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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I'm going to a real office Christmas party for the first time tonight. It's formal. I had never gone to one before because either I worked at a really small company which never had one or worked at a really big company and the party was limited. For example only 800 capacity for 3000 employees.
So what should I expect? Do people really go crazy? It's open bar!
I'm pretty timid, even though it's not work, it's still work right? I wouldn't want to embarass myself in front of managers etc...
You guys have any good stories?
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My advice- don't go. LOL Every single 'official' office Christmas party I've ever gone to has ended in disaster on some level or another. I work for a small IT company now (only 6 people), and we went to dinner and had a few drinks which was really nice. However, when you get a large group of people drinking, the normal office gossip tends to come up- except it's unfiltered.
For example- I've been working for this company for 6 years, but before that I was a manager for Enterprise (The Rental Car Place) and we had a company Christmas party for the entire Kansas City area. There were probably 2000 people there, it was formal- and it was of course open bar and 'casino night.' My 'boss' ended up sleeping with one of the new girls who just graduated from College and everyone found out about it. The next day it was posted on the Enterprise message boards, and his wife (who had just had a baby and moved from Seattle to KC to support him) found out about it. She took the baby, left him, he lost his job and ran away to Vegas with the College grad where he apparently gambles for a living. Seriously.
Moral of the story- Big Company Christmas parties end in tragedy when everyone is drunk. If you go, make polite conversation, don't engage in gossip and don't bring any attention to yourself. If you want to have some real fun- leave and go to a bar and THEN talk about everyone!
