how did you behave at your Holiday 2007 office party?

Cutbacks have meant that we don't have one anymore. I'm hosting one for myself this weekend, featuring gin gimlets and Chinese food.

I'm about to miss mine. I'm off sick today, probably just as well really, last year's was a bit messy. Taking drugs in the office is not smart. I spilled red wine all down one of the kitchen walls, the stain's still there.

At least I can be smug tomorrow morning when everyone comes in hungover.

better than man united

it took me 20 min to take my heels off and put my boots on at the end of the party

the boots zip up

boots that double as sobriety test = awsum

i did fine, two drinks. one guy got kind of sloppy but he realized it and pulled himself from the brink, another dude (who's new to the company, and a rich kid who's been told to get a real job by his folks apparently) went home before the party to get blunted and someone said he started rolling a joint at the dinner table but I don't think anyone saw it. the company is cool but not cool like that.

Bowled poorly, drank a decent amount of gin, went home and took a nap.

mine was last week. open bar and cab vouchers were provided. i made out with someone from work in full view of all of my co-workers. :(

oh and i was wasted.

winner

i cought a coworker doing coke in the bathroom and he wouldn't even share.

in and out as quick as poss

it was at the zoo. i work with like 5 people in a unit of several hundred, of whom i know 0. so i had a free scotch and some shitty satay, cruised thru the indoor exhibits and looked at some bored gibbons in the dark, and went home. happy holidays!

soooo glad i did not make out with anybody
but still mandee, i wld like to say the work-word 'kudos' to you anyway

let us know of any fallout, homo!

I stared at our cute twinky receptionist/office manager occasionally, but could not penetrate the coterie of sashayers and faghags who clustered around him.

yeah, said makeout partner keeps asking me to lunch now... ugh!

I stayed for about 40 minutes and gave my two drink tickets away because they wouldn't cover martinis.

i have to say, we had those makeout people at ours last week and i really thought it was in poor taste. i mean, good for you and all -- really -- but if i'm just there to like make nice with my colleagues, i don't need to see ppl sucking tongues.

i just got rly drunk and giggly, not so bad.

sometimes you can use BOTH tickets for one martini...

omg but i DID get really dancy and flirty with my older married coworker christine, who i like love. but the next mrning she gave me one of those looks

WAY TO MAKE ME FEEL LIKE SHITTIER THAN I ALREADY DID

I"M SORRY it's not you, sorry!! i just, there were like ALL These people making out at ours, and i was like REALLY? is that what this stupid thing is for??

i'm probably just jealous. was he cute?

eh, he's okay. it was just good timing. i probably would have sucked face with anyone at that moment of wastedness. i was amazed at how mccreepster my male co-workers were at the party.
(I should note i work at an advertising agency full of mostly young singles aged 25-35)

oh yea i was surprised at the mccreepster nice at mine too. this one guy was like ladies man, but then he picked the cute french girl up and dropped her ;(

in and out as quick as poss

Same here. Like ninjas.

i always want to do that and then get sucked into the drinks and how nice my coworkers are. they're all really fucking nice.

my co-workers are awesome!! srsly never worked anywhere full of so many cool people...

that's how i feel too!!

me too mandee! all i did was smoke alot of pot and get told by the bar tender he was "slowing me down" because everyone there was drinking too much. i don't think they'd ever had to deal with an advertising party before.
oh - and the night got kicked off with a speech by the co-owner telling us how his wife started off as an adulterous christmas party hook-up! no such luck for me that night tho.

i was amazed at how mccreepster my male co-workers were at the party.

I am AMAZED that you are amazed! (particularly as a survivor of the dens of iniquity that are ad agencies)

omg

wait you guys don't work at the same advertising agency do you?

Turned a blind eye to the astonishingly bad food served to us for our Christmas meal (well I bitched about it along w/ everyone else but if I'd been paying a penny I'd've sent it back in a second) and the two older guys opposite me who complained to each other for fucking ever about Polish migrants. Then we went to a bar and I drank two cocktails and took photos for people and then left. So, pretty well

sur was dave at that party? he was too hungover to see a movie with me the next day

mine: ate about 30 lbs. of food, drank lots of punch, sang lots of carols, smoked w/ my boss in his kitchen, talked to awesome coworkers, good time island all around. getting home was slightly uncomfortable (eight in a five-seater, i was sprawled across everyone in the backseat)

lol u cheerleader u!! yea was definitely at the party, he was like on the dance floor whenever i was lookin ;)

it was at southpaw

i'm sorry i am typing so awfully.

made semi-valid excuse, skipped

I am happily an ex-ad slave (1995-2004) and managed not to kill any of the blackhearted motherfuckers who ran the two agencies that employed me.

No office, no office party. (no credibility)

i was not invited to the holiday party at my internship, however (not that i was especially psyched to go to it anyway)

got mildly drunk, talked a lot but acquitted myself well, i think, tried not to be too snooty about the lack of edible vegetarian options (even though there are like three vegetarians in our office as well as some veggie spouses/s.o.'s), skipped afterparties to go home and sleep

i know the whole after-party thing is like, okay this was fun and everything but i do have a life...

who am i kidding i'm as big an after-partier as the next guy. but sometimes you're just like ENOUGH.

free booze was not as enticing as the thought of catching an early express train back to the loop.

Our party was in the Bryant Park Hotel's basement bar -- swanky. I did stop for a bourbon-and-beer at my friend's bar in Brooklyn after, then went home and passed out.

(just as a point of info: ih's friend dave is *foxy*)

Ditched two parties but made it to gf's work party where I quaffed heroic amounts of champagne and thanks to also getting stoned with the weedy contingent of her co-workers, built up enough appetite to eat dinner and then dance.

have you met dave?? he's more cute than foxy, IMO

if he was like done up fierce, he could def look foxy tho. one time i saw him walking out of the building in this like hipster teal t shirt and i was like WHO is that?

i'm just about to go to mine. it's during work hours (boo). essentially, it'll be a room full of librarians, awkwardly trying to make chit chat. oh, and there's no booze.

maybe i won't go.

haaaaaaaaa

there IS hipster teal?

haha okay NO there should have been a comma -- it was a hipster-ish shirt, and it was teal ;-)

i left by 7:30 to attend ilx fap, which was way more fun. i only had 3 beers and paid for them all myself. lousy non-profit.

is thermo the guy i made out with?
also most ad agencies suck to work for but mine is amazing.

Our party was in the Bryant Park Hotel's basement bar -- swanky.

expensive, but one of my more favorite places in the city

hehe u guys made out xp

i wish. i work at an awesome place too, full of tones of cuties! but never made the sucky-face with no one :(

inspite of open bar

and i actually wore a suit (twas formal attire)

(no teal)

=P

i'm just about to go to mine. it's during work hours (boo). essentially, it'll be a room full of librarians, awkwardly trying to make chit chat. oh, and there's no booze.

RED ALERT ABORT MISSION

CODE 10 ABORT

i dunno it sounds hilarious enough to be a funny experience

perhaps - if she were to secure some booze beforehand...

absolutely, gotta flask it. + a spliff

librarians? bring a blunt.

so fun.

i've encountered some librarians where no amount of illegal drugs will make them in the slightest bit tolerable. avoidance is the best option altogether

they can't all be depraved party machines like Ned, i guess ;)

ours isn't 'til late January

Ours was supposed to be last week but was canceled due to snow. They suck here anyway. Harvard doesn't know how to party. Plus, I learned my lesson a couple of years ago at my job in London when I spilled wine all over my boss, showed everyone my tattoos, and then promptly fell over. It was on the Friday of my first week at work. I haven't done work parties since.

^^^sounds like my wife's party last year