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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas party

We had our work Christmas party last Friday. Was a whole lot better then last years...

Link to last year’s party

This year we were in a club, looking out over the beach. Good food, free bar.
Thought I’d leave off posting an entry until I see what sort of fallout resulted.
Not a lot it turns out. Looks like all the wayward kids decided to ‘get a bit’ of discretion.

The thing I’ve noticed about a lot of Christmas parties is a desperate rush by a load of people to ‘get with’ someone from work. As though the rules are changed for one night.
Ordinarily it takes a couple of days for someone to end up with a 'post party rep' but a new record has been set by one girl who had started as a receptionist just a week earlier. The party started at one in the afternoon and she had a reputation by eight o’clock that night.
I think history is caught in a feedback loop that’s slowly tightening.

There was a fancy dress theme.
Some of the boys did it, as did quite a few of the girls, and everyone else dressed nice.
As usual, there was a guy who dressed up like a woman, and he won a prize for best costume.
Why is it almost always the guy that dresses up like a woman that scores the prize for best effort? The decision was made by a group of girls. Are women not bored of seeing men dressed up as parodies of women?

There were mechanical surfboards pitching young guns off into the scenery, video games, and a fortune teller booth. I lined up a fellow sceptic to accompany me into 'flaky land.'
Fortune teller reckons I’m going to have a close relationship with in six months. I pressed him for more details and it will be a proper relationship, not just copping off in an ally behind the pub. I said that if I found true love within the next six months, I'd track him down and write him a cheque for a thousand dollars.
Let’s call the end of June the cut off.

So how was your Christmas party?



4 comments:

  1. It would be really strange to a New England boy like myself to celebrate Christmas in the middle of summer! I found it disconcerting enough to be in Florida in December, what with the Christmas songs playing while we frolicked in the ocean. But to have it be officially summer would truly mess with my mind!

    I flew out to Chicago for the company party and it was very nice. Good food, good company, good to see the rest of the folks. Travel was painless, something not always the case in December.

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  2. Your Christmas party sounds ... what's the word ... novel. A guy in drag. Mechanical surfboards. Fortune teller. Americans need to take a few party lessons from the Aussies! *sigh* 

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  3. Unfortunately there is always the downside.
    We also had a record number of women ringing the sexual abuse hotlines.
    73% of the complaints were made against people in positions senior to the victim.

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  4. then it *was* a typical office party after all! lol (sad but true?)

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