Office Parties

[MikeH]

Yes. After the baby is born you just want to sleep.

[Flubber]

AS for office parties, we typically attend 3 a year

1. Mrs Flubber's party for her unit at the hospital-- I don't know anyone really but her unit is made up of 90% nurses and many of them are young and hot and drunk- Its a buffett style meal followed by a dance. This year they had a camera set up to let people take photos of their groups and as the night went on a number of the ladies seemed to want to have at least one photo of them kissing some other woman or doing increasingly suggestive poses-- I did mention that many of them are young and hot right??

2. My company's big party--its also food and then a dance. Usually the live entertainment is good. The other great thing about this party is that its so freaking huge that
a) my wife inevitably runs into people she knows and
b) its easy to just hang with people you like
You can't mingle with everyone so you meet with friends and enjoy yourself in much the same way as if you went to a club with friends (except it IS a work thing and your boss IS there somewhere so most people stay a little more sober. Since this party is downtown Mrs Flubber and I often just stay downtown in a hotel and return to the kids in the morning (Grandma is visiting so it makes it easy)

3. My boss's open house- Our work team is small (usually around 10) so every year we get invited to his afternoon holiday open house. Its a "bring your whole family and come and go as you please " type thing and my boss has also invited his friends and relatives so its busy enough there. Our work team mostly all worked together for 5 years so the spouses know each other (Mrs Flubber has gotten silly with my boss's wife a couple of times at a work conference we attend). So between food, drinks and having people ooh and ahh over your kids and then doing the same in return, I find the couple of hours pass pleasantly. All of us underlings do email each other in advance and generally all go around the same time


I know lots of people hate their office parties but mine are just fine for different reasons

[pchang]

The only reason to go to mine is that they hand out free prizes. On the other hand, I skipped mine because I don't need any more stuff. Now, if only I worked at a place like Vivid....

[Flubber]

The only reason to go to mine is that they hand out free prizes. On the other hand, I skipped mine because I don't need any more stuff. Now, if only I worked at a place like Vivid....

Vivid ? Are you talking the movie-makers??

[pchang]

Yes. I imagine their office parties are a lot more interesting than mine.

[Flubber]

Yes. I imagine their office parties are a lot more interesting than mine.

Well it is one party where you would not have any objections if some of the ladies started "working"

[DanS]

I just relax and enjoy myself at holiday parties and stay mostly sober, so it is all good fun.

[MikeH]

Ours is tonight. Drinks at the boss's house then meal at a nice restaurant place.

[Lorizael]

Brits have holidays, too?

[MikeH]

Christmas is bigger here than it is in the states.

Though mostly the traditional pagan drinking/feasting and the crass commercial bit. Not so much the recent Jesus bit.

[MikeH]

It's equivalent to if you rolled Thanksgiving and Xmas into one big holiday.

A huge proportion of people will be taking leave from 23rd December until 2nd Jan. And this is normal. With the 3 Christmas and New Year bank holidays that's only 3 days leave.

[Hauldren Collider]

Christmas is bigger here than it is in the states.

That's difficult to fathom. I didn't realize Christmas could GET any bigger.

[MikeH]

We don't have Thanksgiving so all the hype begins in September.

And there's the full week/10 days off work for a large segment of society.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well there are 12 Days of Christmas (until Jan 6 - ie, Epiphany)

[MikeH]

My birthday is 12th night.