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Nobody has XMAS parties like that anymore


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I wish companies still threw down for XMAS parties. Middle of the afternoon, music bumping, liquor flowing, now that's how to do it!

Now it's some cupcakes and gtfo.

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I wish companies still threw down for XMAS parties. Middle of the afternoon, music bumping, liquor flowing, now that's how to do it!

Now it's some cupcakes and gtfo.


Tell me about it. And at my workplace, the cupcakes aren't even catered from a bakery. :(

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book - Cicero

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True.

I guess they fell victim to some combination of (i) general stinginess and (ii) consideration of sexual harassment/dramshop/etc. liability.

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You also couldn't film a scene today of a man recently getting hired by the company and kissing a co-worker on the mouth as he exits the party. He would have been fired before he even moved into his office.

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She was probably under mistletoe, so fair game to be kissed by a stranger

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Companies became liable for their drunken employees trying to make it home behind the wheel of their cars so most of them put the kibosh on parties with alcohol being served...

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Who was the artist and what was the name of that disco song that was playing during that office party scene?

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Thats funny... even the free-flowing booze partying nature aside, companies don't throw Christmas party's like that anymore even just due to budget.... Ever since the financial collapse of a few years ago, companies have tightened their belt... Expense accounts are gone, parties are gone, business lunches are gone...

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I'm glad they don't, too loud and I don't drink.

Depending on the employers, some companies give the option of letting their employees leave early (especially ones who have kids). At least they used to.

Back when I had a full time regular job, I made sure everything was done by noon to avoid a last minute crunch.

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Yup, but try watching the office christmas party in The Apartment - It's bacchanalian in comparison.

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Some companies do. My last company threw a fairly big bash at a hotel every year. If you drank at the party, you had to stay overnight at the hotel. The company even footed the hotel bill. Heck, the president of the company flew in for our site's party and got totally sloshed drinking appletinis.

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appletinis? 



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