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over a year ago
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Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"£65 
Wtf ? does that include chamagnetic ?
Normally pay around £20 for a three course dinner  "
It's a themed thing and supposed to be lots of fun so I don't mind paying. The company is paying for the transport and additional drinks x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Depends where, but it's usually just a meal so maybe £20 or £25. I work in the public sector so we've always paid for our own. "
Public sector here too  |
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
That's a lot if people don't have the money but maybe feel the need to go in order to fit in or not be embarrassed. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much
That's a lot if people don't have the money but maybe feel the need to go in order to fit in or not be embarrassed. "
It's not compulsory & nobody is made to feel bad if they don't go. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much
That's a lot if people don't have the money but maybe feel the need to go in order to fit in or not be embarrassed.
It's not compulsory & nobody is made to feel bad if they don't go. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
It sounded a lot but then when I think about it id easily spend that with going out drinking after mine. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
If people save up over 12 months, it's reasonable |
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
I think that's quite expensive. We're getting a 4 course meal, all drinks, entertainment, a hotel room and, I think, breakfast in the morning, for £50 per head. In the most expensive hotel in the city too (granted the city is Inverness, but it's still a top place).
I suppose it depends how many are going too, as you get better deals the more people are included. |
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I haven't been to one in the 8 years I have been with this company, even though they pay for the meal.
I'm part of a team that's spread throughout South Wales, so they pick somewhere "central" and organise it.
Trouble is, "central" means somewhere on the M4 corridor to them, so I have to travel miles, and if I wanted to drink I'd have to book a room.
All in all its too much arsing around and cost, so I don't go.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
We havent had a paid for xmas do for years so we go off and do our own thing. I would expect to pay where I live between £40-£60 per head for a hotel function similar to yours.
There's a lovely hotel in Reading that I've been too, fairly close to the main station. |
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I'm just sorting ours out now, waiting for my boss to give the per person budget.
We were going to Brighton for the weekend but too many people wanted to stay local and go home so we shall see. My boss pays for hotel, transport, lunch, dinner and all drinks. He is a very generous boss  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much
We havent had a paid for xmas do for years so we go off and do our own thing. I would expect to pay where I live between £40-£60 per head for a hotel function similar to yours.
There's a lovely hotel in Reading that I've been too, fairly close to the main station."
Malmaison? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"How much do you pay to go to yours?
Nothing. We don't have a Christmas do. I work for a bunch of cunts! "
The managers don't organise it. Members of staff do!! Why don't you organise one Howard? |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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If we didn`t go to the local golf club for a brekkie, paid for out of own pockets, we wouldn`t have nothing! But then imagine the outcry from the tax payers if heard the council were giving their staff a night out at the rate payer`s expense! |
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much
We havent had a paid for xmas do for years so we go off and do our own thing. I would expect to pay where I live between £40-£60 per head for a hotel function similar to yours.
There's a lovely hotel in Reading that I've been too, fairly close to the main station.
Malmaison?"
I stayed at the Millenium Madjeski was amazing, gutted the London Irish weren't playing |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I usually go to two. They are both normally fantastic nights."
Last year paid transport to one and the other drove and paid for parking overnight at the hotel - £30 in total for both. The two companies footed the rest of what were very sizeable bills. Dinner, drinks, entertainment and venue in one case; and cocktails, dinner, more cocktails and all other drinks plus overnight stay in a suite plus breakfast the following morning in the other. To say I felt spoils rotten and very grateful was an understatement |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much
We havent had a paid for xmas do for years so we go off and do our own thing. I would expect to pay where I live between £40-£60 per head for a hotel function similar to yours.
There's a lovely hotel in Reading that I've been too, fairly close to the main station.
Malmaison?"
I've been there too. 
It was The Forbury Hotel. |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else |
£35 non-subsidised.
Didn't bother last year,apparently they had a great time.
This year the same place is booked, they all think it'll be just as good, when in reality that's unlikely.
So, I'll probably swerve it, esp as I'd need either a hotel room or a taxi on top. My colleagues are OK, but they're not as much fun as people I choose to spend time with... |
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"How much do you pay to go to yours?
Nothing. We don't have a Christmas do. I work for a bunch of cunts!
The managers don't organise it. Members of staff do!! Why don't you organise one Howard?"
I work with AND for a bunch of cunts. I don't have any affinity with most of the people I work with. The last thing I want to do is spend time with them outside of work...
...I think I need a new job |
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We have two... the main one is a black tie do at a posh hotel (I usually give that one a miss) and our departments all have a lunch which gives us an afternoon off and a taxi home. We never pay for anything. They're pretty good that way although the free bar is carnage every year.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've got two this year one with all the girls, posh hotel and evening gowns.
Then the following weekend my work party in another hotel.
In total it will cost me about £400!!!
That's for food, drinks, and a new evening gown thought I would wear it again the following week for
My work party lol.
Now starts a very expensive time of the year for me. |
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I pay around £30 for the dinner then drinks on top of that. If I don't have a place to crash my taxi home is also £30.
I work in the public sector. There would be outrage if my 'company' paid for our christmas do! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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ours is free.but its in liverpool and i live in hampshire.but i never used to go when i lived up there.being a grumpy old cow,i prefer to socialise with friends,not colleagues |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my last employer sent us a box of mince pies which was squashed on the delivery.
They did allow £15 per head on a works night out, but since the company is open 7 days a week 363 days a year it always leaves somebody working the day of the doo and/or morning after.
I did both for 10 years. |
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We have to pay, public funds, so the employer is unlikely to pay - I don't go because I can't afford it - public funds mean long hours for little pay - after a university education and two masters degrees, just scraping by - but love my job, so would not change it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My daughters works for a small company of about 30 Last year the boss shut up shop and took them to Amsterdam for the weekend all paid for they all got a bonus aswell. I'm in the wrong job x |
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We're not going this year, don't like most of the people there and there's not a formal do, a few cliquey ones. So, instead, we are going to the Townhouse for a day event followed by a nice dinner on way home |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm available for plus one....early booking advised 
We need a new thread. I'm available too. 
You can come to mine and be my beard  "
You'd never work again!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm available for plus one....early booking advised
We need a new thread. I'm available too.
You can come to mine and be my beard
You'd never work again! "
You'll be fine. Nobody will be allowed to talk anyway |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This year I have free meal and a free room with breakfast, oh and use of all the spa facilities both night before and morning after .Only because I'm organizing it .Happy days . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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At my last job in th UK, we paid 30, but it was returned to us in gift vouchers as a Christmas present.
In the US, we had to bring in the food and had a Departmental Christmas Potluck. I just called in sick
-Courtney |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dinner & dance at a hotel in Reading is £52, includes three course meal, champagne on arrival & 1/2 bottle of wine per person.
Some at work think this is too much "
Sounds reasonable to me.
I'm lucky, I get 2 Christmas do's this year, both free including cracking hotels.
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Ours is normally £5 a head (assuming I can find somewhere doing 2 meals for a tenner, though often it has to be in January)
I normally pay for my secretary/assistant/general dogsbody, (Mrs ddc) though it depends how she does on her annual appraisal...
Mr ddc |
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"Ours is normally £5 a head (assuming I can find somewhere doing 2 meals for a tenner, though often it has to be in January)
I normally pay for my secretary/assistant/general dogsbody, (Mrs ddc) though it depends how she does on her annual appraisal...
Mr ddc"
WHAT! there's been no 'do' that I've been invited to for a couple of years!
Rushes off to get diary to book it for this year...........
Mrs DDC |
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WHAT! there's been no 'do' that I've been invited to for a couple of years!
Rushes off to get diary to book it for this year...........
Mrs DDC"
Well, you missed most of your performance targets. There's still time to pull your socks up this year if you're lucky
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WHAT! there's been no 'do' that I've been invited to for a couple of years!
Rushes off to get diary to book it for this year...........
Mrs DDC
Well, you missed most of your performance targets. There's still time to pull your socks up this year if you're lucky
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'Performance targets' don't get me started....
I'm booking a hotel as well for that insolence.
Mrs DDC |
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WHAT! there's been no 'do' that I've been invited to for a couple of years!
Rushes off to get diary to book it for this year...........
Mrs DDC
Well, you missed most of your performance targets. There's still time to pull your socks up this year if you're lucky
'Performance targets' don't get me started....
I'm booking a hotel as well for that insolence.
Mrs DDC"
See what I have to put up with Miss I?
You just can't get the staff nowadays
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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WHAT! there's been no 'do' that I've been invited to for a couple of years!
Rushes off to get diary to book it for this year...........
Mrs DDC
Well, you missed most of your performance targets. There's still time to pull your socks up this year if you're lucky
'Performance targets' don't get me started....
I'm booking a hotel as well for that insolence.
Mrs DDC
See what I have to put up with Miss I?
You just can't get the staff nowadays
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A workers revolt
Good for you Mrs ddc, give yourself a Christmas bonus too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Interesting reading that other companies ask their employees to contribute towards a Christmas party.
For years I thought that the company I work for was the only one in the UK who did such a thing, hens out of principle I never go.
It's often held at some swanky hotel or huge venue and we often have to contribute around £35 per head.
The costs don't stop there though. Drinks are limited to around 4 per person and it's often miles away from where we live/work which means expensive cab fares. Overal it's a £150-£200 expense. Fuck that shit!
What's really annoying is when see everyone with there partner and your the only single guy there. Pathetic. Another reason why I don't go. Makes me feel sorry for myself |
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For the last two years the company dragged everyone to the other end of the country on a bus where someone was actually running a quiz, dinner and two drinks tokens - any extra wine was frowned upon as excessive - plus overnight hotel
It was always dull and bitchy this atmosphere of enforced fun
I have now left! Hurrah!! |
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We do a few things. Company paid for a big knees up. I'm told by someone in finance that it's at least a £200 per head tax write off. Huge themed party for about 2000 people.
We also do team meals and various socials, most of which are paid for, or at least have donations.
I like working where I do lol.
*Him* |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I work in the public sector so not funded, it's normally around £30-£35 each for a 3 course meal in central Bristol, plus an extra £3 contribution to for coach to the restaurant. As there is normally between 70-100 of us I find the food to generally be of mediocre quality even when it's in a fairly decent restaurant so sometimes begrudge paying out. Our senior management team normally chip in for the wine again that's out of their own pocket. When I do go it's normally an early night for me as a taxi home is £60 so arrange a lift home earlier on. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I hate work Xmas parties .I choose who I want to spend my time off with .Few of us have our own get together .Always have a better time."
I'm very lucky that I work with lovely people |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I hate work Xmas parties .I choose who I want to spend my time off with .Few of us have our own get together .Always have a better time.
I'm very lucky that I work with lovely people "
Exellent I used to work with some idiots . |
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