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Office Parties Feel the Chill

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Re: Office Parties Feel the Chill

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Post by lancebeet »

gubby wrote: post #13

This article seems to be sponsored by Escape the Room, whatever that is, with its own ad-style paragraph. "A less philanthropic but still debauchery-free experience can be had at Escape the Room, an interactive game site where as many as 10 people are shut in a room and have one hour to solve a puzzle..." Could be an example of the pay-per-mention market (there was an article about this last week on HN)

Escape rooms have become quite common and they're provided by many different actors. Given how many there are on Manhattan alone it's difficult to pinpoint exactly which one they mean. If this is advertisement, it's not money well spent.

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Post by Sholmesy »

bertil wrote: post #20

I actually like Christmas party (it helps I was working for great companies and with colleagues I actually like and I don’t go out as much as I’d like). I didn’t stay very long this year because I had other things to do, but one thing that surprised me was to hear one of my male colleague objectifying his direct reports (female and married). I have had until then the odd chance of only noticing offensive comments fro…

Did you call him up on it? You don't have to be aggressive/self-righteous about it to let someone know what they are saying is not ok.

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Post by fredley »

cluoma wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s. I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been…

Absolutely this. At a place I worked previously, due to a tight budget, instead of doing the sensible thing and not having a party (or letting teams organise their own smaller bashes), the company cheaped out and rented a basement somewhere into which we barely all fitted. It was cramped, noisy and expensive. One employee got drunk and had a fist fight with the restaurant management after knocking down the sliding wall between us and the next room of 'revellers'. It was totally grim, but all in the name of being the kind of company that has Christmas parties. I handed in my notice the next day iirc.

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icebraining wrote: post #11
notliketherest wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're digging into a topic I've inquired about many times. I've never received any response from any admin. Ironically my submission was flagged itself for asking why certain articles were flagged and hidden. See here Ask HN: Why are “Google memo” links being flagged and hidden? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14994180

dang replied to you in that thread: the flags are coming from the users. So what exactly are you expecting more? Mind-reading the motivations of individual flaggers?

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Post by ringaroundthetx »

Swinx43 wrote: post #17
cluoma wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s. I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been…

It is not your inner-millenial, there are many people that feel this way. Christmas parties in general give me the creeps. I would also prefer a Christmas bonus instead of needing to talk to colleagues that slowly (sometimes not so slowly) get inebriated and make some form of fools of themselves. Christmas parties feel forced to me. A legacy of time gone by that people cling to for some reason.

Legacy? They were always contrived lol

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Post by matt4077 »

gubby wrote: post #13

This article seems to be sponsored by Escape the Room, whatever that is, with its own ad-style paragraph. "A less philanthropic but still debauchery-free experience can be had at Escape the Room, an interactive game site where as many as 10 people are shut in a room and have one hour to solve a puzzle..." Could be an example of the pay-per-mention market (there was an article about this last week on HN)

You should really come up with something credible before accusing the New York Times of corruption.

In addition to the flaws pointed out in sibling comments, I'd add that there is a difference between a NYT staff journalist, and a free contributor writing something for the likes of Mashable.

And even if NYT coverage could be bought, I doubt that "Escape the Room" could afford it.

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Post by cylinder »

cluoma wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s. I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been…

I used to think so but my office party (100 employees) this year was really good and a great icebreaker. We're all friendlier at the office now.

I think it just brings your office culture to the forefront. If there's tension and negative vibes already present, your party will be unpleasant.

I can't imagine one party for a huge corporation (like 1000 people). That's just awkward. It should be broken down to divisions if so.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

lancebeet wrote: post #21
gubby wrote: post #13

This article seems to be sponsored by Escape the Room, whatever that is, with its own ad-style paragraph. "A less philanthropic but still debauchery-free experience can be had at Escape the Room, an interactive game site where as many as 10 people are shut in a room and have one hour to solve a puzzle..." Could be an example of the pay-per-mention market (there was an article about this last week on HN)

Escape rooms have become quite common and they're provided by many different actors. Given how many there are on Manhattan alone it's difficult to pinpoint exactly which one they mean. If this is advertisement, it's not money well spent.

What is the business structure, though? Are all "escape rooms" independent operations, or are they more of a franchise?

I was curious about the "Escape Room" phrase itself - it sounds like a brand, but I did an USPTO search for a trademark, and surprisingly, there's like a metric ton of ones matching ".* ESCAPE ROOM .*".

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Post by throwaway2016a »

cluoma wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s. I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been…

My company does the holiday party during the work day so we all get the day off. I'm pretty sure I would be upset if it started at 6:00 PM and attendance was mandatory.
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