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Work Christmas dos are god's way of telling you it's time to start looking for a new job (if such a thing exists in the current climate).

Am I the only one who read the headline "Xmas dos" as "Xmas DOS" and though that this might be an article about the way Christmases were before Windows?

My work Christmas do is this Friday. This year, it's being organised at division level, rather than department level. The biggest difference appears to be that they've allowed us three free drinks each - whereas in previous years, the bar tab seems to have stretched as far as closing time.

Yesterday they announced that our company's been sold to another multinational - so who knows what next year will bring.

The small team dos are always the best. But I too had a little sadness in ours last week. Next summer the department relocates to Salford. Some good friends have gone already. Some are still to go. Some of us are taking the money and running.

It made me feel sad. And that's not what such things should be all about.

i recieved emails from people who's name i didn't recognise inviting me to 'Name of group/division' christmas event, that i didn't even realise that my team fell into that partiuclar group/division. So i just hit DELETE everytime i got a subsequent email asking me for money, or menu choice, and got on with my life and i don't feel like i've missed out on anything. Bah, humbug...

I am retired but still get to go to 6 Christmas meals during the run up to Christmas.(ex. work place, clubs and groups I belong to). Another one today, 3rd this week. So don't think you are guaranteed escape when your employment ends,-unless you live as a hermit. Still it saves cooking at home, just gets a bit monotonous.

The answer is to have a filthy job no one else wants to do and that you have to do all on your own in a room far removed from civilisation. Result? No invites. No fake Christmas cheer. Same humdrum as the rest of the year. You think that's ideal?

I think you should get together with Lyle from D4D this Christmas



Had to laugh...I just came back from a week's visit over the Pond to the UK precisely to avoid celebrating the beginning of a new decade by having to attend: 1) a staff retreat; 2) the dept Xmas party and 3) the company Xmas party.

Since I became retired, I have started to enjoy the Christmas get together by my old employer. I get to see all the old faces, catch up with all the news.

The only reason to go to a do is the off chance someone will make an arse of themselves. I have seen a couple of real classic cases, one where a person dumped a glass of red wine over the boss.

For most of hubby's Xmas Work Dos (in the Years of Plenty) we couldn't afford the cost (even then they weren't free!) so didn't go, nowadays (in the Lean Years) they don't do anything at all, except some of his team go out one lunchtime in Dec!

For all of you out there that have had the "pleasure" of trying to please everybody when organising a large event and end up feeling like this lady by the end of it all!! :-))

http://junkmails.posterous.com/christmas-party-18

Our xmas lunch was different this year... we hired a venue with a kitchen and people brought home-made dishes for a 3 course xmas meal with a difference. Really homely and intimate... and great value too, it worked out as just over a tenner per head for some amazing food and wine. Compared to prevoius meals where I've paid upwards of £30(!?) for so-so meals without alcohol, this year was brilliant. It helped that a fair few of my colleagues are foodies and cooked great food and also that we are a close knit division, hence going off to the pub afterwards rather than back to work!

Of course, like so many xmas lunches this year, it was bittersweet because we're going through a restructure, so a good proportion of my colleagues will not be working here next xmas... At least we have some good memories.











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