Office Christmas PartiesMy office this year is having Christmas lunch. In the office. On some desks we are going to clear the monitors off. The computers underneath will keep running as we are behind on some deadlines and need to keep rendering.
OK, so some people aren't getting anything, but how Scrooge-like are your bosses when it comes to Christmas?
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Having read Ratmans postI can suddenly see why the good folk of Iraq are so peeved...
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Christmas AbroadJust had our xmas lunch, were in Baghdad at the moment, not with the squaddies, a private security company earning a small fortune for putting up with shit. We cant have a normal xmas and relax in case the muslims take advantage to attack, so we had a surprise ! xmas lunch today. The stores guy was to to organise it and was told to invite all the Iraqi local staff, so in the best ex squaddie was everything was bacon ! Port sausage wrapped in bacon, baon sandwiches, pork joints with apple sauce, bacon crisps, bacon burgers pork sausages on sticks, you name it. It was a loverly scoff, made all the better by inviting 30 Musilm employees who coudlnt eat a thing, duking primative pagans :-)
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ratman, Thu 23 Dec 2004, 13:00,
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happy christmasyesterday my employer sacked two people from their jobs. even made them come in three days before xmas so he could tell them. I think i see a scrooge
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Last yearThey sacked about a third of the company.
Merry Christmas everybody!
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isthisyou?, Thu 23 Dec 2004, 11:08,
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Alcohol awarenessOur rather tight-arsed health-freak teetotaller of an HR manager has booked us all on an Alcohol Awareness seminar this morning. An hour of someone telling us the effects of alcohol, I mean, what's the point?
Our rather decent down-to-earth Operations manager has declared this afternoon free for Christmas drinks, which he won't buy but he'll pay us to drink them (works for me). So as long as we can still answer the occasional phone call with a relatively sensible answer, we can drink to our hearts content.
So to sum up: lecture on alcohol drinking (theory) in the morning, followed by the practical session in the afternoon.
Not a party, but almost as good as :o)
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We've had 5 Christmas Do's!Working in a well known University in the midlands (you guess) it means I get to go on loads of do's.
- Did the first 'technical staff party' at lunch then crashed the student party whilst wasted until 2am.
- Did the staff party and saw one of the PA's all over my boss like a cheap suit.
- 'Technical staff party #2' excuse to go down the boozer for a long lunch.
- Staff / Phd party where I DJ'd and ended up spraining my ankle so badly whilst pished I had to take a week off work (bonza!)
Higher Education - 'tis the way forward I tells ya!
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