Holiday Party Fun!....

[Dr Yorick]

Facinating thread. I have never worked anywhere where the company cared enough about the employees to have a Christmas party.

[Severen13]

The holiday party at my workplace features a catered gourmet lunch and desserts. No alcohol (since the party is during work hours). The food is good, and we get three hours to sit around and chat and stuff our faces.

Last year there was a raffle giving away prizes such as clocks, t-shirts and stuff like that. The top prize was 40 hours of vacation time (I didn't win that).

[jnd4rusty]

We are having ours on the 17th..at a bowling alley. It will include all four of our stores employees and we will close the stores early so all can participate. They are planning on having "crazy bowling" which will be good because we have one of the best bowlers in the state on our crew and he thinks he can show us all up (he's not conceited just strange..he said he was going to bring all six of his bowling balls with him!!) There will also be pinball games, pool, foosball, air hockey and such. Plus lots of cool door prizes and food and we get our Christmas presents from the company. I like the idea of a bowling party..even though I don't bowl, because 70 percent of our company is made up of young people (teens) so it is appealing for all and because I live directly behind the bowling alley so I don't have to drive anywhere!

[ArenaBoy]

The arena throws some very cool xmas parties. They use the arena floor for all sorts of fun stuff ranging from gladiator fights with those giant q-tips to a rock climbing wall. Also there's free food and it's pretty much employees and their families. I've been going every year just for the food.

[Rapscallion]

At our place, we have our christmas party in some sort of function room.

Apart from the occasional offence of people committing karaoke, not to mention the occasional drunken frolic, the best fun is finding out on the morning after who ended up going home with whom. Well, then there are the almost rans, who tried and failed. They're probably the best at the post mortems...

Rapscallion

[KuzcoLlama]

I don't remember half of my holiday party, just that some girls from another party crashed ours, then I went and crashed theirs and somehow ended up with a birdfeeder. And was plucking flowers from centerpieces and giving them to guys.

I think.

[TNT]

Apart from the occasional offence of people committing karaoke, not to mention the occasional drunken frolic, the best fun is finding out on the morning after who ended up going home with whom. Well, then there are the almost rans, who tried and failed. They're probably the best at the post mortems...

This is our first party in conjunction with our other call center... a call center that's strictly customer service and, like our cs department, the demographics skew decidedly towards women.

A fancy resort... lots of booze... lots of women... no children... and the tech support department that scares people even when we're sober (but keep in mind, I'm just the innocent bystander).

I'm sure it seems like a good idea now... but, I have a feeling that afterwards, somebody in management is going to say (yet again) "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

[Spiffy McMoron]

I don't remember half of my holiday party, just that some girls from another party crashed ours, then I went and crashed theirs and somehow ended up with a birdfeeder. And was plucking flowers from centerpieces and giving them to guys.

I think.

So does that mean that it was a good party, or a bad one?

So I found out a bit more on my Christmas party-apperently the food is great, and they hire a live band to play at the function. I know of a large group of guys from the shop that are going (12 or so) who are around my age and bringing a spouse along with them. It's going to be semi-formal attire, and one fo the mechanics will be worried about his date, a girl I only know as "Smootchie". Should be an interesting night-shame I have to work the next day...

[Rapscallion]

Turns out that a couple of colleagues recently got it together in a pub. She took him home, they got into bed, and he promptly passed out. He admitted this to me in hushed tones and begged me not to let on to her that I knew. Apparently, so he told me, she didn't want anything to do with him the next morning.

What I discovered from someone else who did a little more digging into his tale is that the reason that she wanted nothing to do with him was not the passing out cold. Apparently, he managed to wet the bed in the process...

This year's party is going to be fun!

Rapscallion

[ladydouji]

As far as I know my company isn't having a holiday party for us(typically we would recieve invites in November and have to RSPV in order to go) They didn't have one last either and I was disappointed, because I had never gone to them before(semi-formal and had nothing to wear) Last year I had actually found the most perfect little black dress ever for another event. SO naturally the first year I had something to wear is the first year they don't have a party.

[Banrion]

I don't know what we are doing this year, but last year the bosses bought lunch, and everyone chipped in $5.00 for scratch tickets, and we spent 3 hours scratching, only to end up with over $250.00 worth of tickets still left to scratch. We had weekly lunchtime "Unit Meetings" for the next 3 months before we were out of money from the tickets.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Had our Christmas party on Saturday, and it was agreed to that we wouldn't have to be in until 11-an extra 3 hours to sleep in! Yay! Still, there wasn't much work done, and one guy didn't even bother coming in.

the food was great, and the band was alright. I won a T-shirt as a door prize, but two guys won a Siruis satellite radio, and an iPod nano, respectively. Also, found out that alot of ny co-workers have some smokin' hot spouses!

Also, one guy had his date ditch him partway through the night, so he was all paranoid about that. Also, one other mechanics' wife took off in their Jeep, got it stuck outside a friends house, and then left it there and walked home-all without the mechanic knowing where the hell his wife is!

[Argabarga]

I don't go to them, I don't drink, and they never seem to schedule anything but drinking, then they wonder why I don't show up.

[BlakeMP]

I chipped in five bucks for my work party, then I couldn't go because of my bad back.

[Melxb]

We had our Christmas party last weekend. It was interesting--fun and boring at the same time. My table was filled with sarcastic workers who've seen it all in my department. We had drinks and dinner and "networked" for a few hours. My feet hurt by the end of the night, but that's the only bad thing that happened--no dancing on the table waiving tinsel around (as I heard happened in years past).