My Work Holiday Party...canceled

[JerseyRich]

Just got an email stating that all avenues of cost savings are in effect...Including the Holiday party that was supposed to happen TOMORROW.

How many of you have had your Holiday parties canceled this year?

[ANC]

Just got an email stating that all avenues of cost savings are in effect...Including the Holiday party that was supposed to happen TOMORROW.

How many of you have had your Holiday parties canceled this year?

Just the opposite actually, they are desperate for people to go so they give every employee that goes a $100 Amex Gift Card.

[RAAMONE]

i read that artcle somewhere

i had my job canceled 2 weeks ago because of cost cutting

so i dont want to hear about shitty office christmas parties being canceled

no offense though...be glad you're still at work

[Furtherman]

Mine was cancelled.


BUT... they gave us two extra vacation days.

I'd take that over a party any day.

[JerseyRich]

i read that artcle somewhere

i had my job canceled 2 weeks ago because of cost cutting

so i dont want to hear about shitty office christmas parties being canceled

no offense though...be glad you're still at work

Wasn't bitching. Just stating facts.

Sorry to hear about your job.

[Thebazile78]

I think that people would riot if they canceled the office party this year.

We've had several waves of layoffs, 95% of our production functions have been offshored to India and the Philippines and several teams are being reorganized ... and people who served as managers from those teams now have to re-apply for their old jobs.

The only thing that kind of stinks about it is we have to go to NYC for the party, rather than staying in Newark. They haven't exactly told us how we're supposed to get there yet, of course, but, hey, this is what happens when you let people who don't drive plan the party. (Not that I'm bitching, you understand, just making an observation.)

p.s. - sorry about your job, Raamone. That stinks.

[Aggie]

Just had ours last Saturday. Our Houston office used to have a holiday party and a company picnic but they've cut one of those out and only had a picnic this year. Our office did our one event for the holidays.

BUT I have to plan the damn thing every year and I hate that. It's like I'm planning a wedding reception every freaking year. I'm sick of it.

However I'm VERY thankful to have a great job.

[west milly Tom]

Just got an email stating that all avenues of cost savings are in effect...Including the Holiday party that was supposed to happen TOMORROW.

How many of you have had your Holiday parties canceled this year?



My shop party is funded solely by the men. Usually we get shirts from the company, I don't think that will happen this year.

[KingModem]

No Christmas party here. They canceled it after our major share holder almost went belly up, and we had to shop around for new investors, so we cut everything.

Even took away our free coffee. But I am so very thankful to still have a paycheck coming.

[GvacMobile]

With business being as awful as it's been lately I'm stunned we're still having ours.

I'd rather just have the money the owner spends on the party added to my bonus.

[CountryBob]

We are spending more this year on our Christmas party. The clinical trials industry is recession proof - people are always getting sick.

[Friday]

my ex-company never had a holiday party.
they just ordered breakfast in for us one day. laaaame.

this company is teeny tiny and i don't think we are having any kind of holiday party.
i'm not heartbroken.

[west milly Tom]

My chic's company had an extravagant blow out at a fancy pants country club in Parsippany.

[NYHCmikeX]

My sisters company cut her Xmas party. And her Xmas bonus that has been between $5-8,000 every year for the last five years.

My company is having a small breakfast for us on Tuesday and a lunch on Wednesday and I'm cool with that.

[~Katja~]

We are spending more this year on our Christmas party. The clinical trials industry is recession proof - people are always getting sick.

From what I heard clinical trials and research is feeling the economy strongly, because funding has been put on halt.
You may be in studies that were already funded and paid for, but new ones are hard to come by.



My company had a free holiday lunch today which they usually have before Thanksgiving and the X-mas lunch at some fancy country club will be on Monday. These parties are never fun and really could be scrapped...

[west milly Tom]

From what I heard clinical trials and research is feeling the economy strongly, because funding has been put on halt.
You may be in studies that were already funded and paid for, but new ones are hard to come by.



My company had a free holiday lunch today which they usually have before Thanksgiving and the X-mas lunch at some fancy country club will be on Monday. These parties are never fun and really could be scrapped...



Free food and booze=fun every time

[OGC]

Don't complain too loudly. My company has canceled work for the week of Christmas and New Years. Unpaid

[ANC]

Free food and booze=fun every time

Usually our company's formula is

Free food and booze = saying what you really think to coworkers

[~Katja~]

Free food and booze=fun every time

it's a 2h lunch and everybody has to go back to work after... hardly a fun time...
They could save a lot of money by giving the employees a bottle of wine or liquor for free and save on the catering fees and rent for location...

[Misteriosa]

same here kat. ugh.. they time if from 1-3, its at the main site (which is upstate) and then we have to go back to our branch (in the bx)

makes no damned sense...

[badorties]

my job cancelled their big, store-wide club holiday party a few weeks ago, and replaced it with a half hour good wishes toast in a conference room broken out by pyramid head for mgt, and a coffee and donut spread for the staff for 2 hours on saturday

even though i work in corporate gifts, and spend countless hours helping companies reward their employees ... my department has never had a party, or given us a gift (in the eight years of being here, i've only seen my co-workers once outside of the office when i invited them to my wedding)

i never looked at a holiday party that important or a big morale booster

[Knowledged_one]

Just got an email stating that all avenues of cost savings are in effect...Including the Holiday party that was supposed to happen TOMORROW.

How many of you have had your Holiday parties canceled this year?

mine got cancelled when i got laid off

[reillyluck]

my company party is next saturday. Its in a huge exclusive club in NYC. apparently the layoffs that they are making soon isnt effecting our Open Bar extravaganza. UGGH>

[Thebazile78]

Usually our company's formula is

Free food and booze = saying what you really think to coworkers

Ours is similar. But what it usually entails is watching IT get drunk with this one guy from Editorial who's currently sporting a full-on Rutherford B. Hayes beard & mutton-chops:

EXHIBIT A:

http://www.usconstitution.com/$so$1/rhaye.gif

... and listening to everybody talk about which of the two bars in midtown we frequent as a company to go for the after-party. And you watch pretty much all the women get sloppy-drunk on the company's dime. It's trainwreck entertainment, but at least it's entertainment.

It's during office hours, but at least they let you go home directly after you leave the party. (If you opt not to attend, you still have to work. They don't care if you come into the office or work from home, but you still have to work. Which is silly when 90% of the folks you're usually dealing with are at the party anyway.)

[ANC]

Ours is similar. But what it usually entails is watching IT get drunk

Hmmmm... sounds vaguely familiar.. :innocent:

[Thebazile78]

Hmmmm... sounds vaguely familiar.. :innocent:

I dated one of the IT guys here when I first started with the company. That guy can DRINK.

But, of course, they're the best sources of gossip because people talk around them like they're not there while they're fixing computers and stuff.

The things I was told about some of my coworkers you would NOT believe.

I suppose it's par for the course.

[ANC]

I dated one of the IT guys here when I first started with the company. That guy can DRINK.

But, of course, they're the best sources of gossip because people talk around them like they're not there while they're fixing computers and stuff.

The things I was told about some of my coworkers you would NOT believe.

I suppose it's par for the course.

You hit the nail right on the head. Some of the stuff I hear is priceless.....and incriminating.

[Servo]

This is the second year in a row my office isn't having an official holiday party. I guess because times are tight they don't want to ask people to shell out the cash.

Oh, and also because at the last one some knucklehead couldn't handle his shit and chucked a brick thru a window of the bar it was held at.

[Thebazile78]

You hit the nail right on the head. Some of the stuff I hear is priceless.....and incriminating.

Kinda makes you wonder about the types of things domestic employees hear, doesn't it?

[King Hippos Bandaid]

no party for me, my old ob had the most lame and cheap x mas party with mediocre catered food and plastic bottled liquor


id rather drinking rubbing alchol and eat white castles

[LaBoob]

I'm with a new company this year and I haven't heard mention of any xmas parties so I think it's safe to assume they don't do that.

My last company was based in Utah, so needless to say I wasn't invited to the xmas party.

I actually haven't been to a company xmas party in over 8 years. Not since the good 'ol days working for my first health food store... those healthy people party like nobody else I've ever known. Underage boozin', druggin' and sex... Good Times!

:drunk:

[west milly Tom]

This is the second year in a row my office isn't having an official holiday party. I guess because times are tight they don't want to ask people to shell out the cash.

Oh, and also because at the last one some knucklehead couldn't handle his shit and chucked a brick thru a window of the bar it was held at.



You work for transit too?

[west milly Tom]

no party for me, my old ob had the most lame and cheap x mas party with mediocre catered food and plastic bottled liquor


id rather drinking rubbing alchol and eat white castles



A man after my own heart. Just have to figure out how to add bacon to the mix.

[Bossanova]

Some huge contributor to my organization has donated his Restaurant's services with an open bar for our Christmas Party. Its gonna be real swank and crap. I love working for a place that people respect and feel the need to donate things:thumbup:

[carlygirl]

Just got an email stating that all avenues of cost savings are in effect...Including the Holiday party that was supposed to happen TOMORROW.

How many of you have had your Holiday parties canceled this year?

I just read that most extra-marital affairs kick off at Christmas parties. Gee Whiz. :devil2: