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Company Christmas Party

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iambrutus

iambrutus

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    • what is your company christmas party like?

    our's is a lunch with some type of "show" after, its usually a waste of time and boring, and this year it falls on my daughter's birthday. i have to come to work until noon and the lunch is supposed to be from 1-3, but i'm looking for a way out of it so i can go home and spend the day with the little one...
     
    we had ours on Sunday night.... very fancy. Michaels on East (very nice restaurant here in Sarasota) catered and it was held in a Performance Hall banquet room. Every employee got a nice prize... they gave away digital cameras, portable dvd players, TV's, gift certificates, computers..... I got a very nice 15 inch LCD TV... it is now my new computer monitor.

    The highlight is probably the blooper reel that is put together.
     
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    Ours is pure hell. It's noon tomorrow in our conference room. They march us in giving us crappy door prizes (a $5 gift certificate to Don Pablos was my "prize" last year...uh, I'd prefer to pay someone $5 to never eat at that shithole). We have a lunch catered in that's almost always very lousy, and then we go back to work. It's awful. Fortunately, my immediate supervisor recognizes how much it sucks and takes his folks out for a nice lunch the day after every year where we all make fun of the Christmas party.
     
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    The Christmas parties at Moeller HS were unique. They rented out museums, the conservatory, an old church turned into sales and display area for Verdun Bell Co., a couple of mansions, had strolling musicians from the CSO, an open bar and excellent catered food. All in all a night you didn't want to miss. One of the grade schools I worked at had us meet at a restaurant. We paid for what we drank, but the meal was free. No complaints there.

    What people outside the biz don't know about teaching is that you spend so little time with your fellow workers (or even with people your own age) so the Christmas party was a rare time to talk to people you tended to really like.
     
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    StooGrimson;686021; said:
    Ours is pure hell. It's noon tomorrow in our conference room. They march us in giving us crappy door prizes (a $5 gift certificate to Don Pablos was my "prize" last year...uh, I'd prefer to pay someone $5 to never eat at that shithole). We have a lunch catered in that's almost always very lousy, and then we go back to work. It's awful. Fortunately, my immediate supervisor recognizes how much it sucks and takes his folks out for a nice lunch the day after every year where we all make fun of the Christmas party.
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    last year we all got pre paid visa gift cards, pretty generous amounts, but we were setting profit records for our company, this year while we are ahead of last year, we are behind for the overly ambitious goals that were set for this year, so i doubt that we get anything - other than the lunch and the rest of the day off - which i'm still hoping to get out of and i think i have a plan...

    i'm going to schedule an industry exam, then end up rescheduling the exam but not saying anything. if i schedule the exam for around 10am i'll get out of the whole day....
     
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    iambrutus;686029; said:
    if i schedule the exam for around 10am i'll get out of the whole day....
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    Heh heh...I do the same thing too. I have an exam scheduled this Friday at noon. We get a 1/2 day to "study" prior to every exam, so I always make mine at 12:00 to give me a full day out of the office. It's scheduled for 4 hours, but I'll be done in 1 leaving the rest of the day for a late lunch at Gold Star and doing little else...
     
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    Going to my wife's tonight. A potluck at the Riffe Center. I'm hoping that the hot acctress chicks get drunk and naked, but I doubt it will happen. :sad2:
     
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    The squadron Christmas Party was $40 per person, we had an open bar. The attire was semi-formal, we had food that they only cook on food network. Got good blackmail pictures of my boss, a one star general drunk & hitting on all the busty women at the pary. He owes me big time! :biggrin:
     
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    StooGrimson;686021; said:
    Ours is pure hell. It's noon tomorrow in our conference room. They march us in giving us crappy door prizes (a $5 gift certificate to Don Pablos was my "prize" last year...uh, I'd prefer to pay someone $5 to never eat at that shithole). We have a lunch catered in that's almost always very lousy, and then we go back to work. It's awful. Fortunately, my immediate supervisor recognizes how much it sucks and takes his folks out for a nice lunch the day after every year where we all make fun of the Christmas party.
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    Sounds exactly like ours. We (100 or so) are all crammed into our conference room and fight over the little tray of sushi. :) At least we have wine and beer, but I would still like it better if we held it off-site. We get crappy prizes, and everyone gets a free book. (We're a book publisher for Christ's sake -- we're sick of our own books!) I shouldn't complain, but I think it sucks considering we get paid very little to begin with. The least my company could do is give us a decent holiday party.
     
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    my firm doesn't have one (no, I am not cheap...yes, we take everyone to a nice lunch instead)...but my girlfriend's (no pictures available) company party for the ohio housing agency was back on the 1st (the earliest day you can ahve a Christmas party and not have it be weird). it was at Lodge Bar and was relatively fun. pretty low keye for being at Lodge Bar. but as soon as things wound down, we rolled up to Char Bar and 45 got really silly.
     
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    Our company has too much diversity. Therefore we do not have a "Christmas" party. We have a "Holiday" party instead and just to be safe, we have it in January.
    All in all a very nice event. Hosted at a very nice downtown hotel, nice food, plenty of drinks and live entertainment. The nicest touch is that if you want to make a night out of it with your wife or sig other you can stay in the hotel after the party and the company will cover it. This year I think it is at the Westin, or Renaisance not sure yet.
     
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