Sounds decent, there is one in Preston offering a filthy take on Christmas too, might investigate:
Slices of smoked turkey
Smoked pulled pork yorkshire pudding wrap
Smoked pulled brisket yorkshire pudding wrap
Pig in blanket bombs
Deep fried stuffing balls
Fries, creamy mash & gravy.
We're not even picking from a Christmas menu for ours.
It’s our work Christmas party tomorrow, nicely rebranded as “year end celebration” for peak inclusivity.
It’s a pretty large venue because there’s several hundred of us typically. First joined up one since 2019 and since the start of hybrid working, so will be interesting how many people are willing to go on a Friday afternoon. Previously it was a Thursday afternoon the day before a Friday that was non-working as part of a 9day fortnight which was since removed as a perk.
I’ve debated not going, but I think will rock up. Normally ends up in carnage with people rocking up in fancy dress. Not this year for me, too much risk of me saying something wholly inappropriate to one of my leaders based on my rants in the job thread over the last 2 years.
Ours is as late as the 17th, one of those cack party nights that loads of companies go to. Naturally I’ll be at the home bar.
Oh god they did that for our barclays Xmas party a few years ago. Was at the Ricoh arena, there was fairground rides and stuff, it was gash. I'd have been up for mingling between groups in theory but in reality making conversation with some bint who works for an insurance company in Walsall etc wasn't actually that exciting.Originally Posted by Giggles
Ours is January because Christmas is manic for us.
Our director “raised a concern” about the golf plans next Friday saying her friend went recently and had to stop after three holes cos it was so inappropriate. I’m pretty sure she didn’t even get to the hole that’s full of sex toys.
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Actually, thinking about it, all my work xmas parties have been gash.
ASDA 2013 - cancelled due to "consistent inappropriate behaviour at previous events" - eventually found out this absolutely massive walrus of a woman from the checkouts had been shagging a not actually bad looking black bloke (is noticing this being a bit of a thing racist? probably) from the warehouse in the carpark of the working mens club they'd booked. There were photos supposedly, but I sadly never got to see any.
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2014 - 2015 - doing shitey temp jobs
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Barclays 2016 - a "medieval banquet" in some old manor house, it was gash. proper school dinner quality food but with people dressed up like runescape or some shit. a male colleague got really pissed and kept grabbing my arse on the dancefloor. Only found out after that I wouldn't get mine paid for cus I was still on a temp contract, so £40 down the pan for that.
3/10
Barclays 2017 - our manager railroaded us all to go to a "really good curry house" in rural Leicestershire, about 40 miles from the branch, despite everyone living in Rugby. The food was alright, but it eventually turned out the reason we went there was cus the manager's cousin ran it. Twat. No drinks afterwards cus we had to drive back and nobody could be arsed afterwards.
5/10
Barclays 2018 - the ricoh thing, waste of time.
4/10
Barclays 2019 - went for a meal at a thai place in Norwich, was actually really nice to be fair. no drinks afterwards, but only cus I was bailing to meet Zimbabwean tinder girl before she went back to Harare or whatever for xmas.
8/10
Charity - 2020 - COVID SORRY NO PARTY
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Charity - 2021 - meal at a mexican place, during our lunchtime, that we had to pay for. prawn starter was alright I guess.
4/10
Charity - 2022 - it's gonna be a pub meal, again during our work lunchtime, again paid for by ourselves.
TBC but 5/10 max cus it's not free.
Ours used to be open bar, but now they’re a “token” thing. So after 2 or 3 drinks you’re either drinking table wine, or on your own. Meal was free too.
Dressed up as an inflatable flamingo thing the last time we did it (2019) and think I was a seagull the year before that.
Don’t remember any prior to that.
Hoping some of the fit office birds go and dress inappropriately.
Ours was always in January too. Which was odd because we had no reason to not do it at Christmas, we're not any busier then. The opposite if anything. Penny pinching I imagine. But also it was a decent piss up to look forward to in January when nothing typically happens, so I never minded that much. They stopped doing it altogether after everyone got sent to work from home during Covid and (thus far) have not brought it back.
Ours is open bar but spirits are singles only for liability purposes I guess. But they have no problem with you ordering a gin and tonic plus a straight gin with ice and lemon at the same time, for instance. It’s this Saturday and will be the fifth one on this job so I’ll be immensely surprised if it’s not carnage.
Yeah that was the same for us. No doubles. So you just ordered a single, and a shot of the same spirit.
Ours will be for budget reasons, which is a bit mental given the scale of the profits made. But they cut it for cost in harsher times and there’s no way they’d reintroduce a perk.
Our company will never pay for anything now because we are technically under the remit of the government (and they had been cutting back benefits all over the shop for years before that anyway) but thankfully my current and previous line managers will put their hands in their pockets to cover stuff like meals and something for Christmas.
Avoided all drama and made my way home about 8 after a 12 start.
Will confirm on Monday, but as far as I’m aware a clean delivery.
The food was absolutely crap though. Hopefully the actual in office canteen version is better (as it usually is).
How inappropriately were the fit office birds dressed?
Decorations coming out the loft today.
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He works for an oil company, I doubt there's many fit office birds knocking about. Maybe a driller in drag if he's lucky.
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Don't kink shame him.
You’d be surprised how many fit birds there are in energy companies these days. Kudos to the “equal opportunities” hiring process which definitely isn’t equal and gives women the first dibs. Paying dividends on social occassions.
Unfortunately, most were dressed festively so limited perving available.
Christ.
No.
I won't do it.
Quite apart from anything else, that's an astonishingly bad song.
I thought they were a boomer phenomenon, but their YouTube and Facebook barely have any content or engagement, so which young[er] sickos are keeping it going on TikTok and Instagram?
The only way I am watching that is if a bus ploughs into them at the end. They are probably trying to do a Ladbaby, tell everyone you are making a Christmas charity single to help the dossers because no-one cares about Christmas Number One anymore. Yes, Ladbaby have raised a lot for charity but they seem to have done alright out of it.
I swear Lofty is the only reason I’m aware of ladbaby, Jack monroe and this weird Leigh family. He’s their number one hypeman.
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I only know about the Leigh Family because of you and I hate you for it.
Me? How? You’ve definitely got that wrong.
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I’ve called them the Baz’s ever since I first seen them.
I'm sure you posted that video of them going to the pub after lockdown.
No chance. Pretty sure that was my first and only exposure to them until Lewis posted that video yesterday.
Fairly sure it was Kiko.
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I hate the fuckers so it could have been me.
I'm probably combining the memory with you because of Giggles then. It does seem very "Baz, Mike and The Reid" to be fair.
In like 2010
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The Tree went up last night and lots of chocolate (Tony's) was consumed whilst watching the first festive film: Office Christmas Party. Do not watch under any circumstances.
'...and lots of chocolate (Tony's) was consumed wh...'
*adjusts face mask*
Tony’s is savagely overpriced but it’s good shit.
Two of the three are extremely your wheelhouse, it's no surprise you are copping the blame for their introduction here. I managed to largely ignore Ladbaby until they were being mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles. Jack Monroe is a clown so yeah I'll cop to flying the hate flag for her higher than most here. That family I have only ever seen on here, I assume they are on TikTok or some shit but I don't use that because I'm a 36 year old man.
Shindig is the Jack Monroe lover who constantly talks about her.
That and the weird gamer Youtuber in Gamezine.
Lofty started that. I merely agree with him.
Honestly if this is the perception of me on here, I must put on some act.
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I think two of the four December mornings thus far have had me waking up in a semi-panic because I've realised the cunting elf on the shelf hasn't done anything 'overnight'. Managed to get away with it thus far. I see the same dickheads have released some sort of Christmas shite [saw them in a petrol station the other day] which struck me as just odd.
Why on earth would you ever participate in that bollocks?
Individuals who shall not be named either acquire or get 'gifted' the little bastards and you're sort of stuck with them after that, unless you want to go down the "it's all a load of shit" wormhole, which is fraught with danger.
We were introduced to the little cunt by our old next door neighbour and my wife took the bait.
Tonight he has stacked 3 rolls of toilet roll and drawn a snowmans face and buttons on them. Creative little shit.
There must be scope to destroy it with some sort of lesson for your kids. He was pissing around near the fire, trying to mess about across the road... Don't be in here pretending you aren't right into it.
"He must have drunk some of this bleach last night".
"He's been called back to help Santa at his grotto."
Bin.
Possibly the funniest joke in the whole show.
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You bought a cartoon NFT of a nonce.
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