This was a bit fucking weird/rude

[Iwasneveragoddess]

We work for a large organisation. We were moved to our office about 18 months ago we have been kind of slotted in with another huge team (adults) and we are children’s.

So the whole of the upper part of the building and 1/2 of the bottom is them and the rest is us and another small team.

We are friendly with the other teams but do totally different jobs.

Yesterday some of them asked us to buy raffle tickets for a children’s charity and we did.

Today I came back to the office from a meeting and the entire office was full of people in party hats, conference room full of party food, music, people with babies on maternity leave there and people who don’t usually work a Tuesday.

In the middle of this is our team, not invited to join and trying to take calls/work.

AIBU to think if they weren’t going to invite us they should at least have had their party upstairs (which is bigger and there is a huge kitchen)?

It was really weird, uncomfortable (being sat in the middle of a party you are not invited to) and fucking difficult to work!

That is ridiculous, fair enough have their own party as a department without inviting you but not in the room you are working in, the people you were on the phone to must have heard background noise. You must have struggled to hear your calls and concentrate. DD has had issues that have involved a lot of calls to various agencies and I'd be really pissed off to think her case was being discussed where people having a party could hear it, the background noise would make it sound unprofessional, it would make me uncomfortable knowing there were loads of people round (i know open plan office there are always lots of people but I assume they are all busy working so its different)

It's like something out of The Office!

It's like something out of The Office

It was like it never happened today, apart from one lonely bowl of crisps left on a desk.

Did you ask anyone else about it at all? What did your management say?

I think next year, your team has to top this somehow.

No I didn’t get a chance today as we were really busy as there was a death (not at the party or because of it )

How rude when people are taking duty calls etc. Couldn't they have used one of the conference rooms instead? The SMs
should have stepped in to deal with it, we had a similar do but ours was in a conference room.

The food was in the conference room

There were way too many of them to fit in there.

sound very inconsiderate, ha you been given notice of this event other arrangements could be made in respect of your needing to work. Some body must be in charge so you can air your views and make sure it doesn't happen again.

Glad you won prizes!! 🤪🌲⛄🎅

I would have expected you managernto object loudly and strongly and then at least explain to your team what was happening and why. Allowing people to picnic beside your desk while you're trying to work is extraordinary.

I would also expect your manager to address you all today about the party, the inconvenience, give praise at your attempts to continue working through it and to apprise you all of steps taken to ensure it doesn't happen again, finally to at least say that management are reviewing the situation and maybe even that heads will roll ( even if that last isn't true).

Quite a few teams work in our building but leaving lunches or Christmas lunches tend to happen in one large room and not in the end of the building where we see our clients. There could be others in smaller offices making phone calls but it's not usually noisy.

I'd be livid if they were noisy and stopping me from working. At least if they'd warned you you could have avoided scheduling calls for then. Definitely they should have been upstairs.

Obviously a communications breakdown, not an insult.

Seems very odd