My office has a propensity to create a party or an excuse to go drinking for anything. This year our office Christmas is going to be held at a brewery, in the middle of the day. The party is from noon to 4pm at a brewery that is about 25 minutes from our office. What this means is that at about 11 people will stop working, start i.m.ing or calling around to carpool, and generally kill time until they can reasonably leave the office. This includes members of upper management as well.
Don't get me wrong, I'm always up for a party but while I use the excuse the same as everyone else I see the ridiculousness of it. Let me lay out the month of December for you in terms of our office. Today we are getting out of half a days work to go to a party at a brewery. Next week is secret Santa with a secret Santa party on Friday. For the week of secret Santa (our office does a week of clues and gifts) people will spend hours comparing gifts, talking about gifts and clues, and ruminating on who their Santa could be. The week after that, the week of Christmas, we have two days of paid vacation (though most of the office will be gone for the entire week and the next week). The week of New Year's Eve we have Friday off also, even though most people won't be here that week anyway, myself included.
It just amuses me that our office takes any excuse to not work. I'm sure most offices are like this but I feel like every time I turn around we're having some kind of event, party, or time off. I have been here 7 months today and in that time I have had 3 paid holidays, 2 events where we got half days off, and 8 parties/events.
I love this place.
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