To think you should say goodbye before leaving a work party?

[kookykalki]

Went with DH to his work Christmas party the other night. We were hanging out with his team and everyone dispersed to get drinks or joined another group of people quite organically. DH wanted to leave and I said ok shall we say bye to your team before leaving. And he said no.

AIBU to say bye? They were literally in front of us so it wouldn't have been difficult. I would have thought it was just polite.

I'm Captain of the dip squad.

Find an excuse or just quietly wander away.......then RUN

I slink away. When I'm knackered I hate the extra 20-30 mins it takes to bloody leave!

It would take too long to go round everyone, and someone is bound to get offended if you miss them out, so I wouldn't bother.

When I'd had enough of my Christmas party, I just said goodbye to those immediately in my conversation and left.

No feelings either way but sometimes saying goodbye of uou ho earth triggers others I to leaving early and can spoil the night.

I prefer a slinker offer

I'm interested in any Irish farewell information

I remember going first time aged 13 and being at an occasion. It was late, saying goodbyes 90 minutes later we were still there and i started crying (not like me)

maybe an Irish farewell is just getting out of there unlike us brits

I think the French call this a Brexit, although I cannot remember where I read or heard that.

I’m sad for you that you haven’t discovered the joy of leaving a party without saying bye to anyone. Especially as you were with your husband! Who else really cares or needs to know your whereabouts? (I don't mean that as an insult - I feel the same about myself!)

most people won’t mind/notice/ are trying to figure out how to leave anyway!!!

Yeh I am all over the French exit nowadays (I mean now that I am ooolllld).

I went to my works party a couple of weeks ago - it's 25 miles from where I live and utterly inaccessible by public transport for me, so I drove; so no drinking. It is a very big do (about 1,000 people) and a lot of people get very drunk (they live more locally or stay at someone's) so IMHO it's not loads of fun if you are driving and don't have a big team who are at the do.

So I went, showed my face, chatted to the big bosses, chatted to colleagues I work with, worked my way round the room a couple of times and buggered off. My reasoning is that ppl might say "Oh where's Clary? Oh I just saw her, she's here somewhere" and by the time they realise I have gone it looks as tho I was there for a decent amount of time instead of an hour or so.

Maybe next year I will just not go! haha! but anyway, I agree with those who say the round of endless hugs with people you would never normally huhg is such a pain. When I want to leave, I want to leave.

It's not rude either, not if it's a big party. Whom are you supposed to thank? You say to the boss, "wow, great party, I love the xxxx" and then you're good.

Obvs I wouldn't do this at a meal or when in the pub with three friends!

If the person /people who have paid are there and it’s not a huge do, thank them!

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70% of homicide victims are male.