[Albion] Work Christmas Do

[Questions]

I’ve been invited to Trieste for lunch by a company I sub for flying out on a Challenger wih cocktails on board and still be back at Farnborough by 9 pm for my all paid taxi back to Worthing.

I had to decline unfortunately as I always meet my mucker Steve for the £ 6.99 blow out at Becky’s Breakie place.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Two as well. Department one in a local restaurant with a quiz and decent food. Company contributes £30 per head and we pay for the booze. This is just about ok and I’ll go home after a couple of hours while the youngsters carry on.

Second one is the company one which they pay for in some massive flagship venue in Central London. I absolutely hate it. Like the poster above, I have no interest in socialising with work colleagues and can’t stand all the senior managers getting down with the kids on the dance floor.

Also usually involves all the women in the office disappearing all afternoon to “get ready”.

Have been once in 15 years. Never again. I get inverse pleasure knowing I’m going home at the end of the day when virtually everyone else is going to that.


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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm employed by a university.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Thank heavens I am retired.
I say no more!

Absolutely this!

 

[Horses Arse]

So they are all bellends and you’re not? I would look at myself if I thought that everyone that I work with were like that. Your company also employed you so I would think that you fit the type that they are looking for. I’m not calling you a bellend, but it’s strange isn’t it?

It is strange I agree. I'm not sure what the correct term for a collection of bellends is but they are here. I'm self employed, brought in for a specific role and to stop them bellending themselves out of business so not my company and they brought me in so that I wouldn't fit in with their current malaise. Thankfully.

I've had some right laughs at various Christmas do's over the years but have never looked forward to them and would have always preferred to socialise with friends rather than work colleagues - I've made good friends through work but if your pool of friends is made up entirely of those you work with then that's quite sad in my opinion.

 

[Birdie Boy]

We have a departmental one which is £35 and paid for but it is a bit if a pain for me to get to and from, so I don't bother.
Last year boss took us to Miller and Carter during lunch break instead, much better.

Company one is at Lingfield racecourse and is for partners as well and is nearly fully paid for except hotel. Last two years I have said I am going and for various reasons I have been unable to go. The palace fan is happy I don't go as he has plonked himself down next to me and had my dinner and beer vouchers! I am determined to get there this year and it is 4 days after the palace game.

 

[The red pepper kid]

got 2 -- both paid for - food, drink , board for the night and morning breakfast , 1 in crawley and the main event in Eastbourne -- swinging !

 

[jonnyrovers]

Work Christmas parties bring out the very worst in me. I resent having to pay (I work in healthcare where there is NO FREE STUFF), I get bored by the repetitive mundanity of it all, I get smashed just to cope, I make a prick of myself. As a result I haven't been to one in 15 years, except for the unofficial one I organised for my own team a few years ago. We went to Hove Dog Racing, all had a ball, spent our winnings/drowned our sorrows over a curry after.

 

[pasty]

Not going. Company I work for is based in Tottenham and the Christmas do is near Wood Green and I simply can't be @rsed to get home after a night out up there.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Turkey sandwich in the van

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I see the company is pushing the boat out since you've been put in charge

 

[Bozza]

I'm not sure what the correct term for a collection of bellends is but they are here.

A palace of bellends?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Cancelled due to lack of interest

 

[Springal]

I’ve been invited to my client’s party, it’s in the Gherkin. Their paying for the food and drink, but not my time. Yes, looking forward to it.

Are you an escort?

 

[Dave the OAP]

There are individual teams organising their own piss ups and meals, but in our Crawley office where I am " based" there is me, the security guard( who is a strict Muslim and therefore doesn't recognise Christmas - although he gave me a card last year) and 3000 empty desks.

We have a golf club Christmas lunch coming up in the middle of December and that is about it really.

Our place used to book Marriott at Heathrow or one of the top London hotels...all expenses paid including accommodation and travel, but now we get nothing whatsoever, although we do get a mail on Christmas Eve saying we can leave at 3 if our manager agrees....

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Are you an escort?

I’m more of a Rolls Royce.

 

[BNthree]

Cancelled due to lack of interest

Same here. We would have to pay ourselves which is a factor. Also colleagues live all over so most people would either have to drive or pay big taxi fares which no-one fancies. We have a 2pm "mulled wine and mince pies" on last day before christmas which will be dire.

 

[clapham_gull]

There are individual teams organising their own piss ups and meals, but in our Crawley office where I am " based" there is me, the security guard( who is a strict Muslim and therefore doesn't recognise Christmas - although he gave me a card last year) and 3000 empty desks.

We have a golf club Christmas lunch coming up in the middle of December and that is about it really.

Our place used to book Marriott at Heathrow or one of the top London hotels...all expenses paid including accommodation and travel, but now we get nothing whatsoever, although we do get a mail on Christmas Eve saying we can leave at 3 if our manager agrees....

Worked for a company on 2000 that got taken over by Americans.

First thing they did was take away the traditional Christmas bonus which was literally £100 in an envelope - although we did get taxed.

After much staff complaining they re-instated it but renamed it the "Millennium Bonus" just to remind us we wouldn't be receiving another one for at least 1,000 years.

 

[Two Professors]

Mines on the 13th Dec. There was a poll and I chose only one day that I could attend, this being the day that least others could make.
Unfortunately they've selected the day I couldn't make...
I suffer the bellends with good humor at work and there are a few that I genuinely like. I'm not interested in socialising on mass with bellends so now try to give such occasions a miss.

Funny that.Several places I have worked,the party organisers always ensured certain people were unable to attend,so the party would not be a damp squib!

 

[Horses Arse]

Funny that.Several places I have worked,the party organisers always ensured certain people were unable to attend,so the party would not be a damp squib!

I'm sure you found a way around that

 

[NEASTGULL]

Ours are being split so that the contact centre phone lines are still covered. I was originally due to attend the meal next Thursday, but as I said that I could not attend on that date, they swapped me onto last Thursdays meal.

I work for a charity and as they cannot pay for the meals the staff paid, using funds generated by events held throughout the year, and from the profits from the tuck shop.

We were allowed 2 hours at the end of our shift, in order to attend, and the company provided taxies to get us to the venue.

We had to buy our own drinks, but this wasn't really a problem, as I had to be at work ready to start at 8am on Friday, so I just had a couple of pints with the meal and was back home by around 8:30.