in to work with me, but what i can remember:

kylie - can't get you out of my head
pink - just like a pill
pink - get the party started
moloko - bring it back

right, a cup of tea is needed...

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

At my office party, I discovered that German lawyers can't play 7/4 time for shit.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 13 December 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

did you see that news item about how the rail companies are handing out badges so you can write the station you need to get off* at and then hope that some kindly person wakes you up at the right time. Specially designed for ppl falling aslewep after over-indulging at the office party!

* off the TRAIN you dirty bugger

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 December 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

god, I did something really, really bad at/as a result of my company's holiday party. Shit. Other coworkers handing you your g-string "secretly" at the after party: classic or dud?

Shit.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 13 December 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the best office party was a couple of years ago. They had this ice sculpture of a reindeer and our Communications Executive poured vodka into its mouth which ppl were expected to drink from a pipe protruding from its arse.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 December 2002 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

had mine yesterday. VP came took food, said nothing and walked away. The rest of us ate like pigs. We have it in an empty cube, they did away with the big company party years ago. why? because this is the absoulute cheapest company in the world.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 13 December 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine yesterday. Am now struggling to pass the time in a zombified state by dicking around on the interweb. Third worst hangover of my life. Only bouze can save me now.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 13 December 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

We had ours earlier this week, at a restaurant/bar/club complex thingy in the West End. Things got off to a flying start when one of our telesales crew, who had been playing drinking games with a member of senior management, vomited all over himself and the table before dessert was served. This almost certainly had something to do with the vast amounts of 'va va voom' that he had injested during the course of the evening.

The whole mess was paid to be cleaned up (at a price of £50) by another member of staff who, in the throes of paranoia, was worried that the rest of senior management down the other end of the table would notice, and find out that he was the company's main outlet of aforementioned substance. The staff member in question then bundled the casualty into a cab as quickly as humanly possible and paid for it in order to get him a long way away from the restaurant.

This was followed up by another telesales member regaling the aghast table with her patented animal noises (horses, badgers etc) for a good twenty minutes. Her show was rewarded by a pat on the behind by our ageing and very rich owner who followed up with his own animal noise. That of a tiger. Grrrrrr.

The same manager involved in the drinking games was later on ejected for vomiting over one of the venue's bouncers. Living in the home counties, he opted to sleep in Victoria Train Station that evening and wandered into work two and a half hours late the next day, smelling really bad.

Two more members of the company were involved in a bathroom ruck that threatened further ejection. Amazingly, they were not the two who were arrested the previous week for affray.

Myself and my friends sat there getting very drunk indeed, and noted the above occurrances with much amusement.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 December 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Start a new thread or revive an old one...

So! Tell me about your office holiday party! Huck says he has to pay CDN$40 for his, which seems incredibly fuckt up to me, but I'm not actually sure how it works in private companies, since I've always worked at nonprofits. Also I've only had one "real" job where I didn't like my coworkers. Anyway. What's your office holiday party culture?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

don't have one here. multimillion dollar company and we get shit. not even a gift cert to the jelly of the month club.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the ones I went to when I worked at restaurants/bars were always pretty rad.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm convinced we're not getting one at all this year. Last year's party (in the back room of a nice but not fancy restaurant) was scaled back from the previous few years (on the 40th floor of a downtown hotel, overlooking the lake). And this year, we've been told in no uncertain terms that the company is having even bigger financial difficulties (this was to explain our paltry raises).

Also, the president of the company just announced he was "quitting" at the end of the year, and two VPs are suspiciously leaving with him. Nobody has any idea who's taking over these positions or what we're going to do until they're filled. A party seems very unlikely.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

We are having one at some stupid cottage, and im insisting that I shall be in charge of the fire place. Fire responsibility = mine. Fire.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I too called dibs on being Fire Man! My office's x-mas parties are great; we eat lots of awesome food and drink hella wine and beer and give each other funny gifts like booze to the non-drinkers and cookbooks with titles like The Broccoli Forest to guys who only eat pizza and burgers, etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Our company always spends a fair amount on the xmas party- this year it's a casino night thing. I've only been to one party in the six years I've here though- I didn't have a date or a suit and felt like a dick. This year it's the same (no suit, no date) so I don't think I'm going.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My employer didn't have one last year. I wouldn't have been terribly interested in going because 1) these are potluck affairs, and 2) they have to be alcohol-free events because this place is subject to Federal drug-free workplace laws. I don't hate sherbet, and I like ginger ale, but sherbet-and-ginger ale punches represent what I hate about living in my world -- no fun and a certain forced juvenilization.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

They're going to try to make me sing at the office holiday party.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

need a date?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You should sing selections from Hannibal: the Musical or some Raunchy Young Lepers.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

El Diablo's brilliance is again confirmed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ours are alright. We do "Christmas Buddies," (4 or 5 days of secret cheap presents (around $2) hidden first thing in the morning or at the end of the day, then one larger (around $20) gift), for which I always go to the kooky toy store and get fun things like wind-chattering teeth, and we have a dinner at a restaurant, paid for by the company. In the past, we had a dinner for just the employees, then a little drinks and dessert party for employees and spouses/significant others, this year we're just all eating dinner together at a nice restaurant. It's fine.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i think im going to shitbomb my bosses house this christmas.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

We're supposed to pay $5 for the privilege of having our holiday party at a local pizza place.

I'm not going.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I won't be having one because I am a lowly temp, but I used to work for a big advertising agency, and so the last one I went to was suitably insane - It was at the ICA in London, and there was a room filled entirely with candy and a masseuse on hand and playstations everywhere and a movie theater showing short films and fire and tiki torches everywhere and lots of beautiful people and semi-celebrities and Dave Stewart (yes!) played and there were DJs and visual artists and a film crew filmed the whole thing and I imagine there were a lot of drugs being done.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

My company always has theirs in February; I have no idea what holiday they're celebrating.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Presidents Day?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

a film crew filmed the whole thing

This is the agency that insisted on making a video document of ANYTHING even vaguely notable that they were involved with, right down to the CEO's latest wet fart. And I know because I had to film/edit it all.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

right down to the
CEO's latest wet fart. And I know because I had to film/edit it all.
I hope you went slo-mo with orchestral swell on the w.f.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

That wouldn't have been epic enough for him, the guy was a total egomaniac, and consequently got fired by his own board a year later, the day he released his second "groundbreaking" book on creative business.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Previous years, we had two - our department (30 or so people) go for a meal then down the pub after. We pay for it all ourselves. The other was a big party for all the main administrative divisions - nibbles, free wine, DJ, dancing, all paid for by the employers.

We still get to pay for our own this year, but the uni got a new provost some months back, and we were invited to an event to welcome him, at which some departments were to be singing choral works to welcome him.

Turns out that was instead of our big Christmas party!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

our's is on the 10th, which is a wednesday, since they don't want people staying out late, drinking up all the booze like last year where the hotel conf room had to restock twice.

in other news, i work with alcoholics.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having Christmas lunch with my parents' company (which is only fair as I am working there right now) and they tend to be terribly alcohol-soaked. Two girls got fired for having a fist fight a few years ago.

Xmas parties are also the ideal place to feel completely alone among dozens of people you see every day.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 November 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Vegas themed party, unfortunately it's at Pinewood studios which is the very far side of London from me (very *very* far side)

so I'm not sure I'll be going. Which is a shame as last year's at the Inns of court was ace. All free of course.

― chris (chris), Friday, 21 November 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My office is going bowling this year. I don't go due to not wishing to spend any more time with my colleagues than I have to. And I hate fun.

― robster (robster), Friday, 21 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ours is going to be in the same venue as our summer one - a bar in a neo-classical ex-church in Jericho, a slightly trendy area close to the centre off Oxford. there will be a a jazz band which I will again be indifferent to, followed by a disco. I have been assured that the food will be a finger buffet this time, as last time there was a sit down meal where lots of ppl couldn't sit at a table, which made things slightly tricky.

and there's going to be an ice sculpture again! I'm not sure whether the debate about which festive one we should have was ever resolved - an angel, snowman or Santa were the choices.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 21 November 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm assuming that it will be like last years: a table of food and soft drinks set up in the office on Friday when everyone goes in and picks up their checks. (And, like last year's, everyone who comes in will say "Oh, that was today? I already ate," and I'll have to eat everyone's elses' portions. *urp*)

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 21 November 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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OK, so I've cunningly booked a holiday which means I'll be away when the office Christmas party is happening, but now they're discussing the department Christmas dinner. Currently being suggested is CURRY KARAOKE. Karaoke is fun amongst friends and the fact that I DO NOT SING doesn't matter. With co-workers, it will be HELL.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I started my new job a week and a half ago, and I have to decide by next Monday whether I want to go to the company Christmas dinner/party. What should I do?

(it's £12.50, at a hotel about twenty miles away; although they are supposedly going to organise transport from each branch to the hotel)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Eek. How many more days' holiday do you have?
xpost

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Tons - my holiday year starts again on 1st October. Why? Are you suggesting I take the whole of December as annual leave?

*strokes chin in a thoughtful manner*

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to mine because it's paid for by someone else and it's a nce meal in a posh restaurant. This will be the extent of my socialising with colleagues here evah, I should think. Doing karaoke with work people would be an awkward stressful nightmare.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Caitlin - if it was a free meal and you liked your colleagues, I'd say go, but do you like your colleagues enough to pay £12.50? Plus whatever it costs to drink enough booze it'll take to keep you going?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Now they are discussing going out for a leaving meal for somebody I don't particularly like who isn't actually leaving, but is going on maternity leave. £16.95 to pay for a meal in an Italian restaurant which spells Sedano 'Cedeno' (I have just inspected the menu). They are arranging it for early December or possibly 26th November so it fits around my holiday :-(((

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, as I've only just started, I don't really know whether I like them or not; or what I'm going to think about them in 3 months' time. That's the problem: I have no idea *now* whether I'll consider it worth the money at Christmas.

(the price is supposed to be £25, but the company is "generously" paying half.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think you should go. Even if you like them, I doubt you'll be tearing your hair out over the missed opportunity. Informal socialising will be cheaper and more fun if you DO decide you get on well with people.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen, don't you hate almost everyone you work with? Just don't go, don't bother even giving excuses.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I would if I didn't have to sit in the same room as them until at least next September.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What happens next September?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I find a new job, with any luck. The conference I'm organising is 1-4 August, so give me a month to clear up the finances and I'm away. Touch wood. My contract is until the end of November for safety, though.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

caitlin I reckon you should go. It's not a huge amount of money, it's only one night of your life and they'll think you're friendly and sociable if you sign up. How bad can it be?

Madchen this sounds worse and worse. But the same applies I guess. Either that or take a sabbatical?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You might get some kinky bondage sex at the end of the evening, too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

May I be excused from all Christmas/leaving/other revels until the end of time please as I am writing a book/having a baby/hibernating k thx bye.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Caitlin I think you should say you'll go. If you absolutely hate your co-workers when it's time to go, oops you have a headache. It's only £12.50!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I may call in sick. Trouble is, will they smell a rat, seeing as I'm also missing the big office party?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd be more inclined to go if i knoew i could leave at any time and not have to wait for the coach back. plus i don't like christmas dinners.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen, just make a few well-placed comments about how disappointed you were, after the event?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

And be excited before the event don't forget!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently being suggested is CURRY KARAOKE.

wow i'm applying for madchen's job when she leaves.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh don't, one of the menus on offer in the venue my workplace is considering is 'Roast Christmas Dinner on a Stick'

What the fuck is that? A turkey lollipop?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Does CURRRY KARAOKE mean everybody gets tipsy and tried to sing Bengali songs? Fun!

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Could be worse, it could be Shanghai Shuffle, where you try to eat your meal as an overexuberant compere type tried to get you to glug a yard of spirits from a tube...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe your xmas dinner is a chicken shish.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

WTF a clique of showtune lovers forcing us to endure a half-hour musicale (w/ "clever" "inside" lyrics about staff, ho ho ho) for our free drinks and heavy appetizers!? and we're not even showbiz-related like some of my past jobs.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

i skipped mine. merry christmas!

― joule kilcher (goole), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

If I didn't go I wd've had to attend a screening of the new Will Smith movie, so I still won.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

last year's party was our manager buying us each one (1) beer at a bar downstairs.

that bar no longer exists

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

so hungover.
they bought us all mcdonalds for breakfast!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

which i think might be making my current condition worse.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

i passed out at mine. have only been here for three months and yet to receive my probation review.

― margaret thatcher sex tape (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

wolfed down much cold shrimp, and not sick.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

I got enough food and drink to make me content and then hurried home. It was actually a tolerable evening.

― L'esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur (Michael White), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

Wish I'd skipped mine, I lost my glasses somewhere on my way home, and I can't remember how but I somehow ended up in Stepney Green before I gave up and got a taxi.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

They put a DJ in the room directly above mine.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

The school bus driver party is this Friday the 19th.

It is a low key affair. We have a big buffet table in the banquet room of the local hotel. We sit decorously 8 to a table, with our spouses. We eat, make small talk, get some door prizes. Then somebody as old as we are comes out, sits on a stool and strums an electric guitar hooked to a tiny amp, while he sings christmas songs and some Top 40 oldies. Then we shuffle off home and go to bed.

The food is surprisingly good - for hotel food. This year we pay for our own drinks. In past years the first drink was free.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

Ours was here: http://www.bowlluckystrike.com/
Can't complain.

― Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

i have just set up the karaoke machine for our office party. i am now deciding which illness i will have to explain my absence from the party.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

I didn't go to mine, but apparently it involved a 30 hour drinking marathon in which several of my immediate colleagues were invited to take part in threesomes. And I wasn't there! More fool me.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

Ours isn't until the 23rd and I won't be in town then. That's ok though because after winding up on top of a table at my boss's leaving do I vowed never to drink at a work function ever again.

― Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

i've been invited to the work night out for the job I quit a couple of months back. Which is cool because I can get wasted and make a fool of myself and I don't have to see these people ever again.

― what U cry 4 (jim), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

ours is today. it's at a nice riverside eatery, but i dunno, the weather's looking a bit nasty! if things play out like last year, we'll all go and get on it in a dodgy inner-city bar afterwards in an attempt to escape the rain.

we were going to have a pretend rave beforehand, but the owner of the iDJ deck has a meeting somewhere else this morning.

― Not in top 100,000 (haitch), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

mine's in january wtf

― Tuomas The Spank Engine (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

Ours was last Saturday. Pretty great time and my band played! It's always a pretty major event: 400 people, huge banquet, open bar, and DJ/dancing until 1am or so.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

I'm newish at my job and from what I've been told about past parties, the two bosses get to bring their families and children, but no one else is allowed to. We all have to ooooh and ahhhh as the children open gifts in front of us, and everyone is supposed to pitch in for gifts for the bosses. Really weird. I hope there's a bar.

― kate78, Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Revive?

My actual office holiday party was Wednesday and was pleasant enough. Then yesterday I was the guest of a friend for an office party of a corporate sort via a boat out in Newport Harbor during its yacht parade of lights. Fun in an entitled sort of way.

But as for tonight I'm heading home from two proper holiday parties from friends. And those ruled. Hope your Saturday was as good as mine!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:08 (sixteen years ago)

Mine was Friday afternoon - a pitch-in where the dept. leads pitched in booze. I won a 500GB Passport drive, which was kind of astounding. But it was weird drinking and partying from 3-5 pm, then trying to go back to work.

― Jaq, Sunday, 20 December 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

mine is coming up, wifes in on same night. i think i shall put in an appearance at mine. A bit nervous as i will be riding solo.

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)

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