Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 258

Looking for an apartment

 

“________, change my mind”

 

Platforming in Elden Ring (guess who just got to the Haligtree)

 

holiday work luncheons

like sure, free food is nice but I'd rather just stay at the office & go home for lunch and sit with my dog

 

And they usually make you pay and cook something on your off time and bring it in I’m always kinda like fuck you for this

I appreciate the sentiment of bringing people together, but I’ll hang out with people on my on time.

 

I just had a holiday work party at dave and busters and they didn’t pay for literally anything lol

 

This was a huge thing with a few hundred employees, catered and everything…but my boss and I still left after the presentation lol

 

Were there door prizes or giveaways?

 

I'd simply not go to a work event if my company wasn't outright paying for everything, especially if its outside work hours too.

 

When I was a manager for chipotle our work parties were just at a restaurant/bar and we’d eat good and get drunk on their dime. My job now, when we were in the office, it would be a shitty catered meal and a cookie table but it was just during your normal lunch break.

 

ya know not to my knowledge but maybe I blocked those things out

we did do a lot of clapping for employees celebrating 25 years with the company and even one guy celebrating 50 years

 

Yeah this was new for me but this company sure has a lot of money

 

Our company office party is scheduled for Thursday from “3 to midnight” and I guess the last office party they did was the same time and people were actually there until the end.

I never attend these and never will. I purposefully took vacation Thursday and Friday next week so there’s no chance of me having to deal with all the folks in the office that day (everyone is flying in that works / lives out of state AND we’d all be working in the office that day instead of our usual Tuesday in the office) and can’t / won’t attend the party.

don’t care if it’s an all paid exclusive fucking resort location or a 5-star restaurant I want nothing to do with any of these people during the week from 8-5 working remotely let alone all 40ish of us packed into a room for half a day with alcohol

 

I love work Christmas parties I always just get bombed, apparently they give out free sunglasses at ours too so that's a plus

 

For sure the worst especially the moving aspect. Last time I moved my brother complained the whole time helping too lol like I asked you to do this months ago sorry you want to meet up with someone random from tinder last minute

 

Haha ours are during work hours at least in the same building but you’re essentially made to look/feel like you’re not a team player if you don’t participate. It was like that when I worked for the state too, i feel like thats pretty common with office jobs

 

When I worked at Guitar Center our holiday parties were at a Hard Rock Cafe downtown, they’d usually pay for catering and give everyone a couple of drink tokens. And it was like a battle of the bands so each store had to form a band and rehearse two songs to perform. Bunch of raffle giveaways too. No wonder that company does so poor financially lol

 

My team at the company I work for now we just rent out a conference room downstairs and they bring in catered food, we’ll like watch a movie or play video games and shoot the shit. It’s not bad but I’d rather be home every time, this year I told them I had a dentist appointment haha. Those things are a great tiny annoyance

 

ive generally had pretty good luck with company holiday parties, usually theyre at a catering hall with either an open bar or a few complimentary drink tickets provided. one year the company i worked for even paid in advance for ubers and gave people codes to use for prepaid rides to get home from the hall.

 

At a different company years ago my boss at the time had the same view on company gatherings as I do. He would always say, “even if you don’t act like a fool someone else likely will, and then that makes it awkward going forward and even if it’s not you behaving badly, some people will still at least remember that you were there and categorize you as that type of person” (although I’m sure this depends on the size of the gathering).

So one week we had our sales team in from Europe so everyone in HR, which is where my department rolled up through, went out to eat with them. Earlier in the day our VP of HR told Annie (fake name) “let’s keep it in check shall we?” because I guess she always got loaded and made a scene.

Guess what happened!

She left early to drink at the bar of the restaurant so by the time everyone got there she was “4-5 strong drinks in”. She asked the European sales team if they were allowed to drive cars “over there”, ordered a “large chocolate milk! That sounds amazing!”, then the owner’s weirdo son and his wife showed up to join us unexpectedly to add to the horror, then Annie knocks over her large chocolate milk, spilling it all across the table and onto people’s laps, then can’t make it to the restroom to puke, so she does it on the bushes by the front door.

On one hand, I now have that fun story to tell, but on the other I was “branded by association” as my boss had once pointed out, and the next few times seeing the European sales team or the owners weirdo son was awkward because that was like, my only encounter with them was us all witnessing Annie crash and burn.

 

You got Annie’s number?

 

annie sounds like a hoot

 

AnnieRUOK?

 

my last company i worked at we had a holiday lunch where they would sit us all down and basically say "you're a bunch of warriors and thank you all for your hard work also btw heres all the ways you guys suck" lol

 

also it should be illegal for christmas to be on sunday. not even getting one day off this year smh