Christmas parties

[lnr]

Is your work having a christmas do? Are you looking forward to it or dreading it? Is it free or do you have to pay? Are partners invited?

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Mike's christmas party was a proper corporate do, for 25 quid a head with partners invited:

• Meet in hotel, one free drink (mulled wine) then expensive bar
• Move to ballroom where there are lots of big tables, 4 or 5 other companies, large meal, drink too much wine (extra)
• Lights are dimmed and there's a disco at the end of the room

It seemed mad to have a ballroom and then only have a dancefloor the size of a postage stamp, and the music was mostly dreadful (70s disco, ABBA, modern R&B and dance), though kudos to the DJ for playing two Jam tracks back to back. I asked if he could do anything rock and his best suggestion was "Bon Jovi?".

Still, it was fun.

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Our lot aren't inviting partners, but the computing group is having a free buffet christmas lunch next Wednesday which is also the leaving do for one of our long-standing colleagues. And by genuine coincidence it seems the departmental support staff Christmas party is that evening, 5 quid a head for an enormous spread of food and an impressive array of drinks and another bad disco. Since that starts at 5 and the lunch will no doubt be quite long I rather suspect the computing group staff aren't going to get much work done that afternoon.

I'm rather looking forward to it.

Comments

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

I'm gutted - out of 3 work-related Christmas parties (one at the current place, two at the new place) I can attend precisely none.

Current place is a "gala dinner" at the Garden House Hotel tomorrow night, with dancing afterwards. Partners invited. Work pays.

New place had a department Christmas bash on Monday night when I was going to/from Scunthorpe. I don't know what was provided for free, but there were a lot of wine glasses in the CMS central core on Tuesday lunchtime. New place also has a departmental assistant staff lunch, not for partners, next Wednesday, but again I can't go. I don't know if the IT team do something of their own accord too.

[mouse262.livejournal.com]

No the IT team don't do anything themselves. I wish they did.
Maybe the new manager will organise things ;-)

my workplace has a departmental christmas party on Monday night, which I couldn't go to, which must be the same as your one as I am also in CMS - all free.

Departmental assistant staff lunch is on Wednesday, not for partners.