Office Christmas Parties!!

[keith_d]

Our boss has been told he has the princely sum of £15/head for a Christmas lunch. Not enough for a main course in the restaurants near our office.

As you might expect we're not exactly impressed.

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!

Do it, our's is tomorrow, last year i thumped my boss, was advised to be on best behavior this time, they can't afford to sack me

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by bluefishman

Do it, our's is tomorrow, last year i thumped my boss, was advised to be on best behavior this time, they can't afford to sack me

Well spike the said persons drink with Viagra!

That is a good giggle! Make sure its 2 tabs of it

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Rai86

. I think office parties help teams work better

agree,
We had our last night we're pretty much all in our 20s so got a bit messy
Boss said he'd pay for a round of drinks with the meal think we spent around £400 on drinks - so glad it didn't go on my credit card!

[MisterTommyH]

We traditionally have ours on the 23rd.
Mini-bus from work into town (about 5pm)
Drinks in the pub paid for by the boss then move on.
Meal and drinks at the table by the boss (so we try to stay at the table as long as possible)
Then depending where we are, move to the bar or another venue. (try to persuade one of the drunken bosses to hand over the tab number - often works too)
Then either it's been known for everyone, girls included, to end up at a 'gentlemans club' - Boss even paid the entry, but don't think that will happen this year; or
Home in a taxi and hand the receipt into work when your in.

We usually have to go in on the 24th and get bacon butties paid for by the boss. (roll in about 10, maybe leave by 12 - but if you want to book the day off you have to use a whole days holiday!)

This year luckily they've let us off the last day.

[Sir Trev]

Missed mine this year as I was in the Slovakia office at the time. Their do was the week after so missed that one as well. Both paid for but quiet and well behaved aparently so didn't miss much.

The all expenses paid parties we used to have at Lotus software were epic. And the New Year black tie ball (again all paid for) where we could take our other halves were a great night out. Oh the hangover memories from that bygone era...

Had ours last night in a wee restaurant in Balloch.
Paid for it ourselves [NHS employee], and was unfortunately very sedate and sober! [only had two glasses of wine!!!]

Had mine last night at a hilton hotel.

Ended up being started on for no reason (I was sitting down having a fag outside). No chance to defend, just punch after punch from out of nowhere. Its said I went to the ground and he started kicking me. I got myself up off the floor then took a heavy blow to the head and BOOOOM out I went

Bloke run off, I got carted to hospital (don't remember anything). Discharged myself, missis came to pick me up and went home.

Woke up thinking "that was a weird dream" then felt the pain. Turns out the idiot had said i'd be giving him jip all night (hadn't spoken a word, not even my company???) and just came out and belted me, several times. He run off, but came back not knowing they had called the police. Luckily they got him and he has been in the cell all night and being charged with GBH. Had the police round all morning doing an interview. Seems they have witnesses who state I didn't do anything and this bloke just came over and threw punch after punch out of the blue

I hurt Just been back to A+E.

Nice eh.....

[fizzwheel]

Daimo - that sucks, hope you feel better soon.

As for christmas parties, I used to really enjoy ours, it was one for the whole company, so instead of just socialising with my work mates, you got to talk to everybody from different departments, drink and food would flow everybody attended and the company laid on transport.

I dont know what changed about it, I think it was one year where the organised it miles and miles away from where everybody lived and it was a complete pain to get to, so nobody went.

Now we get given £25 a head and organise our own, we went for a curry this year and I was reminded again that I have very few friends at work, I didnt enjoy it at all, I ate my food had a couple of drinks and then went home. Boss turned up and put money behind the bar for a drink or two for everybody and with all the sh*te thats been going on I thought that was really decent of him to do that.

With all the redundancies, politics and bickering its completely destroyed morale and any sense of team spirit we had, and it'll take alot more than and christmas party to bring that back.

They are great if you are in a good team with a good bunch of people, but sadly thats no longer the case with me.

BH Daimo, that's just mental:O Hope you'e OK.

John, Daryl and me went out for a curry. Had to drive home so no high jinx