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??

Count yourself lucky you are not going.

Could not think of anything worse.

Although I am going to my DH's Xmas lunch. I'm a SAHM and he's just been made redundant, so we've decided to have our own 'office party' somewhere nice for lunch when both DS's are at school and pre-school. I will be secretly please if he tried to grope me under some mistletoe!

YABU.

yabvu to be jealous twill be shit

i'm going to get slaughtered at mine and snog an underling and then pretend it never happened

ok ok i give in everyone. IABU i agree now that many people have told me what a tit im being.

The funny stories about people's work parties are hilarious though so keep those coming!

Ronaldinho - I have a vision of all the young underlings drawing straws to see who's turn it is this year.

And the unlucky winner being led off wimpering to be plucked and oiled for your pleasure.

Ronaldinhio - it's not worth the fall out - take it fom me

d'you know me arizona? sounds suspiciously as though you do
maybe a grad schemer this year...ponders

more likely a grapple with the minibus driver

What a load of tosh. Obviously none of you have ever been to a decent work Christmas do.
shop talk ? no !
sad buffet ? no !
I have. My work invite partners. No shop talk happens. Its brilliant. 4 course dinner. free bar all night - any drink. entertainment. dh thinks its fab. he loves it.I appreciate how very lucky I am to work for a firm that has such a fab do. And it costs a fortune, because I budget fort he invoice !!!

Our works xmas meal (not party!!) is no partners for first time, well actually is partners can go but they gotta pay.

5 people have signed up to go so far. (Staff of 100)

I have to go. I'm organising it. I'm sure it'll be wonderful. No really.

Don't think there'll be snogging and crying though. Would be more fun if there was.

Ronaldinhio, I am last years underling.
My tongue is still numb.

I think you broke me.

nope, last year was a very dull affaire at the connaught
nothing interesting there at all
just coked up young women gurning all night

this year should be carnage and I'll really only be allowed a drink or two so that I can mop up whichever youngster ends up face down

christmas parties hard to get worked up over now
nice to her all the girls twitter about dresses though

By the way, our work has 3 CHRISTMAS PARTIES. ALL PAId FOR. one evening do - dh invited. free.
and two luchtime lunches. one for our team and one for our sub division. Both are 3 course christmas lunches. cost £36. Pid for. and drink as much as you like aswell - we don't take the mick , a couple of glasses of wine each. they get a minibus to take us there and back. and then after 2 or so hours we go back to work.

so there are 2 of these to go to.

I flippin love works christmas parties. they are fabarooney.

you guys are all MISERS

YABVFU - As someone who has the shite task of organising the Xmas do, it is hard enough trying to get mgt to subsidise a mince pie and glass of mulled wine for their staff let alone their partners. Honestly, why do you want to complicate my life further?

Nah, don't be jealous, it will probably be crapola. My DH's work doesn't invite partners to work dos either - no skin off my nose. Organising your own girlie Christmas night out sounds like a great idea to me

YABU. Work dos are ghastly. I know all my husband's colleagues, have worked with a few of them myself but still loathe his work dos with a passion.
Fortunately this year I will have "8 months PG" as an excuse for leaving early

Oh and we have to pay for our work dos - though as we are funded by the tax payer (police) that's fair enough.

I just hate spending money on shite meals at crap venues to spend an evening with people I don't really like, talking about work. Because that's all anyone ever talks about at our work dos

Partners are never invited to DH's work dos - thought this was the norm (DH probably wouldn't want me there anyway because I'm such a lush and a bit of a loose cannon after like 1 drink )

But I don't care, I'm going to Australia tomorrow for a girly holiday

Yes, Oblomov, I'll bet they are "fabarooney" when you don't have to pay for them.

I'm sure you would feel differently if you did.

I am never invited to DH's christmas do. And IIRC he was never invited to mine - not that I tend to go. It's meant to be about colleagues getting together and relaxing - not bringing along partners who don't know anyone and who may feel bored and uncomfortable.

I haven't had to pay for any work night outs and I still hate them.

I find the idea that partners should be invited very odd.

i think any company that has a do without partners is asking for 'office trouble'.
The companies i used to work for as amedical rep always used to take partners along and it was really nice...for everyone.

Damnit. It's this time of year again. It may seem glamourous, going out for free drinks and parties and what not, but it is DIRE. You have to try and make small talk with people you barely talk to the rest of the year, ensure that you're not too merry wankered in front of senior mangement and do what I did last year, and start talking to someone and constantly refer to them by the wrong name. I have a feeling I did the same thing to the same person the previous year. (in my defence, they are both blonde and have the same first name. It could happen to anyone)

my last boss didnt even pay for a xmas do,he was so tight.....not even a drink....never mentioned one or offered to sort one out. We were lucky to get a £25 bonus,which was reduced from £50 the previous year because of HARD TIMES. My heart bleeds,hard times,my ass.....
Thats another reason why i left...cant abide meanness

I am currently unemployed so not having to face this, dp is missing his because we will be sitting on a beach in GOA!! (Hooray!!!)
Oh god the amount of dos I have sat through though with dire food, in dire surroundings, which some poor sod has spent months organising because no-one can agree on the venue/food etc... Best ever thou' was years ago when I worked for M&S - truely fab night, fab food, fab everything.....
The last place I worked had THREE works dos. The main company one (no partners), the department lunch in the canteen AND the department lunch 'out'....now if you didn't want to kill your colleagues at the end of that lot you deserve a medal...

I cant see the problem, im organising this years (altho its very small scale about 30 of us) and we decided that no partners, the team need to let their hair down together and there is too much responsibiltiy of looking afte ryour guest.

My team needs to reconnect and not have outside influnces for an evening, itsno big deal