Works Christmas Party - Groundhog day
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I know there will be and have been Christmas Party threads but I have to share this. Our office Christmas Party ths year is in the same hotel it has been for the past 3 years, doing the same boring crap (Secret Santa, quiz etc...) at the same time, eating the same food, sitting next to the same people.
Im not going, I can't cope with it, its like ground hog day. I fear if I went I would get the same secret santa gift I got last year and just go mental.
Anyone else have to put up with the office Christmas "party" when you really don't want to go?.
Im not going, I can't cope with it, its like ground hog day. I fear if I went I would get the same secret santa gift I got last year and just go mental.
Anyone else have to put up with the office Christmas "party" when you really don't want to go?.
You'll have a ball.
BoRED S2upid said:
I know there will be and have been Christmas Party threads but I have to share this. Our office Christmas Party ths year is in the same hotel it has been for the past 3 years, doing the same boring crap (Secret Santa, quiz etc...) at the same time, eating the same food, sitting next to the same people.
Im not going, I can't cope with it, its like ground hog day. I fear if I went I would get the same secret santa gift I got last year and just go mental.
Anyone else have to put up with the office Christmas "party" when you really don't want to go?.
You think that's bad. At my last firm we went to the same restaurant (a client) at least 7 years in a row that I know of. Im not going, I can't cope with it, its like ground hog day. I fear if I went I would get the same secret santa gift I got last year and just go mental.
Anyone else have to put up with the office Christmas "party" when you really don't want to go?.
Our ones used to be the same - same Italian restaurant round the corner - where the food was s
te to be honest ... we used to tell the girl in the office who arranged it to pick somewhere else but she used to get chatted up when she went round there and plied with drink so that's always where we ended up ...
Plus there would be loads of people there we didn't know - mates of the boss etc ... we just shook hands and nodded dumbly.
Glad we don't go anymore. Only upside was, the boss paid for it all ...
te to be honest ... we used to tell the girl in the office who arranged it to pick somewhere else but she used to get chatted up when she went round there and plied with drink so that's always where we ended up ...Plus there would be loads of people there we didn't know - mates of the boss etc ... we just shook hands and nodded dumbly.
Glad we don't go anymore. Only upside was, the boss paid for it all ...
I don't do works Xmas parties. 
Look, the fat bird from accounts is still the fat bird from accounts, she doesn't get any more attractive waering a paper hat and you having 3/4's of a bottle of vodka.
Xmas parties only go to serve the office gossips who want to post pictures on their bebo and facebook pages as they have no real friends. Bugger off, i do not want my picture plastered all over the internet.
This secret santa nonsence as well annoys me, i do not need any more crap in my house and the last thing i need is someone to spend ten quid on ste i don't need. I struggle thinking of things to buy my family for Xmas, i don't need to have to buy something for someone who i wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.
I thought we lived in a free country where we could do as we wished rather than being pressurised into going to 'works' parties.
Ahhhmmm Oooot!
Look, the fat bird from accounts is still the fat bird from accounts, she doesn't get any more attractive waering a paper hat and you having 3/4's of a bottle of vodka.
Xmas parties only go to serve the office gossips who want to post pictures on their bebo and facebook pages as they have no real friends. Bugger off, i do not want my picture plastered all over the internet.
This secret santa nonsence as well annoys me, i do not need any more crap in my house and the last thing i need is someone to spend ten quid on s
te i don't need. I struggle thinking of things to buy my family for Xmas, i don't need to have to buy something for someone who i wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.I thought we lived in a free country where we could do as we wished rather than being pressurised into going to 'works' parties.
Ahhhmmm Oooot!
Many years ago I was faced with the prospect of a tedious night wth a bunch of cigar-smoking middle aged men, or going to different party instead. I chose the latter, and was promptly carpeted the next day by the boss for not supporting the 'team'. I told him that whilst he was entitled to tell me what to do in office hours, outside those I'd make my own mind up.
cazzer said:
LHDisbest said:
I thought we lived in a free country where we could do as we wished rather than being pressurised into going to 'works' parties.
Ahhhmmm Oooot!
Pressured.Ahhhmmm Oooot!
Sorry it's that sort of day.
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