Office Christmas Parties

[orly]

A real low point of the year when you are forced to feel grateful and cheery towards despised senior management, particularly bad in my current company.

Anyone else dreading this over the festive period?

 

[TX Bill]

I've been to two office Christmas parties in the past 15 years.

Just don't care for 'em to be honest.

 

[The Cowboy]

I recently moved teams so am attending my old team one, which will be good, and new team one, which will be crap.

 

[ijjysmith]

Mine was £60 a ticket this year so jibbed right off.

 

[orly]

good to see the general consensus is that they are absolute mince

 

[TX Bill]

good to see the general consensus is that they are absolute mince

I mean no one wants to talk about work at the office party and who wants to talk about Everton other than me?

No one.


So I don't go.

 

[orly]

I mean no one wants to talk about work at the office party and who wants to talk about Everton other than me?

No one.


So I don't go.

Nobody within 20 years of my age at mine and I'm late 20s.

Our senior management never work in the office.

Yeah desperate to have a Xmas dinner with them zzzzzz

 

[Brennan]

I'm field based so don't have to worry about this. Going out for a meal with the colleagues i don't hate though.

I'm not sure why people who spend 8 hours a day 5 days a week in an office would want to have a party there. Rather go down the pub surely.

 

[Lori]

We stopped having big Christmas parties at my company a while back because nobody wanted to go to them. We now cut out of work early, proceed to a booked banquet area/room at a fantastic local Mexican food restaurant, and then exchange gifts after a glorious feast paid for by the company. And it's mandatory to attend! Hahahaha

ETA - And when I say glorious feast I truly mean that. Their food is delicious!

 

[Minimeister]

I had mine on the 28th November.

 

[Sapie88]

Had mine on Friday, so much sniff going on in the bogs. Managers sorting the lads out and the meal was alright too.

 

[Tramps_mate]

I jibbed mine off. A masquerade ball at a posh hotel with 5 course meal and free bar all night?? Pffffttt

 

[Donald Twain]

God awful ! Rather eat my own face!

 

[Billy Dean]

Mine is tonight, jibbed right off.

 

[Ashtonian]

we have two. We have the official one which is the 50 quid a ticket gala thing which i swerved and the othe ris in the office where they are doing a 5 quid a head get food. That second one turns into get food and sit at your desk only so im swerving that this year as well. Last year one of the team leaders brother worked in an indian takeaway so we all got that to eat but they have left now so its half arsed sadly