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I figured since we have a board filled with many professional people that you guys could enjoy a good laugh for the day.
My husband is a manager at a privetly owned engineering company that deals with high tech sensors and other electonics stuff (think baggage sorting scanners in all the major airports-factory emmission stuff as well as UPS/ware house stuff) and every year I look forward to getting together with his co-workers for some drinks and dinner without my son and catching up on the previous years life changes.
For the first few years it was a lovely dinner with nice wine-a fun pass the gift exchange with some sort of a lotto draw for the employees to get some high tech prizes (or not-Tim Hortons gift cards is usually what my husband wins lol) and even once-air fare for 2 in North America. I really don't care about the gifts-but I must admit since I'm a stay at home mom and my husband and I have at on of stuff to spend money on our house renos-I really look forward to a nice dinner with wine and getting my hair done and wearing a nice dress to these events.
Last year they 'changed things up' and did a murder mystery dinner thing (which was fun) and I think the president of the company really likes coming up with 'off the wall' things to do for the parties.
SO my husband comes home yesterday and says he needs my opion on something that was brought up for the Christmas party this year. I said sure-what are they planning?
He said without skipping a beat-ax throwing.
I said what?
He said ax throwing. I said WTF am I being punked? You mean like midevil ax throwing? He's like yup.
Now hear me out-I LOVE all things strange and weird. Under normal conditions I would think something like this would be super fun and would love to do it as a date with my husband for craps and giggles-but for a company Christmas party I was like ummm no.
It's not that I think its the worst idea ever (pretty close) but there are MANY spouses who this isnt' going to fly with. The company in this area isn't huge (its a world wide company but only about 30 employees at my husbands branch) and I know without a doubt that well over 50% of the employees are not going to enjoy it-nor will their SO-so much so that some them might not even come.
I guess my husband said something about this and a comment was made that it's 'not for the spouses' to which we both have an issue with. In fact-in previous years speeches to us we were told that isn't the case at all-its to thank both the employees for their hard work and to thank the spouses (since usually there are trips involoved and long hours).
It's also BYOB (I said they want us to drink and throw axes at targets?) I guess only beer and wine are allowed and they watched how much people drink
I told him flat out that this was a dumb idea and that they should change it. The place doesn't serve dinner so they are having it catered by a local BBQ joint and people don't even get to sit down and eat together. It's like a round robin-we're seperated from our SO boys vs boys girls vs girls. I guess we are taught what to do-try our hand at it-eat-and then have a competition for some IPAD or something like that.
The point of my post isn't to vent-I think the idea while unique and cool-is just not for a professional company Christmas party but figured I'd get your opinions on if YOU think its a good idea for a party or not.
I laughed and laughed and waited for my husband to say 'punked' but he never did. I then jokingly asked him if for their Calgary office if they were doing barrel racing for the party-he thought that was a hoot.
So it appears this year I'll be keeping my pretty new dress in the closet and the once a year I wear heels will be passed up for ax throwing boots.
My husband is a manager at a privetly owned engineering company that deals with high tech sensors and other electonics stuff (think baggage sorting scanners in all the major airports-factory emmission stuff as well as UPS/ware house stuff) and every year I look forward to getting together with his co-workers for some drinks and dinner without my son and catching up on the previous years life changes.
For the first few years it was a lovely dinner with nice wine-a fun pass the gift exchange with some sort of a lotto draw for the employees to get some high tech prizes (or not-Tim Hortons gift cards is usually what my husband wins lol) and even once-air fare for 2 in North America. I really don't care about the gifts-but I must admit since I'm a stay at home mom and my husband and I have at on of stuff to spend money on our house renos-I really look forward to a nice dinner with wine and getting my hair done and wearing a nice dress to these events.
Last year they 'changed things up' and did a murder mystery dinner thing (which was fun) and I think the president of the company really likes coming up with 'off the wall' things to do for the parties.
SO my husband comes home yesterday and says he needs my opion on something that was brought up for the Christmas party this year. I said sure-what are they planning?
He said without skipping a beat-ax throwing.
I said what?
He said ax throwing. I said WTF am I being punked? You mean like midevil ax throwing? He's like yup.
Now hear me out-I LOVE all things strange and weird. Under normal conditions I would think something like this would be super fun and would love to do it as a date with my husband for craps and giggles-but for a company Christmas party I was like ummm no.
It's not that I think its the worst idea ever (pretty close) but there are MANY spouses who this isnt' going to fly with. The company in this area isn't huge (its a world wide company but only about 30 employees at my husbands branch) and I know without a doubt that well over 50% of the employees are not going to enjoy it-nor will their SO-so much so that some them might not even come.
I guess my husband said something about this and a comment was made that it's 'not for the spouses' to which we both have an issue with. In fact-in previous years speeches to us we were told that isn't the case at all-its to thank both the employees for their hard work and to thank the spouses (since usually there are trips involoved and long hours).
It's also BYOB (I said they want us to drink and throw axes at targets?) I guess only beer and wine are allowed and they watched how much people drink
I told him flat out that this was a dumb idea and that they should change it. The place doesn't serve dinner so they are having it catered by a local BBQ joint and people don't even get to sit down and eat together. It's like a round robin-we're seperated from our SO boys vs boys girls vs girls. I guess we are taught what to do-try our hand at it-eat-and then have a competition for some IPAD or something like that.
The point of my post isn't to vent-I think the idea while unique and cool-is just not for a professional company Christmas party but figured I'd get your opinions on if YOU think its a good idea for a party or not.
I laughed and laughed and waited for my husband to say 'punked' but he never did. I then jokingly asked him if for their Calgary office if they were doing barrel racing for the party-he thought that was a hoot.
So it appears this year I'll be keeping my pretty new dress in the closet and the once a year I wear heels will be passed up for ax throwing boots.