The office Xmas party

[dolf]

It's that time of year again. Sometime in the next few weeks... The boss will be drunk enough for the staff to goad him into that dance again. The apprentice will drink too much and throw up again. The shy guy will leave early again. Everyone will eat too much and there may be embarrassing photos appearing on the notice board again.

Delight the class with your Xmas party anecdotes. I have none.

 

[Hypoxia]

Back when the IBM PC-AT was fresh on the market, I ran books for an electronics store near San Francisco. We dealt in surplus gear, ham (amateur radio) gear, and CP/M and DOS systems. The boss, managers, and sales guys were all old hams. (I had mainframe, mini, and micro experience, and my commercial radio tickets, so I was tolerated. But I never got into Morse code.)

The XMas party: Everybody but me brought portable rigs, some XRP (ultra-low power), and set up in the parking lot. Everybody but me tapped away on code keys, sending XMas greetings to similarly obsessed geeks worldwide. Everyone added booze to their coffee. Nobody danced, sang, pulled anyone under mistletoe, told jokes any ruder than usual.

I didn't find it very exciting. I snuck out while the boss was busy signaling Pretoria.

 

[lovetoread]

my international corporation doesnt have parties

they will offer an appetizer get together an hour after i leave work for the day

i have not been to one in 4 years

 

[Saint Peter]

Work is for work, not parties. I leave those to the social butterflies.

 

[MagnusRichard]

Other mens wives in pretty dresses, heels, their best lingerie, packed into a dimly lit hotel hall, the slightly sweaty scent of unmet desires, her favorite perfume and just a little too much alcohol, standing a little too close, brushing against you, knowing you have a room upstairs.

 

[Luk]

I'm going to one tonight. Not mine, but one of my clients. It will architects and general contractors at a posh country club. Make the appearance and GTFO.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Mine is the week before Christmas, at a rooftop bar in Chelsea. Open bar 'til eleven. Shit might happen after that, as usual.

Luckily it's a night before my day off, so I don't have to worry about letting loose and can crash into my bed the day after. Honestly, can't wait until the new year is done and the holidays are over. I'm seriously over them already.

 

[MagnusRichard]

I'm going to one tonight. Not mine, but one of my clients. It will architects and general contractors at a posh country club. Make the appearance and GTFO.

Give the females orgasms, yes?

 

[Liar]

I've avoided it for the last eleven years.

I can do that on account of not being actually employed. I like my group of people, the handful I work with directly, but the rest of the bunch I don't know who they are or what they do, or even their names most of the time. Why would I want to party with them?

 

[Rightguide]

It's that time of year again. Sometime in the next few weeks... The boss will be drunk enough for the staff to goad him into that dance again. The apprentice will drink too much and throw up again. The shy guy will leave early again. Everyone will eat too much and there may be embarrassing photos appearing on the notice board again.

Delight the class with your Xmas party anecdotes. I have none.

By popular request, we don't do a Christmas Party anymore nor do we promote activities that including the consumption of alcohol. Those days are long gone for many companies in CA. wishing to avoid legal liability. There will be a Christmas tree in the lobby and some decoration here and there but it will be all business until the 21St when we close the office until the 2nd.

 

[MNGuy]

We don't do Christmas parties, do to past episodes of alcohol induced stupidity, so we just have a feast at work. I am seasoned and enjoy that much better anyway.

 

[dolf]

I'm torn on the party thing.

It's sad that so many people can't because adults haven't behaved responsibly in the past.
But I feel obligated to go, and find it all a bit stressful.

The manager gets super excited, every year, planning something a little bit different. It's never just booze and food, and it's never at the same venue. She even arranges transport for everyone. People have been planning their outfits for weeks!

 

[WoundedKnee]

Why the Princes keep marrying outside of their country, in a nutshell.

 

[Saint Peter]

I'm torn on the party thing.

It's sad that so many people can't because adults haven't behaved responsibly in the past.
But I feel obligated to go, and find it all a bit stressful.

The manager gets super excited, every year, planning something a little bit different. It's never just booze and food, and it's never at the same venue. She even arranges transport for everyone. People have been planning their outfits for weeks!

Take from the party the best parts. Leave what you do not like for the others. The company is doing this for the workers as a way of saying thank you for the effort.

Have some food. Toss a drink or two. Go home before the drama starts.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Take from the party the best parts. Leave what you do not like for the others. The company is doing this for the workers as a way of saying thank you for the effort.

Have some food. Toss a drink or two. Go home before the drama starts.

We used to get sweet swag bags and have raffle contests for free travel and tech goods at ours, prior to the financial crisis, which made them tighten the belts. No more of that stuff.

An open bar and buffet table spread with deviled eggs and carrot sticks is good enough for us plebes!

 

[Saint Peter]

We used to get sweet swag bags and have raffle contests for free travel and tech goods at ours, prior to the financial crisis, which made them tighten the belts. No more of that stuff.

An open bar and buffet table spread with deviled eggs and carrot sticks is good enough for us plebes!

I worked for a small family owned pipe company. The day of the holiday party the family had a knock out drag out fight over the radio. Yep. The dirty laundry was shown to all.

The party was silent and short lived. I found a new job by mid January.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I worked for a small family owned pipe company. The day of the holiday party the family had a knock out drag out fight over the radio. Yep. The dirty laundry was shown to all.

The party was silent and short lived. I found a new job by mid January.

A family biz holiday party punch fest over the r-r-radio?

Man, that's some old school small-town shit I'd expect to see humorously illustrated by Norman Rockwell!

 

[Saint Peter]

A family biz holiday party punch fest over the r-r-radio?

Man, that's some old school small-town shit I'd expect to see humorously illustrated by Norman Rockwell!

I know. It definitely puts an expiration date on me. Sometimes the truth does that.

Business band radio. Company only airwaves. The journeyman I was working with was old and shakey, been in the gas biz forever. One half hour before the shift was over he would turn the radio off. One of the other trucks could handle the last minute assignments. We are going back to the shop!

 

[neci]

i am trying to be excited. the food will be good. most of the people i work with are neat people, and i don't get to see most of them for just hanging out and talk. the place we're going has overpriced, surgery drinks, so i don't have to worry about getting sloshed. no accidental fucks will be given. i am hoping for a good night out.

 

[removed9556]

 

[MagnusRichard]

I'm approaching 40 without ever having had an accidental fuck. Am I missing out?

Probably not.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I'm approaching 40 without ever having had an accidental fuck. Am I missing out?

Are you a Royal?

 

[removed9556]

 

[WoundedKnee]

About 17 times removed, like all of us.

Which is why it is imperative for the royal family to marry outside of the island. dolf is proof of this.

 

[MagnusRichard]

i am trying to be excited. the food will be good. most of the people i work with are neat people, and i don't get to see most of them for just hanging out and talk. the place we're going has overpriced, surgery drinks, so i don't have to worry about getting sloshed. no accidental fucks will be given. i am hoping for a good night out.

How many drinks before you go psycho cock chopper?