Christmas Parties

Originally posted by ovverbruv@Nov 27 2006, 08:30 PM
Nor do we, I don't see why xmas parties should be funded by the company you work for
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Not even if the employer wants to do it as a Cristmas gift to his staff? And before the replies come in - as well as a Christmas bonus.
 
I dont agree with xmas bonuses either, unless it is the time when the yearly bonus is paid, just having a bonus becasue it is xmas seems silly. If an employer wants to throw a party as a gift to the staff that is up to them but I dont see the reasoning behind it
 
It's a decent gesture that shows your employer appreciates the work you put in throughout the year. Our Christmas parties are paid for - we pay only for the drinks from the bar although wine is provided and paid for by the firm. I am lucky that my company are very generous to and appreciative of their staff - we regularly get bottles of champagne as personal gifts either at Christmas or after a busy/successful period. We also have a large staff party paid for on Grand National day, and a large staff barbecue on the beach in the summer. It makes all the difference to have your employer value you and gestures like that are very much appreciated. My department boss is also very good to us having put on a large barbecue or two in the summer to which we were invited as well as inviting a few of us to spend Christmas Day with him and his family. Gestures like that create a lot of good feeling and comraderie in the office - we all get on very well as a team.
 
I never feel comfortable in the party type atmosphere and ours usually takes place whilst I am back home anyway.
Although there was a funny instance the one time I was able to go (it is usually held at Newbury racecourse) where a work colleague allegedly tried jumping the last fence.
Safe to say as it was about 2 o'clock in the morning and pitch black we couldn't find out if he managed it or not!

We have a very good darts/pool tournament day usually held the Monday before Xmas in one of the local pubs.
It was a very good money making day a couple of years ago as one of the lads ran a book on various markets during the tournament and most of us cleaned up!

Think he had to make a couple of trips to the cash machine,safe to say he didn't bother the following year.
 
If I were an employer, I'd like to think I'd look after my staff the whole year as well as fund Christmas and summer parties/bonuses. I know someone who runs his own firm. It's doing fairly well but he's been paying for the Christmas night out himself since their first year and he reckons it's money well spent.

My own experience of Christmas parties (never had one I didn't have to fork out for myself) has been very variable. Considering I'm painfully shy, I really enjoy a good party. Some of the ones at the big hotels in Glasgow have been fantastic nights out. The extended family once went to one at Dunblane Hydro which included accommodation & breakfast. It was really good.

Most of the smaller ones have been disappointing all round and where I am just now they've no idea about party nights. They want somewhere cheap and cheerful but they only get half of that. I've suggested they decamp to a city for an overnight deal but too many of them get a nosebleed at the thought of crossing the county border.
 
Our Christmas party will be paid for....includes meal (a lush one at that) and wine at tables. Plus last year the bar was free for the first few hours...needless to say I stocked up!!!!
 
Going off the subject but still on the party themes, a mate of mine worked as an oil rep;(…. OIL) stacks of freebies on match days, free bar, free food, free taxis etc etc (it was a SCOTLAND V WALES oval ball game) and he hired this social club room, in a suburb of Cardiff with an oversize T-V TO WATCH .

An ex workmate of mine got in knowing a friend of a friend and He decided to help himself and hoard the spiced chicken legs under his table, another mate of mine Charlie who owned another company was the guest of my mate the organiser, and sat next to my workmate never missing a trick.

They kicked off at MURRAYFIELD (someone who was still at the bar, then said who's had all the chicken legs they are all gone) my mate Charlie sitting next to my exwork mate and he played RUGBY for PONTYCLUN and as you would expect a real fanatic.

Anyhow WALES scored early, and my exwork mate jumped up in the air and dancing, so as to celebrate the try, and Charlie struck, he went right for the jugular! And nicked a handful of these spiced Chicken legs he was hoarding, taking a bite out of all of them as the other guy was still celebrating.

I looked and started laughing aloud along with a few others on our table :lol: and my exworkmate then realised what Charlie had done he had nicked most of his store of spiced chicken legs...

The trouble started then, the exwork mate wanting to have a go at Charlie and him laughing and eating the chicken legs, saying "sit down cant you see where trying to watch the match here’s a fecking tenner go and buy some more from the chippy" it was so funny at the time, and Charlie did not want these legs but was trying to teach him a lesson about hoarding, and all calmed down after a while....................... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Arkwright@Nov 27 2006, 08:11 PM
I never feel comfortable in the party type atmosphere and ours usually takes place whilst I am back home anyway.
Although there was a funny instance the one time I was able to go (it is usually held at Newbury racecourse) where a work colleague allegedly tried jumping the last fence.
Safe to say as it was about 2 o'clock in the morning and pitch black we couldn't find out if he managed it or not!

We have a very good darts/pool tournament day usually held the Monday before Xmas in one of the local pubs.
It was a very good money making day a couple of years ago as one of the lads ran a book on various markets during the tournament and most of us cleaned up!

Think he had to make a couple of trips to the cash machine,safe to say he didn't bother the following year.
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I have it on good authority that the person concerned managed took the wrong course, but managed to take the last fence twice.
 
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