Office Christmas parties

Went to it last Friday, 250 employees, pretty uneventful, even with a free bar on offer there was no drama, no fights and not even any puking in the car park.
 
I go every year. Free food, drinks and entertainment on the company so rude not to go.

Talk to the people I like, don't talk to the people I don't like.

Normally drink until I can't drink any more and turn up at home at around 4-5am asking the wife to cook me breakfast.
 
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Our team is quite small in a building of thousands so we all get a long pretty well. Also helps that the majority of the team are always up for a good drinking session so our Christmas parties and leaving parties are usually great fun.

I don't attend the official "Strategic Transport" Christmas party with about 60 people, don't really see the point.
 
johnny6 said:
I go every year. Free food, drinks and entertainment on the company so rude not to go.

Talk to the people I like, don't talk to the people I don't like.

Normally drink until I can't drink any more and turn up at home at around 4-5am asking the wife to cook me breakfast.
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That's how to do it! :)
 
Had one last friday and one again this coming Wednesday, atmosphere was a lot better than expected but still some animosity in the room. As suggested before the best policy is just to try and avoid the people you dont like, unless your a team of two, in which case your better off not going or pretend your deaf.
 
Rocky86 said:
Got one of these on Friday.

Do you enjoy going to these? Or dread them?
Ever done anything stupid at these over the years or seen anyone else do something embarrassing?
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I don't do office parties, me and all the fun, decent and non moronic managers go off separately and do our own night out apart from the rest of the business. Always amazing fun, do it quarterly down Lincoln, next one is on Thursday :D

In my last job the Xmas party was notorious. The company were a pack of ******** who treat you like **** all year but really let you off the leash cone Xmas. A few highlights over the year were one lad accusing the new head of HR of sleeping her way into her position with the director at the top of his voice in a quiet restraint, one lad buying a thousand pound bottle of champagne on the directors credit card (he was sacked :p) we had one chap get so drunk he got naked and passed out in the hotel elevator, someone head butted a senior manager for telling him he was **** at his job, had a 5 a side tournament before the start and one chap shattered a directors ankle on purpose and those are the most obvious ones that spring to mind :p
 
They're always good fun if you remember the No.1 rule of Christmas parties : don't be the guy who really, really makes a *** of himself. As long as you are at least slightly better behaved than him you'll be fine (in terms of not being sacked, ymmv etc)
 
Got mine this Friday. The only part I'm dreading is finding parking in Manchester. I don't drink so I'll probably leave before midnight, return to work on Monday to find that everyone forged strong bonds of friendship over the rest of the night, and be forever alone. My gf has hers the same night so when she leaves hers I'll bail out of mine and blame it on her :p
 
Annoyingly, we all have separate departmental events, sometimes that even gets broken down further into separate dos for separate teams within functions.

If we had one big "head office" bash that everyone was invited to I'd go. I'm in a very cross functional role so I know lots of people from lots of different departments, a big do would be more up my street.
 
My office parties have been "eat out at random restaurant" since about 1999. They are roughly as exciting as you would expect. Before that, when parties were on premises, they were just as bad. This might be because I've worked with scientists for twenty-five years.
 
Ours was last week. I decided fancy dress meant I should go as Dafydd from little britain :eek:

Fortunately the mickey taking has been low key since one of the senior staff decided to dress up as Virgin atlantic air stewardess (he is male) shaving his legs and spending a LOT of time getting things perfect.

The big boss decided everyone needed at least 2 shots of apple sours followed by a sambuca, preceded by 7 pints of Brains smooth (I think) Mullered was an understatement.
 
My experience is that normally they tend to start off a bit slow especially if lumped on a table with people I don't know that well, improving later in the evening as more alcohol is consumed and more mingling occurs. A bit pot luck really on the dynamic in terms of whether I can successfully latch on to an interesting conversation.

Seriously considering leaving early (after meal and free drinks) this year as last train is at about 22:30 and a cab home will probably set me back around £30-40 if I stay any later.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Went to it last Friday, 250 employees, pretty uneventful, even with a free bar on offer there was no drama, no fights and not even any puking in the car park.
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You must work somewhere crappy. Mine was crazy. Everyone pulled everyone and got busy. Multiple peoples.

Change jobs.
 
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