I'm not....they seem to be taking it personally. Think they must all be insecure.
Nope and someone has a whinge at me every year.
No. Impending birth of #2 and the fact that it's 25 miles away (15 more than work) means it's not possible.
Nah, I just work here. And I have actual friends who I'd rather spend time with.
Already been. I take our relatively small group to a nice restaurant in London for lunch every year. Alain Ducasse, Helene Darozze, Apsley's They all do lunches for less that £50 pp. Just don't go mad with the wine list, and don't look at the dinner prices 😯 .
No, new baby girl meant not possible. Didn't go last year either, as missus working and no baby sitter for the boy.
No one died.
I will bring beer (fff Alton Pride, best beer in the universe, and brewed by my mate) in on the last day though so they all know I still love them.
No but I was on hols so it was a decent excuse.
I declined the invitation but went for a couple of drinks before hand. Seems it was the usual carnage
Nope, I've got tonsillitis.
Sadly not (it was last night) as I've had the Flu of Doom™
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/riding-after-a-chest-infectionbronchitis
Bit of a shame really, as it was at Madame Tussauds, and looks to have been a bit of a lark.
Not a chance! I used to make excuses for why I wasn't going. Now I just tell the truth. That I'd rather spend the evening watching back to back Adam Sandler films, Clockwork Orange style! Everyone thinks I'm a miserable ****! I couldn't care less!
no as baby was ill with tonsilitus so pulled the short straw. sounded like it was gash anyway - was on monday so we could have a joint one with the arses in our london office (ffs - worst day ever for xmas do) and everyone was home by 8pm. used to be a good laugh, but now tedious and just an excuse for the boss to flash some cash. we're heading out tomorrow for xmas beers without the boss so will be a LOT better 😀
Yes however, as it's just me and my wife in the business she may get the hump if i didn't show.
Not this year as working nights so will be at work while the lads are getting ****ered down the pub !
No to the party (last week), yes to the team meal (in about 20 minutes)
Yep, this Saturday. It's a good craic, we have a few drinks, a meal, bit of dancing/drunken messing about, they put us up in a hotel, partners welcome and we get a hotel breakfast the next morning. As a parent of 4 and 6 year olds we don't get out too much these days so this makes for a good night out with the missus.
Yes, it's free food and booze with people who I see out of work too, a fair number of which I ride with.
Working in the cycling industry does mean I am more likely to have something in common with my colleagues though I guess.
Should be fun!
Nope, but with the office being in the States, understandably so!
Am going to the LBS's Christmas knees up, though.
That I'd rather spend the evening watching back to back Adam Sandler films
Hey, come on, that's a bit strong. I would have expected to be spat in the face for saying that.
Yes, well I better had as I organised it.
binners - MemberNot a chance! I used to make excuses for why I wasn't going. Now I just tell the truth. That I'd rather spend the evening watching back to back Adam Sandler films, Clockwork Orange style! Everyone thinks I'm a miserable ****! I couldn't care less!
I was temping years ago and the permanent guy I was working with was asked why he wasn't going to the party because it was going to be such a laugh with the 'usual going-out crowd going'...
"Awwww....you don't actual think I like any of you..do you?"
I had to get out of the office sharpish - 😯 followed rapidly by 😆 😆 😆
I'm going on mine. Looking forward to it.
Am I banned from the forum now?
It would be bad form.I quit yesterday.
My ex work colleagues invited me but as I've been retired just over fourteen months now I have no affinity to be in their domain listening to ' war stories' and I am happy and content with my new life and I don't even drink much or often these days so it would have been a pointless exercise in watching other people getting hammered.....well those that turn up, after last years poor showing which I did put myself out to go to.
To be honest I really believe Christmas is over hyped all round for money making and little to do with family and close friends.
PS Bah Humbug 😆
not really, but since my sole co-worker in my department was my mate before he started working here the curry and film night we had at my place the other night could be classed as one i suppose?
Yep, but ours is organised for late January to miss the 'season'.
Paid by the firm for self and partner, should be fun plus we'll make a night of it by staying over (at our cost).
so we could have a joint one with the arses in our london office
Like a pantomime donkey?
To be honest I really believe Christmas is over hyped all round for money making and little to do with family and close friends.
I'd write a long piece about how much I agree with you. but I need to pop out and buy the kids some trainers from Sports Direct.
Ours is tonight. Drinks then curry. The boss has already made a joke about getting the office junior to man the fort tomorrow, so I'm (and everyone else is) taking that as permission to not bother coming in tomorrow. 🙂
Official one, no. Alternative, real ale and pie night, yes!
Yep, I'm going. A nice meal with partners first then some will push on for the debauchery later. I shall have a quick drink after the meal and then make my excuses.
Aye, tomorrow. Dull dull dull.
Me and the dog might go to the chippy on the way home one evening. Over and above that it strikes me as unlikely given that I work on my own.
Missed my team lunch, and group lunch due to being sick this week. Add to that missing my old bike shops party last night and it's been a rather antisocial week. Cheaper though...
Went to my team lunch which was good fun. I have however swerved the organisation 'get togethers'.
Yep, ours was last weekend, well Thursday to Sunday snowboarding in Austria, which was nice 🙂
Monday was a bit of a struggle being back in the office.
Might go out for a few pints with then tonight if I have time but I'm not too fussed if I miss it tbh! They're colleagues not friends.
Yes, it's tomorrow night
I have a hotel room (well a Travelodge, so not really a hotel) booked as well.
Beginning to think it wasn't such a good idea 😐
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Mmmmmmmmm Sally Phillips
Gave it a miss this year. 160 mile round trip.
Didn't go on the official doo,only 3 out of 21 did,but am going out on the lash with a few lads from work,always a good laugh.
2pm tomorrow mad Friday,I'll be the guy who goes out once a year and gets hammered by the bar.
"You want some"
"I'll give it ya"
Any vacancies mrflaky? I will do anything , I mean anything!!! 😀
Nope, but I disgraced myself at the wife's one last week 😳
smiththemainman - will pass that onto the boss!
Yes.
Its here: http://www.bestpartiesever.com/newcastle/christmas-parties tomorrow.
Should be a laugh, company are very sociable and the directors happy to open their wallets. Ice skating at the ICfL rink first too.
Then staying at my boss's house, as mine is 25 miles away and I'm not riding/getting the last train/getting a mortgage for a taxi.
Yes,with optional crazy dancing 🙂
Already been on the department 'do'. Friday off to travel down (in pool car) to head office, meal, drinks, hotel, breakfast paid for, had a good laugh and didn't have to put my hand in my pocket all night. Be rude not to, really!
Office of me, so no. Went to my wife's one though, but too tired to make it till the end. T'was ok except for the corporate videos. My wife also told me it was black tie. It wasn't. 😳 😕
Not going for a work one. However on Saturday I'm going for a beer/meal with few boys I met via Strava 8)
No never ever.
Yep, went to ours last night and made full use of the bar tab they set up. Am slightly regretting the Sambuca races now though but a slap up Christmas lunch just now has helped
Nice looking meal out tomorrow lunchtime, couple of pints and then a 12 mile pedal home.
Then all of next week off! Then 3 days home alone while MrsMC takes the kids to her parents.
Would love to, but 300+ mile round trip & overnighting at my expense the weekend before xmas means I'll stick to having a nice liquid lunch on Monday instead 🙂
Cheers mrflaky will wax and edge the board ready!!!
Freelance through my own company so I throw the Christmas do, and even then I'm not going 😛
Can't stand work xmas parties though. Don't mind a festive lunch but not formal same old over cooked turkey on mass with far too few trimmings and worse being allocated seating based on how management would like you to socialise with people you don't normally talk to. Thanks, I don't socialise with them because I probably hate them 😉 . Not a fan of the official booze party. I like to get drunk with friends, not idiots. Frankly I'd rather have a night out with friends and go for a curry 😀
Plus I was spoilt years ago by a couple of very s****y xmas do's for one place I worked and nothing matches them.
Had mine last Friday, woke up at the apprentice's flat on Saturday morning with very little recollection of anything after the meal! 😳
Spent Monday deleting photos of me literally as they were being loaded on to the Network drive and made public. Looks like I was having fun though! Throwing some lovely shapes on the dancefloor.
To be honest I like going out with my colleagues every now and again, they're a good bunch and always up for a laugh.
Tomorrow [s]night[/s] afteroon. Work club in Barney. 8 free pints. Pick up by wife.
Can't possibly go wrong...
Yep, went last Friday.
Nice lunch in Waterloo, followed by a few drinks - I then sloped off home about 6.30 before everyone got too wasted.
A day out of the office, which only cost me my train to London (about £7)
I work alone. I'm having several.
Yes but only because it's a shared office, so I don't actually work with anyone there, so they don't piss me off.
I said it on the other thread that was posted a couple of weeks ago, if the people you work with are so bad that you can't stand socialising with them, how the hell do you endure working with them 8 hours a day 5 days a week???
Loads of people (about 50%) were made redundant this year, another large number the year before.
Business is a bit of a mess although as the Development team we are all covered by being needed as part of the 'Global' organisation.
It used to be fun to work here and at rare times it still is, but there's a lot of crap these days and I don't love the place like I did when I joined.
So the concept of going out to 'celebrate' is just a bit alien to me. I'm heading to a mates Christmas show with another colleague, we will drink and eat and moan about work. It's not free but it's better than having to listen to the UK CEO being a smug c***.
Yes, not really too fussed but by and large they're a decent enough bunch and it's a (mostly) paid for night.
Will be on the turbo Saturday and determined not to feel like shit, so treating it much like a test of will power...
Not for me mine is tomorrow and I am having a day on my bike instead 🙂
Yes. Tonight. Always an awesome night. I'll never be one to turn down free champers, wine, food and bar...
No! And not in the future either. Firstly it's £20 a Ticket, secondly I don't want to travel 20 miles to get there and get a taxi home. Lastly I don't want to get social with work colleagues. None of them interest me in the slightest.
Mountain bike ride and a Piss up in the pub with mates and missus is a better idea.
Been to the team lunch, very civilised and enjoyable.
Missed the main office party as it was a long way from home, not near a station and on a Friday night, which makes logistics and my necessary early start on Saturday morning slightly troublesome.
I must be in the rare and enviable situation of liking everyone in the office I work in so actually feel I missed out a bit.
Mine is tomorrow. It is on track for being less epic than last year's, which is good because I have things to do on sunday
I have been at real pain as my work night out is on thursday which is the bike club Christmas ride to the chippy. It's only once a year so I'll forgive it as long as the wife lets me out on a Sunday ride soon.
Went go karting which was a good laugh, only 5 off us work in the shop so a few lads from mojo came to top up the numbers (and belittle my driving skills...)
Yes, I went. Got totally tanked up, can't remember how I got home and still can't...also had a go at the boss. Still made it to work the next day. More drinks with another dept. tonight.
No as the office is a 2300 miles away. They did send me £130 voucher instead though.
Just me this year, might go for a cheeky lunch pint (picture myself sitting in the corned on my own, wearing a paper crown and blowing a party whistle), maybe not.
Oh my God...
I work for a very well know arts establishment in Mayfair and we had our xmas party last night. All was going well until one guy tried to fight with two security guards, I took him outside and tried to bundle him in a cab before he hurt himself so I missed my last train home.
So myself and a few others wound up in a gay club in Soho...which was surprisingly civilized even considering that one of our number was dressed as a Roman gladiator. I've had two hours sleep and am at my desk, stupidly I have to commute across London on my 29er full suss later.
Kill me now.
PJM1974 - MemberSo myself and a few others wound up in a gay club in Soho...
This reminds me of a night out in London...
"I think we might be in a gay club!"
"What gives you that idea? Is it the drag queens, the obvious gay couples, the guys who chatted you up, or is it just that the club is called GAY?"
Got ours tonight, South American place in town, then out for a few beers, and they've even got us a hotel, bless - partners are there as well, so it shouldn't be too messy. 🙂
one of our number was dressed as a Roman gladiator
Were you in coal hole mid evening? I saw a gladiator and others in fancy dress in there.
BoardinBob - Member
I said it on the other thread that was posted a couple of weeks ago, if the people you work with are so bad that you can't stand socialising with them, how the hell do you endure working with them 8 hours a day 5 days a week???
That's one of the reasons I went contracting. Far less requirement to socialise with them and don't have to attend the corporate events. Often companies treat you like a code monkey (I work in software) when you're a contractor and don't involve you in the full project planning & design, so you just turn up, stick on headphones, write some code and get paid loads more than the guys you hate, go home and go ride bikes 😀 . Better still, work from home.
Though some jobs if it does involve the full development cycle, I'm more picky about the environment and who I'm working with. Anyway, if it sucks, you just move on to another contract.