Last year my fortune 500 company said they wouldn’t be providing Christmas dinner because they couldn’t afford it.
They lost more money from demoralized employees slacking off in response.
They didn’t make the same mistake this year.
My wife’s company had one and it was fun. We did end up getting norovirus from it though. Didn’t think it would be the case because the symptoms were not at all as violent as previous times we’ve had it. But I agreed to provide a sample to the county public health lab and turned out that was what it was
Due to cost cutting, norovirus decided to only do the bare minimum.
Quiet quitter!
My boss took everyone to dinner this week. Granted, there are about two dozen people in the whole organization, but still, it was really generous of her.
My wife’s boss (owner of the company) took all the employees and their spouses on a four day Caribbean cruise about a year ago. Was really nice. Granted, there are only like 10 people in her organization.
Wow. Where the heck does your wife work, wall street?
Edit for clarity: I didn’t mean this in a harsh way or anything, but I just can’t imagine working someplace where “free cruise” is a work benefit. It’s just so far outside my lived experience!
A small local payroll company. Her boss is just a good guy who likes to treat people.
Wow. That’s… so uncommon it’s literally hard to fathom. Congrats to your wife on finding such a good place to work!
I started working at a company in the mid 80s, and stayed there for 40 years. They did Christmas parties until the f early 2000s or so. Honestly, I was kind of glad they stopped. There were always idiots getting drunk and doing/saying really stupid stuff.
They cut the costs and the c levels now have private dinners
Companies are worried about DUIs, and especially bad accidents that would expose them to lawsuits.
It wasnt so much the terrorists/thieves, it was more how everyone started greeting guests by yelling “Welcome to the party, pal!” to everyone as they arrived, and “Yippe-kai-yay, motherfucker!” as they left.
Also:
Schieß den Fenster.
We skipped ours to drive to another state for a rock show 🤘
Jokes aside, there’s a statistical increase in terminations and quitting after such Christmas parties. Because alcohol and bad decisions are a bad combo when your paycheck is on the line.
