work xmas meal- plus none

[TishTosh21]

My DP has started a new job back in Oct. Im in temp work and will finish before xmas so i wont be having a christmas work do this year but i asked him if he was going to. He said his work were thinking about it and trying to decide on venue. He then said he didnt think they were asking employees partners to come as they are cheap and dont want to pay for them.

AIBU to be pissed off with this and be a little jealous that he'll be going and i wont??

nothing worse than a partner's xmas do IMO

thet all talk shop and there is always a tragic buffet

yabu
it will be his work do not yours.
but yanbu for being jealous, you need to go on a girly night out

YABU. More usual to not invite partners these days. Be thankful his company is secure enough to afford such things as hopefully means his job is safe.

no one goes to partners xmas dos

other people's works dos are dire anyhoo - all those people you don't know and have nothing in common with and can't even bond over shared hatred of Bert in accounts. yuck

TBH all places I have worked and DH's office thankfully only have employees, never invite partners

know what you mean though, I have only done temp contracts since having ds (now 5.5) so have a "works night out" with my mum mates - always fab because we all actually like each other and choose to spend time together.

i went to bermuda with my dhs

it wasnt as good as it sounded - lots of handshaking

OMFGG - i'm not going to my office do - they are fucking dire

YABU

as has been said, it is his works do, if they can afford a do, that's a good thing and if they invited partners, it doubles the cost

go out wiht some friends, don't be jealous

LOL @ tragic buffet, ain't that the truth!

Al the Mums from DDs class go out each year for a christmas do as many of us don't work so don't get one. It's fantastic, although the reprocussions of a boozy night out often reverberate for the rest of the academic year

I think I would rather stick my head in a bucket of horse poo than go to DH's work christmas party.

I saw Bermuda on BBC this morning. Coudln't you have feigned a head ache and sun bathed.

(the furthest I've ever been on a work do is Brands Hatch Thistle Hotel)

You are lucky! Don't complain..

I hate going to my own work dos, let alone my dh's. Organise a night out with your friends instead. Much more fun.

sort out your own night out, can't imagine much worse than an office do with dp and work colleagues

YABU

I can think of few things worse than having to go to dh's work do.

Have a lovely night out with friends on the same night or stay in and eat fabulous food and pamper yourself.

Depends - if it's a night down the pub I get a bit peeved at not being invited, but I'd rather be spared some of them.

Went a painful one a few years ago - sat next to a really boooring partner at DHs law firm, and suffered daggers all night from his wife across the table for having the temerity to listen to him.

secret santa not more than a tenner

ooooh what to get for a person you don't really know?

lets make it funny and buy them sexually related stuff like blow up doll

a cats bum tea towel holder ( gift recieved year before last)

chocolate tits.

oh the fun

then lets have it at a hotel with 50 other office parties

just kill me - kill me now

I have been known to fake illness to avoid my own work does. DH knows he has to go to his on his own - I think his colleagues think I don't actually exist.

Sorry YABU

The only time partners are ever invited to our work dos is after dinner if we're all going pub crawling. Then the company is no longer paying and we always have partners join in.

But the actual do? No.

and someone always ends up snogging the wrong person or crying - sometimes both. Dire dire dire and dire

YABU. Am not even going to my own Xmas do this year. I would rather eat my own feet.

lol @snogging and crying.

its so true.

I lived for my Christmas work do. There was always scandal. Especially the slow dance at the end of the night (cue snogging, groping and crying) My darling friend would always get hammered and come out dramatically over the dinner the deny it for the rest of the year. Bosses would try and 'get real' with the people and dance really badly. God I feel all nostalgic now.