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Ours has been downsized to a lunch out and the rest of the day off for shopping. We had Cheesecake Factory this year, and I think I'm going to pop. All I had was a Cuban sandwich and a half a piece of GIGANTIC vanilla bean cheesecake, but seriously... all I want to eat for the rest of my life now is celery.
What does your office/work do for the holidays?
We used to go out for lunch during work hours (pay for our own meal) but now they won't even let us do that. We aren't allowed to leave the workplace... so instead we are going to cater in lunch and sit around and do nothing for approximately the same amount of time it would take to go out for lunch... to prove a point lol.
Luckily enough, ours involves ALOT of booze (top shelf included), great food at a nice restaurant and Christmas presents. This year somebody got water pistols and it got messy... Our bosses also provide transportation for everybody to get to and from our work parties.
I work with a really great group of people and have very generous bosses :-)
Last year we had a catered meal for lunch. This year it's an after work party at a nice restaurant/banquet room and they are arranging hotel rooms in case people want to stay in the area. Should be quite the blowout!
@An Alaskan Bride: Exactly! I kind of prefer the restaurant because we get to go home or shopping right after.
@Kemma: Wow! Where do you work????
@Miss Longcoat: Yeah. It just feels so stiff. And we have a cash bar, but it's a religious organization, so it just feels so awkward.
I don't know if this counts... but we have a staff (and close friend) party at the bar FI owns... So not really an office party, but it gets pretty rowdy since it's at the bar and it's the one time a year when all of the staff have a night off together (FI usually hires a bartender from another bar or a past employee for the night).
Party usually includes: dirty santa gift grab, beer pong, pool and flaming dr. peppers. :)
Ours is always a lunch out. We work for the government so we pay for ourselves. I don't think taxpayers would appreciate paying for my chicken parm and diet Coke. :)
My fiance's company has 90 employees and makes over 20 million a year and guess what they are having for their Christmas party? Pizza in the warehouse! Sounds pretty crappy to me.
I planned my company's holiday party this year! We had around 150 people and a budget of more than $10,000... so I kept joking that it was almost planning a wedding! We had it at a very nice steakhouse downtown in a private party room - open bar and heavy hors d'oeuvres. Our office is casual dress code so the holiday party is cocktail attire.
My company does open wine-beer bar in the office on a Friday evening after work with some catered food and some potluck, and invites our families and a few local clients. It's fun and everyone unwinds, but they schedule it in January! I feel like it's pretty outside the fun of the holiday spirit that way, but everyone else here loves that they don't have to squeeze it into their busy holiday season. Whatever.
My husband's company does the full nine yards, renting a whole facility (once it was the entire Seattle Space Needle), catered dinner, full bar with drink tickets, DJ, casino games, photo booth, etc.
My old company pre-grad school did a seated multi-course dinner with wine and drink tickets, DJ/dance floor and HUGE dessert buffet at the Ritz. Best part was the Christmas decorations at the Ritz; they are gorgeous and completely over the top, I would always take so many photos. That was the first formal, fancy date that my husband and I ever went on, when I took him as my +1 to that dinner five years ago!
(I had a great time at my old company's fancy party, but employees who had been at the company more than a handful of years got kind of over the impressiveness of the event and were a little bitter about the massive sum of money spent on it every year. I can see that argument, I mean, that's a ton of money that could go into our bonuses and raises instead. Food for thought for those of us who currently have smaller company parties).
Really? I mean, seriously? Beer pong? Cocktail dresses? Open bar? 10k budget? I don't know where you all work, but I want to join the team. No, like seriously. :)
I'm such a bitter bug about our office party. We have to pay to go, it's crappy food, and if you are drinking at all (I always have 1 glass of wine that I nurse all night) you kinda get the stink eye.
Ooh! I was just about to post this myself.
I work for a super small software company. We go out for a nice dinner with lots of wine. Paid for by the company.
My coworkers are super fun and friendly, so I look forward to it every year.
I usually have 4 to go to. Three of them are at a bar (3 hr open bar with passed apps. Usually keeps going an extra hour or two). Then theres the HUGE corporate one at a giant catering hall. More food, open bar is usually 2 hrs.
ETA: One of our markets had a christmas party that involved chugging pitchers of beer and beer pong. Someone walked in at 11am the next day and got a standing ovation haha.
Steak dinner and drinks at the Palm. It's always a good time :)
MY DH is on the planning committee for his work holiday party this year. 150 employees and a budget of $35,000. Yup you read that right. INSANE. He's in charge of getting prizes to raffle off, (raffle is free. people get tickets by participating in games and activities). This is what he bought:
round trip for two to hawaii with hotel voucher
2 round trips for 2 to carribean with hotel voucher (for 2)
46" flat screen
2 ipads
2 macys shopping sprees, ($300 each)
spa day at a super nice spa
round of golf at really fancy gold club
on top of this everyone gets grocery gift cards.
From everything he tells me their party is over the top. But it's just for employees, no dates. that to me is sort of tacky.
I work for a small company, (9 people). We are going out to a nice dinner with open bar.
We got ours (as per usual) during our frieght shipment day. It was catered it. We ate during our 30 min. lunches. That's about it. Nothing too special. The food was pretty crappy (as per usual).
This year it's going to be at the yacht club, with hor'devours, dinner, real drinks. Always real -beer, wine, mixed drinks etc- drinks.
Years past it's been at my boss's house (he's got a sweet house!) catered by a local fancy restaurant complete with bartender and dancing via MacBook DJ. :)
Spouses are invited of course. My boss even hires a limo to drive people to the party and home...
I dont work but Fi's christmas party was family friendly LOTS of food a DJ and there was face painting a clown and a balloon animal person! The kids loved it but the adults not so much...
We had our office party for our small office today (we have about 70 in our group) and the big organization one is next Wednesday. Today was lunch at a restaurant with a roudy round of Dirty Santa afterward. Next week, we have a catered meal and games.
I just went to my fiance's, and it was amazing. Maybe 200 people, catered hors d'oeurves, dj, raffle, bar, and a casino theme, so there were two pits set up with games. We drank, danced, and bet fake money on blackjack all night. Lost the raffle though. It was great, except that I would occasionally look around and say to my fiance, "This is exactly what I'd want our reception to be if we had this kind of money." So much fun!
Ours was at a resort. We did dinner and wine, drinks were cash bar, and we all stayed the night. My boss paid for all the rooms. When we got back to my room (I was sharing with some other employees and it was deemed "the party room") we found that the staff of the resort had set up a bar in our room. Wicked.
There was a spa we could have had services at the next day but I was SOOOOO hungover I skipped it. But I do now have a video of my manager head banging to Metallica at 3am. Awesome.
We have a chef on staff to provide free lunch for our clients so she'll "cater" a mini feast at the office. There will also be copious amounts of beer and wine.
Oh, and we'll be doing a Secret Santa.
Well I just got a new job and no party has been mentioned which is okay with me since I dont really know anyone.
My part time job used to do holiday parties at a local restaurant but they havent for a few years now due to the economy.
Our work Xmas party is the biggest I have ever heard off, we start with breakfast at a local cafe then we all take a bus or a ferry to a vineyard or some other venue, for entertainment and games and activities like archery or quad bike riding, then a big lunch and lots and lots of drinks then we head back and have drinks all night in town, we even get presents, its just crazy. It is flasher than most weddings I have been to and we do it every year!
I work for the government so we go to a coworkers house for a potluck. The tax payers don't appreciate paying for parties :p
Oh yea that is just the Xmas party, staff only, anyway it's on a week day so other half working, but we also have a ball once a year and partners come to that
Holy crap, some of you guys have ridiculous holiday parties!!
Ours is out at restaurant, it's okay... But it's so stuffy while all the staff is laid-back so it feels very awkward.
We have separate department holiday parties which are usually at a bar and WAY more fun.
FI's company had their xmas party at a swank hotel this year with buffet supper and dance. FI and I don't stay for the dance because I usually have to work early the next day. Also free draws for prizes (usually from the company) and FI won a 100 keg gift card so that was kind of awesome.
My company doesn't give ANYTHING for xmas staff party. Which I feel is total crap because it would help with the staff having "meh feeling towards work" issue they keep complaining about. :P
We do a dinner at a nice restaurant with open bar. Everyone I work with is 30+ years older than me. You can imagine the kind of fun we have.....
Since I work at a school (with foreign students) we're going to have a Christmas party with lots of food and probably some activities/games. I'm not sure what else. It's more for the students than the staff, though.
FI's company has a big formal party every year - open bar, lots of people, lots of food. This was my first year (it was last Thursday) that I was able to go to his party (we were long distance before) but he had jury duty that ran REALLY late that day so I missed it for the third year in a row. I was bummed.
Stupid jury duty.
Just had our holiday party last night and it was a lot of fun. It was the first one I had been to with my new company so I wasn't sure what to expect, but from asking around everyone said it's a good time. We had it at a Grand Hyatt in one of the ballrooms with buffet food stations and 2 drink tickets. We had a DJ, dancefloor, and even a Flash Mob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g41l-BxMeTA
"A nice meal, catered in" is the closest match to what we've done.
Previous years, the Vice President of our department had everyone over to her house. Her and all the Directors pitched in for BBQ to be catered (I live in Kansas City, BBQ is big here). Then we'd do white-elephant gift exchange.
This year, our old Vice President has retired, so the above isn't happening. We're doing an in-office pot-luck with another department on our floor.
We do dinner at a nice restaurant and if you want to drink the company has a limo pick you up and drop you off at home. Of course I just sneak drinks from other people so I can leave early! haha. Last year was really nice because we did lunch at a fancy restuarant. I don't like having to waste a night to hang out with people I just saw for 8+ hours, so having it on company time was great! I don't like that spouses aren't allowed. If they were, I'm sure most of my coworkers wouldn't dread going every year. Yes a fancy free meal/drinks is nice but I'd rather spend my night with people I like! Call me a scrooge! lol.
In our office we do a short lunch that's catered in from a neighborhood joint and we potluck the sides and desserts. It's more for our student workers as a thanks for the semester.
Our staff and faculty Christmas party is actually on this Monday, but it's hosted on site. There's one ticket for a drink, and there's varous appetizers. It's nice enough, but I usually only stay 45 minutes or so as it's tacked on to the end of our workday.
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