Company Christmas do!

[flandango]

Going to the Ivy in London today for some grub. Never been before.

I am part of a family firm JP FLANAGAN & SONS (JPFlanagan.co.uk) my photo is on if anyone wants to put a face to the spelling mistakes!

After dinner, the 99 comedy club then hitting the casino.

Last year we went to Ronnie Scotts in Soho. Really recommend it even if you don't like Jazz.

Next year Vagas is on the cards!!!

It's pi##ing down with rain here so i'm not missing any golf so not that annoyed.

Have a good weekend.

 

[madandra]

I had my night out on Thursday ..... in ......






















Sheffield

I still had a ball though

 

[HTL]

IVY is decent mate, it has the fittest waitresses ever! Food is good but in fashionably small quantities so have a sarnie before you go in, drinks are ace but very expensive.

99 Comedy club is great and there are loads of cool bars in covent garden, was there last weekend and they had a big winter Pimms tent set up, try it out if you can.

Just go to a local boozer in Soho for my works do and get poo the bed drunk with the two other male staff, the rest of my departments are either health freaks who dont booze or t-total.

 

[Smiffy]

It's ours next Friday.
I tried to get out of it by saying that it's my wife's staff do the same evening so I can't go but the boss offered to change the date to accommodate me.
Feel a bit of a heel now but I can't stand the prat

 

[TonyN]

Got ours Tommorrow night. 14 security lads on a night out playing drinking games is... Funny? Stupid? Lunacy? Idiotic? I dunno, but its good fun. The last one out involved a CasEvac at 0130 because he slipped giving someone a firemans carry in a race.

I cant wait, Bowling, Pool, Food, Beer and thats before 2200.

 

[andiritchie]

Got ours next friday,jjb stadium for a meal then a few beers in the bright lights of Wigan

 

[brendy]

Our boss pays for us to go away each year, this year was Amsterdam, the criteria for clothes and money were as follows.
1 clothes, what you have on your back and what you can carry onto the plane.
2 money, if you are bored in the airport you will need a couple of quid for a magazine, the rest is paid for.
I heard 1400 quid was spent on alcohol in one bar, before anyone even left for the floating restaurant where more drink was consumed. I was gutted, a heavily pregnant wife with an overactive imagination asked me (nay, told me) to stay home this year just in case things came along a couple of weeks early. Plus shes been to Amsterdam before and didnt want me going for the whole weekend, totally financed or not. At least theres still the christmas bonus to come!! I did manage to get away for a small Jolly to Galway last week though and had a few pints and plenty of quality grub.

 

[medwayjon]

Got a night out with mates tonight and one next saturday with work so a couple of good nights to look forward to.

Not on the major lash tonight as going to a restaurant then just a few jars in the bar, the proper fun starts next saturday!

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Our christmas dinner dance is at the end of...........January at the Exhibition centre in Aberdeen. Last year it was the largest corporate event in the UK apparently.

 

[TonyN]

A_F your post reminds of something I read in the paper last week.

A school (somewhere in England) has put the christmas nativity back untill January because of a muslim religious date.

How bizarre!

 

[vig]

I had my night out on Thursday ..... in ......


Sheffield

I still had a ball though

You should have pm'd me, we could have got a round in



Went to my nephews wedding last weekend and drank enough to last me until next Christmas

Not having a Xmas do. I'm the boss and a miserable git that doesn't like Christmas (bah humbug).

Don't get on too well with MY boss and last time we went out for a drink I nearly chinned him so that's not a good idea either

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not having one this year. Ours was a meal locally which we had to pay for ourselves (the joys of working for the NHS) and with HID redundant I couldn't justify the cost. Plus I went last year and was bored rigid by 8 as everyone got smashed and I sipped coke

 

[Cernunnos]

In 13 years with the company I work for I've only ever been to one christmas do. Thast one was enough.

Works christmas celebrations have to be the most pointless wastes of time spending yet more hours with people you have little in common with & no option but to work with & put up with under sufferance in general. Having to send valuble time listening to yet more tittle tattle to do with either work. I mean... The one night a year when we're supposed to socialise as a group & what has everyone got to talk about but work... I can do without it.

Even if our works do had taken place somwhere worth attending I'd still not have gone.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I use to disagree with that. As a fresh faced teenager in my first job the office party was a thing of mystery and intrigue and the ones we had lived up to every part of the dream from the sad, bizarre and the side splittingly funny.

We use to go to the pub across the road to start. Back into work for the office disco and then back to the pub until closing time. It use to be achance to pull the wome you had fancied all year and to have a blast with my work colleagues who at the time were also my sunday morning football teammates and my pals as well.

As I got older and moved jobs things became more civilised. There would be meals in fancy restaurants and black tie dos at posh hotels with disco and entertainment but whilst I was always there to take advantage of a freebie bar it never had the madness of the early party's where nothing was formally organised and you were spontaneous.

Now I don't drink at all I agree that they seem a rather less enticing prospect. I can't get that alcoholic fuzziness that at least makes it feel like you are having a good time and even though the crowd I work with have been really great to me this year in some trick times and are great people to spend hours a day with (trust me I have worked with a lot worse) none really have that party spirit that makes a good night into a memorable night.

 

[time_vans]

Just had ours.......gorgeous chinese food at a village restuarant just outside of town then a short walk (stagger) to the nearest pub playing music. Really suprised as every single person got on the dance floor and stayed there all night! Legs were a bit stiff in the morning....but as hinted at seen it all over the years fist fights, food fights and even strip poker back at the hotel resulting in on office girl butt naked with just cushions to cover her!

 

[big_russ]

We have our "staff" do this coming Saturday in a local pub but i wont be attending as i was bored rigid after 30 mins of last years.
Early February the boss is taking all managers and partners out for three course meal, drinks etc all paid for so it only costs me a taxi ride. Usually a good night at a restaurant attached to local golf club.

 

[viscount17]

I think our department last had a christmas 'party' for JC's 1st birthday - and that was a bust as birthday boy never turned up; mum kept him in I think!

we have had lunches, though not this year. now we're outnumbered by the subbies and the numbers have reduced so much, it's not the same - if it ever was; rush to a pub for a meal, minimal drinking as we've all got to drive home and some of us live miles away, and they expect you back at work in the afternoon.

still the company coughs up a meal and a bottle of wine each (not to be drunk on site).