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[Xmasprrssiehelp]

I am 100% gong to get flamed for this but from what I can gather these “Christmas parties” where an extra few hours after a planned face to face meeting. Hardly a rave or people showing up in ball gowns. An M&S cheese board and a few bottles of champagne does not make a party.

My office was partially open last year at Christmas and the canteen was serving Christmas meals, with crackers etc, many teams where meeting and having them. Some people who would usually work from home was driving in to attend these meetings.

Now people are saying the won’t have boosters because of these “parties”. That is a wild leap! And according to lot of posters this time last year they was ignoring restrictions anyway..

Aibu to not feel the same level of rage as some people, who are cancelling their boosters over this!!

YABU. London was in tier 4 at the time. They broke the rules. They are hypocrites.

I could be really mad but I know so many office l, nhs and retail staff throwing “parties” as in a couple of beers having some food from the canteen or ordering in catering

I don't care about your mate's neighbour's cousin's party.
These are the people in power. They made the rules and they broke them. Shameful.

And all these people you know, were they the ones that actually made the rules that saw a 13 year old child die alone in hospital? Did they decide that so many elderly people might spend their very last Xmas on their own?

The ones that actually DID make those rules, broke them, and then found it all quite funny.
Personally I think that puts them in a different league from the people you know.

I think what they did was godawful, out of touch, insensitive, and contemptuous.

But that has absolutely no bearing on not getting booster jabs. Deciding not to boost your immunity because some overprivileged tossers took the piss a year ago is really stupid. It won’t undo their party, it won’t change their attitude, it won’t make them start
actually caring.

Get boosted, and save your disgust at this lying government for the polling booth.

Did they break the rules though?!? I suppose that a question time will tell. I have been working from hole since March 2020. Been to the office about 3 times.

A large part of my job networking and having organic conversations you can’t hold those when it’s a zoom meeting. I suspect government is even more so! (I briefly work with government as part of my job)

A wine and cheese after an event where they all was face to face talking, I literally can’t get mad about. The are just continuing on the same meeting, but with some nibbles . I have many catered 6-8 hour meetings 🤣

If you want to be mad about that I am sure many many small local businesses did the same.

@Xmasprrssiehelp

I am 100% gong to get flamed for this but from what I can gather these “Christmas parties” where an extra few hours after a planned face to face meeting. Hardly a rave or people showing up in ball gowns. An M&S cheese board and a few bottles of champagne does not make a party.

My office was partially open last year at Christmas and the canteen was serving Christmas meals, with crackers etc, many teams where meeting and having them. Some people who would usually work from home was driving in to attend these meetings.

Now people are saying the won’t have boosters because of these “parties”. That is a wild leap! And according to lot of posters this time last year they was ignoring restrictions anyway..

Aibu to not feel the same level of rage as some people, who are cancelling their boosters over this!!

I think you make a really important point.

This is not to say that what happened wasn't wrong, but rather that if (and I don't know, I wasn't there!) this was more along the lines of colleagues who were already physically working together staying behind for nibbles, that is a different level of wrong to hiring a hall, dragging people in, doing vodka luges, and dancing till dawn. Similarly, if BoIo, Raab and Gove were orchestrating this, that would be much more serious than if this was organised 'bottom up' by more junior staff who were not directly involved in policy.

What worries me is that the tribal nature of politics and the excessively polarised positions held mean that people tend to assume either the best or worst without really trying objectively to consider quite how egregious (or not) something was, and we lose the opportunity for proper, sensible discussion and debate.