Office Holiday Stuff
Dec. 5th, 2006 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI just got word that my division's holiday party is set for next Monday, 1-5 PM. I have no excuse not to attend: it's during business hours in the conference rooms in my own data center. I'm sure management will be taking notes who attends.
It's not that it'll be a horrible event but I'm not fond of office socials, especially mandatory socials. My professional relationships are not the same as my family relationships or friendships: I prefer to keep them separate. Events designed to manipulate one into another feel unnecessary invasive into my otherwise normally ordered world. Still, when the time comes, I'll grin & be appropriately cheery, partake in the food & beverages and schmooze as needed. Once I'm sure all the appropriate levels of management have noted my attendance, I can slip away quietly.
In other news, my employer is doing a toy collection for local charities. This year, a large tree is in the lobby of our building, decorated with tags; each tag is from a child in a shelter or who uses a food bank who describes what they'd like for a holiday present. Employees are invited to take a tag from the tree, obtain the gift, attach the tag to it, and place the wrapped gift under the tree by next Wednesday for delivery to the child. We've always done a gift drive, but I think this is the most elegant, best organized and labor-free mechanism used thus far. It certainly beats having volunteers trapping people in their cubes asking for cash donations.
It's not that it'll be a horrible event but I'm not fond of office socials, especially mandatory socials. My professional relationships are not the same as my family relationships or friendships: I prefer to keep them separate. Events designed to manipulate one into another feel unnecessary invasive into my otherwise normally ordered world. Still, when the time comes, I'll grin & be appropriately cheery, partake in the food & beverages and schmooze as needed. Once I'm sure all the appropriate levels of management have noted my attendance, I can slip away quietly.
In other news, my employer is doing a toy collection for local charities. This year, a large tree is in the lobby of our building, decorated with tags; each tag is from a child in a shelter or who uses a food bank who describes what they'd like for a holiday present. Employees are invited to take a tag from the tree, obtain the gift, attach the tag to it, and place the wrapped gift under the tree by next Wednesday for delivery to the child. We've always done a gift drive, but I think this is the most elegant, best organized and labor-free mechanism used thus far. It certainly beats having volunteers trapping people in their cubes asking for cash donations.
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:49 pm (UTC)How good is the food?
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 05:27 pm (UTC)