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Yes, always! It's the fun one thing that happens work related all year round, why miss it? :) I like free food and drink, I like gift exchanges, and I like seeing people loosen up in a social setting.
We have a ridiculous amount of things at my work. We had something the week before Thanksgiving, a party next week, one for our department later, and I think an entire base-wide thing later in the month. I don't have that much money (you have to buy tickets or bring gifts or food to all of them)!
I have gone to our christmas party 3 times out of of the 5...honestly it depends on where it is being held...and who is going...if not a lot of people I know/like to socialize with go...then I sit out. FI is out of town this year for both mine and his christmas parties...so we are not going to either this year.
It's a resounding heck no for me. It costs money and honestly. . .they pay me to come to work everyday so why would I pay to hang out with them. I never really feel I can relax and enjoy myself at these things. Plus, I don't want to be a part of the "what were they thinking pictures?!?" that come out the next day.
The first holiday party at my work, I showed up about 20 minutes after most of the people (the department I worked in wasn't allowed to leave early for the party like other departments did) and there were no chairs available. Kind of made it awkward for the few of us who didn't quite know what to do with ourselves. I was also still pretty new to the agency, so I felt even more awkward.
Last year the party was held on an evening I had class, so I couldn't attend.
This year there will be a holiday party for our department that I am going to and then one the following week for the entire agency. Right now I am feeling somewhat resentful that I'll have to spend my next two Friday nights after work, hanging out with work people. (if anyone saw my previous post today, I am not super excited about some of my co-workers right now).
I think for the second party I'll just do a "pop in".
OK, I've never had to pay for a holiday party. Maybe that would change how I feel about it. For us it's either a company paid dinner, or if it's a big party you only have to pay your SO if you bring them.
I think there is a cap on what we are allowed to get and anything after that we have to pay for and no partners are allowed.
Ours is on a weeknight, and I'm a teacher who has to be at school by 7 am.
No thanks! :) haha. It's interesting to hear everyone's opinions!
I would actually have to vote other because my company doesn't have one and neither does my husband's.
Ours takes place during work hours, so I don't really have a choice! While on the one hand its nice to take time off from working during the day, I kind of think its lame we don't do something outside of work. I always have a good time when I socialize with my co-workers. Also, what if you have a lot of work to do or are expecting a phone call, and are stressed about sitting around with hot chocolate when you really have things to do? If its outside of work none of those distractions are there. I guess so soon before the holidays things are wrapped up - but then honestly I'd rather GO HOME than be at the office, party or not!
I'm the one who organizes the events at work, so I'd better be there!! I love parties! My organization's Christmas party is always at our boss' house because as a non-profit agency, we can't afford to spend money on extra things like parties. Everyone brings a potluck item, drinks and we have a great time!
My FI's Christmas party is always around 400 people and it's a wonderful dinner at a nearby hotel. They give out baskets and hockey tickets, plus we get free drinks, so it's a nice mix to go to both kinds of parties!
Ours is usually a potluck open house during the lunch hour, where the employees are expected to bring all the food and the big wigs invite people from other businesses in to eat it all. It's pretty lame.
Sometimes other employees will invite a handful of people over to their house, but nothing official is ever thrown. I work for the government, so we're not allowed to do anything on the company dime, because the taxpayers don't want to see their money being spent on employee Christmas parties.
Ours is "free" (director puts all the costs on his credit card and expenses it later), so we all go and have a lot of fun. Generally it consists of a White elephant gift exchange (under $20), leaving early, around 4pm, for a happy hour/dinner and then some kind of outing. This year is a hockey game, last year was a concert.
I've been working at my job for over 2years now, and some of the older people, the one's who decide the restaurant we have the party at, the food to be served ... STILL DO NOT KNOW MY NAME. On top of that it will cost me about 25.00 to attend. So I'm passing on the paying cash for the privilege of spending more time with people i don't care for.
We, as there are about ten of us, that all got hired the same time and the older folks have made no effort to get to know our names, various techniques have been tried (name tags,etc.) are going to use that money and hold our own alcohol included after work dinner!!!
I work for a big university, so they're having a campus wide one you have to donate a toy to get into. It's my first holiday here, so I decided to go (you have to get tickets!) and we'll see how it is. I hear they raffle off things like airline tickets and free parking permits. But I'm still fairly new, so I'm betting it will be awkward seeing as I only know a couple people.
I worked at another university before this, and our department had a holiday party each year that was a lot of fun, but I worked with some great people then.
i HATE work parties. i work for the government, so we have to pay to go. it's always $10-20 and the food is never worth it.
this year its a $285per person dinner including spouses opposite the sydney opera house and i have to show up because im always the one that arranges it
my hubby is super happy, he's been helping me with the menu planning so its got all his favourite things
ours is a luncheon, free food, free drink, leave work at noon? im in.. its great since its not during non work hours during this busy time of year and you dont need to bring a date or anything... they do something different every year, last year it was a murder mystery, this year it is karaoke with a live band.
When I worked at my previous job, I went to each of the Christmas parties held. Because I am in the banking industry, we had a area wide Christmas party. I usually only went because I didn't want my branch manager to go by herself. And every year there are contests to guess how the area did for the year and we can get a gift card from it.
This year now that I am at a new branch/office, they do things differently here. Since the teller side and financial service officer side is so divided, the teller side isn't participating in anything that is related to Christmas. So our branch manager gave us the ok to do everything seperately if they decided not to participate. So we have a Christmas party at a restaurant, can invite whoever we want usually mainly just the SO. Then we are also doing Secret Santa, 12 days of Christmas and Cookie Exchange. This is definitely going to be an expensive work Christmas.
I'm definitely going to mine. I helped plan it this year, and I'm kind of stoked about the food! Not to mention, it's just my unit's party (we are one unit in an enormous hospital), and I really love the people I work with. They're all kinda goofy, so I think it's going to be fun.
I would never miss the company Holiday party =)
The company I work for pays for the party and a guest if we want to bring one. It's a small company (less than 50 people) so if you don't go it will be noticed! At my company, you are expect to show your face (even if its only for 45 mins) and considered rude if you don't. Mine is this Wednesday! Can't wait!
No. Ours is always on a Friday night and significant others are not invited.
I'm not really that close to the people I work with anyways so why would I give up one of my precious Friday nights with my FI to hang out with people I see 40+ hours every week?
No thank you!
I always go. They always have a great band and great food. And...it's the first place DH (then FI) first danced with me!
Well, I'm back in school now, but when I worked for a corporation I liked going. We had a department luncheon at a local restaurant (paid for by the department) and we did a white elephant gift exchange, which was fun. Then we had an office-wide party that was a catered lunch in a restaurant event room and gift raffle (that one was also paid for by the company and the gifts were purchased by an events committee that did "dollar jeans Fridays" and other fundraisers during the year).
Sounds like we had a pretty nice set-up compared to some other places!
I work with 9 ladies, last year we went out to for dinner at a nice restaurant..it was a lot of fun. This year we went 10 pin bowling.....not as much fun, in my opinion!
When I was working I was the activities person so I had to be there. My hubby's is during their lunch, so he goes but I don't get invited. I'm ok with that.
My old group used to have one, which i liked because i work in a secure building so nobody had ever met my husband and i had never met anybody's wives. You can't even get onto the property without a badge.
I'm not sure this unit has an evening christmas party since they're bringing in lunch for us one day. My team may have one, but I haven't heard anything about it yet.
DH's reserve unit has one this coming Saturday we're going to. Nothing says holidays like a good ole, required, awkward military function.
I have 3 work related Christmas parties this year. First one, we organized for our assistants and it was super casual, drinks after work. We paid as a Thank you. The second one was just my department, our boss invited us to her house for a dinner. We bought a train ticket (no drink driving) and bought her a gift and she fed us. The third one is hosted by another department that we work with and is a gourmet 4 course dinner with about 130 people (no spouses) complete with coach transportation, again we will buy a gift for the host. Yes, it does cost to attend Christmas parties but I always go due to social pressure and the fact that I enjoy my colleagues. There's a lot of drinking and since we spend every day together in a small department we're all friendly o it's nice to be in a more casual setting.
I just went to my company Holiday party this past Friday. I went last year and it was great! This year it was a little of a downer. The food wasn't as good as far as choices like last years and I still didn't get to win a prize! LOL Plus last year it was on a Saturday and this year it was a Friday, but I went anyways. The worst for me is not really knowing many people besides the management due to working at site locations.
I like our company parties they gave away PS3's and XBox's and tv's and all sorts of stuff. This year the grand prize...An Ipad!! I wanted that so bad, but didn't get it! Also, heard might have to claim taxes on it...so kinda glad I didn't!
If still with the company there is always next year!
My company has one but I never go and I never really go to work functions, just because I don't feel comfortable going to them, people always get drunk and make a fool out of themselves, and so I just opt out of attending so I never have to have my name associated with being there. I work in a field that there has a lot of confidential information and at parties like that I feel like some people forget they aren't in a meeting so some of the things they talk about shouldn't really be discussed and are a conflict of interest. DH and I sometimes go to his x-mas party but for the past couple of years they have been at his bosses house and I usually get stuck doing the clean up so I opted out of going this year.
OMG at my last job it was mandatory to attend the company holiday party and I HATED it! It was always after work and went until all hours of the morning, if you tried to leave early you were called out and ridiculed, or if you succeeded then no one would talk to you for weeks. It was the strangest thing ever. So glad that's over.
Now I work for a much more financially conservative company (the first one is now owned by the government due to poor financial decision) and thank GOD there aren't any huge blowout mandatory parties. My boss is hosting a party at his house which I am attending adn we might do a department lunch.
We don't have any holiday party at all :( which is weird because its a very large company - but yeah, no party. We had one 2 Christmases ago which was fun and none since.
My husband's university is having an evening holiday party this year but due to budget cuts, no spouses/families are allowed to attend this year LOL weird huh?
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Just curious: how many of you guys actually show up to the yearly company holiday party, and why or why not?