Are You Having A Staff Xmas Bash?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59517527
...we are Dec 17th, start at lunch, plastered by tea time straight for a ruby! What are you doing?

[pastafreak]

I've sometimes wondered, can your family collect you?
My daughter and her partner will be coming down from London to get me. I can't lug luggage anymore either.

[emmie]

maybe, but i wouldn't ask them to.

[emmie]

also there is the congestion charge and now ULEZ the Ultra low emission zone to pay for. total 27 quid odd a day... madness. I am glad i don't drive.

[Lie-in King]

No, I've given the staff Christmas off this year. Bashing them never seems to help.

[housebuyer]

"...but if they're working together day to day why not? What difference does it make if they're working or chatting and having a drink? I honestly can't see what the fuss is about."

It's because London was in tier 3 and at the time the rule was "no mixing of households indoors, or most outdoor places, apart from support bubbles."

If the allegations of the Christmas parties are true then it's the hypocrisy of the government in not following its own rules (while insisting that everyone else must) that is causing the controversy.

[lankeela]

Prudie but is that really the job of the opposition, to constantly nit pick on things that in everyday life are really not important - getting fed up of Captain Hindsight and his cronies spending all their time on finding fault rather then offering suitable suggestions. Its hardly a hanging offence to have a get together with work colleagues when it wasn't breaking any actual laws.

[jno]

just watch out that they aren't congregating below stairs and pinning up bits of mistletoe, LiK. You don't want to wake up on January 1 and find they've all been put in an ICU and you have to smash the avocado on your own toast.

[anneasquith]

You sound such a catch ttt !!

[ToraToraTora]

JJ 12:15 probably new year now.

[ToraToraTora]

JJ sorry, thought you were asking me!

[jno]

lock up your daughters, anne!

[ToraToraTora]

anne: "You sound such a catch ttt !! " - prime English beef love if you can handle it!

[naomi24]

//It's because London was in tier 3 and at the time the rule was "no mixing of households indoors, or most outdoor places//

Sorry, I still don't get it. It seems daft to me to say people can work together but not have a drink at the office after work.

[dave50]

Of course we are, why shouldn't we? For the record, I don't blame no.10 for having a party, a load of fuss about nothing.

[ToraToraTora]

can we stop whining about last years no 10 bash. I'm asking what we are all doing this year.

[housebuyer]

"Sorry, I still don't get it. It seems daft to me to say people can work together but not have a drink at the office after work."

Whether or not the rule at the time made any sense is largely irrelevant, but if you disagree with that rule then you know who to blame...

The issue now is that it was the government's rule and they should have been following it just like they insisted that everybody else did.

[rockyracoon]

Ours is also the 17th. Big dinner and party. Can’t wait.

[curlygirlies]

We all work from home and are having a cocktail party via zoom. We are all under 30 and sensible Ha Ha

[mallyh]

I don't work but i'll have a party, prosecco in one hand sausage roll in the other ,tutu well supported with braces and i'll be twirling round the kitchen x

[emmie]

going to see family for the big day, at my nieces new house.