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So, work is tough and I'm feeling a lot under the cosh, I'm staying in the same hotel the party is in and have been for two days.
Some relentless commenting from my manager and colleagues about how loud I apparantly get when pissed, how I apparantly came close to being punched last time out by another colleague for winding him up on top of that has put me in a really sensitive and frankly black mood.
I really don't want to drink, and I really don't want to put on the faux Jolly's required for the party - in fact I'd rather stay in my room and sulk in front of the telly with a beer.
Let the mtfu based piss taking commence, I'll get the virtual razor blades on standby...
Don't get drunk, retire early when everyone else is too pissed to notice.
Some relentless commenting from my manager and colleagues about how loud I apparantly get when pissed,
Spike their drinks...
That was one of my first thoughts on my to do list bails.....
Simple, don't go, i'm not going to mine as the only person i really get on with isn't going either, and i just don't click with the rest of them on a social level.
oops I just clicked report post because I thought it said repost post.
Just go, drink heavy and wind more people up. I enjoy people like this as they know how to have a laugh and "let their hair down".
Oh, FFS! Look, hit the hotel gym for the first hour then tootle into the "do". You'll be chilled out enough to drink moderately and make notes on who's being a tool [i]this[/i] year (to be used later!) and not make an arse of yourself.
There's no gym. I do have my SS in the car but its a force 10 gales/ monsoon outside. 😕
Do something more worthwhile instead. Just don't stay at home
I'd go and eat free food, show my face and then quietly slip out and have a nice beer elsewhere!
I dont do work dos
I dont drink and very few of the people I work with are evenly remotely close to the friend zone for me to want to socialise with them
Watching married folk cop of with work colleagues does not make me warm to them either.
they think I am miserable but I can live with that.
Does your boss, or work colleagues have a valid point ??
Yes. But in my defense:
a) I'm not the only person in the world to get a bit loud when drunk. I don't get offensive or abusive, just louder.
b) The person I apparantly insulted is a bit easy on waving his arms about anyway, but I have a very dry SOH which not everyone translates into "funny". I'm quite heavy on sarcasm and some people find this offensive (at all times not just when pissed).
I do have my SS in the car but its a force 10 gales/ monsoon outside
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HTH 😉
I really don't want to drink, and I really don't want to put on the faux Jolly's required for the party - in fact I'd rather stay in my room and sulk in front of the telly with a beer.
Which is it then? No drink or a beer? real people are always better than telly so put a limit on the number of beers now and pace yourself to only drink that many
Give them a couple of hours start saunter down have a few pints then go to bed.
leffeboy - Member.... limit on the number of beers now and pace yourself to only drink that many
My personal issue is that once I've started I find it very hard to stop....
Lol at CFH, not seen that before 😀
On second thoughts, get p155ed and act the whole of this out -
Is it too late to go the other one?
(it was you wasn't it, deciding twixt the bike club one and the works one)
Yes it was Jekkyl.
The other bike club one is tomorrow, so its not too late and the original plan was to have got pissed on this one meaning I wouldn't do two in a row.
Anyway, I'm riding Saturday unable to swap to Sunday and an a fairly strict training plan so don't want to drink friday.
My personal issue is that once I've started I find it very hard to stop....
Me too, that's why you have to pace yourself. If you just say i'll have 3 then go home then it's never happening. If you say you'll have 3 up to midnight then you just slow down
hopefully..
Don't spoil the fun for everyone else - go along, get pissed, get loud and insult people 😀
And then come back here and get posting like mad 🙂
couple of grams will sort you out...
This:
I'd go and eat free food, show my face and then quietly slip out and have a nice beer elsewhere!
and this
And then come back here and get posting like mad
is probably the thing to do.
Although whats on TV tonight?
perhaps see how you feel about a slightly inebriated bike ride later on. I always sorta enjoy rides in extreme weather conditions, chanelling Lt Dan in Forrest Gump atop the fishing boat.
You gotta be kidding Stan? WTF..who gives a sh1t about some Nob getting offended at the Christmas party, its HIS problem not yours.
Get down there and get stuck into the booze....thats what these functions are for, insulting people, having a laugh, getting a flirty with the totty and then talking about it/regretting it for the next 12months!
apart from the not drinking (I do like a bit, just not getting ratarsed) I'm with junkyard
I do have a handy excuse though - working from home, 30 miles from the office and the associated party = very expensive taxi or stay in a hotel. I'm a yorkshireman, neither of those options appeals to my wallet
jaffejoffer - Member
couple of grams will sort you out...
One way or the other… from krypton's own admissions of getting louder and drier with his 'soh', a couple of g's will more than likely end up with his nose being put out of joint more than it already is 😉
I tend to find those who are sensitive are often insensitive to others.
In which case Kryton, sounds like it would be preferable for you to remain mindful throughout the evening 🙂
And enjoy it! 😀
Don't have a drink and leave after the food....simples!
I haven't had a drink (at all) for 6-7 years as a result of works Christmas party experiences....amongst others.... now take great pleasure in not having a drink and observing others! Very entertaining!!!
😀
JEngledow - Member
I'd go and eat free food, show my face and then quietly slip out and have a nice beer elsewhere!
Exactly what I'm doing. My excuse is a genuine "day on the bikes with the lads tomorrow". 8)
If you're staying in the same hotel just pop down and pick up some food and a drink or 2 and party in your room. If you stay on top of yourself you could wait until the end is near and see who you can [i]help out[/i].
If you can't control your drinking - go for the first hour and then slip away.
It will be the best result for all - depending on what your ambition is, the Xmas party is not the place to go and get shitfaced and try and sleep with you work mates.
Whether you like it or not, it is a work function
Kryton later tonight 🙂
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Done. Three glasses of Coke, hands of important people shaken, Christmas dinner and I'm back in my hotel room.
Time to raid the rather ample beer fridge in private.
Remarkable show of restraint there dude! Now get pished!!
Not too late for a bike ride.
DD - plan A is in effect! 😀
Just done my Christmas shopping via t'internet also, lol....
I'm staging my own private work party in business class en route to London. Hopefully I don't embarass myself !
Ah the classic Christmas party scenario
One person lets their hair down whilst everyone at the time revels in your antics.
Next day everyone gossiping about how wild and inappropriate you were.
Personally I'd not go and go out with mates instead.
It was my office Christmas doo tonight - meal and then 'entertainment' - which was a Robbie Williams tribute act.
I haven't gone, because I can't stand Robbie Williams, whether it be the real one or not. It seems this makes me a social pariah. 🙂
I haven't gone, because I can't stand Robbie Williams, whether it be the real one or not. It seems this makes me a social pariah.
Nah, with you there. 🙂
I work from home and so haven't been invited to any of the office Christmas parties this year (which isn't a bad thing), instead I plan to hold my own Christmas anti-social tonight in my living room (after the Mrs has gone to bed), where I plan on drinking too much, falling out with myself and finally sexually harassing myself!!
I gave up going to office social does when I got told that I was funny when I was drunk. Whilst I do have a lot of friends amongst my work colleagues, I'm not really one to want to socialise with the whole office, despite the free food and booze.
Giving up alcohol for pretty much the whole of this year has not really helped my desire to socialise either, it just makes me realise how loud and obnoxious most people get after a few pints.
Well done for avoiding the BS known as Works Xmas Party mate.
Our works do starts @2pm next Friday.
Ive booked the morning off so that i can spend the whole day doing a mega long ride followed by a few beers in front of a good film 🙂
Works do is tonight.
I'm working at home.
Works do is approx. 80 miles away (which includes a ferry ride).
The local Co-Op has a good beer deal.
Have a guess at the outcome... 😀
Learn how to handle your beer?
real people are always better than telly
I would normally agree. But I make an exception for works socials. 🙂
Learn how to handle your beer?
Precisely.
Or not quite so precisely after a few bottles.
Some relentless commenting
You mean normal workplace Christmas party piss take?
really sensitive and frankly black mood
Unfortunately it worked a bit too well. They probably didn't mean to really upset you and were probably looking forward to watching your pissed persona turn up at the party. Shame you and they missed it!
Suggest you MTFU and don't take yourself so seriously, you're not the centre of the universe!
[u]your[/u] not the centre of the universe!
...[b]YOU'RE[/b] not the centre of the universe.
When insulating people, please use the correct grammar!
Sorry eyerideit i dont no watt you meen?
Good use of the edit button.
😀
winston_dog - Member
...you're not the centre of the universe!
An nor did I want to be. There are other work issues which relates to the black mood comment, I felt it better not to drink and run the risk of spouting inappropriately about those.
Oh, and about the "learn how to handle your beer comment", wise up big boy, when you're in your 40's with 2 kids you'll be in this place with the rest of us.
"learn how to handle your beer comment", wise up big boy, when you're in your 40's with 2 kids you'll be in this place with the rest of us.
But the rest of us do seem to be able to handle ourselves and alcohol, so I'm not sure of your point.
Slightly off topic - a company I work for had their Xmas party in Summer (yup!) and it was themed as Wild West. Everyone got right royaly drunk. Then one of the female employees decide to strip naked and offer her body to all comers.
Someone decided to take her up on said offer. So the happy couple trapsed off to the portaloo for waht was surely a great experience for both.
Christ knows why someone from the senior management didn't ake some responsibility of the situation. Unless, of course, they felt it was an appropriate thing for a works function.
Christmas do’s are so shit. Why do we all go on these big nights out with morons you hardly know or like or have anything in common with apart from the fact you just happen to work at the same place!? Its ridiculous. Id rather be out on my bike. ill be going along to ours tonight, but only beacause i work away and have nowt better to do. its a free feed and booze up i suppose, but im back in at 7am so itll not be a late one. if it was a thursday or friday id just go home instead.
jafwjoffer, you sound like great fun. I'm sure your co workers will be fighting to sit at your table so they can bathe in your happiness rays.
Lolcats. Miserable sod
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
jaffejoffer - Member
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
So leave
[quote=iolo said]jaffejoffer - Member
i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
So leave
Leave a job because you don't like people you work with ?
ha, nah, no need for that, its not that i hate them or anything, they are alright but realisticly i wouldnt care if i never saw any of these people again.
Just having a misanthropic morning, im sure it’ll be reet.
didnt bother going to ours which was on saturday as id already comitted to fitting some doors in the house.
come monday morning i was reminded why i didnt go ...
he went with her to the toilets - she sat outside all night moaning because of what he said , he said she said .....
nah i was quite happy at home.
i left early last year having not had a drop of alcohol and found my self being accused when i went back to the office of making one of the lassies greet about something at a club i wasnt even at..... i left at 6pm.....
I have a question - how can you have a Robbie Williams tribute act ? He is a tribute act himself, to, you know, other people who can actually sing and write decent songs.
being self-employed i get invited to a myriad of crimbo do's. some are nice sit down affairs, a few are just a meet up in a bar and two are at Christmas markets/Winter festivals.
the highlight, though, is the Anti-Xmas party in one of the workshops held in January.
a nice meal at an Italian up the road and then 12 hours of debauchery, poker, a myriad of drugs and two scantily clad hostesses.
last Jan i needed two days to recover and people still talk about it now.
I'm missing my works do for a second year in a row. There's some really good folks here, but some absolute ass-hats as well.
I'd rather be out with my mates on mad-friday enjoying myself than tip-toeing around peoples drunken issues.
I'd never get drunk round some of the guys i work with, i just don't trust them not to do something stupid and embroil me in it
My old job had some epic xmas do's that were really good fun, started at lunch with a slap up feed and then finished at two in the morning. No arguing, not illicit encounters, not rumours. Just a good day/night out
Can you not drink responsibly? What's wrong with having something to eat first then a couple of beers and knowing when to stop?
Then you remain on the ball while watching other peoples desperate work angst carnage unfold during the evening.
If you can't handle your emotions/drinking like an adult then don't go.
Why do we all go on these big nights out with morons you hardly know or like or have anything in common with apart from the fact you just happen to work at the same place!? Its ridiculous. Id rather be out on my bike
and then immediately afterwards:
ill be going along to ours tonight, but only beacause i work away and have nowt better to do.
seriously?
what would you be doing if it wasn't a Xmas dinner with people you hardly know or like? do that instead.
MrSmith - Member
If you can't handle your emotions/drinking like an adult then don't go.
What a clown/troll. You act like you don't know that alcohol is a chemical and changes peoples brain activity and therefore behaviour via chemical reaction.
I wish we were all so great as you.
Get pissed an rip the shit out of everyone that's up there own arse and not pissed lol
If drinking is a problem then drink a little less.
a nice meal at an Italian up the road and then 12 hours of debauchery, poker, a myriad of drugs and two scantily clad hostesses.
That's a useless tale without photos/video footage 😉
^^ i remember taking some photos last time but they were very blurry...
not sure if that was due to my camera skills, the smokey haze or the fact that everyone was off their tits.
We don't have one any more. There was too much moaning and complaining. If it was too christmassy, the non-Christians complained that it wasn't inclusive. If it wasn't christmassy enough, the other half of the people complained about that, so the people that organised it got sick of half the company moaning at their efforts and stopped it altogether.
We're also a "dry" organisation, so no booze-related problems / entertainment were a factor.
I wish we were all so great as you.
being able to have a handle on how much to drink or knowing when to take it a bit easy (say at a works do where you don't want to be the one they talk about the next morning) is hardly a difficult proposition for an adult, most of us drank till we puked/fell over/passed out/stole a traffic cone in our youth but if you haven't learned this life skill beyond the age 25 (if you drink alcohol) then you may have a relationship with alcohol thats beyond the help of an internet cycling forum.
You didn't understand my post did you? I didn't say at the ripe old age at 41 I continued to drink until I puke, grab the nearest girls tits, pour a pint of blue bols over my head or anything like that.
In fact, my OP if you read it properly has a series of contributing factors regarding me feeling in the "wrong" mood to enjoy a Christmas party, ONE of those comments being piss taking regarding my alledged behaviour after copious (which amounts to 3 pints + these days) amounts of booze. And that comment is that apparantly my volume level raises.
I think Mr Smith you are making a judgment and alluding to childish behaviour of the like which I didn't describe, and therefore you simply are wrong in your judgement.
And like an Adult, I made an adult decision to not drink at the party, and to leave early and take my mood elsewhere so everyone else wasn't affected. Hardly childish, so lets please not bother keep implying it eh?
a couple of points.
i read your O.P. (more than once)
you simply are wrong in your judgement.
what that adults should be able to control themselves? i think they can and should. i alluded to childish behaviour? actually it was student behaviour i alluded to and how as you grow older you learn how to mostly leave a lot of that behind.
how loud I apparantly get when pissed, how I apparantly came close to being punched last time out by another colleague for winding him up on top of that has put me in a really sensitive and frankly black mood.
so i misread that as fact, i didn't realise your work colleges are making all that up. i do apologise for that error.
Errrrr I'm 38 and I stole the bollard thing with the arrow on last year. I put it back the next morning. Does this make me an alcoholic?
My best mates back from oz in 7 days, we have a bit of history for doing stupid things when out on the lash. Does this make us both alcoholics?
Or a we just having a laugh?
I'm not bothering to argue as he doesn't know the context of those statements and would rather assume than ask, to fulfil some agenda currently known only to him.