[Misc] Work’s Christmas Do’s

[timbha]

Interesting mix of experiences. Our firm (small, only c 40 staff) is privately owned and the boss invites everyone plus partners to a pub do, picks up the bar tab all night and a 4 course dinner plus pays for taxis for everyone to get home safely. Everyone goes and has a great night out. Nothing negative at all!

I like this idea. Involving partners (probably the only time in the year) is a great move and keeps it “honest”. Sounds like a good boss.

 

[Gabbafella]

Got mine at the Amex tomorrow night.
Have to say, the people I work with are brilliant and I can't wait to have a few sherbets with them.
I got the general manager as my secret Santa so no dildos, butt plugs or "I'm a c**t" mug for her.

 

[Motogull]

I'm a grinch. Forced fun shite. I've pulled out of the main one and will take some cringe pipe strengthening meds in advance of my department one.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Our former combined Compliance/Legal/Risk ‘do’

This does sound like the recipe for a fun evening.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Our team is going for a curry in Guildford. If that doesn't get me in the Christmas spirit, nothing will.

 

[zefarelly]

Do firms do this any more? The last one I went to was in 2009, in Ipswich. Neither of the last 2 firms I've worked for since 2010 have done them.

2005 . . . Pub in SOmpting . . . Started at noon . .last time I recall. . .

 

[timbha]

What about office decorations? Do they cause a meltdown, and do all the middle aged women down tools, get a coffee and stare in admiration as gym addict Carl, wearing tight strides leaps from desk to desk fixing the tinsel, quickly followed by an All Staff email on H&S?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

A few years back I worked on a giant IT project in Beckenham. A large number of offshore graduates had been drafted into the project, first time in the UK for many of them. Young Indian lad on our team had Secret Santa explained to him. He drew Bernadette, a fierce Irish lady. Indian lad's knowledge of UK Christian names was understandably patchy. Plus we worked on a different part of the project from Bernadette, so he didn't know her. However, he DID know that the guy with the big moustache who ran the deli across the the road was called Bernard. So young Indian guy put two and two together and... Bernadette was WAY less than happy to receive a shaving kit in front of about ninety people

 

[Guinness Boy]

This does sound like the recipe for a fun evening.

Ain't no party like a Financial Services party.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Got mine tomorrow and we’ve all had to pay £20 for it, it should be a good piss up though. My company is quite a lot of over 50 male trainspotters, so it could all be done and dusted by 7. It’s next to London Bridge station and my quench for poor quality football has made me notice it’s only a 10 minute journey to Charlton v Cheltenham, so might just end up there.

I hope it's not the Brewdog. £20 will get you two drinks and half a sandwich.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

This does sound like the recipe for a fun evening.

You say that I once went on a combined risk and finance night out (only because we shared the same floor) coined as “Frisky”

 

[zeemeeuw]

Do’s in thread title doesn’t require an apostrophe but it didn’t look right as Dos

I think it's an acceptable exception to the normal rules (to prevent misreading), otherwise, how would you dot all the i's and cross all the t's?

 

[Bodian]

I think it's an acceptable exception to the normal rules (to prevent misreading), otherwise, how would you dot all the i's and cross all the t's?

And Christmas Dos just sounds like an IT night out!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Ain't no party like a Financial Services party.

All the Christmas stuff I've done has been with a bridges and rail engineering team in Sheffield.
Imagine a load of men, aged between 16 and 65, who like beer, pool and... well that's it.
It's my vibe exactly.
I'm in an office now full of environmental consultant types. I'm slightly concerned they might expect me to have "fun".
Also my plan for the evening hinges on either baling early or staying out in Leeds until the first train back at 4:30am.

 

[jackalbion]

I hope it's not the Brewdog. £20 will get you two drinks and half a sandwich.

No the mad hatter, there seems to be a food order, and I often have a taste for the special dietry requirement food, so will probably ruin that. If they wanted kosher food, they should have made it so tast that I would eat it all.

 

[BigBod]

What about office decorations? Do they cause a meltdown, and do all the middle aged women down tools, get a coffee and stare in admiration as gym addict Carl, wearing tight strides leaps from desk to desk fixing the tinsel, quickly followed by an All Staff email on H&S?

Christmas decorations, HMS Gloucester 1986. Every mess was given £25 to decorate their mess at Christmas. Captains' rounds were organised so he could see the decorations in each mess. When he got to our mess, he was surprised to see a scabby little tree on top of the telly and not much else. He said to the leading hand of the mess, "Doesn't look like £25 worth of decorations here LRO Smith" to which Smudge replied, "We ate them sir". We'd had a mess party the night before and it all got a bit messy, crepe paper leaves stains around your lips that doesn't come off for a while!!! The skipper just shook his head and walked away...

 

[Guinness Boy]

All the Christmas stuff I've done has been with a bridges and rail engineering team in Sheffield.
Imagine a load of men, aged between 16 and 65, who like beer, pool and... well that's it.
It's my vibe exactly.
I'm in an office now full of environmental consultant types. I'm slightly concerned they might expect me to have "fun".
Also my plan for the evening hinges on either baling early or staying out in Leeds until the first train back at 4:30am.

What could possibly go wrong......

 

[Whitechapel]

Personal Work Christmas Party highlights came when I was at World of Books.

There was a bloke there called Mental Jake (not to his face, he was huge)who used to crush and sniff his anti-psychotic medication. One year he got kicked out quite early on in the night and when we left a few hours later he was curled up asleep next to a quite clearly agitated homeless man in a nearby doorway. Took the focus of our workmate who had just been punched in the face for no reason at the party.

Mainly I’m just glad that it trumped how bad I was the year before. I’d been out since midday for a mates birthday, ran home at 8 to get changed and headed over to the party. I was so drunk it took me hours to notice my shirt was on inside out. There’s a large blank spot in my memory of the night, but I remember realising I was in a house with a group of lads I didn’t recognise with a dog on my lap. I just got up and left without saying a word, only to discover I had no idea where I was. Ended up stumbling across West Worthing station, sadly it was 4am so I just laid on the floor defeated until the first train turned up.

 

[Taybha]

I'm not going on our Christmas do the other bloke who worked here got the sack last week so it would be a bit dull when pass the parcel started, however I shall be partaking in other people's festivities in town,Welsh people are very friendly after 5 pints and generally forget who they are let alone who they've invited to the Christmas bash.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hope everybody's remembered which starter they ordered three months ago