holiday work parties - Page 2

tesla69 · 12.14.2007, 04:34 PM

I bailed on the company party last week but I can't really get out of the departmental party next week. Just show up and hang for an hour, hopefully there will be some decent food. My boss for the past 7 years is retiring this month and in the past she would take us to a very expensive meal someplace with $100 bottles of wine and I would get FUCKED UP. Good wine is good!

There is an incredible amount of candy and sweets around from all the vendors.

gmku · 12.14.2007, 04:37 PM

Since I started working at home, every day's an office party of one. Woo hoo.

gmku · 12.14.2007, 04:39 PM

I read somewhere that more people get fired for what they did or said at holiday office parties than for any other reason.

!@#$%! · 12.14.2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by girlgun

i don't know how i meant it to come out. i... don't... know. i wasn't flirting.

oh no... i did all that last night at his work party.

i have a bad habit of calling people pussies when i drink.

there's this one guy who hates me because he's nickname is now pussy.

4th of july:
girl: hey everyone want a shot?
pussy: oh no... not me.
me: why the fuck not? you a fucking pussy? waaaah does your pussy hurt? awww your poor poor fucking pussy. you fucking pussy... just take a fucking shot, puss.
pussy: blank stare
girl: here are the shots! (and she brought the pussy one too... we all drink shots, including the pussy)
me: awww did that make your pussy feel better, you fucking pussy?

and on... and on....

i tried to tell him one night that i didn't really think he was a pussy... he didn't seem to care.

ha ha no worries. just 2 days ago i called my wife's boss a pussy. oooops!

if anyone asks you, tell them you got involuntarily drunk because of all the stress of your house being invaded by icebergs

avantgarde1 · 12.14.2007, 06:38 PM

lol, i'm leaving for mine in an hour... they sprung for a buffet of fancy food and an open bar! at a country club! i'm gonna get thrashed! hopefully i'll still have a job tomorrow.

gmku · 12.14.2007, 06:50 PM

Actually, as long as it's free and alcohol is served, I'm there. It's the ones they hold in a dreary conference room with soda and cashews that I find excrutiating.

gmku · 12.14.2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by avantgarde1

lol, i'm leaving for mine in an hour... they sprung for a buffet of fancy food and an open bar! at a country club! i'm gonna get thrashed! hopefully i'll still have a job tomorrow.

just don't say or do much! Drink happily but quietly and you'll be fine.

floatingslowly · 12.14.2007, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

just don't say or do much! Drink happily but quietly

that's the guy who gets his desk moved to the basement.

gmku · 12.14.2007, 11:18 PM

Let me rephrase it. Drink friendly and make only small talk, circulate a little but don't stand out.

Cantankerous · 12.15.2007, 01:56 AM

i am so glad i will never have to deal with this kind of shit my whole life.

12.17.2007, 10:01 AM

I try to avoid them as much as I can, but sometimes you just get cornered and you have to go. I don't mind leaving parties so much because it's generally an occasion when everyone gets plastered and the person who is leaving slags off his/her entire department and collegues to comedy effect, but I simply don't particularly want to socialise with people from my own department so much, even though I get along with virtually all of them.

HaydenAsche · 12.17.2007, 10:21 AM

I got fired from my job.

nicfit · 12.17.2007, 10:23 AM

what for?

avantgarde1 · 12.17.2007, 06:41 PM

so i went, and it was only an open bar for about 2 hours. but that was long enough for me to get pretty shitty. it was actually kinda boring, but the food was good. everybody started to leave about 2 hours into it. although me & my roomate (who was my date, lol) ended up going to a bar w/ a few of my kooler co-workers and their wives and getting even drunker, lol!

auto-aim · 12.17.2007, 07:31 PM

i had mine the other night - the eventful things what happened were some guy attempting to break my thumb in a club afterwards... and then also I witnessed a co-worker do a shit in the middle of the smoking area, which, to say the least, was pretty wild. Apparently the place is trying to get the police involved - which, if true, is great!

12.14.2007, 04:34 PM	#21
tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	I bailed on the company party last week but I can't really get out of the departmental party next week. Just show up and hang for an hour, hopefully there will be some decent food. My boss for the past 7 years is retiring this month and in the past she would take us to a very expensive meal someplace with $100 bottles of wine and I would get FUCKED UP. Good wine is good! There is an incredible amount of candy and sweets around from all the vendors.
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12.14.2007, 04:37 PM	#22
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Since I started working at home, every day's an office party of one. Woo hoo. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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12.14.2007, 04:39 PM	#23
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I read somewhere that more people get fired for what they did or said at holiday office parties than for any other reason. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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12.14.2007, 06:38 PM	#25
avantgarde1 the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 968	lol, i'm leaving for mine in an hour... they sprung for a buffet of fancy food and an open bar! at a country club! i'm gonna get thrashed! hopefully i'll still have a job tomorrow. __________________ aka ZEROpumpkins
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12.14.2007, 06:50 PM	#26
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Actually, as long as it's free and alcohol is served, I'm there. It's the ones they hold in a dreary conference room with soda and cashews that I find excrutiating. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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12.14.2007, 11:18 PM	#29
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Let me rephrase it. Drink friendly and make only small talk, circulate a little but don't stand out. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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12.15.2007, 01:56 AM	#30
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	i am so glad i will never have to deal with this kind of shit my whole life.
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12.17.2007, 10:01 AM	#31
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	I try to avoid them as much as I can, but sometimes you just get cornered and you have to go. I don't mind leaving parties so much because it's generally an occasion when everyone gets plastered and the person who is leaving slags off his/her entire department and collegues to comedy effect, but I simply don't particularly want to socialise with people from my own department so much, even though I get along with virtually all of them.
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12.17.2007, 10:21 AM	#32
HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I got fired from my job. __________________ rip
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12.17.2007, 10:23 AM	#33
nicfit invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: banana boat Posts: 15,570	what for? __________________ 11:11 11-11-11 I Ascended.
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12.17.2007, 06:41 PM	#34
avantgarde1 the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 968	so i went, and it was only an open bar for about 2 hours. but that was long enough for me to get pretty shitty. it was actually kinda boring, but the food was good. everybody started to leave about 2 hours into it. although me & my roomate (who was my date, lol) ended up going to a bar w/ a few of my kooler co-workers and their wives and getting even drunker, lol! __________________ aka ZEROpumpkins
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12.17.2007, 07:31 PM	#35
auto-aim the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Wales Posts: 650	i had mine the other night - the eventful things what happened were some guy attempting to break my thumb in a club afterwards... and then also I witnessed a co-worker do a shit in the middle of the smoking area, which, to say the least, was pretty wild. Apparently the place is trying to get the police involved - which, if true, is great! __________________ His Naked Torso
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