'win your weight in beer' raffle.

sky diving?

Since the organiser is a teetotaller, I doubt it, but that would be good.....

By the way, the average age in the office is about 47.....

oh. 'Win Your Weight In Prune Juice'.

jumping castle

hot air ballooning.

good one kuro

guess the fattest person in the office?

there will be only one Xmas pudding and they are dividing it between you all via BMI.

*be

Oh, yeah I hope it is hot air balooning! That would be cool, but that's usually early morning isn't it?

I was thinking maybe something with a boat.....

But the image of the people here in a jumping castle is just way too weird

the girls on fire!

you are all being sold off as mail order brides to desperate Russian men, as your company has just been taken over. Perestroika!

they are sending you somewhere via australia post and need to work out exactly where they can afford to send you according to your weight.

catapult contest

first error was getting a teetottaler in charge of your Christmas party.

'supply your correct weight' sounds like an invitation for all the whinging bitches to carry on for a few hours

Last year was the 'Lion King' ....

carnival, where all staff must participate in the dunk tank.

perhaps you're all getting enrolled in the army

SURPRISE!

The only really boring part about the speeches is when they insist on reading out the names of every single employee that has worked for the company for 5,10,15,20 years...SUCH A SHIT.

Fair enough.
20 years at Roy Morgan?

A surprisingly large amount of people have worked there for 20 years.

All my Christmas parties are done for the year. I miss the drunken, end-of-night sharing of compliments. I got told by a Hungarian girl that I was the nicest Australian man in the country. True story. The nicest thing anyone said to me today was 'goodbye' when I hung up on the girl who told me how to roll over my super. Christmas is a cruel beast.

20 years at Roy Morgan?

More likely than you think.

Minuses: 1.5 hours of speeches (in German) from the CEO, CSO, Investors. Being forced to dance to German folk music with Daniel from Malta.

Pluses: roast goose.

Being forced to dance to German folk music with Daniel from Malta.

How is this a minus?? Give me a few champagnes and that would be the highlight of my night!

You've not yet met Daniel from Malta.

mine is themed and i've only been there for 2 months... not sure how hard to go with the dress up. don't want to be the jerk that doesn't get into the spirit but don't want to look like a total moron.

it's vegas bling themed, so potential for disaster either way.

think goin t xmas even. down the road. might head over before/after.

Are you a girl or boy blackcat? I have a lovely bustier made out of black fabric with red dice on it.

Thanks but I'm a dude so that might be taking it a little too far

So I have this friend who hooked up with her team leader at the office Christmas party (not in front of the whole office mind you, just a select few from other departments who were still kicking on at a bar near work a couple of hours after most people had gone home).

Is this really doomed to fail, or is it just two kids of a similar age, with similar attitudes and similar jobs, having a bit of fun? It's not like this team leader ever lords his higher position in the hierarchy over his team - in fact, he was on an extended holiday when she got moved into his team and by the time he got back, everything was running so autonomously that the only time she really ever speaks to him at work is to let her TL know if she has to leave early to see the doctor or something...

Anyway, my friend is curious. I think she knows that she's just gotta let it play out and see what happens, but she asked me to post this so she could read other people's experiences.

So what you're saying Coz is you fucked your team leader.

ahem

It was a friend, I swear!

I hooked up with one of the guys I work with. There may be initial awkwardness, but of course you can still be friends. It's just some fun after all.

I thought you worked on Level 5 kelele - I'm sure hookups aren't unusual there!

This wasn't at Roys, this was this year at my new workplace! It isnt as usual as Roys thats for sure.

Hahaha, good on you for wasting absolutely no time in getting to know your new workmates :P

My friend isn't at all worried about hook-ups in general, I think she's just concerned that doin' it with your team leader is the height of dodgy. According to her there were no discussions of what happens next either, so the awkward bit is still to come!

Ah ok. This person isn't my supervisor, just from another department. I'm working in a contract role, so can't waste time haha.

Other departments are fine. Even I've seen some action from the 5th before.