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Posted: 12/22/2019 6:56:55 AM EDT
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We had a shooting at one of our office parties, and the shot guy died. The Christmas parties just never really were the same after that.
But, as drunken Christmas parties go, it was epic! |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 6:58:24 AM EDT
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I have gotten laid at the drunken company Christmas party  |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 7:11:11 AM EDT
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Work for a small company - this year we had an open bar, great food and many of us played adult-themed games. A few lovely ladies were there, including my wife. No one got groped or had anything inappropriate happen. It was fun.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 7:20:17 AM EDT
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Lol, office parties in 2019. Can't tell any jokes, can't flirt with any women, can't drive home afterward because you had 3 whole beers. Gee, where do I sign up?
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Posted: 12/22/2019 7:24:05 AM EDT
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HR fucked it all up.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 7:29:07 AM EDT
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Some of us still have too much work to get done to waste time at parties.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:10:21 AM EDT
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Mine are self sponsored by the employees. Work sponsored = liability.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:46:49 AM EDT
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We do Dave and Busters, with theoretically limited drink tickets. In practice if you can ask for another ticket, you get one.
We're stagehands, so you can imagine the results. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:50:26 AM EDT
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Getting toasted around people with whom you work is fundamentally idiotic. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:54:40 AM EDT
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Back in the 90’s our parties started about noon on the Friday before Xmas. The boss would insist everyone always have a full drink in their glass. By 3 everybody as shitfaced . We had to take employees out with wheel chairs and dump them in a cab or spouses car
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:56:45 AM EDT
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In my AO this year which involves federal government, military, contractors; Christmas parties are limited to potluck lunches, gift exchanges, but no formal dinner/alcohol parties.
My son's ship had a Christmas party in Norfolk that ended up on WordStarHipHop though. Chief's ship boo and his wife got into a scrap. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:00:12 AM EDT
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We stopped years ago after a massive shit show with the factory workers.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:04:41 AM EDT
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The first thing that happens when you drink is you lose your inhibitions. NEVER lose your inhibitions around the people you work with. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:08:15 AM EDT
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They were still having the Christmas one when I left in 2012, people always got drunk and did dumb shit.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:12:29 AM EDT
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Last night we had a pair of 300ish pound managers doing drunken interpretive dancing. It was pretty lit.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:26:59 AM EDT
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At my last job, they were a thing until about three or four years before the business folded. The last one I went to was around 2006 or 07 if I remember right, and it was an event.
The owner would rent out a local country club and put the show on there. Tons of food and drink. No open bars, the way they handled drinks was they'd give you two tickets at the door you could turn in for booze, the thing is you could stack up tickets pretty well from the non-drinkers and their spouses. I remember one guy I worked with came staggering away from the bar with a Corona in each hand and a bigass string of tickets, it looked like the dude hit the jackpot at Diamond Jim's or something. At the last party before they stopped doing them, a half dozen of the girls from the financing office got wrecked and started Coyote Ugly dancing on the bar and tables. After that, they changed it up, no parties at the country club, they'd do a lunch at work a couple days before Christmas, handing out bonuses and such then. My current employer, we do the Christmas lunches at individual locations, and around this time of the year they have this big trade show type thing they close the year out with. Nights after the trade show have cocktail reception type things and the last night has a dinner with open bars. I never really hung around to see any true drunken debauchery, that ain't to say that I haven't drank my share of bourbon and beer at these things and stumbled back to my room, but the company does like to have a good time. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:35:38 AM EDT
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#metoo. Nope, nope, nope.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:38:55 AM EDT
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No Christmas party at my job, but we did go to a Rockies game over the summer and there was a 4th of July party at the owner's place (~20 people in the company). Both of those events resulted in a DUI unfortunately.
Maybe that's why there is no Christmas party... Wife is the manager of a credit union and we had a Christmas party at our place last year for her employees. I got drunk alongside one of the other husbands, but here was no drama. I did see one of her employee's titties by accident too (breast feeding). |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 9:57:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/22/2019 11:24:42 AM EDT
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Just had ours, free drink tickets when we arrived think everyone got six or so but theres always half the people who don't drink that give up their tickets if ya hit them up, woke up at 3am in the parking lot in my running truck , not a soul around.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 11:41:35 AM EDT
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With all the multiculturalism leading to things like this: San-Bernardino terror Attack I'd be careful about who I'd party with.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 11:51:58 AM EDT
[#22]
From all the Xmas parties I worked this year? Def not.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 11:54:37 AM EDT
[#23]
According to my union industrial electrician neighbor they are still a thing. He said their meetings are usually even more interesting
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Posted: 12/22/2019 11:59:29 AM EDT
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Lol, office parties in 2019. Can't tell any jokes, can't flirt with any women, can't drive home afterward because you had 3 whole beers. Gee, where do I sign up? |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:01:40 PM EDT
[#25]
Just did one for my wife's company a couple weeks ago.
Some people have trouble controlling themselves and make themselves look like idiots in front of their co-workers. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:02:39 PM EDT
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We have alcohol but it's just beer and wine and tons of good food. Tough to get too hammered because I'll be full on food or just fluid lol.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:03:24 PM EDT
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Just had ours, free drink tickets when we arrived think everyone got six or so but theres always half the people who don't drink that give up their tickets if ya hit them up, woke up at 3am in the parking lot in my running truck , not a soul around. Passed out in his truck after getting hammered, CO poisoning. He was on life support for a couple days, but his brain had been destroyed. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:03:35 PM EDT
[#28]
Yep, at least on the corporate side it's dinner and still an open bar.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:06:12 PM EDT
[#29]
I have been to the one where I work every year for the past 26 years and never seen anyone drunk at any of them. But we are a small business and rarely have much over two dozen people including significant others.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:16:44 PM EDT
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Some of us still have too much work to get done to waste time at parties. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:19:51 PM EDT
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I attended one last night. Drank a ton of st Pauli’s girl and acted like an ass
I feel like ass too 
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:23:54 PM EDT
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What exactly do you do that you can’t go to an office party? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Some of us still have too much work to get done to waste time at parties. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:25:52 PM EDT
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Damn, I feel sorry for some of you. Every year we rent a private venue somewhere because we expect it to quickly sink into full on debauchery and we don't want to offend others.
I guess part of the reason our party is so fun is we all like each other and get along great. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:26:25 PM EDT
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Just had ours, free drink tickets when we arrived think everyone got six or so but theres always half the people who don't drink that give up their tickets if ya hit them up, woke up at 3am in the parking lot in my running truck , not a soul around. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:30:16 PM EDT
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These days, NFW. I avoid company get togethers like the plague.
Back in the day I worked in telecom and some wild events were had. Christmas parties started at the bar the company rented for the night. The party for the "cool kids" generally ended when the strip club closed or your shift started. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:34:41 PM EDT
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Mine are pretty tame, all the clinicians avoid drinking too much but my wife’s are a bit different, lots of drinks and lots of sexual white elephant gifts. I’ll make a show for mine but I don’t really care for parties in general
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:35:39 PM EDT
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Getting shit faced in front of coworkers you aren’t otherwise close with outside of work is not something I consider a generally wise proposition.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:39:24 PM EDT
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Just had ours, free drink tickets when we arrived think everyone got six or so but theres always half the people who don't drink that give up their tickets if ya hit them up, woke up at 3am in the parking lot in my running truck , not a soul around.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 1:35:35 PM EDT
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When I worked for a cable company we had our Christmas party at a bar/restaurant. One of the younger cable techs got hammered, left the party and was killed in a wreck. I will never forget the phone call from my boss the morning after the party.  |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 1:54:13 PM EDT
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Getting toasted around people with whom you work is fundamentally idiotic. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 1:57:42 PM EDT
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No way I'd sponsor one if I was running a company these days. Sad, but I get it.
We get a nice dinner with drinks. It's nice, but not party. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:02:03 PM EDT
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They seem to be more or less dead. I've been to some snoozefests and some real barn burners. It's best to keep it at a light buzz so you can enjoy the President's secretary getting shitfaced and trying to molest one of the blue collar workers. Those parties always bring the freaks out. Most of them are people you'd never suspect. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:05:34 PM EDT
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We stopped years ago after a massive shit show with the factory workers. We just have a luncheon now. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:07:24 PM EDT
[#44]
Mine toned down now that the head person is a tea totaler but I won a trip to Japan
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:09:20 PM EDT
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We had one about 3-4 years ago, I think they gave everyone 4 tickets for drinks. Those lasted about an hour.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:09:53 PM EDT
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Corporate Retail since 2003 checking in. Vs 15-20 years ago in my experience they are dead as a doornail. I will always miss the schenanigans but im sure HR depts got fed up with paying off admins who got drunk and banged their VP.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:10:49 PM EDT
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I show up. Wave the flag for 45 minutes. Make sure the right people see me. Eat and have my 2 free beers. Then run like hell.
I was joking with the chief pilot that his office was right around the corner for the disicipline meeting. Christmas parties are also known as the position enhancement meeting. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:18:33 PM EDT
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Nope. Our Christmas parties are epic, hell all of our parties and events are epic. It’s a topic of conversation in the entire industry.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:18:43 PM EDT
[#49]
depends on the company.
federal, state companies should pass. Construction Industry it's a go. Small Businesses is a good idea if your treating your employees well. There's a way of doing it to reduce liability. Dinner one place under the company banner, everyone meeting afterwards at a place for drinks not connected with the company - magically the drinks keep coming and I never had to pull out my wallet-someone gave me an Uber card. Officers and top people leave after the first few rounds. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 2:19:45 PM EDT
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No idea my industry is 90% or more men. I would pass if they had one.
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