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17-12-10, 02:01 PM

Work mostly from home and on customers' sites abroad, so no party for me this year... However in a previous life our company party did make the papers....

The company was good at parties, it was a small software development company with about 30 employees (20 of them female!!) and quite a bit of spare cash. Our major customers were brewers and so we were also allowed to raid their staff shops for party supplies. The company also had an interesting drug policy, roughly along the lines of:

MD - Have you got any dope?
Employee - No
MD - There's a load in my desk if you need any.

They'd paid for us to go to an organised party up in London and laid on a coach to transport us there and back. Nothing too exciting about that bit, although the coach driver was a bit miffed by us stealing a rather large balloon arch from the venue and bringing it on board. There was also the usual competition as to who could nick the biggest item from the tables, so there were a few waterjugs, winecoolers, candleholders etc around too.

Anyway - once we got back to the office, the party continued there. Plenty of alcohol, plenty of other pharmaceuticals too. Sometime around 2am we found the left-over fireworks.... they weren't small ones either.

Out into the garden, whoosh! BANG!! etc

What we didn't know was that there had been a shooting just down the road earlier in the evening. Half the local residents called the police to report gunfire.

Suddenly there's police everywhere.... dodgy ciggies and strange powders are being hidden in blind panic. MD explains to the police that it's our christmas party and some of the lads got a bit carried away etc, he'll make sure they don't cause any more disturance etc.....

Police accept this a go away.

It was the MD that lit the chuffing fuses!

Party eventually wound down and life returned to normal. Newspaper accounts of the party were pinned to the notice board for ages afterwards...

Why are companies so boring now....?

17-12-10, 02:01 PM	#28
LankyIanB Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Office Christmas Parties!! Work mostly from home and on customers' sites abroad, so no party for me this year... However in a previous life our company party did make the papers.... The company was good at parties, it was a small software development company with about 30 employees (20 of them female!!) and quite a bit of spare cash. Our major customers were brewers and so we were also allowed to raid their staff shops for party supplies. The company also had an interesting drug policy, roughly along the lines of: MD - Have you got any dope? Employee - No MD - There's a load in my desk if you need any. They'd paid for us to go to an organised party up in London and laid on a coach to transport us there and back. Nothing too exciting about that bit, although the coach driver was a bit miffed by us stealing a rather large balloon arch from the venue and bringing it on board. There was also the usual competition as to who could nick the biggest item from the tables, so there were a few waterjugs, winecoolers, candleholders etc around too. Anyway - once we got back to the office, the party continued there. Plenty of alcohol, plenty of other pharmaceuticals too. Sometime around 2am we found the left-over fireworks.... they weren't small ones either. Out into the garden, whoosh! BANG!! etc What we didn't know was that there had been a shooting just down the road earlier in the evening. Half the local residents called the police to report gunfire. Suddenly there's police everywhere.... dodgy ciggies and strange powders are being hidden in blind panic. MD explains to the police that it's our christmas party and some of the lads got a bit carried away etc, he'll make sure they don't cause any more disturance etc..... Police accept this a go away. It was the MD that lit the chuffing fuses! Party eventually wound down and life returned to normal. Newspaper accounts of the party were pinned to the notice board for ages afterwards... Why are companies so boring now....?