Well done for avoiding the BS known as Works Xmas Party mate.
Our works do starts @2pm next Friday.
Ive booked the morning off so that i can spend the whole day doing a mega long ride followed by a few beers in front of a good film 🙂
Works do is tonight.
I'm working at home.
Works do is approx. 80 miles away (which includes a ferry ride).
The local Co-Op has a good beer deal.
Have a guess at the outcome... 😀
Learn how to handle your beer?
real people are always better than telly
I would normally agree. But I make an exception for works socials. 🙂
Learn how to handle your beer?
Precisely.
Or not quite so precisely after a few bottles.
Some relentless commenting
You mean normal workplace Christmas party piss take?
really sensitive and frankly black mood
Unfortunately it worked a bit too well. They probably didn't mean to really upset you and were probably looking forward to watching your pissed persona turn up at the party. Shame you and they missed it!
Suggest you MTFU and don't take yourself so seriously, you're not the centre of the universe!
[u]your[/u] not the centre of the universe!
...[b]YOU'RE[/b] not the centre of the universe.
When insulating people, please use the correct grammar!
Sorry eyerideit i dont no watt you meen?
Good use of the edit button.
😀
winston_dog - Member
...you're not the centre of the universe!
An nor did I want to be. There are other work issues which relates to the black mood comment, I felt it better not to drink and run the risk of spouting inappropriately about those.
Oh, and about the "learn how to handle your beer comment", wise up big boy, when you're in your 40's with 2 kids you'll be in this place with the rest of us.
"learn how to handle your beer comment", wise up big boy, when you're in your 40's with 2 kids you'll be in this place with the rest of us.
But the rest of us do seem to be able to handle ourselves and alcohol, so I'm not sure of your point.
Slightly off topic - a company I work for had their Xmas party in Summer (yup!) and it was themed as Wild West. Everyone got right royaly drunk. Then one of the female employees decide to strip naked and offer her body to all comers.
Someone decided to take her up on said offer. So the happy couple trapsed off to the portaloo for waht was surely a great experience for both.
Christ knows why someone from the senior management didn't ake some responsibility of the situation. Unless, of course, they felt it was an appropriate thing for a works function.
Christmas do’s are so shit. Why do we all go on these big nights out with morons you hardly know or like or have anything in common with apart from the fact you just happen to work at the same place!? Its ridiculous. Id rather be out on my bike. ill be going along to ours tonight, but only beacause i work away and have nowt better to do. its a free feed and booze up i suppose, but im back in at 7am so itll not be a late one. if it was a thursday or friday id just go home instead.
jafwjoffer, you sound like great fun. I'm sure your co workers will be fighting to sit at your table so they can bathe in your happiness rays.
Lolcats. Miserable sod
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
jaffejoffer - Member
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
So leave
[quote=iolo said]jaffejoffer - Member
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
So leave
Leave a job because you don't like people you work with ?
ha, nah, no need for that, its not that i hate them or anything, they are alright but realisticly i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
Just having a misanthropic morning, im sure it’ll be reet.
didnt bother going to ours which was on saturday as id already comitted to fitting some doors in the house.
come monday morning i was reminded why i didnt go ...
he went with her to the toilets - she sat outside all night moaning because of what he said , he said she said .....
nah i was quite happy at home.
i left early last year having not had a drop of alcohol and found my self being accused when i went back to the office of making one of the lassies greet about something at a club i wasnt even at..... i left at 6pm.....
I have a question - how can you have a Robbie Williams tribute act ? He is a tribute act himself, to, you know, other people who can actually sing and write decent songs.
being self-employed i get invited to a myriad of crimbo do's. some are nice sit down affairs, a few are just a meet up in a bar and two are at Christmas markets/Winter festivals.
the highlight, though, is the Anti-Xmas party in one of the workshops held in January.
a nice meal at an Italian up the road and then 12 hours of debauchery, poker, a myriad of drugs and two scantily clad hostesses.
last Jan i needed two days to recover and people still talk about it now.
I'm missing my works do for a second year in a row. There's some really good folks here, but some absolute ass-hats as well.
I'd rather be out with my mates on mad-friday enjoying myself than tip-toeing around peoples drunken issues.
I'd never get drunk round some of the guys i work with, i just don't trust them not to do something stupid and embroil me in it
My old job had some epic xmas do's that were really good fun, started at lunch with a slap up feed and then finished at two in the morning. No arguing, not illicit encounters, not rumours. Just a good day/night out
Can you not drink responsibly? What's wrong with having something to eat first then a couple of beers and knowing when to stop?
Then you remain on the ball while watching other peoples desperate work angst carnage unfold during the evening.
If you can't handle your emotions/drinking like an adult then don't go.
Why do we all go on these big nights out with morons you hardly know or like or have anything in common with apart from the fact you just happen to work at the same place!? Its ridiculous. Id rather be out on my bike
and then immediately afterwards:
ill be going along to ours tonight, but only beacause i work away and have nowt better to do.
seriously?
what would you be doing if it wasn't a Xmas dinner with people you hardly know or like? do that instead.
MrSmith - Member
If you can't handle your emotions/drinking like an adult then don't go.
What a clown/troll. You act like you don't know that alcohol is a chemical and changes peoples brain activity and therefore behaviour via chemical reaction.
I wish we were all so great as you.
Get pissed an rip the shit out of everyone that's up there own arse and not pissed lol
If drinking is a problem then drink a little less.
a nice meal at an Italian up the road and then 12 hours of debauchery, poker, a myriad of drugs and two scantily clad hostesses.
That's a useless tale without photos/video footage 😉
^^ i remember taking some photos last time but they were very blurry...
not sure if that was due to my camera skills, the smokey haze or the fact that everyone was off their tits.
We don't have one any more. There was too much moaning and complaining. If it was too christmassy, the non-Christians complained that it wasn't inclusive. If it wasn't christmassy enough, the other half of the people complained about that, so the people that organised it got sick of half the company moaning at their efforts and stopped it altogether.
We're also a "dry" organisation, so no booze-related problems / entertainment were a factor.
I wish we were all so great as you.
being able to have a handle on how much to drink or knowing when to take it a bit easy (say at a works do where you don't want to be the one they talk about the next morning) is hardly a difficult proposition for an adult, most of us drank till we puked/fell over/passed out/stole a traffic cone in our youth but if you haven't learned this life skill beyond the age 25 (if you drink alcohol) then you may have a relationship with alcohol thats beyond the help of an internet cycling forum.
You didn't understand my post did you? I didn't say at the ripe old age at 41 I continued to drink until I puke, grab the nearest girls tits, pour a pint of blue bols over my head or anything like that.
In fact, my OP if you read it properly has a series of contributing factors regarding me feeling in the "wrong" mood to enjoy a Christmas party, ONE of those comments being piss taking regarding my alledged behaviour after copious (which amounts to 3 pints + these days) amounts of booze. And that comment is that apparantly my volume level raises.
I think Mr Smith you are making a judgment and alluding to childish behaviour of the like which I didn't describe, and therefore you simply are wrong in your judgement.
And like an Adult, I made an adult decision to not drink at the party, and to leave early and take my mood elsewhere so everyone else wasn't affected. Hardly childish, so lets please not bother keep implying it eh?
a couple of points.
i read your O.P. (more than once)
you simply are wrong in your judgement.
what that adults should be able to control themselves? i think they can and should. i alluded to childish behaviour? actually it was student behaviour i alluded to and how as you grow older you learn how to mostly leave a lot of that behind.
how loud I apparantly get when pissed, how I apparantly came close to being punched last time out by another colleague for winding him up on top of that has put me in a really sensitive and frankly black mood.
so i misread that as fact, i didn't realise your work colleges are making all that up. i do apologise for that error.
Errrrr I'm 38 and I stole the bollard thing with the arrow on last year. I put it back the next morning. Does this make me an alcoholic?
My best mates back from oz in 7 days, we have a bit of history for doing stupid things when out on the lash. Does this make us both alcoholics?
Or a we just having a laugh?
I'm not bothering to argue as he doesn't know the context of those statements and would rather assume than ask, to fulfil some agenda currently known only to him.
Who's arguing? 😯 I'm not assuming anything.
Funnily enough I met my mate at uni.
Anyhow grow up Kryton 😉
*throws toys out of pram*. WAAAAAAAAHHH. WAAAAAAHHH!
You see, you should have just gone to the ****ing party got lashed up, improved your mood, maybe have got a bit flirty with the office totty and you black mood would soon have departed!
Now you've made it worse and are feeling even more sensitive!
I think you should have a couple of cans and argue with strangers on the internet. 🙂
We're also a "dry" organisation
WTF? Are you based in the Sahara?
Learn how to handle your beer?
Easiest using a glass with a handle, less likely to let it slip out of your hand.
Not that that has ever happened.
And I don't go to our works do any more. The firm doesn't organise it these days, we have to pay, around £40, it's bloody noisy, with loads of parties from other places at the venue, and stupid games. I like most of my work colleagues, but I don't socialise, as most come from miles away. If it's too noisy, I can't hear to have a conversation, so I'd just sit there, watching everyone get shitfaced. Not my idea of a fun time.
Others don't go, either, as you have to drive, or use the coach, which means having to wait until 1am. Bugger that.
Party got a bit out of hand last night...
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