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.
I didn’t because the party was loud, ambiguity wasn’t on my side and internal politics are still really hard for me to navigate. The company has bigger issues.
I did call it when more inappropriate things from happening but that was 15 years ago. Not super keen on how things unfolded but I did get bad people fired more than once.