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#1444697 - 09/17/10 03:24 PM
Work Christmas Party
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Just wondering what everyone does for their work christmas parties? we are in a small town so our options are limited but looking for some ideas! Some of us younger employees has the idea of a casino theme - have dinner and then have a few games (black jack, craps, roulette wheel) where you win tickets from and then you take the tickets and put them in a prize bowl and at the end of the night one winner is pulled out for each prize -- yeah it was shot down and replaced with the a dinner theatre idea. boring! 
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#1444716 - 09/17/10 03:36 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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I'd rather just have the expense put into a Christmas Bonus for all 
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#1444724 - 09/17/10 03:41 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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we do a dinner at a nice restaurant, buffet style, live band, open bar, service awards are given out...we used to have cash drawings and do things like "name that tune" for cash prizes but that has all gone by the wayside...now, just dinner, then a bunch of drunks who think they can dance getting on the floor and making fools of themselves...i generally stay long enough that they knew I was there and then head out, unless my wife is having a good time...then we stay as long as she wants
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#1444726 - 09/17/10 03:43 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We do a lunch prior to Christmas. Bank provides Ham and Turkey and we all bring a dish. I prefer it this way. If it is after work I won't go. To many other things to do. I do not care to exchange gifts either. This makes it hard on some people.
I worked a bank that did lunch and our department did a white elephant (brought something from home that we did not want) and played dirty Santa. Now that was a HOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#1444730 - 09/17/10 03:45 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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we celebrate Festivus with fist fights in the parking lot
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#1444731 - 09/17/10 03:46 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We have a "Celebration" after the holidays are all over, normally mid January.
Drinks, nice dinner and some prizes and awards.
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#1444741 - 09/17/10 03:50 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We do a nice dinner, then have a (terrible, corny) DJ. Essentially, no one dances. Fifteen years ago, this was not the case, but our employees are getting old, I guess! We have some prizes as well. I agree with prettysoon, I'd rather have the money spent on the party put into bonuses for all.
At my branch, those who want to participate draw names for gift-giving. I do not participate--I like my coworkers but they do not need some trinket from me, nor do I need one from them. I am about the only female who doesn't participate, but so far I am holding firm!
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#1444742 - 09/17/10 03:51 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We have the christmas dinner and mild entertainment provided by local groups. One year we had some kids from the arts accademy in the community do a dance performance and we've had bands or singers and what not during the dinner. They want to do the casino theme for us this year, but I don't know where I would go to get that stuff.
I'm all about making the christmas party cheap, so that the majority of the money is spent on gifts and bonuses, so I was gonna look through the oriental trading magazine that gets delivered whether you use them or not and put a theme together using their stuff, it's cheap and almost every page of that thing is a different theme. But sure enough, haven't gotten one magazine since I thought of it.
Edited to add: If the actual party stays within budget, the bank buys all of our gifts, we're small, only 17 employees so it's a little easier for us to do this.
Last edited by ~MunQue~; 09/17/10 03:55 PM.
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#1444748 - 09/17/10 03:56 PM
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We have drinks and dinner at a foo foo members only club downtown with the BOD, officers, and bank managers (30 of us or so, no spouses)... sing a few carols (part of our quirky history), and are done for the evening by well before 8.
Maybe it it the antisocial side of me, but I am so thankful we do not do a bank wide thing.
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#1444766 - 09/17/10 04:05 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We used to do a sit down dinner with dancing afterwards and an open bar. Last year we switched to a buffet, 2 per person drink tickets and still had the DJ. I'm pretty sure we'll stick with the buffet and drink tickets but maybe do away with the DJ. I think only a couple of people danced last year. The rest of us played a dice game all night. One of the owners watched us play our game for quite a while and now thinks that we should skip the DJ and just have different game tables set up. Sounds good to me!
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#1444793 - 09/17/10 04:27 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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We have drinks and dinner at a foo foo members only club downtown with the BOD, officers, and bank managers (30 of us or so, no spouses)... sing a few carols (part of our quirky history), and are done for the evening by well before 8.
Maybe it it the antisocial side of me, but I am so thankful we do not do a bank wide thing. do you do anything for employees? if not, does that do anything for morale? When I worked at FRB, we had 2 Christmas parties, one for management, one for everyone...although it sank morale annually, the big boys didn't want to give up their fancy party...i did not enjoy teh stuffy management only party, everyone was always sucking up...
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#1444797 - 09/17/10 04:29 PM
Re: Work Christmas Party
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Each branch has their own dinner. The bank pays for the employee. If we choose to bring our spouse we havet to pay. unfortunatley I get to go with our very stuffy CEO so we eat and go home. Last year I was home before 8.
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#1444810 - 09/17/10 04:37 PM
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We have done the employee parties in the past... the last one was held at the same foo foo private club, and still people complained... the place is too fancy for us, I don't want to dress up, it's on my time, what we're not getting paid?, I didn't like the dinner options, I have to pay for some of my drinks?? we didn't like the dj... and so on. And attendance and involvement was lacking as well.
It gets to the point, if you don't like it and it is that much of an inconvenience for you to enjoy something on our dime, then why do we bother doing for you?
I think it is funny that the ones that complain that we don't do enough for them, are the same ones that either don't come out of sort of principle, or are always busy and cannot attend anyways.
Come and do you job and collect your paycheck... we're your employer, not your social planning committee. (Jay talking for Jay there, not for my employer).
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#1444819 - 09/17/10 04:48 PM
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We used to have tons of complaints until we made it a little less formalized, we have 2 huge class clowns at my bank, so between me and her yelling at eachother across the room and everyone else kind of playing along, it gets to be pretty entertaining. Used to be sit down, shut up and eat, because they were afraid to offend the directors. I'm incredibly unprofessional though, and the directors have learned to live with me, and have started playing along too over the past couple years. Our parties are just so routine. I'm sure that's why we get complaints, and why we're searching for other stuff to do this year too.
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#1444822 - 09/17/10 04:52 PM
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Our party is held without the BOD, they do their own thing with sr mgmt.
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#1444868 - 09/17/10 05:43 PM
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We do a departmental thing - too big to do anything bank-wide. Last year it was a casino night and the year before we had a catered event at a local sports arena that we got to tour. Not sure what's on the docket for this year. When I was in other areas of the bank, the parties weren't really my cup of tea. This is a bit smaller and more entertaining, so hubby and I usually go.
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#1444897 - 09/17/10 06:07 PM
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We have done the employee parties in the past... the last one was held at the same foo foo private club, and still people complained... the place is too fancy for us, I don't want to dress up, it's on my time, what we're not getting paid?, I didn't like the dinner options, I have to pay for some of my drinks?? we didn't like the dj... and so on. And attendance and involvement was lacking as well.
It gets to the point, if you don't like it and it is that much of an inconvenience for you to enjoy something on our dime, then why do we bother doing for you?
I think it is funny that the ones that complain that we don't do enough for them, are the same ones that either don't come out of sort of principle, or are always busy and cannot attend anyways.
Come and do you job and collect your paycheck... we're your employer, not your social planning committee. (Jay talking for Jay there, not for my employer). do you even have any friends? sheesh! ::avoids Jay's bank's job postings on their website::
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#1444899 - 09/17/10 06:07 PM
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No party here. Other departments do parties if they want, btu the bank is somewhere around 10,000 employees. I get nothing, not even a Christmas bonus.
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#1444969 - 09/17/10 07:28 PM
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We're big on Christmas. We only have 24 employees so it's easier for us. We have a dinner at a nice local restaurant. We pay for employees and a guest. We do a "holiday swap," but the presents are purchased by the company. We usually do Christmas trivia with $20 bills as the prizes and have a DJ. Probably 85% of employees attend each year. The person who is employee of the year is required to plan the party and festivities, so it's a little different each year.
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#1444977 - 09/17/10 07:39 PM
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Can we still call it a Christmas Party or do we need to call it a non-denominational Party?
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#1444985 - 09/17/10 07:46 PM
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Barack will get back to you on that.....and will most likely name a czar as well
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#1444997 - 09/17/10 07:55 PM
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We're big on Christmas. We only have 24 employees so it's easier for us. We have a dinner at a nice local restaurant. We pay for employees and a guest. We do a "holiday swap," but the presents are purchased by the company. We usually do Christmas trivia with $20 bills as the prizes and have a DJ. Probably 85% of employees attend each year. The person who is employee of the year is required to plan the party and festivities, so it's a little different each year. this describes us to a tee - just was looking for some other form of entertainment besides a dj. Last year we had a comedian and it didnt go over well. very limited being in a msall town.
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