Christmas Parties

Does your employer or company have an annual Christmas party?

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mscard88 said:
Library? Booze in the library. Uh oh. Always wanted to do a librarian in the library. "we need a clean up in the Bio aisle", I can see it now...

Why the library?
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We have a new librarian who is pretty cute! I wouldn't mind if she wanted to do some after hours studying :cool: We have hit it off and we email all day, very nice gal.
We have a few parties every year in the library, it is central in the college and has some nice furniture to relax in.
 
paflyer said:
Political correctness has been around for a long time.
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Everskyward said:
Yup, and under its other name, courtesy is a good thing.
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One is given out of mutual respect, the other is demanded usually or worse, coerced by cutesy manipulative phrases pretending they're the same thing. :) Not even close.

Most folks are courteous to those who are courteous to them, modern "PC" is anything but courteous, as evidenced by the posts here who say they'll annoy religious or non-religious folks just because they like to.

Acrodustertoo said:
We put up ten Christmas trees in the main hallway at the college, all the departments got a tree to decorate do I made my students make ornaments to decorate it. They did well but we only got third place. I also had to make a trophy for the winner. Thus summer we had a cardboard boat race at a local lake, I made a trophy for that event. I guess I am the trophy maker from now on.
Our last day is this Thursday, we have a byob party in the library at four o'clock. This one could get interesting!
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Acrodustertoo said:
We have a new librarian who is pretty cute! I wouldn't mind if she wanted to do some after hours studying :cool: We have hit it off and we email all day, very nice gal.
We have a few parties every year in the library, it is central in the college and has some nice furniture to relax in.
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Dewey Decimal System: 649.65 should take care of anything you need to study. Haha.

I have a question though... these students you have decorate the tree, is it some sort of art type course?

Reason I ask... if some prof told me in the typical courses I took to make some decorations, I think most of the class would a) have laughed at them, and b) wouldn't have had an artistic bone in most of our bodies... maybe some of the graphics coders. A bunch of physics, meteorology, math, and engineering course students decorating a tree would be pretty funny...

I could probably cut you a lovely star shape from a piece of paper and that's about where the art ends, 'round here. Probably have to print it on the laser printer if you want straight lines. Hahahaha.

Come to think of it, my boss and I made a tree with electrical conduit and a conduit bender one year at the telecom place... that was fun, took about ten minutes including lights. Didn't look half bad and we could give each other crap about our angles not quite matching up. I still thought my bend radii looked more accurate than his, but one doesn't argue with the boss, one just grabs the whole tree and bends it a little by hand to keep it from popping apart at the joints. Hahaha.
 
My EAA Chapter had its Christmas Party Friday. We had a special guest in attendance.

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denverpilot said:
One is given out of mutual respect, the other is demanded usually or worse, coerced by cutesy manipulative phrases pretending they're the same thing. :) Not even close.

Most folks are courteous to those who are courteous to them, modern "PC" is anything but courteous, as evidenced by the posts here who say they'll annoy religious or non-religious folks just because they like to.





Dewey Decimal System: 649.65 should take care of anything you need to study. Haha.

I have a question though... these students you have decorate the tree, is it some sort of art type course?

Reason I ask... if some prof told me in the typical courses I took to make some decorations, I think most of the class would a) have laughed at them, and b) wouldn't have had an artistic bone in most of our bodies... maybe some of the graphics coders. A bunch of physics, meteorology, math, and engineering course students decorating a tree would be pretty funny...

I could probably cut you a lovely star shape from a piece of paper and that's about where the art ends, 'round here. Probably have to print it on the laser printer if you want straight lines. Hahahaha.

Come to think of it, my boss and I made a tree with electrical conduit and a conduit bender one year at the telecom place... that was fun, took about ten minutes including lights. Didn't look half bad and we could give each other crap about our angles not quite matching up. I still thought my bend radii looked more accurate than his, but one doesn't argue with the boss, one just grabs the whole tree and bends it a little by hand to keep it from popping apart at the joints. Hahaha.
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I just mentioned to my students that they are welcome to make some ornaments and they ran with it. My students are very creative. I am the program director and lead instructor for the welding program. My sophomores this year made an eight foot tall gazebo, it is a hexagon eleven feet across(flat to flat) with a slightly smaller hex offset on top (ten foot gust to flat) that will get installed in a courtyard on campus, then they got right into making a bike rack for the city, a stegosaurus bike rack! Looks amazing! Last year my students made a locomotive bike rack and a giant tennis racket.
This week is finals week, my sophomores final project is to make me a seat back for my Acroduster too! 0.32 2024 aluminum, jeweled finish and bead rolled to fit over the tubes. So far it is looking great.
In my experience, if you challenge people to be creative they will come through with flying colors.

I even have a bunch of emails from other employees at the college wanting to buy the ornaments!
 
EppyGA said:
My EAA Chapter had its Christmas Party Friday. We had a special guest in attendance.

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Did he drive to the party or fly in? Did you tell Mr. Pelton that his magazine is trash? Did you tell him that we are tired of reading about glass panels in RV's? Is his wife hot? Is she an ex coke-whore?
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I just mentioned to my students that they are welcome to make some ornaments and they ran with it. My students are very creative. I am the program director and lead instructor for the welding program. My sophomores this year made an eight foot tall gazebo, it is a hexagon eleven feet across(flat to flat) with a slightly smaller hex offset on top (ten foot gust to flat) that will get installed in a courtyard on campus, then they got right into making a bike rack for the city, a stegosaurus bike rack! Looks amazing! Last year my students made a locomotive bike rack and a giant tennis racket.
This week is finals week, my sophomores final project is to make me a seat back for my Acroduster too! 0.32 2024 aluminum, jeweled finish and bead rolled to fit over the tubes. So far it is looking great.
In my experience, if you challenge people to be creative they will come through with flying colors.

I even have a bunch of emails from other employees at the college wanting to buy the ornaments!
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Pics of these projects for be wonderful!
 
Acrodustertoo said:
Did he drive to the party or fly in? Did you tell Mr. Pelton that his magazine is trash? Did you tell him that we are tired of reading about glass panels in RV's? Is his wife hot? Is she an ex coke-whore?
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Merry Christmas to you too...
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I will get one of the Gazebo here in a minute.


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Cool! There's a race track here, Barber Motorsports Track, in BHM that has metal sculptures around the track. One is a huge metal spider and they ended up naming that corner after it. Looks like the Gazebo ain't going anywhere!

Sculpture
The infield of the track has a number of large sculptures, including a series of large steel spiders and dragonflies, a pair of lions and a sisyphean figure pushing a boulder. The turn 5/6 complex is often referred to as Charlotte's Web, because of the presence of a large spider sculpture prominently placed in the infield near the turn, and because it is one of the track's prime passing opportunities.[7]

HealthSouth Corporation, based in Birmingham donated its "Pulling the Wagon" statue to the park in 2009. The statue used to sit at the front of the HealthSouth's Corporate Headquarters on Highway 280. The statue served as symbol for HealthSouth's corporate slogan "Pulling the Wagon", which was created in 1984 under former founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Scrushy. The statue was removed in March 2003 from HealthSouth Corporate Headquarters Campus. Today one of the statue's figures holds up a motorcycle.
 
mscard88 - That is awesome! The gazebo will have casters put under it and the leg braces after it is painted, then we will push it up to its new home in a courtyard on campus where it will be anchored to a nice concrete slab.

The bike racks go to the city and they paint them how they want, then pour a slab for them.
here is one we did last year:
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Cool stuff Acro! That bike rack is pretty awesome and I'm sure knowing who built it means a lot to the city. Well done!
 
Each project gets a plaque with the students names on it. Coming up this spring we are making some large signs that will go to all the major enterances to town, these will have a small sign for all the service organizations like lions, Mason's, Shriners,rotary etc. going to be fun building those!
 
Two of my sophomore students have a special project right now. It is finals week, so the freshman have paper tests one day then their welding performance tests the next and the final day of finals(today) is shop clean up where they douche the entire shop out with pressure washers and squeegee's!
My sophomores usually spend their finals week doing welder certifications on pipe or plate. Two of my sophomores this year are building me an aluminum seat back for my acroduster! They have it cut out, rolled, jeweled and all fit up. It looks amazing! Today they just have to bead roll it. I am so excited. It looks fantastic and I cannot wait for it to be done. I will post some pictures when they finish it.
 
denverpilot said:
Ummmmm....
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Best day of the semester! I make apple cider and bring in donuts for them on finals days, I put one of those video fireplaces on the screen to make it a bit more cozy. I made a couple cakes for them to celebrate their effort this year. Then went to the library and had a couple drinks at the party. Was a good finals week. Today just have a bunch of useless paperwork to do and then I'm off for a month. Classes won't resume until middle of January.
 
mscard88 said:
Yea but did she inhale....never mind.
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I am a happily married man but there is hope that she will be invited over some night, wink wink, she is now getting friendly with my wife. They are going to go out for coffee one of these days.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I am a happily married man but there is hope that she will be invited over some night, wink wink, she is now getting friendly with my wife. They are going to go out for coffee one of these days.
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Ahh I see what you're scheming for, a friendly trio, hmm what do they call that....:)
 
denverpilot said:
Ummmmm....
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Acrodustertoo said:
Best day of the semester! I make apple cider and bring in donuts for them on finals days, I put one of those video fireplaces on the screen to make it a bit more cozy. I made a couple cakes for them to celebrate their effort this year. Then went to the library and had a couple drinks at the party. Was a good finals week. Today just have a bunch of useless paperwork to do and then I'm off for a month. Classes won't resume until middle of January.
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Okay big hint: I think you meant douse. Not douche.

She was blinded by the light... and wrapped up like one... another rumor in the night... :)
 
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