How do people feel about the work's Christmas party?

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The annual Christmas party a chance for everyone to get together and have a good time or is it ?
This year I'm in two minds to go .
Pros :it'll be nice to dress up and go out have a drink and have fun.
It'll be a good party ,food , dancing etc .
If I don't go I'll have Fomo !
Also feel I'll be a bit of a miserable sod just saying no I'm not going then I'll be a miffed I've missed out .
It's paid for by the company so just taxi to pay for and maybe 1 or 2 drinks ( should be wine on tables) .
Cons : it's a Friday night so usually I want to get home get pjs on and relax .
As much as I like most of my colleagues they are not my friends so worried about awkwardness who to sit with chat to etc .
Getting home on a weekend near Christmas.
I'm not great with hangovers at my age yes I know I don't have to drink but it's a Christmas party .
Can I actually be bothered .
Reading this I realise I sound a right miser and years ago I couldn't wait for the Christmas party but now I feel a bit unsure .
Anyone else going if so why or why not?

Ours are always big organised affairs and most people bring partners. I've been single a few years and it's never the same on your own.
Also if it's a Friday night that DD is with me I don't go anyway

I didn't go last year and there's no way I'm going this year - no way on earth I would spend my free time with some of the people from work, even if the food is free (Wetherspoons this year - not exactly going to miss much!)

I don't usually go if it's a pay for it yourself affair. I'd rather pay to socialise with friends or family than with colleagues.

I would sooner stick pins in my arse.

I look forward to mine it's obligatory unless you take a days annual leave to avoid it. I'm in the private sector it's free food, free bar, no real dress code some wear dresses, Christmas jumpers some just stay in uniform. Bonus is that it's only 10 minutes walk from my house this year.

Usually very eventful a build up of tension throughout the year I think! (lots of project staff that are usually away on site bunched up with management) at least one person will quit and return after the Christmas break like it never happened [santa]

Nope. We have to pay for ours and its a long way from where I live ( but suits majority so no issues with that) but it means either no drinking, or a very expensive taxi or staying over. Dont have that kind of money to waste to spend a night with people who are nice enough, but not close friends.

As a PP said, I spend so much time with my colleagues I actually want down time with family and friends. Some of my friends are work colleagues too and we tend to do our own cheaper and more low key thing for Christmas.

I have no idea if there’s an official work do & this is my 3rd Christmas at the store! I get on well with my colleagues but don’t really socialise & a lot of them are quite a bit younger so would want different things. Also I have recently quit drinking again & there would be A LOT of alcohol.

I work in a small team of 7 that the rest of our organisation avoids like the plague (we deal with internal discipline, amongst other things!) so we're avoiding the big do (ok they 'forgot' to invite us 😂 and having a team dinner and drinks paid for ourselves at a reasonably priced, cosy local pub. I wouldn't bother with the big do.

I like my work colleagues. I do not go to Christmas do's or any others. I like to spend non work time with my non work life.

We have to pay for ourselves. I get on OK with people at work but don't want to have to pay to spend time with them. So I'm not going 🙂

I always go. The company pays for food, free bar, and a taxi home (or hotel, if you live too far away), and it's usually a fun evening. I like most of my colleagues, and our office evironment is quite serious/quiet, with few opportunities for social stuff during working hours, so it's nice to chill out and chat.

And for the last 12 years I've been the event organiser, so I kind of have to go!

There are always people who say NO every year - the office grumpy git, the guy who'd rather be with his family, the quiet woman in accounts. It's up to them - no-one forces them to attend. Some people turn up for the food and leave before the dancing - fair enough. And some people just moan about the venue, the food choice, the fact that they have to get there under their own steam....you can't please everyone.

I've agreed to go to ours. Not been in 4 years since there was a fight and tears and I just thought I don't need it. Wish me luck...

I DESPISE them

The place where my friend works are mean cunts. They are a major global company which you would easily recognise. There is no company christmas party except for the higher orders who all sneak off for a good lash up on the company credit card. We traditionally got a company xmas card and £25 worth of love to shop vouchers and maybe a bottle of vino. A year or two at a stroke, they culled the card,the vouchers and the vino despite booking over £800m in profit...

I'm a shy anxious type so I end up drinking too much too quickly to feel comfortable, go overboard and make a fool of myself. I'm going on a city break in early Dec this year, I'm praying the xmas do is booked for the Friday I'll be away

Hate them. Hate them more when I have to go as a partner. Shudder.

Force yourself to go, it often comes up in conversation for at least the next 6 months, and you want to be in in the bantz. If it's shit, you can leave whenever you want. It's only awkward until you are on your second drink.

Ours has been a nightmare this year. Budget has been slashed to almost none existent and noone can agree or come up with ideas on what to book. It's been passed between three managers now.

Nope, have to pay for it ourselves and I work with a very mixed bunch of people which makes any meal out with them very awkward. There's 3 in the office that I really get on with and consider good friends, we organise our own xmas night out and it's fab.

I wouldn’t choose to spend time with many of my colleagues voluntarily, so I don’t tend to bother.

This year, ours is a pub crawl, which normally I'd love, but I'm pregnant.... I'm still going though as I like my work colleagues and I'll still have fun.

I'm not going this year.
Its 30 miles away, in the middle of nowhere.
Would have to drive and stay sober or stay over at £160.
Event itself is £75 per person.
I love my colleagues but just this once me and DH have decided to avoid the xmas dos and to spend the money on an evening out, just the 2 of us.

I actually look forward to ours these days. But then there are only 14 people in my department, and I know them all reasonably well. We just go out for a meal - possibly with some party games if whoever is organising it can be bothered.

I enjoy and look forward to mine

We got our invite today. Massive corporate party, I'll moan but go anyway and get drunk 🎉😂