Had our work’s dinner at the Savoy last night. Beautiful building, lovely staff, very mediocre food! But Merry Xmas to you all. I am grateful we had a do at all.
A little while back, went for Christmas lunch with some friends to Gordon Ramsay's at Claridge's and then the Savoy the next year. They both cost the same (around £90 a head with decent drinks) but the food at the Savoy wasn't a patch on Claridge's.
Some go for fancy wine bars. some have a set menu at an expensive restaurant. some go to a bar then a nightclub afterwards. me, I'm off to Spoons tomorrow for a turkey dinner and a drink at under a tenner.
had ours last Thursday, cordoned off area in The Forge, Cornhill, free bar (no food as was shit last year), decent night but reminded me that I'm too old for all that shit now.
Organised mine and hired Camden Fest (used to be proud) on the 5th December.
Great night had by all although cloakroom was a joke, people queuing for over an hour to put their bags and coats in and some people missed last trains due to the long queue to get them out so currently negotiating with the venue for taxi refunds.
One person even called the police from the cloakroom queue and one girl face planted the toilet floor and has to have some dental thing done.
My immediate boss is quite tight, we went to Brasserie Blanc for a lunch from 2pm and all paid a deposit. Turns out he’s pocketed the deposit and expenses the whole bill.
Big work do was black tie affair at the Honourable Artillery Compny building. Had fake casino and free booze, canapés and band. Was pretty good.
I work for a company led my a completely spineless and inept senior management team. We are financially fucked and in serious, serious trouble...
So of course, with an office of 25 we had to spend £10k on a very expensive place last week in Soho.
The CEO (female) got so shitfaced she became a statue (as in, standing and inanimate for some reason) at about 11pm. I helped get her in the cab. Girl I work with is an Essex girl who is my partner in crime, cue us singing "*insert name of CEO here* is fucking shitfaced na na naaaa na" on the dancefloor after I'd helped her into a cab. Not my finest moment but not completely unfair.
Head of marketing (who is an absolute piece of shit who has her tongue up the CEOs arse but would shove her under the bus without blinking if it furthered her career) then decided to take serious offence to this, and told my boss her team is exceptionally disrespectful and a disgrace.
The head of HR (another arselicker) informed me that the CEO was not "shitfaced" but was "tired". Everyone else was shitfaced, but she was tired.
Fast forward to yesterday and I am informed by my boss (terrified of everything and wants to cover her arse at any opportunity) that she needs to bring it up with me and my partner in crime so she can say that she's mentioned it and that if anyone asks she can say we are very sorry etc...
Seriously, fuck Christmas parties. Especially when the ENTIRE senior management team of 8 is a bunch of catty spineless women who laugh and smile to each others face and then spend entire hours slagging each other off.
Organised mine and hired Camden Fest (used to be proud) on the 5th December.
Great night had by all although cloakroom was a joke, people queuing for over an hour to put their bags and coats in and some people missed last trains due to the long queue to get them out so currently negotiating with the venue for taxi refunds.
One person even called the police from the cloakroom queue and one girl face planted the toilet floor and has to have some dental thing done.
Eek. Aside from that it was great!
Had ours there last Wednesday. Average. Hour and half hanging around outside in cold before being let inside. Bowl food being brought out was crap.
Some good tunes being played then a New Orleans jazz band came on. And played on and on and on. Killed the atmosphere. And who the fuck wants to do karaoke - it’s not 1990.
The range of booze was good though - all free obviously.
There were about 250-300 there. How much was it to hire @suzisausage ?
Mine’s Friday. A lunch. Will be good. But I have to try my hardest for it not to turn into I’m still up at 5am sat morning with Gillingham at home that day
Organised mine and hired Camden Fest (used to be proud) on the 5th December.
Great night had by all although cloakroom was a joke, people queuing for over an hour to put their bags and coats in and some people missed last trains due to the long queue to get them out so currently negotiating with the venue for taxi refunds.
One person even called the police from the cloakroom queue and one girl face planted the toilet floor and has to have some dental thing done.
Eek. Aside from that it was great!
Had ours there last Wednesday. Average. Hour and half hanging around outside in cold before being let inside. Bowl food being brought out was crap.
Some good tunes being played then a New Orleans jazz band came on. And played on and on and on. Killed the atmosphere. And who the fuck wants to do karaoke - it’s not 1990.
The range of booze was good though - all free obviously.
There were about 250-300 there. How much was it to hire @suzisausage ?
Ahhh we gave the venue feedback to make their next office party better..... !!
We had entertainment in every stable and the function band (that’s their name) in the main big room with a flash mob. Both were fantastic. We didn’t have the ‘birdcage’ room as that was used for the ‘acts’ to get ready. I’d say out of possible 1380 who could have gone (and we’d have used full venue) we had about 700 in the end. It was £25k min spend. (Food and drink) entertainment was on top.
We gave people Prosecco on arrival 5 drinks tokens and canapés, bowl food and pizza at 10. So many drinks tokens leftover so me and 2 other pa’s were giving them so the night was essentially free. We charged people a fiver so we can guarantee numbers but they don’t pay for anything else usually.
I work for a company led my a completely spineless and inept senior management team. We are financially fucked and in serious, serious trouble...
So of course, with an office of 25 we had to spend £10k on a very expensive place last week in Soho.
The CEO (female) got so shitfaced she became a statue (as in, standing and inanimate for some reason) at about 11pm. I helped get her in the cab. Girl I work with is an Essex girl who is my partner in crime, cue us singing "*insert name of CEO here* is fucking shitfaced na na naaaa na" on the dancefloor after I'd helped her into a cab. Not my finest moment but not completely unfair.
Head of marketing (who is an absolute piece of shit who has her tongue up the CEOs arse but would shove her under the bus without blinking if it furthered her career) then decided to take serious offence to this, and told my boss her team is exceptionally disrespectful and a disgrace.
The head of HR (another arselicker) informed me that the CEO was not "shitfaced" but was "tired". Everyone else was shitfaced, but she was tired.
Fast forward to yesterday and I am informed by my boss (terrified of everything and wants to cover her arse at any opportunity) that she needs to bring it up with me and my partner in crime so she can say that she's mentioned it and that if anyone asks she can say we are very sorry etc...
Seriously, fuck Christmas parties. Especially when the ENTIRE senior management team of 8 is a bunch of catty spineless women who laugh and smile to each others face and then spend entire hours slagging each other off.
Rant over... This website is my Dr. Phil.
Sounds very familiar to some that I have been to!
No offence to the fairer sex but given we gents are more prone to heavy drinking through the year then we are slightly less likely to get rat-arsed on these occasions and make a complete tit of ourselves than some female folk who down booze like a thirsty Oliver Reed at the Xmas party.
A couple of years back a big argument broke out at ours between a couple of the women and I had never heard anything like it, the comments went way beyond what any bloke would ever say in public to another bloke - all fueled by way too much prosecco of course.
My rule is that I stick to beer only and don't stay past 10 and never EVER go "onto somewhere else after" as that is normally where the trouble happens!
First Christmas since I started work in 1976 that I haven’t had a Christmas party. But then again, I do work for myself so it’ll be a bit lonely and look quite silly me sitting alone at a table with a party hat and a one of those blowey things
I work for a company led my a completely spineless and inept senior management team. We are financially fucked and in serious, serious trouble...
So of course, with an office of 25 we had to spend £10k on a very expensive place last week in Soho.
The CEO (female) got so shitfaced she became a statue (as in, standing and inanimate for some reason) at about 11pm. I helped get her in the cab. Girl I work with is an Essex girl who is my partner in crime, cue us singing "*insert name of CEO here* is fucking shitfaced na na naaaa na" on the dancefloor after I'd helped her into a cab. Not my finest moment but not completely unfair.
Head of marketing (who is an absolute piece of shit who has her tongue up the CEOs arse but would shove her under the bus without blinking if it furthered her career) then decided to take serious offence to this, and told my boss her team is exceptionally disrespectful and a disgrace.
The head of HR (another arselicker) informed me that the CEO was not "shitfaced" but was "tired". Everyone else was shitfaced, but she was tired.
Fast forward to yesterday and I am informed by my boss (terrified of everything and wants to cover her arse at any opportunity) that she needs to bring it up with me and my partner in crime so she can say that she's mentioned it and that if anyone asks she can say we are very sorry etc...
Seriously, fuck Christmas parties. Especially when the ENTIRE senior management team of 8 is a bunch of catty spineless women who laugh and smile to each others face and then spend entire hours slagging each other off.
Rant over... This website is my Dr. Phil.
Sounds very familiar to some that I have been to!
No offence to the fairer sex but given we gents are more prone to heavy drinking through the year then we are slightly less likely to get rat-arsed on these occasions and make a complete tit of ourselves than some female folk who down booze like a thirsty Oliver Reed at the Xmas party.
A couple of years back a big argument broke out at ours between a couple of the women and I had never heard anything like it, the comments went way beyond what any bloke would ever say in public to another bloke - all fueled by way too much prosecco of course.
My rule is that I stick to beer only and don't stay past 10 and never EVER go "onto somewhere else after" as that is normally where the trouble happens!
Amen to that last paragraph. I had quite a few peroni bottles, a glass of wine and some jagermeister. Girls were getting shitfaced on cocktails.
The CEO is well known for being a boozer, the problem now is I don't know if she knows what I did, but I think she would react a lot better than the person who complained, if at all. The people where I work just love drama, there's more whispering than talking in my office.
Had my first works Christmas lunch every yesterday in a pub just outside Harlow, was dreading it as it was staff only, (the engineers are being taken out separately) it was surprisingly good as was the company, there was no drinking as we had to work in the afternoon, probably do it again assuming I don’t retire.
Had my first works Christmas lunch every yesterday in a pub just outside Harlow, was dreading it as it was staff only, (the engineers are being taken out separately) it was surprisingly good as was the company, there was no drinking as we had to work in the afternoon, probably do it again assuming I don’t retire.
I thought the idea was that you could have a drink with your oppos and take the rest of the day/the whole day off?
Alcoholic drinks were available, but no one choose to have them, boring lot or alturnatively we all have to drive to get to the office, to be honest think it was a combination of both.
Ha had forgotten about this @Fumbluff@AFKABartram new organisation since June had xmas do in a pub this year in Kensington. When who should be on the opposite table but Ian Wright
Ha had forgotten about this @Fumbluff@AFKABartram new organisation since June had xmas do in a pub this year in Kensington. When who should be on the opposite table but Ian Wright
I know him and his newish Mrs, he is very engaging and a real laugh
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A little while back, went for Christmas lunch with some friends to Gordon Ramsay's at Claridge's and then the Savoy the next year. They both cost the same (around £90 a head with decent drinks) but the food at the Savoy wasn't a patch on Claridge's.
Great night had by all although cloakroom was a joke, people queuing for over an hour to put their bags and coats in and some people missed last trains due to the long queue to get them out so currently negotiating with the venue for taxi refunds.
One person even called the police from the cloakroom queue and one girl face planted the toilet floor and has to have some dental thing done.
Eek. Aside from that it was great!
Tomorrow night.
Should be interesting
Big work do was black tie affair at the Honourable Artillery Compny building. Had fake casino and free booze, canapés and band. Was pretty good.
22 of us!
#awkward #notsuprised
So of course, with an office of 25 we had to spend £10k on a very expensive place last week in Soho.
The CEO (female) got so shitfaced she became a statue (as in, standing and inanimate for some reason) at about 11pm. I helped get her in the cab. Girl I work with is an Essex girl who is my partner in crime, cue us singing "*insert name of CEO here* is fucking shitfaced na na naaaa na" on the dancefloor after I'd helped her into a cab. Not my finest moment but not completely unfair.
Head of marketing (who is an absolute piece of shit who has her tongue up the CEOs arse but would shove her under the bus without blinking if it furthered her career) then decided to take serious offence to this, and told my boss her team is exceptionally disrespectful and a disgrace.
The head of HR (another arselicker) informed me that the CEO was not "shitfaced" but was "tired". Everyone else was shitfaced, but she was tired.
Fast forward to yesterday and I am informed by my boss (terrified of everything and wants to cover her arse at any opportunity) that she needs to bring it up with me and my partner in crime so she can say that she's mentioned it and that if anyone asks she can say we are very sorry etc...
Seriously, fuck Christmas parties. Especially when the ENTIRE senior management team of 8 is a bunch of catty spineless women who laugh and smile to each others face and then spend entire hours slagging each other off.
Rant over... This website is my Dr. Phil.
Average.
Hour and half hanging around outside in cold before being let inside. Bowl food being brought out was crap.
Some good tunes being played then a New Orleans jazz band came on. And played on and on and on. Killed the atmosphere.
And who the fuck wants to do karaoke - it’s not 1990.
The range of booze was good though - all free obviously.
There were about 250-300 there.
How much was it to hire @suzisausage ?
Done that too many times
We had entertainment in every stable and the function band (that’s their name) in the main big room with a flash mob. Both were fantastic. We didn’t have the ‘birdcage’ room as that was used for the ‘acts’ to get ready. I’d say out of possible 1380 who could have gone (and we’d have used full venue) we had about 700 in the end. It was £25k min spend. (Food and drink) entertainment was on top.
We gave people Prosecco on arrival 5 drinks tokens and canapés, bowl food and pizza at 10. So many drinks tokens leftover so me and 2 other pa’s were giving them so the night was essentially free. We charged people a fiver so we can guarantee numbers but they don’t pay for anything else usually.
No offence to the fairer sex but given we gents are more prone to heavy drinking through the year then we are slightly less likely to get rat-arsed on these occasions and make a complete tit of ourselves than some female folk who down booze like a thirsty Oliver Reed at the Xmas party.
A couple of years back a big argument broke out at ours between a couple of the women and I had never heard anything like it, the comments went way beyond what any bloke would ever say in public to another bloke - all fueled by way too much prosecco of course.
My rule is that I stick to beer only and don't stay past 10 and never EVER go "onto somewhere else after" as that is normally where the trouble happens!
The CEO is well known for being a boozer, the problem now is I don't know if she knows what I did, but I think she would react a lot better than the person who complained, if at all. The people where I work just love drama, there's more whispering than talking in my office.
No but they have some dickhead spiceheads that I seriously can’t wait to serve up some figgy pudding to.