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12-09-2007, 11:21 AM
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What was your most noteworthy Christmas party?
I went to one last night that was very nice, crowded, fairly chi chi. Nothing outlandish happened at this one, but it got me thinking about the funny things that sometimes go on at Christmas parties, especially OFFICE Christmas parties.
Once at my former place of employment (hell), back when they used to HAVE Christmas parties, and they used to provide alcoholic beverages at said parties, one of the employees had too much to drink and proceeded totell the ********* who owned the company exactly what he (and the rest of us)thought of him. That was the last year that hard liquor was provided (and the last year that particular employee attended, seeing as how one was required to BE an employee in order to attend). A couple of years later there was another "incident" involving the free expression of opinion regarding the company's owner (without the requisite "liquoring up" beforehand), and that was the end of the company Christmas party. Since then, I have been to friends' office parties, and I've been amazed at how well some companies treat their people at Christmas. Last year I went to one and felt like a little street urchin in some Dickensian tale who was invited into "the big house" for Christmas! What funny, interesting, outlandish, or heartwarming stories do you have about Christmas parties?
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12-09-2007, 12:10 PM
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A few years back, when the alcohol flowed freely and words and actions flowed at about the same pace...
After the "principles" had left, the TV Cameras and 3/4" VCRs came on... Some of the "participants" were actual clients (those that had made commercials with us during the previous year...) and a few of the female employees got a "bit" unwound and let it loose in the studio...( Think upper and lower "vertical smiles" from the "ladies" and quite a bit of  material from everyone involved! Then, secrets that should have remained secrets...those were "selectively" edited... )The stuff made for great "out-take tape" or "Christmas tape" material for the following year(s)! A few years later, the station went through a Chapter 11, then degraded into Chapter 7, then "dark" on Valentine's Day in either '89 or '90. Someone sent me a "good-bye" tape with some of the above mentioned material on it, but none of the "juicy" stuff... I wish I had gotten a tape of the original evening...some "private" jokes that only those that were there would know the meaning, but memorable, none the less... 
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12-09-2007, 12:32 PM
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Hey, it sounds like there might have been some good "Sales Closing Material" on those tapes, if clients were involved in compromising situations! I can't understand how you could hae gone out of business with valuable stuff like THAT on tape!
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12-09-2007, 12:53 PM
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The station was part of a larger group...therefore, the programming was bought "ala carte" and spun out to the stations... Problem? Because we were all separate from one another, no one station actually "knew" what the contracts for the programming cost. It was determined that the "media management" firm was cooking the books and we found out that we were paying for programming at the rate of >$500.00/half-hour show/episode...sort of a "Ponsie Scheme" arrangement...most of the investors for the stations were doctors and dentists in the southern part of the country...lots of money, no knowledge of the business or the real costs...and it didn't hurt the programming suppliers any that the people that were buying the programming had "diddly squat" experience in negotiations...  A recipe for fraud/lawsuits/bankruptcy/prison...I have no idea what's happened to some of those "top clowns" that wrecked that place...  OH...and to answer your question about "ready-made" programming...the "clients" were the ones that paid on time (and in some cases, in advance!). If we had run that stuff, even after midnight (Remember, this was back in the mid-80s...) it would have raised a few eyebrows and gotten us a visit from "Uncle Charlie" - THAT you DON'T WANT! 
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12-09-2007, 01:01 PM
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When I was gainfully employed in the hotel business, we used to throw a huge one for employees every year. We had a few hotels, so we'd combine a coupla properties each time. Kegs and casinos was the best ever. Employees could bid on stuff like a big screen TV, boomboxes, DVD players, etc. with their winnings.
Of course, being management, I had to work all of them. But they were real fun even for those working. Good thing they were in the hotels where we could assign rooms for those too drunk to drive (all of them).
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12-10-2007, 09:55 AM
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You dawg! Man, I've really missed out, apparently. I'd love to go to a party like that. Maybe one day I'LL get invited to a party for lawyers . . . . If I do, I'm bringing my video camera!
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12-10-2007, 10:21 AM
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It was a company party with an open bar and a free limo, lets just say I only really remember about 2 hours of the whole event
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12-10-2007, 10:25 AM
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Sounds like fun . . .
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12-10-2007, 11:14 AM
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A number of years ago at the company I worked for, we did a "secret santa" gift exchange, with the gifts to be given at the company Christmas lunch. It was a small company with very open standards in terms of the types of humor that was acceptable. I gave a co-worker a giant candy cane shaped vibrator as her gift and watched her nearly die from embarrassment. I'm not sure if it was the vibrator or the brick of 40 AA batteries I gave with it. The look on her face made it all worthwhile.
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12-10-2007, 11:22 AM
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The company parties have all been fairly lame (read cheap) I have been here four years, they were held at a Casino and you were provided a nice dinner but you had to rely on "comps" to get the free hard stuff of throw out the cash. The most interesting part of those years were - no spouses or dates allowed (for the dinner). The OH's were forced to wander around the casino during dinner.
The company was privately owned when I started, then was bought out by a publicly traded company who has just recently bought all the stock back and is private again. This years party will consist of 6 Kroger deli trays on 12/21 to be displayed during the lunch hour. Yum Yum The best party so far this year was the neighborhood pary. Someone sponsors a house and everyone drifts in and out. We have a few Benzo's in the neighborhood so that click migrated out to the garage 
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12-10-2007, 11:23 AM
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Probably one of the funniest was the office party where a co- worker got so trashed slammin down tekillia shooters that she asked the waiter for some type of cover up to keep warm in- he produced a sweat shirt which she paraded around in all night. We were concerned this was going to be the end of the "open bar" policy at the annual Christmas dinner. Then there was the time another co-worker drank so much wine she spilled the remains for her wine all across the table. Maybe I should start You-Tubeing these parties for posterity.
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12-10-2007, 12:16 PM
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Nah, I've only been to those where there is forced participation in dancing via an artificially induced conga line. I don't do conga lines. Ever.
I've been to forced "Holiday" parties with the secret santa assigned beforehand, but nothing really fun where anyone lets loose, or anything extravagant by any means. Too much pressure, all for a simple display that the company does something. Then again, I worked at one family owned company years ago, where the family were total scrooges, and they resigned themselves to the fact that they had to do something, and thus provided a tray of Sloppy Joes (See search results for NJ style Sloppy Joe) and some supermarket brand soda with no ice. Cups were your own coffee cup that you washed out. Bad times, there. I hear stories where the party favors are Ipods and other really nice things, but I've never seen it. Mind you the stories I hear these extravagant things about are for companies where the CEO, CIO CFOs etc. are making gobs of money and then the company is laying off incredible amounts of people, so priorities are clearly whacked.
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12-10-2007, 01:07 PM
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