Office Christmas Parties!!

Just going to weatherspoons in Baker Street for us lot today, nice early finish and £20 each to play with for free drinks, worth going for a few free drinks before going out tonight with pals i say!

Originally Posted by Scoobs

Has she been previously married then?

dont make me come and have words scoobs, even your scoobs goes one way bike goes another counter survailance trick wont stop me tracking you down

Originally Posted by lily

Two free tickets going and somebody who has paid has been taken into ill and awaiting an opportation, as I'm leaving she offered me the tickets for me and Drew to go for free...... I've still said no!

Having to pay, well that takes the p*ss but when being offered to go for free and refusing that's just plain bonkers, where's your Northern skinflint spirit?


I've got a work meal next week, boss only has 2 staff so she's paying and does the same every year.

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Having to pay, well that takes the p*ss but when being offered to go for free and refusing that's just plain bonkers, where's your Northern skinflint spirit?


I've got a work meal next week, boss only has 2 staff so she's paying and does the same every year.

I'm leaving next week, and really can't be arsed being nice to them! Might tell them what I actually think after a drink!

Originally Posted by lily

I'm leaving next week, and really can't be arsed being nice to them! Might tell them what I actually think after a drink!

even better

My hangover(near death) today is because of the party last night!

You must have sh!te workmates, all the guys are ace, see them outside work too, boss is a good lad, all like a drink and getting ratted! Helps team 'bonding' aparantly... Cus getting sh!t faced and going to the lappers helps us bond haha

Anyway, 1.30pm to 4am, was a good night... But lost money in casino and I have a epic hangover to deal with now

Our xmas party is today everyone is in fancy dress and So far today we have had
10.00 mulled wine and mince pies.
11.00 Annual address by our big boss (nothing formal)
11.20 Christmas lecture (i.e very funny **** take of all the head sheds about the year)
12.00 Bar opens
12.30 Lunch served (crackers, pea shooters, streamers, poppers all that jazz)
13.45 Quiz
15.00 Christmas revue (a panto type affair with characters and ideas changed for ones that are funnier and take the **** out of people on site)
16.00 Disco
18.00 the same coach that brought everyone into work so they could drink arrives to take them home again.
It's a bit like the last day of term at school, it's great working for the government.

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....?

my girlfriends house mate is a graphic designer. She earns bugger all and works some long hours, but this year to say thanks they took them all to a swanky country house, fed them, and gave them all an iPad! Not bad. We had to pay for our christmas lunch, but being a Uni was don't have money to splash out on stuff like meals.

Sitting here all dressed up ready to go to 'Elvis night' at the local tandoori with 10 women from work - problem is that I struggle in a group of women, I cant be doing with hair and handbag talk, stick me in a room with 15 burly bikers anyday!!!