Danny B

Also known as POETS day.
Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday

Siouxie

At last, someone else who uses that term!! That and 'Piss Off Everyone, Tomorrow's Saturday'

BristolUK

Nearest I got was the first two weeks of December in Tenerife. Sitting on a bar terrace, palm trees all around, nice evening, t-shirt...and the surrounding bars having Christmas decorations up.

scrubbedexpat091

Friday has meant little to me since high school, but then I have had a M-F type job, so my days off have always been mostly things like Wed/Thur off, or Sun/Mon, Or Mon/Tues or when doing 10 hour shifts Mon/Tue/Wed off type deal, does make it a little more complicated to have a social life.

Jerseygirl

I have spent Christmas several times in Florida and the Caribbean. If I had my way I would spend every Christmas somewhere hot.

spouse of scouse

We had a very strict HR manager at my local government workplace. Before every Christmas party he'd bore us all witless at the manager's meeting, telling us how we were responsible for the behaviour of our staff, how important it was that nothing was done to offend anybody, how we had to 'maintain standards' blah blah blah.

He (HR bloke) was responsible for hiring the 'entertainment', which usually consisted of a lame comedian that everyone laughed at for the wrong reasons, or a karaoke machine (kill me now). But one year he hired a professional Santa and his little helper. Santa was perfectly respectable, but for some reason his little helper in her micro-mini costume with her boobs fighting to escape the white fluff and her arse hanging out of her g-string got most of the attention.

Half the workforce was offended and the other half kept stampeding in different directions as they tried to get the best view. We never let him forget it

scilly

The Garden where I worked for over 30 years always had some sort of Christmas do ....... ranging from staff organising and cooking turkey etc (when we had a kitchen available), to an organised pot luck dinner and dancing, the Director having a get together at his house. It was never held outside the Garden except when the Director holds it at home.

It is still being held at the current Director's house, and we are still invited! Everyone chips in with something ............. OH makes his "famous" trifle, others take salads or side dishes, or beer or wine. The Director and his wife provide the main dish.

Jingsamichty

We spent a couple of years in Dubai. The kids were little then and I remember noticing how that even though it was 'shorts & t-shirt' weather outside they would automatically draw snowy scenes on their Christmas pictures and cards without thinking that that was strange. Of course, Dubai has changed a lot since then and they probably do make it snow at Christmas now


I think I would rather become a Jehovah's Witness than agree to go to a works Christmas do... truly the stuff of nightmares.

Paul_Shepherd

Yes times have changed so much now, silly rules and the "the no more fun times police" have stepped in to end it all....together with the fact companies have become a lot more tight fisted, so Christmas parties are mainly a thing of the past now.

Terrible shame really, as JSmith pointed out they were great for morale and for team building, because everyone was relaxed and feeling social, you would get chatting to co workers that you would normally talk to in the work place, thus establishing solid working relationships with your work colleagues, therefore benefiting to company through improved communcation between workers.

Oh well all good things come to an end.

scrubbedexpat091

I dunno how the past was, but Christmas season is often lay off season these days. So nice of companies to issue lay off notices just before Christmas.

scrubbedexpat134

A Clan Dew hangover.

Pulaski

Noddy Holder.
And this.

Jerseygirl

From Noddy to you...

BEVS

I've met him or rather been on nodding terms. He had a timeshare apartment at the Carlton Hotel Bournemouth. Nice bloke.

beckiwoo

Boots 3 for 2 on Christmas gifts, although I still look online and send my mother a list of few items of what I would like