FUCK CHRISTMAS

[Fr.Bigley]

Just declined the invitation for a Zoom christmas works do with quizzes and stuff.

You wasted a perfectly good opportunity to "pretend" the mic was off while you slagged them off to your family.

[Icehaven]

Just declined the invitation for a Zoom christmas works do with quizzes and stuff.

A few weeks back my boss suggested she, I and my other colleague (so a party-tastic three of us) do something like this, but on our last Teams meeting on Monday she didn't mention it and wished me a good Christmas at the end, so it looks like she's given up on the idea thank fuck.

[Blinder Data]

Spent an hour last Friday drinking a beer and chatting with colleagues via Teams. People were wearing Christmas jumpers. It was fine.

Glad it was only an hour though.

[Cuellar]

We had a range of choices for Zoom-based work fun. Wine tasting (they send you a package of wines in the post apparently), some sort of escape room thing (?), something else I can't remember now.

Not doing any of it, fuck off.

[MojoJojo]

I'm doing a work Teams thing in an hour. They sent out beers and we've got a drinking order and stuff.

[Fr.Bigley]

I'm doing a work Teams thing in an hour. They sent out beers and we've got a drinking order and stuff.

Nothing better than forced fun. have a tug

[Icehaven]

We had a range of choices for Zoom-based work fun... some sort of escape room thing (?)

You could have just taken the opportunity to say "I've cracked it!" then leave the room and don't come back.

[Sebastian Cobb]

You wasted a perfectly good opportunity to "pretend" the mic was off while you slagged them off to your family.

Ha, it happens to be after clocking off time on my last working day of the year. It would just feel like it was holding me back from my holiday.

[poo]

Gutted about Christmas. Lock me down you gutless fucks!

[bgmnts]

Drakeford has imposed tighter restrictions on Christmas gatherings (two households instead of three) and there'll be a nlockdown as of Christmas eve I think.

Get fucking in.

[GMTV]

Are you ready to dance?
Lets celebrate the end of 2020 together on the virtual dance floor.
This should be a fun, family friendly event. So clear up a safe dancing space, get in the groove and join with your friends to dance and have fun! We'll even learn some traditional cultural dances from across EMEA.

1300 - 1345 GMT

[paruses]

Are you ready to dance?
Lets celebrate the end of 2020 together on the virtual dance floor.
This should be a fun, family friendly event. So clear up a safe dancing space, get in the groove and join with your friends to dance and have fun! We'll even learn some traditional cultural dances from across EMEA.

1300 - 1345 GMT

Please say that's just an excellent parody.

[imitationleather]

Sounds fun. Can I join?

[Beagle 2]

You could have just taken the opportunity to say "I've cracked it!" then leave the room and don't come back.

I laughed

[GMTV]

Sounds fun. Can I join?

Briefly crossed my mind to dial in, until I remembered I would look fucking weird dialing in with my mic and camera off

[dissolute ocelot]

2pm today I saw a smartly dressed woman walking down the street drinking a can of Jack Daniels and Coke. Are there still some office parties? And some offices? (She was wandering in the direction of some deep utility excavations too.)

We had a work meeting earlier that concluded with an hour-long lighthearted video of lots of people sending in clips (including several Christmas songs) and skits. You have to respect that kind of commitment to slacking off at work even if the result is alternately horrific and mildly amusing. Good to know what counts as fun in Germany though.

[Blue Jam]

Got a werk Xmas do today, quiz over Zoom. I like my colleagues and I like quizzes so I'm looking forward to it. Gonna get my Christmas jumper on and put some more lights up. Just bought cheese and booze and minced pies so we can have ourselves a tiny wee buffet. Lighten up you miserable gits, iiiiiit's Chriiiiiistmaaaaas!

^{All that said if our resident 'elf and safety Covid Nazi is taking part and he accuses me of cheating again I may have to go round his gaff and humbug his shit up.}

[Blue Jam]

Just ate a fuckload of tangerines and now the house smells Christmassy as fuck.

[shiftwork2]

Because of your farting?  I'm thinking sprouts.

[Blue Jam]

Nae sprouts here. Nobody likes sprouts and despite what Richard Richard says you don't have to have sprouts at Christmas.

You have to have cheese though and I've definitely gone a bit overboard here. Bought some b@rgain posh cheese from Aldi yesterday, only to see a proper posh cheese stall minutes later. Couldn't resist. Got a fuckload of "truckles" up here.

Also got a little box of Quality Street for £2. I know the big tins are only £4 but I've found that the key to avoiding Xmas weight gain is to not have one of those fuckers lying around. Bought just enough to bring a bit of colour to the gaff.

[bgmnts]

I love sprouts.

[idunnosomename]

I like sprouts

[Pink Gregory]

I am attracted to sprouts

[Pink Gregory]

Work fucked off the christmas festivities and sent us all a £25 one4all gift card.  Nice and efficient. 

[Blue Jam]

Virtual werk Xmas do was a bit shambolic but good fun. The only time I had to bite my tongue was when someone started wittering on about how, As An Introvert, the pandemic has been wonderful for them.

1. No-one cares
2. The Introvert thing is corporate astrology Myers-Briggs bum-bum, you're a scientist, you should know better
3. People going on about how a deadly pandemic is a wonderful thing for Introverts and it's hilarious to imagine all the Extroverts lonely and suffering is one reason why I quit Reddit

There was one moment where someone had a bit too much to drink and started making jokes about dildos but it wasn't possible for them to sit on a virtual photocopier and make a virtual photocopy of their arse so that's something at least. Overdoing it at a werk Xmas do for which you are alone in your own house is impressive, in a way.

Nah, overall it was very nice. Lots of people showing off their cute cats and dogs too and their cute nippers singing cute little Christmas songs. Warmed my cockles tbf.

[Zetetic]

2. The Introvert thing is corporate astrology Myers-Briggs bum-bum, you're a scientist, you should know better

No?

While there's clearly a long history of bollocks in formal attempts to describes human personality (MBTI amongst them), there clearly are ways in which humans differ and introversion-extraversion is probably one of them (even if its folk description has plenty of problems).

I don't think you even need to be a Big Five fanatic to accept that.



Getting smashed on a MH&LD quiz.

[Blue Jam]

I think introversion-extroversion is fine as a fun little bit of pop psychology, but I know a few people who have bought into it way too much and it's genuinely held them back in some ways. I have a friend of a friend who has decided that both of her children are introverts and has enrolled them in lots of after-school clubs for "introvert things" like painting and nature walks. They are aged five and seven... Bit sad to be putting labels on someone that young while their personality is still developing and telling them what activities are "right" for them, no? It just reminds me of my parents trying to get me into ballet when I was more interested in dinosaurs.

It's all the "extroverts have more dopamine receptors" pseudoscience bullshit I don't like, I've looked into the science myself and found it sadly lacking. It's interesting, but it's bollocks.

Also the "where would we be without all those introvert scientists and inventors?" stuff. Science is largely a team effort these days, it actually helps to be good at networking, public speaking, showing your face at the coffee breaks and the Christmas do etc. The idea that we're all meek and socially awkward is more than a bit insulting to me. All the sneery stuff about introverts supposedly being more intelligent and people with social skills being dumb really grates as well, it's people being smug over nothing.

Far worse than that though is that the university where I werk holds regular "Myers-Briggs Type For Your Career" workshops where you do an MB test and then get told what jobs you should and shouldn't do. Jeez, you'd think university peeps would know better than to be spending money on crap like that. I have managed to resist complaining so far, instead I just roll my eyes before hitting "Delete" when I see another workshop flyer in my inbox.

[Consignia]

We had a virtual beer tasting last night. We had a WebEx and someone from the brewery dialled to talk us through each beer. It wasn't officially a work do, as it was only a couple of us who know each other through work. It was great fun, though, and frankly being able to socialise with drinks is something I've really missed.

[confettiinmyhair]

I do wonder why the government didn't try to offer a carrot for the reindeer, so to speak, and do a u-turn on the bubbles by offering one or two public holiday days for Christmas 2021 to make up for the sacrifices people might make this year. That way you're not cancelling Christmas (a phrase which is so infantile), but you're making it longer and better next year like an extra large yule log.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

"Lads, if you're good and stay at home for Christmas I promise a full on fuckfest of bankholidays and Saturnalia next year"