Would your company or family be able to organise a piss up in a brewery?

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We would email people. Or set up a Teams channel. Or both. Because that means people might see the message on at least in one way. People would reply in teams or email - because who needs just one method.

We might get a doodle poll for the date. Or a poll for the meeting to discuss it.'
Some might see that.

A meeting invite would go out. Maybe half of them would respond.

I am sure you get the idea - it might happen eventually but I don't think it would be as well organised as it could be.

Would your company or family be able to organise a piss up in a brewery? And how?

This is the place we went. We agreed food before hand, we had a large room to ourselves (ground floor), they were fine with us bringing a cake / own food and it is opposite a large park with a playground.

https://hareandhoundstodmorden.com/

Yes this.

@sashh thank you that sounds good, but sadly todmorden is a very long way from all of us!

Yes, my main role is in schools working under an inspirational CEO. Incredibly lean and running what are basically multi-million pound organisations around the more important work of teaching and safeguarding.

Honestly never encountered an effectiveness rate like it.

I'm perfectly capable of the organisation, but arranging any event of more than one person and it's like herding cats.

My workplace would be discussing the origins of the brewery and the definition of a piss up (HE) for dome months but in the meantime the junior admin staff would have gone anyway by themselves, had the piss up and moved on.

In my family, which is small, the piss up would be easily arranged and attended but heavily critiqued afterwards for some months, if not years.

My company is just me so abso-bloody-lutely!

However, I'm affiliated with the local council and the Department for Education so if they were required to do any of the pissing up, it'd be late and underfunded.

Kind of.
For my family a piss up in a brewery is the easiest thing, my brother is a brewer. Pizza or a cocktail now would involve endless debates.

Work wise the debate about where was cool or authentic or vegan etc etc would drive me mad til I booked the local and told them to lump it.

In the late 1980s I worked at the Guinness plant in Park Royal. Our manager tried to organise our Christmas do one year, left it too late and we ended up not having one at all. He was for evermore known as the bloke who literally couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

I knew you would say that.

Family, yes. I'm already on to the logistics and thinking about which daughters I can outsource various tasks to and whether I'd be a CF if I contacted a cousin I haven't spoken to for years (nothing personal, we just have nothing in common) who's good at organising shindigs. Maybe Mum will do that. Mum probably knows someone who knows someone with a brewery too.

My last workplace, yes, although we'd have to do it behind the managers' backs or they'd find a way to stop us going even if they were invited.

Work - absolutely. We're a big company and have a team of people who organise events all the time so they could rustle one up no problems, and it would be fun.

My family - not a chance. They have yet to successfully organise a meal out together without me actually booking the table 🙄

ILs - yep, MIL and SIL are super organised and could do it quickly and it would be classy.

If I was doing it for home, it would be impeccably researched. I would probably get somewhere abroad, plan routes, look at hotels, research ferry times, look at alternative breweries.

I wouldn't care too much about the event - but would love the research!

Work would set up a task and finish group, with agreed terms of reference, agendas set and minutes taken - even with all this, the date would be pushed back several times and the venue changed. Eventually the piss up would happen with an additional meeting to evaluate the objectives 2 weeks after.

NHS!?

You forgot to add in there'd be a pilot and then lack of further funding.

Close, local government.