|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,759
Threads: 115,670
Posts: 2,205,206
|
| Welcome to our newest member, zryanusasd8848 |
|
 |
|
11-30-2008, 10:02 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In a house.
Posts: 9,564
|
|
|
Holiday Celebrations in the office
Does anyone here participate with office celebrations?
Has there been times when things in the office have gone very right or....very wrong?
Please do share.
One of my stories is that I remember one year in a place I worked, I started a secret Santa exchange. It went wrong because for everone's list I was getting back, each person was asking for a gift card and BTW the dollar amount was 25 dollars. I pulled the whole group together and told them that they have to redo their list because to ask for a gift card was just as good as someone pulling out cash and exchanging cash and that if they couldn't think of things that they wanted from the particular place that they wanted it from, then don't participate! All the needed to do was think of three things that either equaled up to 25 dollars or three things that was 25 dollars each (they would get one of them) and that would mean more than simply getting a gift card.
Hehe...well you know some people got pissed at me...so a few days later, some of them got back to me with lists and in the end when it was all said and done, it worked out a lot better for those that partook and then the following year, everyone including those that missed out joined in.
So what do you have?
Who got the Boss a prank gift?
Who got drunk at the office party?
Who brought the wierd food to the potluck that didn't get eaten?
Share your tales.
__________________
Law and Order: Gotham - “In the Criminal Justice System of Gotham City the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Batman. These are their stories.”
|
11-30-2008, 01:20 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,132
|
|
|
My previous job was working in an office with a lot of other people my age- young, couple years out of school, new to the area. The company as a whole had a VERY social atmosphoere (ex-employees refer to it as a cult lol). We had a going away party for one of our admins at Dave and Busters. One of the account managers (who is married with 2 kids, but is only in his late 20s and therefore drinks like he is single) got so drunk, he handed his wife his wedding ring and said "don't wait up, **** and I have a bet on who can bring a girl home first."
Needless to say, his wife was not very pleased.
__________________
Carolina in my mind
|
12-01-2008, 09:56 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Greater New York
Posts: 4,537
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi
My previous job was working in an office with a lot of other people my age- young, couple years out of school, new to the area. The company as a whole had a VERY social atmosphoere (ex-employees refer to it as a cult lol). We had a going away party for one of our admins at Dave and Busters. One of the account managers (who is married with 2 kids, but is only in his late 20s and therefore drinks like he is single) got so drunk, he handed his wife his wedding ring and said "don't wait up, **** and I have a bet on who can bring a girl home first."
Needless to say, his wife was not very pleased.
|
hahaha
__________________
Love Conquers All
|
12-01-2008, 10:07 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 12,783
|
|
I hate office holiday celebrations.
|
12-01-2008, 10:40 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: New England
Posts: 9,328
|
|
|
I've worked in a couple of offices where alcohol was served during the holiday parties. There's always been one person who drank too much and made a fool of themselves.
Other than that, though, there haven't been any dramatic moments.
|
12-01-2008, 12:01 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Greater New York
Posts: 4,537
|
|
|
the little old lady admin. asst. got wasted off rum cake one year.
It was rum cake that had rum added for "flavor" after it was made, like on the top. She had three or four really big slices, couldn't talk straight, and was all red in the face.
That was my first year and nothing interesting at all has happened since, except that no booze from now on, as our office is kind of far out from places and no one wants anyone to get hurt.
__________________
Love Conquers All
|
12-01-2008, 01:37 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Location: VA, VA, wooooo!!!!
Posts: 5,935
|
|
|
My not-so-stable unit member (who just returned from a three month 'leave of absence') did something really tacky last year. In her previous unit, they did the secret santa thing. For her person, she literally wrote her an IOU note. She will be drop kicked if she does that this year.
__________________
Easy. You root against Duke, for that program and its head coach are -
and we don't think we're in any way exaggerating here - the epitome of all that is evil.
--Seth Emerson, The Albany Herald
|
12-01-2008, 01:51 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta y'all!
Posts: 5,894
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Senusret I
I hate office holiday celebrations.
|
And to top it off, at my job, we HAVE to go. 
__________________
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
|
12-01-2008, 02:30 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: right here
Posts: 2,055
|
|
|
We had a gift exchange at my old office. One of my co-workers was somewhat clueless and very fundamentalist Christian; well he pulled the name of our administrator and he bought her a really pretty christmas ornament with the nativity on it. The only problem? She is Jewish.
I'm not sure what ever happened to the ornament, but I do know that the managers went in together and bought her something else.
__________________
So I enter that I may grow in knowledge, wisdom and love.
So I depart that I may now better serve my fellow man, my country & God.
|
12-01-2008, 02:37 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2005
Location: in the midst of a 90s playlist
Posts: 9,816
|
|
|
My job had Thanksgiving dinner a couple weeks ago (why so long ago, I don't know). I work overnights, so they left some down in the kitchen for us, but only till midnight so that the kitchen staff who was serving could pack up and go home. Well, they let us take home whatever was left and the supervisor took an ENTIRE tray of pulled pork before anyone could even touch it. We knew she had a habit of doing that so we tried to get there early before she was able to disappear with everything, but she got that one before anybody could flinch. Granted, it was pulled pork (blech) but still...
__________________
"We have letters. You have dreams." ~Senusret I
"My dreams have become letters." ~christiangirl
|
12-01-2008, 02:56 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 12,783
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by christiangirl
My job had Thanksgiving dinner a couple weeks ago (why so long ago, I don't know). I work overnights, so they left some down in the kitchen for us, but only till midnight so that the kitchen staff who was serving could pack up and go home. Well, they let us take home whatever was left and the supervisor took an ENTIRE tray of pulled pork before anyone could even touch it. We knew she had a habit of doing that so we tried to get there early before she was able to disappear with everything, but she got that one before anybody could flinch. Granted, it was pulled pork (blech) but still...
|
i HATE that!!!!
UGH!
|
12-01-2008, 03:28 PM
|
|
Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Crescent City
Posts: 10,051
|
|
Last year, at the company holiday party, the CEO got up and spoke about how business was hurting. He then swore up, down, and sideways that there wouldn't be any layoffs. This was in late December.
What happened in early January? Layoffs.
The layoffs had to have been in the works at the time of the party. Lying scumbag CEO...
__________________
AEΦ ... Multa Corda, Una Causa ... Celebrating Over 100 Years of Sisterhood
Have no place I can be since I found Serenity, but you can't take the sky from me...
Only those who risk going too far, find out how far they can go.
|
12-01-2008, 03:44 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Location: VA, VA, wooooo!!!!
Posts: 5,935
|
|
|
Booooooo
__________________
Easy. You root against Duke, for that program and its head coach are -
and we don't think we're in any way exaggerating here - the epitome of all that is evil.
--Seth Emerson, The Albany Herald
|
12-01-2008, 04:10 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Home.
Posts: 8,261
|
|
|
Our holiday parties are AWESOME...too bad I'm skipping out on it this year. I have a good friend's wedding in New Orleans that weekend.
|
12-01-2008, 06:14 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 5,718
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Our holiday parties are AWESOME...too bad I'm skipping out on it this year.
|
Ditto...despite the fact that financial markets are isht, my company still puts on a great Christmas party. And yup, they call it a "Christmas" party, not a holiday or winter party. Oh well. The year is still 1955 where I work.l
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
