Is anyone looking forward to their works Xmas party??

[Purple_Popple]

I am, sort of lol!!

[RATTER15]

Yes, I am :)

[joggerjayne]

A complete list of everyone who works in my business.

1. Me

2. Err ...

3. ... that's it.

[Bobbisox]

I used to hate them PP, a necessary evil, if you didn't go you were a party pooper, so you went, with people back-slapping you and then being pretty crap the rest of the year...not all, only some./.lol

[Bobbisox]

a bran tub doc???.lol

[vulcan]

I stopped going the year we were asked to attend a Christmas dinner at a local hotel. As the coffee was being served the MD stood up and told us we had to pay for it and to add insult to injury his secretary came round collecting the money.

[owdhamer]

I used to enjoy them when i was working, especially watching the a___hole creepers, then taking the fosters out of them in the new year

[Bobbisox]

we will be having one when we go away end of November, me and the gals
bring it onnnnn...

[Bobbisox]

there always those to watch owdhammer, makes very good entertainment..haha

[rowanwitch]

don't go to them... too many other things to pay for over the holiday and so little time to spare make myself popular by 'voluunteering to be the one who stays behind to man the phones'

[Old_Geezer]

I don't look forward to any works Xmas party when it's near Xmas, let alone now.

[Bobbisox]

Seagull, please can I come to your???

[venator]

I used to organise the Company's Christmas do, for about 150 people.

Towards the end of December, we had an open day in the office, with loads of booze, for staff and some invited clients.

The office do was held in mid-January, when everyone had recovered from the round of parties, overeating & drinking, cooking for the family. It was looked forward to, as a bright spot in the post Christmas period.

And furthermore, I could get a good deal at a venue, with a proper menu and good service!

Give it a try - you'll be popular!

[joggerjayne]

Mopsy ... I'll book a table for two, then, LOL.

We can sit in the Princess Victoria, with our paper hats and a blow tooter each.

Actually ... maybe the PV isn't the best choice ... people might get the wrong idea.

I'll book at Jamie's Italian.

[EvianBaby]

We're not having one this year, can't afford it. But I'm so relieved, I really wasn't looking forward to it this year.

[Bobbisox]

oooh I just love Italian Seagull, we could sit their and get totally hammered while blowing the hooter things,,,people in there will love us,,,hehe

[Stephen_G]

In all the places I've worked in, I've only once been to a "Christmas Party" - it was more like a lock-in. I don't bother so my colleagues can think what they like. I think f*** 'em!

[Buenchico]

I've never worked anywhere where there's been a staff Christmas party.

When I was in teaching, our Staff Association (which I was chairman of) arranged an annual dinner but it was always held in the restaurant just across the road from my local pub (so it didn't really feel like 'going out' to me!). It was also over-priced for what it was ('cos we had to pay) so I always backed out of it.

Since then I've been self-employed, unemployed or working for the railways (where the station had to be staffed 24 hours per day, so we couldn't all meet up together, and where we had random urine tests taken at work, so we couldn't afford to be hung over).

The only exception was a couple of years ago when the car dealership I worked for (on a casual basis) invited me to their departmental dinner and to the company's disco party . I accepted the free dinner but declined to go to the party as
(a) I felt I was probably too old ; and
(b) nobody else from our department was going, so I wouldn't have known anyone there.

But I'm not a 'party animal' anyway. I generally detest them. (Yes, I'm a really boring old fart!)

Chris

[Mamyalynne]

Buen/Chris

My late husband was self employed, we had garages and car sales too - but every year we had jokey ' Works dos'

By the way I bought lingerie today that made me think of you LOL