Christmas work partys ?

[bladeplayer]

Any Plans ? do ye have 1 ? who pays .. who organises it ?

Im starting organising or Christmas night out for work .. nothing special just meal & few beers ..

Reason i start now , we are in the car business, business has quietened down and work couldnt realy pay for it all, so i decided 10 weeks before the night out to get €10 a week off everyone .. give us €100 each in the kitty .. (work will contribute something aswell maybe €200)

4 course meal in the local hotel is €35 a head leaving €65 each drinking money (plus works contribution) we then head down the town here & do a bit of a pub crawl ..

This is the 3rd year doing it this way & it works well , We are lucky as we dont have any "real" clowns working in the place so the kitty doesnt get abused .. any cash left over is evenly divided out among the lads after ..

Whats ye'r Christmas party plans ?

 

[GreiginFife]

Due to the multi-layer nature of Sky as a business we have different ways of doing things depending on where you work.
Contact centre advisors/managers etc get £25 a head from Sky to do as they wish (meal, party night etc).
In the "support" areas (projects, HR, IT etc) each department has a company organised party at a secret venue - buses to and from are laid on.
I, personally, never go as I don't necessarily like the people I work with beyond the remit of colleagues and spend 40-50 hours a week with them so I don't really see them as part of my social life.
Christmas parties in a business this large also carry the usual risks of drink and people saying things that they later regret (if they can remember) to people they maybe shouldn't.

I will be attending my Golf Club party without a doubt

 

[thecraw]

I'm too anti-social to go to them as they always end in arguments and people say too much when drunk.

Christmas parties yes - office Christmas nights out - count me out!

 

[Dodger]

Done away with our due to a few things one of them being I cannot justify the cost to members.

Now the Greenkeepers do there own thing which is great,shows they are a good team and they always enjoy their night out.

Personally I have always found them all a bit of a bind,why would I want to spend a night making small talk to certain people whom I have nothing in common with and would at any other time of the year only pass the time of day to?

We have a night out with the guys who golf together and their other halves each year,usually around 20 of us and it's always a cracking night out.

 

[road2ruin]

I love my works do....call it quits at about Midday and start working my way through the spirits, end up on the gin followed by a load of Champagne. I never pull at the party and almost always get into a row and promise never to do it again.

That said when you work in a company of one i.e. just me, you tend to forgive and forget and start organising next years as soon as humanly possible!

 

[patricks148]

A Company i do work for in Harrogate Invite me to theres and evrything is free including drink all night and they put me up in a nice hotel. Trouble is its almost a 7 hour drive to get there.

Our local one is not much cop, a few drinks in the office, which is pointless as everybody has to drive there.

 

[Iaing]

The last on we had was a few years ago and ended with the MD and sales director engaging in fisticuffs at the end of the night in front of everyone.
The cheers were deafening as they were chucked out by the bouncers. :clap:
Funnily enough, works xmas party has never been mentioned since.

 

[GB72]

Never been a massive fan of works Xmas parties. I can never really enjoy myself as I have to set a good example for the staff that I manage and give a good impression to the partners of the firm. The firm put on a good event, busses to and from the do and a free bar for a while but the risk of overstepping the mark is too big, especially when you are with a group of people who you do not socialise with so you do not know where the boundaries are in the first place.

 

[Piece]

No Xmas party last year and none this year. Replaced by a £15 allowance to go on a lunch with your people manager. Wooo.

 

[Andy]

Tracks dig out.

Low loader.

Cargo onsite

 

[MegaSteve]

Currently employed at a newish 'start up' business... Only been in existance since April [I started there in July]... If you include the cleaner only seven 'work' there... Mixture of ages and cultures as you'd expect in London... Has been mooted by the management to have a chrissy 'gathering' as we are not always in the building at the same time etc etc... Would be rude not to attend...

 

[Khamelion]

Christmas party, these days no thank you, once upon a time in my younger single days, the Christmas party scene was just a debauched drunken orgy, happy days.

 

[Big D 88]

As manager of a small team based within a school, we get £30 per head to do as we please (as long as there with me as i have the company credit card!!)

Were going to Teeside park for something to eat and a couple of rounds of bowling.

Looking forward to it actually...

 

[Alan]

Not went to our Xmas dinner since the last one end up in a big punch up. Company pays £25 but its still not worth the hassle.

 

[AMcC]

For the last couple of years we, as an office,went to Ayr racecourse party night, was ok, but as others have said, why spend time with people you have to work with.

This year I am self employed and looking for a phone box to hold my night out in. :cheers:

 

[fundy]

ANother self employed here, usually have a few xmas lunches with a few mates who also work for themselves and our poker crowd tend to have a decent night out, more than enough for me

 

[Mark_G]

Its the only time I get anything for free from my company, so definitely going to go. I will spend most of the time avoiding the drunks, buying my team drinks and taking the mick out of certain people. I will definitely leave early to avoid when people get tooo "tired and emotional", I will get to see a few friends I havent seen for ages and I will kiss a few ladies. It could be worse.

 

[fundy]

Its the only time I get anything for free from my company, so definitely going to go. I will spend most of the time avoiding the drunks, buying my team drinks and taking the mick out of certain people. I will definitely leave early to avoid when people get tooo "tired and emotional", I will get to see a few friends I havent seen for ages and I will kiss a few ladies. It could be worse.

Sounds great, can I come to yours lol

 

[Imurg]

I think I'll have my Xmas party on the Golf Course - I'm sure I can fix the diary appropriately.......

 

[Val]

For the last couple of years we, as an office,went to Ayr racecourse party night, was ok, but as others have said, why spend time with people you have to work with.

This year I am self employed and looking for a phone box to hold my night out in. :cheers:

Don't fall out with yourself Alan or say things to yourself you'll regret.