Have you ever attended a company Christmas..er...Holiday party? Were spouses/significant others invited, or was it co-workers only? Were alcholic beverages served? Was there anything juicy going on in the back stairwell or copy room? Anyone make an utter fool of himself (or herself)? Freaky dancing, groping, general embarrassing actions?
Most of my company get-togethers seem pretty tame, but I hear stories from the Old Timers about boozy, messed-up partays back in the day. Share your funny, sad, strange tales from YOUR salt mine holiday parties!
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I gave forewarning to Onie that I'd like to start the thread today, but didn't expect you to be up so bright and early!
(I saw yours, and love the topic.)
Most involve lots of alcohol, video gaming, fake sumo wrestling, silly, drunken dancing/stripping, drunken singing (not me), and some swearing...
Not all at the same time, of course...
No photos, sorry...
The West Publishing/West Group Technology Department parties when I was there was usually held at America's Original Sports Bar (now closed) and we also had the run of that Disco and the Piano bar.
They usually had a decent buffet and you were allowed 3 drink tickets, but we knew how the system worked and could basically get as many drink tix as we wanted.
They usually had some sort of video games set up (NASCAR driving one year, video bowling another year) that was pretty fun...and the Sumo Wrestling.
Needless to say, the Sumo suits smelled like stale alcohol and sweat, but they were pretty fun to watch...
I tried to Sumo 3 years in a row and lost each and everytime, even once to a guy who I swear I outweighed by 80 lbs and HE was plastered...
The night usually ended with 2-3 hours of drunken dancing in the disco area...
Needless to say, I had a blast at these and didn't care what "upper management" thought of our antics...if they bitched and moaned about it, they just might have computer problems in the near future...(Moral: Don't mess with your techs).
Unfortunately, I'm still under a "what happens at our holiday party, stays at our holiday party" rule.
Have you ever attended a company Christmas..er...Holiday party? Yes, but not many.
Were spouses/significant others invited, or was it co-workers only? Mixture.
Were alcholic beverages served? Every time.
Was there anything juicy going on in the back stairwell or copy room? I don't want to know.
Anyone make an utter fool of himself (or herself)? Freaky dancing, groping, general embarrassing actions? It is amazing how the mind will block out the trauma of seeing a coworker engage in behavior I'd prefer remained in their private life.
Best "company holiday party" ever: My boss at the time took the team (think it was like 10 of us, and this was pre-MPR) out to Gasthof Zur Gemutlichkeit for an evening. No spouses, no partners, no better halves, no children, no dress code, no "senior management", nothin'. He quietly handed out a holiday bonus and two of us nearly started crying in happiness - that was a bad, bad year for money and it gave me some breathing room. We went the distance with snuff shots and drinking out of boots. No one misbehaved in a bad way. As a group we didn't get out much together and it was 5 hours of really enjoying each other. Very, very nice.
ISR: "Like the 309" - A solid Ocho. Good late night song, but I'll take it in the morning. Thanks Barb!
Z (to self): Should I tell them about that time I ... ahh, never mind. Best left unsaid.
Z (aloud): I've always been a perfect lady at all company events.
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We'll need to talk tonight...
Sorry you didn't dominate as a Sumo, Onie. Practice! Practice!
"Unfortunately, I'm still under a 'what happens at our holiday party, stays at our holiday party' rule." - Stevie
Can you share any situations you'd "imagine" could happen at a party in December at a college?!
Joanne, you're right. Unless there's a potluck aspect or donations, they're expensive. (sw: Joanne, regarding your dip comment ... were you watching me at my prom?!)
A pharmaceutical company holiday party with an open bar? Melinda, don't hold out on details.
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You ARE a party, jk five nine.
Danielle you can tell us those stories. We will keep it secret!
It's rather fun when you find a couple like that...
I mean look at Zelda and myself...she is intelligent and very well read and I'm...uhhhh...
(Oh, wait)
I'm back from a tasty lunch at Cosi, a relatively new restaurant in the IDS Center. It's inexpensive, with quick service and yummy food. Yay, a new lunch spot for me!
Lunch today: cup of tomato basil soup and basil, tomato, mozzarella sammich.
Lunch: Fresh Thai Curry w/ chicken over rice
Tonight: Going to see Black Nativity at Penumbra Theater. I'm rilly looking forward to it! I haven't seen it in a few years. T. Mychael Rambo is one of the best performers ever!
I'm gonna get some Chinese...
But I thought Jesus was white? Just look at all the paintings...
Shirts...and cheap toys...have them make cheap toys for Wal-Mart...
Two words, "Hot Tub"...........
Back to company parties...
Know what I hate? Being held captive on a boat with drunk co-workers. For a couple of years, my salt mine boss thought it'd be fun to stick us on a boat going down the Mississippi. The food was awful (perspiring bits of cheese, crackers, BBQ chicken wings) and the band was worse (guy on keyboards and a drummer). We had to wait a loooong time at the lock and dams, and the first riverboat trip ran two hours longer than planned. I skipped the next year's, and after that, we changed venues (thank gawd).
*Zpie waves excitedly
Time's awastin'!
Rain drops on roses and whiskers on bright copper boilers
That of cementing and brown paper packages of of the warm of the woolen gloves
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Are cream colored for Ponys and clear apple streudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and shreds with wild geese of the noodles
Which with the moon on their wings these fly, are some my favourite things
Ggirls in the white dresses with blue SatinSchaerpen flakes,
Which remain on my nose and silver white winters of the Eyelashes
Which melt these into springs, are some my favourite things
if the dog bites, if passes, if I believe sadly me,
Remember the bee simply my favourite things and then I feel not so badly
*sniff
Auggie, that was quite touching!
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Auggie, I think it might be time we interviewed for a new tutor for you...
Very nice Auggie...
*Turns to Auntie*
We're working on his version of "Fernando" next...
Seventy six trombones led the large parade
With one hundred and 10 cornets close to the hand. They were followed by the rows and rows, the finest Virtuosos
The cream of each famous volume.
Seventy six trombones got caught the morning sun, with One hundred and 10 cornets correct after
It gave over thousand Schilfen and developed like weeds
Gave it to Horne of each form and size.
There was copper lower timpani to the horse courses, Which thundered to thundering and, everything along the way.
Doubled bell euphoniums and large bassoons, everyone bassoon, which has its large of fat legends.
There was fifty attached cannon in the battery, which thundered to thundering and, more louder than before. Clarinets of each size and trumpets who'd improvise A full oktave strongly as the notch!
Seventy six trombones struck the counterpoint, while one hundred and 10 cornets flamed away.
To the rhythm of Harch! Harch! Harch! All kids caught on to march, and they march still to the right today!
Seventy six trombones led the large parade, when the order for marching out loud and free schellte.
Start with a large bang bong on a Chinese bell, by a large bang more bonger at the back.
Seventy six trombones struck the gegenpunkt, while one hundred and 10 cornets played air. Then I took mean place as that and only bass modest, and I oompahed on and starting from the square.
It can to dance, it can jive and time their life to have
See this girl, clock, which is scene, excavation in the dancing queen
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To where they play the right music and receives everyone in swinging,
Which you come in, a king to search the fact that chap is high
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Is everything, is you is fine in the tendency for a dance and if could be you the coincidental
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Tendency for dance and if you receive the coincidental...
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Now why did THIS make me laugh??
Z (overcome with emotion): Auggie, what lines! What poetry you sing!
I said "Fernando".
Onie, he hasn't learned Fernando yet. Can't you be satisfied with the ABBA he knows?
blerf!
He, he, he, he Ohhh...
Don't you see come over me? I am alone and dance you, know it baby
Explaining you me your troubles and doubts inward and, Those me everything give and loved strange out
Thus material in the darkness think you of the tender things, which we did not work on
Slow change can us pull apart, if the light receives into your heart, baby
Chorus
Forgetting you over me not not not not not you
Forgetting over me
Standing you over me? Do you look my way, you never love me
Hold rains to fall, rains hold, down to fall down down Recognizing you me? Designate my name, or way on by Rain holds to fall, rains holds, down to fall down down down
He, he, he, he Ohhhh.....
Don't you deceive the attempt it are my feeling forwards, which we win in the end,
I you do not damage or your defense vanity and security Affect do not forget you over me, which is I alone and you dance,
Know that it does not set the baby, who goes, me apart taking to you for us back together at the heart, baby
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While you go on past will, designate do you mean names?
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Well, I decided to have fun with him and replied "oh. I dont work for you sir, my wife does, but thanks for the party." He just walked away with an odd look on his face. A few days later at work he spoke to me like it never happened.
Heh...well played!!
Hmmm....my next PS project??
...and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin'
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i don't care what these people think
i'm just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while it's still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
they are almost as big as tom cruise's, which look like the entrance to a train tunnel when seen on the big screen
Wonderful...
*Rolls eyes*
tenola
*Stevie scarfs down the roll up and washes it down with a Fresca™ *
Mmmmmmmmmm
Huh?
There's the one-horse shay -- an light, open carriage for two, pulled by a single horse.
My dear, thinking of ANYONE wearing a white Miami Vice jacket thingy give me the willies!
*Zelda shivers.