The Office Christmas Party
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shevchenko54
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The Office Christmas Party
It's that time of year again and everyone's work xmas parties are just around the corner (unless the company are skin flints and have it in January....)!
Now i always have a problem with these parties. I seldem talk to any of my colleagues outside of work, often even ignoring them (blatantly) outside of the 9-5. Hence when it comes to the "big day" i find them tedious and awkward!
My work likes to hire out a room in town, invite people to dress smartly then get insanely drunk and do things they will regret for the next 12 months!
I have 2 problems with the party!
1) it is difficult for women (mainly the back office/hr team) to look good at any time. Encouraging them to buy a new outfit is just cringworthy and in my opinion in-humane! These women are attrocious, and should literally be locked in their offices for as much of the year as possible, not encouraged to raid Dorothy Perkins and wear high heels.............there is the odd exception to this point mind, and it leads directly to number 2!
2) I am a young single gent who in the main is well respected by my peers. However by continously avoiding any sort of contact with said people, I have made a rod for my own back! I tend to get pretty pissed at weekend and chase skirt around Manchester. Now the robots i work with no little more about me than the fact that i drink a lot of starbucks and like to leave early on a Friday!
Every year i fall in to the horrible trap at these "parties" of following my usual weekend routine of getting bladdered and then trying to get in to any reasonable looking girl (there are probably 3 in marketing). Now this would be ok but as i lie in the management tier of the business, i am probably supposed to refrain from doing this!
Now this leaves me in a dilemma, do i go and potentially scar my reputation at work, and then have a few very awkward days in the office or not go and miss out on a free bar??
Can anyone help?
Now i always have a problem with these parties. I seldem talk to any of my colleagues outside of work, often even ignoring them (blatantly) outside of the 9-5. Hence when it comes to the "big day" i find them tedious and awkward!
My work likes to hire out a room in town, invite people to dress smartly then get insanely drunk and do things they will regret for the next 12 months!
I have 2 problems with the party!
1) it is difficult for women (mainly the back office/hr team) to look good at any time. Encouraging them to buy a new outfit is just cringworthy and in my opinion in-humane! These women are attrocious, and should literally be locked in their offices for as much of the year as possible, not encouraged to raid Dorothy Perkins and wear high heels.............there is the odd exception to this point mind, and it leads directly to number 2!
2) I am a young single gent who in the main is well respected by my peers. However by continously avoiding any sort of contact with said people, I have made a rod for my own back! I tend to get pretty pissed at weekend and chase skirt around Manchester. Now the robots i work with no little more about me than the fact that i drink a lot of starbucks and like to leave early on a Friday!
Every year i fall in to the horrible trap at these "parties" of following my usual weekend routine of getting bladdered and then trying to get in to any reasonable looking girl (there are probably 3 in marketing). Now this would be ok but as i lie in the management tier of the business, i am probably supposed to refrain from doing this!
Now this leaves me in a dilemma, do i go and potentially scar my reputation at work, and then have a few very awkward days in the office or not go and miss out on a free bar??
Can anyone help?
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at our place, out of repspect to all the folk they have made redundant this year, the management are not allowing any christmas celebrations to take place on their time or money - a few teams have taken afternoon holidays here and there, and are paying for their own meals etc themselevs. which is absolutely fair enough in my opinion.
thats what were doing, just booked an afternoon off, a group of us who are friendly at work, and we'll just get smashed round manc - this way you swerve all the awkward chitchats with freaks you spend all year trying to avoid!
thats what were doing, just booked an afternoon off, a group of us who are friendly at work, and we'll just get smashed round manc - this way you swerve all the awkward chitchats with freaks you spend all year trying to avoid!
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Next week I'm having to drive from North London to nr. Swindon for a Christmas Meal which I'm paying for. Once over I am driving back to North London to then pick up the family to then drive North for as long as it takes on a Friday F***ing evening to start my Christmas B***ard festivities properly!
Still, I get nearly two weeks off, paid leave.
By the way Shevvy, as a single man in that situation I would take advantage of the free bar then invite a select few (1) to go on somewhere. Get stuck in, Son!
Still, I get nearly two weeks off, paid leave.
By the way Shevvy, as a single man in that situation I would take advantage of the free bar then invite a select few (1) to go on somewhere. Get stuck in, Son!
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Shevvy
Get absolutely bladdered before you arrive. Make a dramatic entrance with your cock in your hand and your trousers around your ankles.
That should do it. You'll be parking in the executive car park before you can say "Sod off copper!"
Good luck!
Get absolutely bladdered before you arrive. Make a dramatic entrance with your cock in your hand and your trousers around your ankles.
That should do it. You'll be parking in the executive car park before you can say "Sod off copper!"
Good luck!
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Bloody hell - were you there when I did that one?Zulus Thousand of em wrote:Shevvy
Get absolutely bladdered before you arrive. Make a dramatic entrance with your cock in your hand and your trousers around your ankles.
That should do it. You'll be parking in the executive car park before you can say "Sod off copper!"
Good luck!
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Crazyhorse is still the Christmas party expert. 
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I mean yah defo, it's all about Costa Coffee, they put marshmellows in your hot chocolate.
I hate coffee shops, they're everywhere and they ruin folk. We're British, we don't DO coffee, we do tea. TEA dammit. None of this mochygayboychino rubbish. The lenth of time it takes somebody to say their Starbucks order is directly proportional to how much of a tw*t they are. "With a vanilla shot", oh do f*ck off.
I hate coffee shops, they're everywhere and they ruin folk. We're British, we don't DO coffee, we do tea. TEA dammit. None of this mochygayboychino rubbish. The lenth of time it takes somebody to say their Starbucks order is directly proportional to how much of a tw*t they are. "With a vanilla shot", oh do f*ck off.
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That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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Indeed. Why would any right thinking individual choose to go to these? Have they never heard of the pub?Prufrock wrote:I mean yah defo, it's all about Costa Coffee, they put marshmellows in your hot chocolate.
I hate coffee shops, they're everywhere and they ruin folk. We're British, we don't DO coffee, we do tea. TEA dammit. None of this mochygayboychino rubbish. The lenth of time it takes somebody to say their Starbucks order is directly proportional to how much of a tw*t they are. "With a vanilla shot", oh do f*ck off.
98% of other Bolton fans have 2 other words going round in their heads at the moment. Well done for being original!dave1980 wrote:Before the thread is hijacked and quickly turns into a debate about the pros and cons of Rainforest Alliance coffee and tea I've got two word's for you
"FREE BAR"
It's a free bar and it's Christmas, therefore dive in!
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