We are thanking them very nicely already. Apparently we pay them 30% more than if they had an equivalent job in the private sector.. They can afford their own turkey and ham dinner.
We are thanking them very nicely already. Apparently we pay them 30% more than if they had an equivalent job in the private sector.. They can afford their own turkey and ham dinner.
As a real person rather than your imaginary one with multi-location capability, I think my opinion trumps your guru, Santa. Just check, once, with a real person or information source. We live in the connected digital age; the 30% figure is widely quoted, as is the 50% pay differential in the Irish Times in 2014 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/...higher-than-those-in-private-sector-1.1907313... I have seen no information to suggest the 30% differential of which you speak.
30% is a wild exaggeration , as Santa says "you better check twice "
I'm living in blissful retirement since I wrote the quoted post back in 2015. Christmas parties were shelved during Covid (except for a certain UK Prime Minister). This Christmas I understand Christmas Parties are in vogue again and started around mid November.I've learnt to avoid Christmas parties. But, I know some people enjoy them and long may they do so. Having worked most of my working life in the public service I've spent money on the annual Christmas party that could have been spent more prudently elsewhere. I've never attended a Christmas party that some uninspired manager failed to take the opportunity to ask for greater efforts in the coming year. With eyes rolling I have had to listen to that year after year and worse again I pay my money for the privilege.
I take my hat off to any employer, manager, supervisor who will show up and let the staff enjoy themselves and smile throughout and fully ignore anything untoward towards management. I know some management people have to listen to shop-talk too. Which brings me onto the employee who makes an eejit of himself/herself and I'm being mild here. In my sixties and having spent time at at least 44 work Christmas parties, I have the cop-on to keep my mouth shut. You see, there are those who go hoping that somebody will somehow leave himself down. I can't count the times I have had to play Henry Kissinger into the New Year trying to get people to apologise, forget, forgive etc.
So, if you are attending a work Christmas party, enjoy, take everything with a grain of salt. do not get offended, don't drink and drive, let and let live.
Happy Christmas to All, I hope you have a content and peaceful holiday and may the New Year bring nothing but Good to You and Yours
Hated the Christmas party because as the manager, I was always conscious of my own behaviour so didn't drink, hoped no one made me the victim of their drunken abuse and more importantly, no one got hurt, assaulted or molested. There are always one or 2 people in any office who get leary after a few.I'm living in blissful retirement since I wrote the quoted post back in 2015. Christmas parties were shelved during Covid (except for a certain UK Prime Minister). This Christmas I understand Christmas Parties are in vogue again and started around mid November.
No doubt, some member of management or staff made an eejit of himself/herself and are not looking forward to resuming work in 2024. Things get said, body language might not have been friendly and even abuse thrown. If you were one of these who went OTT it's time for apologies and a handshake. For those at the receiving end I'd ask you to accept the apologies and move on. Letting matters fester is not good for anybody. I say the foregoing as a former union rep where I had to play Peacemaker nearly every January and beyond.
I always drink at mine and I'm a manager. No fights, no abuse, no molestation. Most of the employees are from "working class" areas of North Dublin or immigrants. It's a small business though, with around 70 employees.Hated the Christmas party because as the manager, I was always conscious of my own behaviour so didn't drink, hoped no one made me the victim of their drunken abuse and more importantly, no one got hurt, assaulted or molested. There are always one or 2 people in any office who get leary after a few.
I do recall the PSNI being called to one in the North a few years ago, (not my org) after a bank party got out of hand
I'm just over cautious. in 30 years I've only ever had 2 issues to deal with and both were relatively minor but I have heard some horror stories. Can'tr be as bad as a German company who managed to give food poisining to 700 staff in December last though!I always drink at mine and I'm a manager. No fights, no abuse, no molestation. Most of the employees are from "working class" areas of North Dublin or immigrants. It's a small business though, with around 70 employees.