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Company Christmas parties

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JackReacher, Dec 14, 2009.

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  1. expendable

    expendable Well-Known Member

    We had a pot-luck lunch last Friday. I think I'm still full from it.
     
    expendable, Dec 14, 2009
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  2. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Potluck here.
    Company provides ham and turkey, we bring the rest.
    I've heard tales that we used to have fancy Christmas parties with booze and catered meals. Not anymore.
     
    JayFarrar, Dec 14, 2009
    #14
  3. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Yup. I think they even have somebody go through the office about the time it starts to make sure everybody is gone. Because it isn't like there might actually be work to be done, right?

    On the plus side, the food is pretty good. The entertainment, however, is awful.
     
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    outofplace, Dec 14, 2009
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  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    My wife's was discontinued last year. It was unfreakingreal. Took up the entire two-floored lobby of its swanky downtown office. Casino theme, with roughly 50 tables spread out all over the joint. You'd get chips by turning in fake money with the company CEO's face on it. Free food and booze everywhere you turned; I remember one year there was a Maker's Mark station, you'd get a tumbler dipped in the red wax to take home. At the end of the night you'd turn in whatever money you won (though it didn't really matter) and they'd draw names for raffles. The absolute worst thing would be a $50 restaurant gift card. Others got $500 jewelry gift certificates, free hotel nights, airline tickets. The company would stockpile these gifts from advertisers all year long.

    Then the biz went to hell, and that was the end of that.
     
    playthrough, Dec 14, 2009
    #16
  5. chase.colston

    chase.colston Member

    I mentioned on the bonus thread, but my paper had its "96th annual Christmas party," as the publisher made sure to mention, yesterday.

    They cater pretty solid food and give service awards to people who have worked there 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years and so on. People who manage to make nothing for 25 or 30 years usually get pretty sweet stuff. They also do door prize drawings for cash, gift certificates, Greenberg turkeys, etc. No booze, though.

    On the service awards, a few years ago the then-city editor (who is a huge baseball fan) got an all-expense paid trip for two to Cooperstown because he had never been to the Hall of Fame. I mean, an incredibly thoughtful and pretty expensive gift from the paper. What did he do? Traded it in, got the money and bought a new TV. I ripped him a new one after that. So shallow.
     
    chase.colston, Dec 14, 2009
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  6. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Ours used to be catered pastas and salads. Not bad.
    It has descended to a rented popcorn popper, cookies and punch. The entertainment has remained the same. Several musically inclined newsroomers practice a few times then play some rock. Some try to sing. Some of the younger ones try to rap. And there is a kids choir comprised of employees' children that has maybe one rehearsal before singing Christmas carols at the party.
    In a quirk of the work sked, I am off that day. Not going in for this event.
     
    SoCalDude, Dec 14, 2009
    #18
  7. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    I work in sports. I was at a game.

    But I heard the food was decent.
     
    zeke12, Dec 14, 2009
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  8. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    My company does those stupid service awards, too. Man, I hate that. Nobody gives a damn and it is really boring.
     
    outofplace, Dec 14, 2009
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