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It’s that time of year again – office holiday parties are here. Unlike The Office‘s holiday parties, yours are a mixture of business casual dress attire, polite conversation, and trying to drink as much free alcohol as possible without hurting your professional image. While most of our holiday parties are uncomfortable, to say the least, there’s one group of employees that have it made – remote workers.
Since remote work-from-home jobs are becoming more and more popular, CEOs of these organizations have decided that they’re entitled to a Christmas party too, thank you very much. By assembling their employees via Skype, you can video conference into your holiday party and drink as much champagne as you want from the comfort of your own bed.
While there are definitely some additional perks that come with flexible scheduling, the home attendance of work gatherings absolutely takes the cake. Mandatory happy hour? No problem – grab a six pack and take your pants off. Thanksgiving dinner? No need to make a turkey; just heat yourself up some Lean Cuisine and join the fun. Mention that you’re getting up to use the bathroom and refill your wine glass four different times – no one will know!
Best of all, of things start to get awkward, all you have to do is close out of your window. Oh man, you really wanted to be present for the next hour and a half, but you were having “connection problems.” Just make sure your Netflix account isn’t connected to your Facebook account, and you’re off the hook for the rest of the evening. I’m definitely going to stick it out at my current job (at least until my holiday bonus gets direct deposited), but when I start sending out resumes again, remote work may just be my number one preference. .
[via The Atlantic]
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Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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My company Christmas party is this evening and we’re currently undergoing a merger. A ton of people are already resigned to the fact that they’re gonna get canned. I’m looking forward to shit popping off tonight.
We are definitely going to need you to write an article about this if shit gets wild.
We don’t even get a company Christmas party because everyone hates each other so much.
I work at a public university. Our “Holiday Party” was from 1PM-3PM today. It was explicitly stated that there was no booze allowed multiple times, and I am currently back at my desk because I have to finish out the work day. Moral of the story, I’ve made some terrible life choices. PGP
Yeah but how are coeds?
Are the coeds*
Should have included that. I work at an off-campus office, so I don’t even get the perk of creeping on college chicks.
My company doesn’t even have a Christmas party because it’s our “busy season” so we have some type of dinner in the spring once things “calm down.” Not looking forward to it.
CC: PostGradShibby
I might have to periscope my jam next year.
My company flies in employees from our global offices (I work at HQ) and because it’s such an ordeal it’s basically a whole week of activities with drinking each night. Turns out the limit on how many nights I can drink heavily around coworkers without telling somebody to fuck off is 3… At least I hopefully don’t have to see them until next year.
I missed my holiday party because I was in Europe. I’m not sure if I’ll ever recover.