Photocopy your arse! Snog the postboy! It's the Office Xmas Party...

Thank god our office doesn't do anything for the holidays. I have to go to my fiance's tonight though.

xpost - oh are you out of work, Ailsa? :(

I don't even know what's happening here - I think there's a do next Thursday, but given that several people have just been made redundant I don't think anyone's really up for it. It's always pretty dire anyway and I probably won't go if I've anything better to do.

I've been more or less out of work since August, Dr C !

(will email you later on)

my office christmas party:

no one can bring their partner + each person gets 5 drink tickets =

adultery?

(this is a company with 1200 employees btw)

x-post Ailsa OK - will look out for that!

This just in : I am informed by no less an authority than Beryl that the cwistmas do is in the pub, followed by Mexican food. ("I don't know which pab, sweetie, but 'opefully it'll 'ave plenty of beer"). And she has ordered me to attend.

Xpost to Hand

And in the media so there will be hot girls and hipsters all around. (Although come to think of it I've been in your building and I don't think even the receptionist was female)

we're not having one because a colleague passed away suddenly in October. no-one felt up to organising it at the time, and it's too late now.

We had ours last week. We had Italian food, then retired to the Lamb on Lamb's Conduit Street, and thence the Pakenham. I missed my last train home by about 3 hours, so me and another colleague decided to crash on another colleague's hotel room, since we knew there were spare beds in said colelague's room.

Sadly, they weren't answering their phone. My colleague told the reception desk that we were all in the same company, and our colleague had our room keys and had not managed to meet up with us and so could we please have spare keys.

Obviously, this was not possible, and we pleaded that whilst we understood why he could not do this, could he understand our predicament and help us? He gave us a key for a spare room which we slept in and did not have to pay for hurrah which meant I was less hungover than I would otherwise have been.

i am going to hate this party so much

Quick, hire the divine Emma B and get smashed together.

she's not allowed to come to it! god knows why i'm going, i think it's just sort of expected that i do

i have one tonight, one next wednesday and one next thursday
and i am looking forward to ALL of them

One tonight, one tomorrow, plus the gf's tomorrow. Nothing tastes quite like free liquor.

Okay THAT one will go down in office folklore.

Went out for lunch in pleasant Farringdon gastropub. Still there five hours later, with most of us getting inordinately pissed on sambuca. Managed to get the entire office thrown out of the pub after letting go of a very loud stream of expletives. Headed onto another pub round the corner, where we headed into an upstairs room and found Mayor of London Boris Johnson stroking the hand of a young woman who was fairly obviously not his wife.

Considering they'd previously been alone in the room, Boris reacted pretty well to a drunken office party coming in, only actually leaving when a co-worker got in his face and gave him the full 'Boris you are a legernd!!!' treatment. Sadly before I could take a photo.

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Being the only one not drinking at the holiday party is fun. You get to judge those who are in denial about their alcoholism, and after a couple hours you can rob them with impunity. Sobriety rocks.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 15, 2019

I seem to have only been to one proper holiday piss-up and it was at the Australian Embassy (and a few other places after they ran out of beer).

Previous revive later viewed as a missed pivotal moment in UK political history.

whoa

Tracer almost in a Von Stauffenberg moment for the ages!

can't believe it's been 10 years since it was last revived. one of those classic thread titles that I think of every year around this time, along with furtive nips.

My employer in the past has given big holiday galas (usually some time in November), but won't this year. (They have announced an anniversary party for April 2020.) My office is having a potluck and gift exchange this Friday, and I'm so excited I could...something.

there were a bunch of redundancies soon after Christmas last year, and a bunch of people who would normally be coming aren't (myself included), so this year's Christmas party will be pretty muted