Lucky you.
Last year our Christmas party was cancelled due to the recession. This year it hasn't even been mentioned.

I might go on strike for better partying conditions.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:31, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

...and you an elf as well

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:32, Reply)

Violation of 'elf and safety.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:33, Reply)

That'll be the arse again

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:33, Reply)

We have to pay for it ourselves.
But we've arrange a meeting before so that all travel will be paid.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Overnight expenses too?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:35, Reply)

Hell yeah,
Not even a travelodge, a JURYS INN, I'm moving up in the world I tell you that for nothing.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:37, Reply)

*mutters about NHS money being spent on hotels instead of patient care*

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:39, Reply)

These hotels are all the same when you're face down
in a pile of your own vomit and 17 stone of sweaty local uberskank.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:40, Reply)

I think it's very unlikely a group of Analysts on a night out will attract much female attention.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:45, Reply)

I didn't specify the gender of the skank.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:46, Reply)

I reckon Chompy makes his right hand wear fatsuit at these events
so he can see what it's like when that kind of thing happens to regular people who don't scare the opposite sex.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 15:47, Reply)