Don't forget the hat...
Posted on 12/11/2007 12:14:17 PM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
They’re baaaaack! You know what I’m talking about — the swarm of advice-minded blogs and articles that inundate the Internet every December, dishing out the dos and don’ts of the infamous office holiday party.
While overall fete etiquette is the aim of many, we’re going to get right to the juicy stuff.
To hook up or not hook up at the office party, that’s the question – and a not so easy one for that matter.
The office holiday party provides the seemingly perfect opportunity to get a little closer with somebody who has been, up until that point, eye candy.
Well-groomed and well-dressed, many colleagues can have us focusing on a bit more than work during business meetings, water cooler breaks, and random Xerox machine meetings. And given that we spend so much time with our co-workers — getting to know some of them better than many of the people in our personal lives — familiarity, camaraderie, and simple hours spent together can breed desire.
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Do companies still throw these kinds of parties? I assumed that they were as passe as the 5 martini lunch. I’m having lunch catered for my employees and sending everyone home with a ham. We’re not a very exciting bunch.
“...can breed desire”
Frankly I doubt it matters what her name is.
What holiday...4th of July? Memorial Day?....Easter?
Oh, CHRISTMAS
‘Keep your indiscretions 100 miles from the flag pole.’
One of the more important ‘life lessons’ you learn in the military.
Don't shat where you eat.
In this day and age, it's a prudent move to keep one's work life and off-hours (home) life separate, especially when one wrong move can result in a sexual harassment lawsuit or years of child support payments.
My first year at a large corp, they had the whole works including discounted hotel rooms. The party was canceled because of weather. Sales went south and we started doing the put luck lunch thing.
Christmas parties to me are like high school reunions. I’d never enjoy using my personal time to be around people I didn’t want to be around every day of the week in the first place.
My company’s party wasn’t that exciting.
Don’t get your honey where you get your money.
I tend to shun our work’s parties and get-togethers as a rule. Nothing good rarely comes from personal work relationships.
holiday: from holy day to hollywood day
Does anyone actually enjoy going to an office party?
I must be incredibly old fashioned because the as I read this article it seemed to be that the basic question was, “Do I whore myself around at work or not and if I do can it benefit me?”
LOL!
Don't forget the hat...
I don't.
It's just another stupid obligation.
Oh well atleast I'll get a good meal out of it.
Anyone having sex with someone they work with is just stupid.
Mine doesn’t.....but us employees rent out a Legion post across the street and we’re going hog-wild on the 21st.
The office holiday party provides the seemingly perfect opportunity to get a little closer with somebody who has been, up until that point, eye candy.”
Good grief. Not at any of the offices I have ever worked at...
Yeah, right. Ours is in the afternoon - they close the bar at 3:00 pm and throw everybody out. Opportunity is zero, at least on the company’s watch. ;)
The only females at my job are the Boss’ wife and sister-in-law, both with at least 10 years on me. I’m not even tempted.
We used to have a party at the company I worked for 25 years ago ( met my beautiful wife there) but after a couple of years the company banned booze because of liability issues and believe it or not people stopped going. I haven’t been to a real office Christmas Party in 20 years or so and don’t miss them at all.
That’s more than we do.
UHH. By definition this constitutes sexual harassment of every employee who didn't do the boss.
I have a coworker who looks like a slightly thinner Rosie O’Donnell.
Guess who is looking to score any guy she comes across.
Excuse me while I attempt to claw my skull out of my own head and beat myself to death with it.
I am the Great Cornholio ... Are you threatening me???
got sexual harassment?
Pretty much the same for us. Since they went dry, nobody wants to go. Company won’t even foot the bill for liquor at off campus events.
Raffling off things like monthly parking spaces, vacation days and gift certificates (with money going to charity) has helped attendance at the party. But everyone bolts after the last ticket is drawn.
Thou shall not mix thy rod with thy staff......Or terrible plagues shall fall upon thy head.........
We live in a great country.
Total Depravity and Ping List About Nothing Ping
Boss: I’m going to get right to the point. It has come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?
George: Who said that?
Boss: She did.
George: Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you peope do that all the time.
Boss: You’re fired.
George: Well you didn’t have to say it like that.
Boss: I want you out of here by the end of the day.
George: What about the whole Christmas spirit thing? Any flexability there?
I met my wife at work. She was the HR director and I was an engineer. I waited until I left to have the sex....
Damn...I’ve been working for the wrong companies all these years...
To be honest, my former employer had great office parties from ‘01 through ‘04. After that they were on the decline, the last 2 years I worked there they basically slapped us on the butt and said Merry Christmas. They are now out of business.
...and a mess kit ain’t fer messin’ in!
ya gotta EAT there!
A few years back I had an Christmas party where the marketing manager was hitting on/harassing one of the girls that worked for him. We all saw it and it was pretty bad; he was fired that Monday. She's didn't file any sexual harassment charges but I'm glad the guy was canned. He was an a-hole to all the girls in the office on a daily basis.
He was married and had kids too.
I always find the best time not to drink is during office Christmas parties. You get to watch all of your co-workers get blitzed and make jackasses out of themselves.
It's free entertainment for all.
I know a woman who has “seduced” two different bosses at Christmas parties, did the Lewinsky, then within a week threatened sexual harassment.
She made $25,000 settlement the first time, don’t know how much she got on the 2nd one.
lol.
A gentleman I know (petroleum geologist) works for a company that has a different take on things - at their Christmas party, the company gave out $50 gift cards to all of the kids present...
The next day, she went to a break room and he followed her. When he started to be friendly, she told him (in a loud voice) that her daddy told her to tell him to stop harrassing her!
Two things happened:
One: He turned pale, sweaty, and stammered that he didn't mean anything by it, and
Two: The statement was heard by a regional manager who happened to be in the back of the breakroom.
The next day, the manager...wasn't. Morale of the story: The right buzzword can work miracles in this crazy world we live in! (although I really wanted to use the baseball bat!)
Hmmmm.... My only office colleague is the Microsoft Word Paperclip assistant. Probably don’t need to worry about sex at the party.
Notice the town this place is in. LOL!
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