For the second year, DH's company xmas party is during the work day at the other Bay Area location - half hour to an hour away from his office. I thought they were at least going to alternate between the locations, but apparently not.
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'A Hole in the World'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Nov 30, 2009 10:45:03 am PST #22049 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glamcookie - Nov 30, 2009 10:47:28 am PST #22050 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I would also resent the gift exchange thingy. I hate forced participation in stuff like that. I'd prefer the afternoon off to having a lunch, but barring that, just a lunch is fine in my book. Hello, anti-social!
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2009 10:51:11 am PST #22051 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
you'd still go? to sit alone and eat?
So I'd be seen to go. Someone might sit with me, or ask me to sit with them, but that wouldn't be the basic plan. The basic plan was to be seen there by management.
msbelle - Nov 30, 2009 10:53:12 am PST #22052 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh, and this is not lunch, this is after work and offsite and it is not mandatory.
Barring just not doing anything, lunch would be my first choice also, preferrably a long lunch and brought onsite. Apparently doing anything where we get time off work is frowned upon. I try very hard to bite my tongue when these things are explained to me, since I know in the past flush years that they held the common "large firm party offsite where department managers got trashed and often needed legal help before the night was over". Hard to see how that is better than people getting an extra hour off work.
meara - Nov 30, 2009 11:22:06 am PST #22053 of 30001
P-C, in January with new employees? Um, after they lay people off? Whaaaa?
Jesse - Nov 30, 2009 11:22:18 am PST #22054 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, it's a good thing they are still paying me for my old job, because I know they would still be asking these jackass questions that I can't believe no one else can figure out.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2009 11:23:46 am PST #22055 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, in January with new employees? Um, after they lay people off? Whaaaa?
We acquired another company. Those new employees. The layoffs were part of the merger. They're going over there to, er, effect change right now.
SuziQ - Nov 30, 2009 11:38:38 am PST #22056 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Ok, at what point do I go from being a concerned parent to a helocopter parent? CJ is in 7th grade and I just fired off e-mails to two of his teachers. Am I turning into one of them?
Vortex - Nov 30, 2009 11:41:27 am PST #22057 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Depends on what the emails were for.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2009 11:42:54 am PST #22058 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't pay my parents to talk to my teachers. There's a middle ground there somewhere. You may be on it.
Apparently CA law mandates I take lunch. Which means the contracting company won't process my timesheets unless there's lunch on them. Even if I didn't take it. How annoying. Either I take lunch or I fudge the sheets.