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Off The Couch said:
I work for a great mob
We finish on the 22nd and return on the 8th and it's gifted time off by the board so I get to keep my leave for when I want to take it
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Surely you don't give a flying **** if there's an xmas party or not then - lucky campaigner
 
I haven't been to ours in years, mainly coz they seem to keep having them in a stupid location. We work in the city and the last few years the parties have been in Port Melbourne, about a 10 minute walk from the nearest tram and we only get cab charges if we stay until the end. If it was somewhere in the middle of the city near trains and stuff more of us would go.
 
kaiserchief13 said:
Surely you don't give a flying **** if there's an xmas party or not then - lucky campaigner
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Not really but we have different teams and at different locations so it's always nice to all come together.
 
Off The Couch said:
I work for a great mob
We finish on the 22nd and return on the 8th and it's gifted time off by the board so I get to keep my leave for when I want to take it
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We'll probably get kicked out of the building around lunchtime on the 22nd. Our staff will probably get paid for the afternoon, public service staff won't. I'll be lucky if I get paid for the morning, as its supposed to be a no-contractor day (probably be a shit-fight with payroll in January) but we've fallen behind again thanks to constant changes to requirements so I'll have to go in.
 

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Howard Littlejohn said:
We'll probably get kicked out of the building around lunchtime on the 22nd. Our staff will probably get paid for the afternoon, public service staff won't. I'll be lucky if I get paid for the morning, as its supposed to be a no-contractor day (probably be a shit-fight with payroll in January) but we've fallen behind again thanks to constant changes to requirements so I'll have to go in.
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It's amazing when I listen to people how very very different management in companies operate - there as some places you would just never want to work for
 
Off The Couch said:
It's amazing when I listen to people how very very different management in companies operate - there as some places you would just never want to work for
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thats the trick, finding a place you do want to work for enough that pays the bills
for most people thats the best you can hope for, somewhere not totally shit that lets you do what you want outside of work

if your boss in an arseh*le there is no point being there any longer than you have to
 
That's the thing isn't it - if you respect those that work for you, pay them a reasonable salary, reward them when you can then imo out of that comes loyalty. It's all the little things that my workplace does to keep me happy that I take in to consideration if I think about leaving - for me, it's not always just about the money
 
Off The Couch said:
That's the thing isn't it - if you respect those that work for you, pay them a reasonable salary, reward them when you can then imo out of that comes loyalty. It's all the little things that my workplace does to keep me happy that I take in to consideration if I think about leaving - for me, it's not always just about the money
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thats the thing, even in my own company I could make more in a different department, I get offers, but I like my job, I like my team and I like my boss
 
Ours was yesterday. The GM left after two hours and no one was upset by that.

A bit dusty today...
 
Got pretty hammered many years back. Ended up with the receptionist at a club plastered, dropped some pills and went home and smashed her.

She wasn't much of a looker and i think she liked me so it made it pretty weird for the next few months.

The same work party a couple of girls in the office made out for a couple of minutes for a dare.

Good times

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00Stinger said:
Got pretty hammered many years back. Ended up with the receptionist at a club plastered, dropped some pills and went home and smashed her.

She wasn't much of a looker and i think she liked me so it made it pretty weird for the next few months.

The same work party a couple of girls in the office made out for a couple of minutes for a dare.

Good times

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Did you work at the AFL?
 

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Off The Couch said:
Not really but we have different teams and at different locations so it's always nice to all come together.
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thats the part i like, get to catch up with people who work at other stores and head office
 
Think my favourite story from the Work Christmas party was where the office heartthrob thought it was a good idea to go for a nude run round Gloucester Park.

It wasnt- he went from being the office heartthrob to the also ran as there was significant shrinkage.
 
Back in the early 2000's I worked for a tech company that was ASX listed with offices in Perth and Melbourne, each year the CEO and other senior management came across to Perth for our Christmas Party.

Two years in a row the CEO was carried out of the Christmas party hammered and both parties got pretty wild after especially as most of the staff were aged in their early to mid 20's.

Another incident involving the CEO happened at a sundowner where a colleague of mine enjoyed the free beers a bit too much and got into a argument with the CEO and decided to have a swing at him, luckily missed and got removed from the venue.

The next day my colleague walked into the office and started packing up his desk expecting to get fired. The CEO was on a flight back to Melbourne at this stage and my colleague was advised by HR if he gave the CEO a call later in the day and apologised then all would be forgiven.
 
blueboy25 said:
Back in the early 2000's I worked for a tech company that was ASX listed with offices in Perth and Melbourne, each year the CEO and other senior management came across to Perth for our Christmas Party.

Two years in a row the CEO was carried out of the Christmas party hammered and both parties got pretty wild after especially as most of the staff were aged in their early to mid 20's.

Another incident involving the CEO happened at a sundowner where a colleague of mine enjoyed the free beers a bit too much and got into a argument with the CEO and decided to have a swing at him, luckily missed and got removed from the venue.

The next day my colleague walked into the office and started packing up his desk expecting to get fired. The CEO was on a flight back to Melbourne at this stage and my colleague was advised by HR if he gave the CEO a call later in the day and apologised then all would be forgiven.
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Gave you a like for mentioning Sundowners. We used to have these at my work too, but I'd forgotten all about them. A couple of hours of free drinks and nibbles on a Friday night about once a month IIRC (going back a few years ago now :$ ).
 

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One place I worked at over 10 years ago one of the last christmas parties I did there before I left, a bunch of us went round to one of the girls houses before the night started, we were all sleeping over and sharing cabs.

I got there and realized I hadn't brought a sleeping bag or pillow, the designated office crazy was like, its ok you can share my sleeping bag.

So we go out, we drink, we do impromptu karaoke without backing music, we end up at an Irish pub, things get blurry and I'm in the alley with the girl whose house we were staying at. So I go home with here, next morning the crazy one is not there, when I was off the market she went home with one of the other guys, and got pregnant, and they had a baby together.

No idea if they are still together but drunken me dodged a major bullet
 
Gralin said:
One place I worked at over 10 years ago one of the last christmas parties I did there before I left, a bunch of us went round to one of the girls houses before the night started, we were all sleeping over and sharing cabs.

I got there and realized I hadn't brought a sleeping bag or pillow, the designated office crazy was like, its ok you can share my sleeping bag.

So we go out, we drink, we do impromptu karaoke without backing music, we end up at an Irish pub, things get blurry and I'm in the alley with the girl whose house we were staying at. So I go home with here, next morning the crazy one is not there, when I was off the market she went home with one of the other guys, and got pregnant, and they had a baby together.

No idea if they are still together but drunken me dodged a major bullet
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Tom Leykis: "I love that!"
 
Silent Alarm said:
It's about time to lament the state of the good old end of year work Chrissy do, where you'd get the balls to speak to Miranda and you'd make a pillock of yourself but it's okay because so too did everyone.

These days, businesses just don't seem to have one. As far as I can understand, these used to be common place 'thank yous' to the little man, regardless of if he was a shit-eating cog mopping floors or the boozy TV presenter at the ABC: everyone got a Christmas party because it was a simple, common thank you for a year's work.

It's now a supreme privilege to have a work do and it seems so many now have stingy caveats: no partners, bring a dish, do it on a Tuesday because the venue hire is cheaper.

To me, it isn't even about wanting to see people you work with. A lot of people don't want to be mates with their co-workers, and that's fine. A fair few people wouldn't be interested in going to an event like this. But it's about the spirit of giving something back, and the fine tradition of 'should I or shouldn't I?', wacking on some cologne, and drinking free Peronis while you yarn about a common ground like football or how much everyone in HR up in Sydney are campaigners.

The carefree atmosphere and inevitable horseplay is now gone. The bitching, the conversation with someone you would never have had, the seeing the Indian bloke rock up that you didn't expect to... all pissed away through mega-corporations counting to the last decimal point.

In fact, so many companies now are lucky to give out $20 vouchers as a thanks. I know massive employers like Coles and Woolworths simply give staff a 10%, not 5%, discount for December.
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