Comments on: The Christmas Party Season Be Upon Us…

By: Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:34:11 +0000

Steve: it started last weekend for me….it’s gonna be a big one this year….gonna have a wee cry now….too old for this malarky…

Simon: you’ll be there….

Nelly: the chances of trouble and unemployment are so high it;s just not worth it eh?

Other Manuel: oh dear me no….that would get you a one on one meeting with some gimp from hr quicker than you can say sexual harassment

cat: no, you should go…that sounds eh delightful

Flann: we had a guy last year who smacked his boss, got turfed out and sat on by the doorman and eventually arrested…I do not recommend it…

By: Flann O'Coonassa

Flann O'Coonassa — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:01:10 +0000

The Christmas do should be the one time of year when you can legally and morally stitch your boss a loaf, consequence free. Come back in January 1st, and nothing is mentioned. The worst of the blackening around the eyes from your boss’s broken nose has gone, and you both start from a blank sheet with each other.

By: cat

cat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:52:29 +0000

we’re ripped off for the holiday dinner, having said that I consider myself lucky, 3 people office paraded out for a ‘lunch’ no booze with the board members at one table and us 3 at another and back to work in hour and half max…if I can nail which day it is on I prebook vacation and give it a pass…

By: Manuel Estimulo

Manuel Estimulo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:22:10 +0000

Hola Other Manuel–

Re: Secret Santa. Edible knickers. You are can never go wrong with edible knickers.

Besos

Other Other Manuel

By: Nelly

Nelly — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:35:31 +0000

At the office do I’ll be the one with the tight, fixed smile watching the time, wondering how soon I can decently go home. I’ll also be stone cold sober. Take drink in company with that lot? I’d be the Christmas Mentalist for sure.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:17:32 +0000

ALL the things you listed there are the reason I have been to about three Xmas parties in the 19 years I’ve been a working stiff. I absolutely, positively, detest them with the passion of a parent toward a paedophile. You couldn’t pay me enough to go to one. The thing that resonates most with me from this post is the “how can you face each other the next day” bit.
So you go to one of these bashes. The office junior, who’s out for the first time with ‘proper’ grown ups has downed four pints of Stella in the first 15 minutes, and by 19:30 is basically a staggering sick & bullshit machine. You, being an adult of some maturity, have yet to finish your second drink, and mega-drunk there starts mouthing off about how boring / quiet / annoying you are, before spilling his complimentary ‘nibbles’ down you. So you quite reasonably up and twat the idiot, thereby saving everyone else the hassle of doing it. How can you then face each other the next day, knowing HE feels that way about you, and HIM knowing you cleaned is clock for him for his behavior? It boggles the mind I tell you.
Christmas parties? You can keep ‘em.

By: waiterextraordinaire

waiterextraordinaire — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:39:02 +0000

This year I think the parties start Decemeber 10th till the 23rd. It is still relatively dead at our place. Tonight had 3 tables and that was it.

By: Manuel The Waiter

Manuel The Waiter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:19:03 +0000

ha, do it! it’s the best way to be remembered!

By: daisyfae

daisyfae — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:17:05 +0000

i tend toward the “Christmas Minimalist”. no santa hat, bells, ~~hideous~~ festive sweater… i show up. i eat (without spilling anything). i make polite chat. i make an excuse to leave as soon as possible.

this year? FORMAL event. ugh. assless leather chaps? maybe…

By: Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:38:39 +0000

To be honest with you there is very little difference between any of the Fridays in December….they are all rather dark! But yes xmas dos really do bring the best out of people…our recent staff do ended in…oh I really cant say but believe me I am just glad I didn’t go….!