They've booked it for the last Friday before xmas, everyone gets the afternoon off and a free meal/drinks. Our company is only 18 people. Only thing is, I don't work on a Friday (I do work every other day), and it's the last day of school term, so school closes early and there's no after school care. The only way I can go to this do is for dh to book the afternoon off work himself.
My work know all this and could have chosen another day, but they haven't. I know am lucky to be able to work 4 days but this has brassed me off a bit, I do try and be flexible when needed and work hard!