Christmas Parties

Does your employer or company have an annual Christmas party?

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Just curious if your company or employer still has a "Christmas party" or "Holiday party"
 
Retired now but the airline has Christmas parties but only the management and office weenies went. Rest of us were out slaving, flying the line. You know, working. :D
 
I wouldn't know. I haven't worked in an office in over 12 years now. Remote telecommuter full time since 2004. My last employer had a really nice "holiday party" every year, a couple of which were at the SAC Museum. Awesome!! Nice dinner, free booze, nuclear missiles, a B-36 and a Vulcan.

Since then - nothing. I don't think my office-bound coworkers get one either. The big bank debacle from a few years ago was a really convenient excuse to stop paying for, well, just about everything.
 
Every year the college decorates the halls and outside with Christmas trees and lights. it is really nice I must say. We have a nice christmas party at the bowling alley with open bar and we each bring a dish or dessert.
I still find it rather odd though, after so many years where you couldn't say anything about christmas or even have a party because someone might get drunk and drive home then blame the company.
I was curious how many others still get to enjoy the little things.
 
Shepherd said:
I throw one every year.
I'm the only employee, so it gets kind of lonesome. sigh................
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Well there's always New Years Eve Shep! Oh you get to see fireworks too, if you can stay up that late. :)
 
We hold our Christmas party in a hotel so that out of town employees (or even in town employees) don't have to drive home that night.
 
Being retired I always throw myself a Christmas party.
 
Even send us some company sawg as a Xmas present, I'm not a bible thumper by any means, but I do enjoy Christmas :)
 
The flight school I worked at has a holiday party at a nice steakhouse every year.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Just curious if your company or employer still has a "Christmas party" or "Holiday party"
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Probably. One of the VPs is somehow involved in a catering biz, family or something, so they bring in mass quantities of food to the office for most holidays. Never seen this place do an off-site though.

mscard88 said:
Retired now but the airline has Christmas parties but only the management and office weenies went. Rest of us were out slaving, flying the line. You know, working. :D
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Have mercy on them, you have a better view from your office window every day of the year. :)

Shepherd said:
I throw one every year.
I'm the only employee, so it gets kind of lonesome. sigh................
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Shepherd said:
New Years Eve.
The loneliest night of the year.

My wife won't even come to my office Christmas party.
She's afraid I'll have too much Christmas punch and try to get frisky in the copier room. sigh........
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ROFLMAO.

jordane93 said:
The flight school I worked at has a holiday party at a nice steakhouse every year.
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Whoa. Spiffy. Never seen that.

I didn't quote and reply to the "we rent a hotel" thing because I'm still having PTSD-like symptoms from the last place I worked at, which did that. But here goes...

Let's just say it got a little out of hand with an open bar and one of the top execs dancing on a table, multiple people getting into shot "contests", and all the guys from Ireland bodily picking up a friend of mine that I was going to give a ride home to (I had stuff to do the next day so I played designated driver that night), holding him horizontal, and ramming him into the roof of my Jeep head-first trying to throw him into the back seat when he didn't want to get in and go home.

Then we spent two hours keeping a paranoid drunk from getting into fistfights with people trying to convince him that everything would be fine if he'd just get in the Jeep, and eventually he ran off and hopped a city bus and wasn't heard from until the early hours of the next morning.

Ahhh the Dot Com days of lavish parties on investor's money... LOL!

Oh, I forgot about the guy who was in the shot contest "against" the friend who was getting his head rammed into my Jeep.

That guy... made it halfway to his family truckster with his wife who wasn't too impressed with his behavior and was going to drive him home, when he fell down and couldn't get up. I didn't get to witness that particular "fun" in person but the story goes that she did quite a number on him with her high heels, and pretty much kicked the crap out of him until he got up and got in the car. Ahhhh, tough love. So touching.

I don't think I've had anything to drink at a company party since that night. Alcohol created just a touch more drama than necessary... and the three previous years to that were close, but nothing like that night.
 
Our company has a holiday party. I usually attend but this year I will be away.
 
Craziest office Christmas party I remember was at a rented hall. I showed up about 30 minutes after it started and didn't even get my coat off before I was told I was the only one sober enough to drive one of the guys home. This guy never said a word to anyone or drank (maybe) all year, except at the Christmas party where he would kill a bottle of Wild Turkey and tell the filthiest, funniest, jokes you have ever heard. I drove him to his place and poured him into his apartment. I got back to the car and he was right behind me, telling me how great I was. It was about 20F and there was a lot of snow on the ground. I didn't want to just leave him so I had to get him back inside again and run to the car before he could follow.
 
I am the company, and I throw myself a party every year. But anyone who wants to come is invited. I just don't tell anyone that. It keeps the booze costs down.

Rich
 
SkyDog58 said:
The airline I worked for many years ago usually had a holiday party. One year, a pilot bent a stew over a railing and gave her some stick time. I missed that event but I heard it was a short show.
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Well you win the internet for the day. Makes my drunken co-worker getting his head bashed against my Jeep story, look pale by comparison!
 
denverpilot said:
Probably. One of the VPs is somehow involved in a catering biz, family or something, so they bring in mass quantities of food to the office for most holidays. Never seen this place do an off-site though.



Have mercy on them, you have a better view from your office window every day of the year. :)





ROFLMAO.



Whoa. Spiffy. Never seen that.

I didn't quote and reply to the "we rent a hotel" thing because I'm still having PTSD-like symptoms from the last place I worked at, which did that. But here goes...

Let's just say it got a little out of hand with an open bar and one of the top execs dancing on a table, multiple people getting into shot "contests", and all the guys from Ireland bodily picking up a friend of mine that I was going to give a ride home to (I had stuff to do the next day so I played designated driver that night), holding him horizontal, and ramming him into the roof of my Jeep head-first trying to throw him into the back seat when he didn't want to get in and go home.

Then we spent two hours keeping a paranoid drunk from getting into fistfights with people trying to convince him that everything would be fine if he'd just get in the Jeep, and eventually he ran off and hopped a city bus and wasn't heard from until the early hours of the next morning.

Ahhh the Dot Com days of lavish parties on investor's money... LOL!

Oh, I forgot about the guy who was in the shot contest "against" the friend who was getting his head rammed into my Jeep.

That guy... made it halfway to his family truckster with his wife who wasn't too impressed with his behavior and was going to drive him home, when he fell down and couldn't get up. I didn't get to witness that particular "fun" in person but the story goes that she did quite a number on him with her high heels, and pretty much kicked the crap out of him until he got up and got in the car. Ahhhh, tough love. So touching.

I don't think I've had anything to drink at a company party since that night. Alcohol created just a touch more drama than necessary... and the three previous years to that were close, but nothing like that night.
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Our Christmas parties are actually fairly boring (they are family events.) At least stateside. Now, the Christmas parties hosted in SE Asia... I won't even talk about those here!
 
mscard88 said:
Retired now but the airline has Christmas parties but only the management and office weenies went. Rest of us were out slaving, flying the line. You know, working. :D
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Don't fret, you have 'upper management' written all over you.
 
My former employer didn't have one officially but our dept manager would always put one on.... each year it got farther from Christmas day until I think the last year I went it was in June. Also went from my first year there where we had a really nice booked venue with catering to pizza and bowling to a pot-luck... there's probably some commentary in there about how the dept was run in general but I won't go there.

Basically ended up being an event for educated professionals to devolve back into college kegger mode. Not to say it wasn't fun sometimes... just being honest.
 
DaleB said:
Si. Note the smiley.
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I just switched jobs, so the upcoming Christmas party/dinner (in the banquet room of a fancy restaurant) is going to be interesting. I don't know what to expect.
 
asicer said:
I just switched jobs, so the upcoming Christmas party/dinner (in the banquet room of a fancy restaurant) is going to be interesting. I don't know what to expect.
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Hint: Don't drink too much. Haha. Let someone else be the talk of the town for all of the next year... or life... depending on severity of behavior. Ha.
 
Small company throws a Christmas party every year, but I've never gone. I don't drink, and not a good mingler, and not a suck up, no opportunity for advancement, and no repercussions for not going, so I do myself and co-workers a favor and opt out. Last year and this year again a local hotel is the venue; prior to that it was nice restaurant venues. Reports from co-workers are that they are nice enough affairs, but owner/boss talks business with everybody instead of making an effort to specifically not talk business. Also, wife and I have a pact; I don't don't ask her to go to mine and she doesn't ask me to go to hers.
 
Van Johnston said:
Small company throws a Christmas party every year, but I've never gone. I don't drink, and not a good mingler, and not a suck up, no opportunity for advancement, and no repercussions for not going, so I do myself and co-workers a favor and opt out. Last year and this year again a local hotel is the venue; prior to that it was nice restaurant venues. Reports from co-workers are that they are nice enough affairs, but owner/boss talks business with everybody instead of making an effort to specifically not talk business. Also, wife and I have a pact; I don't don't ask her to go to mine and she doesn't ask me to go to hers.
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Bring your wife and let her "work" the room for you. This is how I do it. I go find the people I can hold a conversation with and start drinking while my wife shows the babies off and strut her stuff. My wife has a very bubbly personality and is the polar opposite of me in that respect.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Bring your wife and let her "work" the room for you. This is how I do it. I go find the people I can hold a conversation with and start drinking while my wife shows the babies off and strut her stuff. My wife has a very bubbly personality and is the polar opposite of me in that respect.
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No no no! YOU should be out there strutting your stuff! Wear your aviation garb, googles, silk scarf, headset on your hip, backpack, etc etc.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Bring your wife and let her "work" the room for you. This is how I do it. I go find the people I can hold a conversation with and start drinking while my wife shows the babies off and strut her stuff. My wife has a very bubbly personality and is the polar opposite of me in that respect.
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Nah, she's just as socially awkward as me, if not more so. In retrospect, I'm not sure how we ever got together.

mscard88 said:
No no no! YOU should be out there strutting your stuff! Wear your aviation garb, googles, silk scarf, headset on your hip, backpack, etc etc.
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Backpack?
 
I have had our Christmas parties from covered dish at the office to nice restaurants with booze. For the last couple years I have a nice catered lunch at the dealership a week or so before Christmas. The issue with the off site parties, besides alcohol, is that only about half of the employees came. :( So, I decided to give everyone a small bonus and have it on site. Personally, I'd rather skip it. :rolleyes:
 
I'm sure my company has all sorts of departments that throw Christmas parties, but I can guarantee the pilots aren't invited. :)
 
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