Principia Discordia

It's getting to be that time of year when our office's like to have festive secular recognitions of the various Wintery Religious holidays.  Here is where we get to rave or complain about these gatherings.  This will be my first Christmas at the new job and I guess we are going to have two parties.  One during the day for just staff and an evening one with our Board of Directors.  I'm kinda looking forward to the one with the Board members.  Just for the sociological/people watching perspective. 

What are your company parties like? 

Lame.  Low-quality drinks in a large room.  Spouses not invited.  Probably gonna skip mine, if I can.

We MIGHT have a potluck.  Really up in the air.

Quote from: LMNO, PhD on November 16, 2010, 07:08:21 PM
Lame.  Low-quality drinks in a large room.  Spouses not invited.  Probably gonna skip mine, if I can.

I can slide under that.

Non-alcoholic drinks in the warehouse.  Spouses not invited.  Attendance mandatory.

I believe we're booking a table at a local pub.  £25 not including drinks, which is a bit steep.  Not a clue what it's going to be like, however.

Mine is pretty good, dinner and drinks at an ok restaurant, spouses invited.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2010, 07:13:02 PM

Quote from: LMNO, PhD on November 16, 2010, 07:08:21 PM
Lame.  Low-quality drinks in a large room.  Spouses not invited.  Probably gonna skip mine, if I can.

I can slide under that.

Non-alcoholic drinks in the warehouse.  Spouses not invited.  Attendance mandatory.

So, I'm guessing you'll be spending it torturing Filthy Assistant?

Quote from: LMNO, PhD on November 16, 2010, 07:16:36 PM

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2010, 07:13:02 PM

Quote from: LMNO, PhD on November 16, 2010, 07:08:21 PM
Lame.  Low-quality drinks in a large room.  Spouses not invited.  Probably gonna skip mine, if I can.

I can slide under that.

Non-alcoholic drinks in the warehouse.  Spouses not invited.  Attendance mandatory.

So, I'm guessing you'll be spending it torturing Filthy Assistant?

Along with any other manager that strays into range.

we have an official holiday party which is designed to be as lame as possible

and an unofficial party which takes place at my boss's house-- who lives in Mick Jagger's old mansion. That party's a little better but everybody is older than me by 15+ years and spend the evening reminiscing about working in publishing back in 1800. On the bright side I did get to hang out with the CEO of Penguin Books the other year, but she's hardly Mick Jagger.

Well, according to Keith Richards, Jagger is a bit of a prick anyway. 

Also, looks like spouses are invited to our party with the Board.  chief of police is on our board so I'll have to make sure Mrs. WHN is on her best behavior. 

We'll probably be allowed to bring chips, cookies and sodas, which we will be allowed to consume during our normal break time.

Nobody will remember to bring paper plates or cups, so we will use paper towels from the bathroom, and the little cone cups from the water dispensers.

Woo! Light industrial jobs! :jebus:

We don't get shit.
Get to work, people need their money, and no we're not going to spend a nickel of this multi-bazzillion dollar corporation on YUO!

A Very Dispatch Christmas consists of three shifts of two people.  It's a slow day with no courts in session and a skeleton crew down in the jail.  People aren't getting injured and ambulance transported because they're inside with their families.  It's a slow day and the shades are drawn like any slow day, and we're watching holiday specials on television and we aren't speaking very much at all.  There we sit, and we wait, to go home in time for the festivities to be over, accompanied by a small plastic tree whose lights shine back from the blinds, if we've even bothered to plug it in.

In short, it's much like a normal very dispatch day except with a little tree.  And some of us might be working overtime that day, both to give another the day off and to pay those steep steep holiday bills.


OH AND IT FALLS ON MY DAY OFF THIS YEAR SO I WON'T BE AMONG THEM!

Yeah, we'll do a potluck for Thanksgiving.  the boss usually orders in a ton of BBQ (ribs, pulled pork, chicken) on the day before we get off for Christmas, this year it will be the 23rd since we get Christmas Eve off.

I might actually be working this Xmas Eve, depending how my interview this Thursday goes.  I actually think the bookstore Xmas party would be better than the school one, though I can understand if they don't invite me, being the (if I get the job) temp labour.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 16, 2010, 07:30:00 PM
we have an official holiday party which is designed to be as lame as possible

and an unofficial party which takes place at my boss's house-- who lives in Mick Jagger's old mansion. That party's a little better but everybody is older than me by 15+ years and spend the evening reminiscing about working in publishing back in 1800. On the bright side I did get to hang out with the CEO of Penguin Books the other year, but she's hardly Mick Jagger.

Sounds like some excellent networking opportunities, in fact?

My work holiday parties have always been awesome.

Free alcohol! So much free alcohol!  :lulz:

And the parties would be even better if I would be single. But I'm not, so I just drink free alcohol until my body can't move anymore!
It's awesome. Free awesome.