I manage over 25 people and have had to pay for holiday parties out of my pocket for the past 10 years…. It’s bullsh-t that they refuse to have market parties or allow us to expense something. I’m sure the MC has a holiday party for sure
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We sit on a Teams call and play stupid. Christmas games while listening to cheesy Christmas music. 🥱
@e2 the potluck was canceled at our office due to lack of participation
At my location there is nobody on my team or any teams that I interact with in any way as normal course of business. Our only interactions are general small talk about not much of anything, just general politeness. So there is no "holiday" celebration. I think last year someone brought in donuts and left them in the break room. But there were only maybe 5 people in the office that entire day so they probably went to waste.
Curry and naan bread
what's a holiday party?
Nice try, Elcio.
At least for my assigned hub, what team?
Pretty sure the predominant tenants that were there pre-COVID do something on a Wednesday since that's their "everybody in," day, but I avoid Wednesdays since that's THEIR day.
Who cares. I’m not about to waste my time force mingling with people I work with. It’s a job. I do my job and go home.
They make us play games and pretend we all like each other. It's extremely uncomfortable but entertaining to see how many buttlickers we have on the team.
Wait you guys get holiday parties that aren't a self organized floor wide potluck where everyone gets exposed to whatever illnesses are in people's homes and then everyone gets sick and struggles to meet their RTO numbers?
Weird.
Well we got stale packaged cookies last year.
Nothing and I am fine with that. I'm not spending time outside of work with people from work and have no interest in cheap catered lunch or potluck food that's been coughed and sneezed all over.
We usually get some sort of pre-packaged lunch from a local catering service. Typically, a sandwich, chips, and a dessert.
Our boss lets us take off two days each holiday without reporting the absence in workday.