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?

[fiveleaves]

I used to find work Christmas do's quite stressful. While I used to enjoy the actual meal, I found the afternoon/evening drinking session quite grim. Too much of a square I guess. I was always searching for a reason to go home.

[Stickybottle]

My colleagues are having one
Well so far they are !
I am not attending
I could not imagine anything worse

[Cloverjo]

I’m usually invited to a local business’s Christmas party. Thankfully, they’re not having one this year. Phew!
The food and drink are lovely, but they always seat me next to a man who plainly doesn’t like me.

So nice not to have to worry about what I’m going to try to talk to him about.

[Togo]

We have just had one of ours 3T ... an afternoon in the Cottage Loaf Llandudno for "she who must be obeyed" and myself. She has been WFH for the duration so I treated her to an unwinder. We are having another in 10 days or so seeing as it went so well. No staff do for her as it has been seriously frowned upon by her employer, who has expressed a preference for all employees to resist meeting for a get together at Christmas. Veiled hints at requiring tests and clear results before being "allowed" onto premises that have been closed for 18 months nigh on. Most of these people are working from home btw.

[gulliver1]

18.35 Aren't they lucky Stickbottle.

[LadyCG]

I'm going out tomorrow night, funnily enough to the same restaurant I was at last night.

It should be a fab night - the people I'm going with are an absolute hoot!

[burlyshirley]

I'm retired now, but used to love the office Christmas party, Probably the only thing I miss about working lol ! I'm having a Christmas lunch with a friend next week and on Christmas Day going out with two other friends to a local pub for our dinner. Pub has emailed me to say they are still doing dinner, and we're all looking forward to it. Bring it on !

[Stickybottle]

Aw thanks gullible
40+ posts on the thread and you singled me out !
I am honoured
Slow news day ? Or taking a 2 minute break from your Boris fixation ?
I guess you will not be going to an xmas party either in your country because most of mainland europe will be in lockdown yes ?

[tiggerblue10]

There are 6 of us in my immediate team so going for lunch somewhere on the 17th. We usually meet up with loads of other colleagues but not this time.

I don't like being out in the evenings anymore so going back home to little Tigs. I'd rather be warm indoors in my PJs watching TV than out getting ****faced. Those days are long gone.

[LadyCG]

How is little Tiggs now?

[tiggerblue10]

He's doing ok now, LCG. He sits with another pupil now who he's made friends with and has got a year 10 buddy who walks him to the gate at home time. It's good progress :o)

[poorclare]

Dublin (Republic of Ireland) NO

Belfast (Northern Ireland) Yes

[LadyCG]

I'm really pleased to hear that, Tiggs. I hope he's looking forward to Christmas.

[gulliver1]

19.43 just a taste of pot and kettle sticky, you are good at giving it out.

[tiggerblue10]

He can't wait till he finishes school for Xmas, LCG. Last day is 21st.

[Stickybottle]

gulliver1
19.43 just a taste of pot and kettle sticky, you are good at giving it out.

Yet you had not posted on this thread and I had not mentioned you but you chose to single me out and be provocative ?
As I said I am honoured
I guess I am now your new fixation instead of Boris
Lucky me !
Enjoy your xmas party in whichever part of the uk you supposedly do not live in

[Ellipsis]

This year, yes. Last year, no ... we fell for "Do as I say, not as I do."

[Stickybottle]

Damn and blast !
I forgot I am feeding the troll

[LadyCG]

Miles breaks up from Nursery on 17/12.

We've had Charlie Bear come to stay with us this weekend (he stays with different boys and girls every weekend) so we have to write all about Charlie's stay and put photos (optional) in Charlie's Big Adventure Book.

Any ideas most welcome...

[Togo]

Can you imagine the Christmas party for our resident remainiacs and their like minded party poopers. You know how they need to be told what to do in every circumstance and require micromanagement ... preferably from a foreign Government, which has banned parties and Christmas. The invitations would be posted but most of them would ignore the envelope for a few days wondering if it was good news or an unexpected bill. The invitations would only give the place and time. What a conundrum it would give them. What should they wear? The sparkly frock with statement Doc Martins, or the Boiler suit with ballet slippers? Would a fascinator or a hard hat look best. Either way the average remainiac was turning up looking like a transitioning Fred Dibnah so as to emulate all the others Then how to get there? Bus, Taxi, or walk. Walking would probably be best then, so that if they changed their confused mind on the way, going home didn't involve asking the bus or taxi driver to take them back. On arrival they would stand in the middle of the room and without instructions on how to "mix" spend an hour or so wondering if they were being ignored or were instead ignoring everybody else. They would of course drink tap water throughout the "party" in the absence of guidelines on the merits of fruit juices, still or mineral beverages, and clear alcohol recommendation limit guides being announced every 5 minutes. The meal would be a presentation from the Friends of the Dirth Society with a short film showing the halal slaughter of sheep and cattle and the live plucking of an Ostrich wrongly identified as a Turkey. Processed, but nicely coloured and rehydrated, wood chippings and reclaimed cardboard in Kale stock followed by an upside down pudding. The "after dinner" pass the parcel game would have to be stopped to organise a committee meeting to issue instructions, when it became obvious that whilst some were busy unwrapping the parcel the others were equally busy wrapping it back up again. When it was finally plugged in after a health and safety meeting your average remainiac would be eager to take a turn on the karaoke machine and would give an excruciatingly mundane rendition of Should I Stay or Should I Go followed by Hello Goodbye. ♪♪ "You say yes, I say no, You say stop and I say go, go, go, Oh, no, You say goodbye and I say hello, Hello, hello, I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello. ♪♪