I've never worked a job that had a company christmas party. Though I've been to union ones and they're a lot of fun. What are company ones like? My only experience with them is through media like The Office.
Well it depends on the company and the people organizing it. There's usually some official part where the boss or whoever talks about how much money the company made and other statistics using powerpoint, trying to make it fun / festive at the same time. They praise everyone for their hard work etc. Then they try to lighten the mood by embarrassing themselves a little. Putting on a silly costume or singing or something equally weird. Usually dinner and maybe some drinks are paid for. There might be some sort of group activity to entertain everyone. If you like your coworkers you go to a bar afterwards (or whatever you wanna do lol). Its possible to have a good time if you have friends in your coworkers, and some companys do more than others of course. But imo it always feels a bit.. forced. And all the parts that could be fun don't really exist when its done online so yea. I mostly watched old people do weird jokes and other old people not understanding said jokes.
I've never worked a job that had a company christmas party. Though I've been to union ones and they're a lot of fun. What are company ones like? My only experience with them is through media like The Office.
Well it depends on the company and the people organizing it. There's usually some official part where the boss or whoever talks about how much money the company made and other statistics using powerpoint, trying to make it fun / festive at the same time. They praise everyone for their hard work etc. Then they try to lighten the mood by embarrassing themselves a little. Putting on a silly costume or singing or something equally weird. Usually dinner and maybe some drinks are paid for. There might be some sort of group activity to entertain everyone. If you like your coworkers you go to a bar afterwards (or whatever you wanna do lol). Its possible to have a good time if you have friends in your coworkers, and some companys do more than others of course. But imo it always feels a bit.. forced. And all the parts that could be fun don't really exist when its done online so yea. I mostly watched old people do weird jokes and other old people not understanding said jokes.