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[Albion] Work Christmas Do
- Thread starter Marty___Mcfly
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Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
10pm, December 24th. The only things that will be supplied are a few scraps of bread and some fruit juice - and I am the one buying those.
- Aug 7, 2003
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Someone needs to bounce the [MENTION=221]Beeneys gloves[/MENTION] thread. He hasn’t been on here for five years though. Probably still pissed.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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I'm so looking forward to my non-attendance this year, no luke warm Chicken Goujons or mini Pork pies for me..... no groups of women in high heels and miniscule Baco-Foil dresses moving en masse in and out of the toilets squealing, no morons buying a tray full of Tequila shots, no Amstel lager, no ridiculous drinking games. No walking 3 miles to do the one and a half mile walk home. Marvellous !
daveinplzen
New member
- Aug 31, 2018
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Only a few of us in Plzen but company budgeted well for it and we are going to get destroyed. Praising Jesus of course.
Weststander
Well-known member
And avoiding the office perv/s making a move on the youngest Baco-Foil female.
Ours was last Saturday in West street, Brighton. There were 3 office parties all under one roof. I got totally hammered, and when the photos were posted on facebook, I was in none of them, because I ended up in one of the other parties. I had the greatest time, and danced with everyone. I don't know who they were, or who they worked for, but believe me, I had the greatest time. I left the venue at about 03:30 and stumbled home about an hour later. I had to work the following day, but so what! I had so much fun, I just wish I knew what company the girls I danced with were employed by. Swapping phone numbers might have been a good idea.......
Have you see the Bellcheese thread?
Have people always been disparaging about works do’s? People used to look forward to them didn’t the? What’s changed?
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
Next Thursday lunch time, in an Italian restaurant in Hallbergmoos very close to Munich airport. Flying home late Thursday afternoon so won’t be drinking. Beer and planes don’t work for me.
Codner pharmaceuticals
Well-known member
That’s a bit harsh... on bellends the world over
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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Successfully avoided the departmental one, now just to avoid the "main" one next week.
Will be happily attending the invite I got from another department in a week. That's really the way to go.
Just like your "first" work party it's great. but then it's simply an extension of work - one that you pay for. It's a NO from me.
Anyone one else been called "scrooge" - for NOT paying to attend their own departmental party
I have a number of times.
I'm sure that's what Dickens was ACTUALLY referring to.
Will be happily attending the invite I got from another department in a week. That's really the way to go.
Just like your "first" work party it's great. but then it's simply an extension of work - one that you pay for. It's a NO from me.
Anyone one else been called "scrooge" - for NOT paying to attend their own departmental party
I have a number of times.I'm sure that's what Dickens was ACTUALLY referring to.
- Jul 7, 2003
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- Jul 7, 2003
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We organise & pay for our own, standard for the public sector I guess. Occasionally somebody senior might drop by the office with a box (not a tub) of Cadbury's Heroes, if they're not otherwise engaged. Then the party really starts.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
YES ! It was. Where they have the South of England show.
I always get these obscure Sussex hamlets mixed up.
pearl
Well-known member
when I was in my 20s I worked for a print company. I made the mistake of joining the big burly machine minders on their pub crawl one year. I weighed about 7 stone (in those days). I got completely rat arsed, loud, foul language ... the lot. We were thrown out of one pub (because of me). I swore I'd never go on a works do again.
They were still taking the piss out of me when I left the company about 7 years later!
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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Damn, I was hoping it was Lingfield!! I'm at Lingfield racecourse now for the main company party. A couple of beers at the bar to start then getting changed and heading down at 7. Looking forward to it.
Er Lindfield not Lingfield and in fact Ardingly
How very true.
37 years ago (FFS) I worked for a publishing company in Holburn, between my degree and starting my doctorate. We had our party at the Grosvenor. Table service but open bar. I popped up for a cheery Christmas Tia Maria, and the barman poured me half a pint. Train ride back to Crawley was memorable. So I'm told....next morning the bedroom smelled like someone had been boiling up coffee beans in a caultron of vodka.
My earlier quip about working for a university meant that....my colleagues have organised a 'do', with students invited. Apparently seven students have signed up.There will be some wine (which will be tolerable) but we are expected to play games. Twenty tosser academics and a handful of timid undergraduates, plus one or two gobshites. I have agreed to attend this year. I don't normally like a piss up in London as I have a tendency to fall asleep on the train and miss my stop. A 25 mile cycle back from Birchington to Fav in the rain on a bike with no lights, from 12.30, with a soggy arrival at three in the morning is not top of my agenda. Last time I did that was 1990. I am now 60. So I will take it easy next week. If I do have an 'accident' I will be sure to post an update here.
Update: no accidents. In the end there were 5 staff and about 20 of them. Oddly ten of these were Chinese. The games were brilliant (most of us are childishly competitive). I left early (about 7 thirty) and was told later one of the Chinese students couldn't handle her wine and had to be escorted from the premises.
We academics certainly know how to push the boat out.
