Our office party apparently involves bowling.
One year we had lawn bowls. For the last couple of years we've just gone to a restaurant, I rather miss the dada that went into previous offerings.
I used to love our department's Selfish Santa (white elephant), but that was back in the day when we were a pretty tight-knit group of people with compatible senses of humor. This year I'm not sure it will be as much fun.
Oh! Our office does the Kris Kringle thing. This year I was the last person to pick out a name, and I drew myself. After considering the logistics to redo things, I just kept it. So I'm gifting myself this year. (I'm curious to see if I like what I picked out.)
My desktop computer is definitely in hard drive failure. Happily, it's a RAID disk mirrored, so I will likely not lose any data, besides which I think all the important data is backed up with Carbonite, so it's just the annoyance and expense.
Oh, ha ha. Someone wants me to get on a call. That never ends well, and I already want to destroy the world.
I, for one, welcome our new overlord shrift.
NOPE.
Ditched so many team outings of this sort, and they were always not on my way home either.
Hey! If I pass my background/drug (oh....) test, I can start on the 11th! So no feting yet, but hopeful noises!
One year when I was at Lotus we had a fancy Xmas party at the Museum of Science, so we could wander through the exhibits and so on, that was really supernice for the non-drinkers/non-partyers.
When I worked at MIT Sloan, we had an Xmas party at MoS one year, and twice at the Boston MFA. It was nice.
We haven't had a real Christmas party at my office in years, but as the President who retired last year was big into those "getting to know you" type party games I sure haven't minded their absence.
::hoots hopeful noises westward::
Timelies all!
No holiday parties at work for me.
Meanwhile I forgot to put earrings on today, which meant I was practically naked. Didn't realize it until I was on my way to work. Don't know where my brain was...
ita, you might want to get doctors notes for the drugs that are going to be detected.