Office Christmas Parties

[Kurt]

Christmas office parties for some used to be lavish affairs, overflowing with cocktail sausages and free beer, but now people are increasingly being asked to pay their own way or face no festive bash. So are we seeing the death of this yuletide tradition?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8409155.stm I've never been to what could be desribed as a traditional office party.

We're going out for a lunch at a restaurant. Last year was a cooking course at a top Italian restaurant - make your own dinner - which was actually pretty good fun. What's everyone else doing? Is the Christmas Party on the way out?

In the last recession the custom of spending vast amounts of money giving bottles of Bell's whisky to clients disappeared for the most part never to return (at least on the same scale).

 

[egb_hibs]

Not in my experience; I have a log jam of them.

They are self funded; but I think that's better anyway - a formal 'company do' always had a slight oppressive air for someone given to the odd 'lapse of judgement' like myself; consequences dear boy, consequences.

 

[Kurt]

Not in my experience; I have a log jam of them.

They are self funded; but I think that's better anyway - a formal 'company do' always had a slight oppressive air for someone given to the odd 'lapse of judgement' like myself; consequences dear boy, consequences.

I thought back and can recall one more formal company do. I hated it and got too pissed. Decided to go home before I started a fight.

Rest where meals on the company then self funded trip to the rub-a-dub. Public sector years have always been self funded.

I've heard the massive Standard Life type afairs were terrible.

 

[Keepitgreen]

I thought back and can recall one more formal company do. I hated it and got too pissed. Decided to go home before I started a fight.

Rest where meals on the company then self funded trip to the rub-a-dub. Public sector years have always been self funded.

I've heard the massive Standard Life type afairs were terrible.

I attended an SL do a few years back at Tynecastle.

HIBS was scrawled into the pitch in ten foot high letters that night - with a backward B, but hey it was dark.

I'd call that a success

 

[dangerousdavid]

I had 2 company funded 'lunches' last week, and a dinner tonight. All at very nice restaurants.

There was a bit of a crackdown this year as we are a public serving company, you were only supposed to go on 1 lunch....fuck that.

 

[wee 162]

Cannae mind the last one I went to tbh. Never ever had one paid for (although I've gatecrashed a couple of freebie ones at Standard Life & RBS).

 

[Aye]

I thought back and can recall one more formal company do. I hated it and got too pissed. Decided to go home before I started a fight.

Rest where meals on the company then self funded trip to the rub-a-dub. Public sector years have always been self funded.

I've heard the massive Standard Life type afairs were terrible.

Not the Investment ones.

 

[Bob1875]

Ive never been to an Office Xmas party as Ive never worked in an Office, but I reckon they'd be a good oppurtunity to tell that bird what you'd really like to give her for Xmas.