The running "Your Office Christmas Party" thread

Do we work at the same place?

 

They do a pot-luck kinda lunch/dinner deal at my place around 5 pm.

I prefer the the watch-Christmas-Vacation-and-get-shitfaced shindig we have after the desk shift is over...

 

Who has time to sit down and eat for 30 minutes?

 

Honestly, I don't think my new paper has one. And if they did, they either don't bother to hype it or want me there. I'm going with the latter here.

 

well over the years, it's been kinda hard to get a bunch of students together for a Christmas party after a hard semester, not to mention office tension at times, but the Delaware State University Hornet student newspaper has seen its fair share of comcial moments, but one story stands out. Fall of 2003, we had a copy editor who really couldn't handle deadline pressure well (never mind that we're a bi-weekly paper), so she came to the Christmas party for all of 5 minutes to give a card to our editor-in-chief, and when the editor-in-chief opened it, it was her office key. She quit via Christmas Card! Good times.

 

Local girls team 59, 2-hours-away crap team 29.

Still better than the staff Christmas party.

 

Nice thing about being back in school is that the next two weeks are sort of like one long Christmas party, one which makes stops are various rooms of our building, and a handful of stops around town.

The party is, of course, sometimes broken up by a bunch of panicked students frantically trying to finish projects, but then the party rolls on.

 

In college, we had a staff christmas party/campus scavenger hunt every year. The first couple years I remember it, they tried to divide up all the sports/ad/news kids onto teams with each other. The final year I was there, we (the sports gang) just looked at the folks dividing us up, looked at each other and walked out. They found us during the scavenger hunt: at one of the campus bars.

 

That old, huh?

 

I'm opting to cover high school wrestling instead of attending the office shindig. White elephant presents and a cap of two drinks per person? No thanks.

 

I repeat: Cosmo please report to this thread. Cosmo, please report.

 

No party here. Management killed it several years ago.