Ok it's that time of year most of us will prob be going to the annual office Christmas party. So enjoy, have fun but...

List your Do's and Don'ts


I'll start..
Do... Be a piglet, well it's free isn't it!
Don't ... Sit with the boss if you intend to drink too much (Especially if you're a talker)!

Cases of wardrobe "TMI":

Do... remember you're still "at work", not at the club with your friends!
Don't forget... that you still have to see those people everyday- leave the "Freak 'em Dress" at home.

Don't drink too much. Everything you say or do under the influence will be held against you at your next performance review.

These people are not your friends. Treat it as business and stay in control.

don't fuck the boss' wife/husband in the bathroom stall

chocolate1 said:

I would recommend not getting your nob out at a works christmas do

Do - go to the company party no matter how much you hate that job. It may be held against you if you do not show.

Don't go and get drunk and bitch, it will be held against you too.

don't give your boss an island cooler with a stubby holder than says "I am the boss" on it for kriskringle

Do - Secretly spike the punch if the higher ups are too cheap to buy alcohol
Don't - Drink any of it...this is the time to be on standby with your digital camera and sit back to enjoy the fun.

Genesia said:

I agree.

KatSkrizzle said:

I hope not because I've only been twice in 23 years, Our party is so lame and lately they even have the nerve to charge $$ to attend. I don't hate my job but I ain't spending money to party with them either.

The Dept of Corrections, Fire Dept, and even the Transit workers have way better parties for free.

missfee said:

They're still talking about how one of our dept heads got drunk as hell and made a spectacle of herself last year.

This makes me think of our business manager that would get DRUNK before she got to the party EVERY year.

HILARIOUS!

At my ex's job party, the business manager's husband got drunk and discussed what everyone got paid to the employees. Poor lady, when she got back to work the next day she was fired.

Genesia said:

Ditto that. I have an old roommate who got trashed at a staff party one year, then couldn't understand why he was passed up for a promotion.

babynoz said:

Do you gatecrash other firms parties?

mcmeekle said:

A lot of us know each other in Gov't so we sorta crash each other's parties except nobody wants to crash ours anymore,

babynoz said:

yup see.

Don't dress whorish. You ain't at the clubbb.

DO - attend and try to be cheerful (even if you can't stand half of the people there!).

DON'T - sit at the boss' table and then bicker with someone sitting across from you that you don't get along with all night long.

BTW - rumor is that they're renting a karaoke machine for my company's Holiday party this year.

I need suggestions for a Prince song that's -
a)easy to sing to
b) relatively clean, &
c) doesn't require vocal skills!!!

PurpleJedi said:

make sure your cables aren't in a big tangle on the stage!

ZombieKitten said:

The link didn't work (embedding disabled) but I know the scene that you're referring to (my wife loves that stupid movie).


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PurpleJedi said:

when the embedding is disabled you can just click on the youtube logo and it opens the video page

ZombieKitten said:

There was a time when my wife and I worked at the same company. I had left to concentrate on my own business but was still invited to the party as her guest(duh...).

I sat next to my former Boss (who was a cool guy!) but I kept stealing his fork which I would then eventually pass over to his wife.

Funny as hell!! His wife thought it was hilarious and he mentioned the vanishing fork in his State of the Company speech...

They're divorced now and they shut the business down...

RenHoek said:

Clearly, it is your fault.

meow85 said:

PurpleJedi said:

hmmmm, might I recommend something in the Bria department...?

errant said:

that's foul!