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My store's Christmas party was a few weeks ago. I was quite frankly surprised and a bit disgusted at some of the behaviour that apparently occurred. We've all been very professional at work, but you get a few glasses of wine into some of these folks and look out! There was infidelity, drug use, confessions, gossip, and unprofessional behaviour all around. No one could look at each other the next day.
I left early, and thankfully missed everything scandalous. The only reason I found out about any of it is because I started asking a few diplomatically-worded questions, like why so-and-so isn't speaking to so-and-so. Finally, one of my co-workers spilled. She told me to stop asking so many questions, because "What happened at the Christmas party stays at the Christmas party." I told her that was fine, but I was trying to get work done and it was becoming increasingly difficult in the strained environment. I'm no gossip, but we do depend on team work. And I felt that the air needed to be cleared.
At my husband's office party two years ago, a vice president got drunk and hauled off on some other guy, at which point his girlfriend stepped in and got hit. It's still not clear who threw the punch that hit her, but the police almost got involved in that one. My husband and I had left at that point.
There's something to be said about going to bed early.
My store's Christmas party was a few weeks ago. I was quite frankly surprised and a bit disgusted at some of the behaviour that apparently occurred. We've all been very professional at work, but you get a few glasses of wine into some of these folks and look out! There was infidelity, drug use, confessions, gossip, and unprofessional behaviour all around. No one could look at each other the next day.
I left early, and thankfully missed everything scandalous. The only reason I found out about any of it is because I started asking a few diplomatically-worded questions, like why so-and-so isn't speaking to so-and-so. Finally, one of my co-workers spilled. She told me to stop asking so many questions, because "What happened at the Christmas party stays at the Christmas party." I told her that was fine, but I was trying to get work done and it was becoming increasingly difficult in the strained environment. I'm no gossip, but we do depend on team work. And I felt that the air needed to be cleared.
At my husband's office party two years ago, a vice president got drunk and hauled off on some other guy, at which point his girlfriend stepped in and got hit. It's still not clear who threw the punch that hit her, but the police almost got involved in that one. My husband and I had left at that point.
There's something to be said about going to bed early.
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