What does your office do for Christmas?

[mallcat]

We usually go out for lunch somewhere nice one day, and then we have a gift exchange/lunch on Christmas eve. (We draw names). We are all required to work Christmas Eve because I work in retail management.

 

[aimee11621]

Close the office out and have a nice gift exchange!

Last year we order tons of chinese food. The year before that we ordered from a Tony Romas' (rib place)

Sometimes we bring deserts or goodies to eat!

My boss is jewish!! But he love to eat and enjoys Christmas just as much a we do!

 

[stinkerbelle]

not a dang thing.

big companies suck

 

[DVC-Don]

Put a tree up in the waiting room, but no celebrations. Used to, but someone complained.

 

[laurajetter]

We have a secret santa gift exchange. A few weeks prior we pull a name out of a box and we have a $20 spending limit (you're not required to participate, but you just wouldn't receive a gift). You can either get a large gift worth $20, or use some of that money to buy little stocking stuffers that you sneak into your person's mailbox or desk when they're not looking and then use the remaining money to get a bigger gift for the final exchange.

It's a lot of fun!

-Laura

 

[Minnesota!]

Pretend it doesn;t exist.

I agree with Stinkerbelle - big companies suck.

However, my mom works for a big company (Ecolab) and their CEO is Jewish. They have HUGE Christmas celebrations. I don't understand the PC-ness of this world. People worry so much about offending other cultures - what about the Christians you are offending by shooting down Christmas???

 

[jeleebeene]

The company as a whole usually has a huge party for the employees.

My department draws names and buys that person a gift and then we have a dinner/gift exchange the week before Christmas. It is a nice time to visit in a non-stressful environment and have fun.

 

[WDWLVR]

Company wide we have one big lunch - usually out of the office.

The front office (where I work) does a pot luck lunch with a gift grab bag. Always a lot of fun.

Finally our smaller group does a small ($5) secret santa exchange.

 

[septbride2002]

They release us from our cubicles.

~Amanda

 

[2BOYMOM]

Our company (large company) doesn't do anything - it isn't PC and they might offend someone.

But, my department does a type gift exchange (everyone brings a gift and we play the game where first person gets a gift, second person can either pick another gift or take the first person's gift, etc. Lots of fun!) and we either order pizza or all bring in food. Also, my boss and his wife have a very nice party for our department at their house.

 

[DISshopkeeper]

We work harder. It's retail!

There's always a nice lunch. It's just hard to find a minute to eat it!!!

 

[Amberle3]

Well since I'm self-employed, I have myself a nice party

In the agency that I worked at before we had a party where we were required to bring a gift for an exchange game - the gifts were put in a pile and each person drew a number, number 1 picked a gift, number 2 could either pick a gift from the pile or take #1's gift. I hate that game - if I have a gift in my hands, I want to keep it. We also did a quick little city tour to look at the lights (since I had just done one of my own with my own clients 2 nights prior I knew what the tour was supposed to be, and we only saw maybe 1/4 of it). They did some giveaways on the bus which consisted of things that had been given to them during the year.

My DFi used to work for a government department (US) when they decided it wasn't PC to have a "christmas tree". Instead they had a - no word of a lie - "non-demoninational holiday shrub".

 

[helenabear]

absolutely nothing...

people complained one year at Easter about decorations and all that... by the time Christmas came around, nothing was ever done.

Then again our company got cheap and took away our Holiday/Winter parties (non-denominational)... we did a gift exchange one year amongst ourselves (all in our group decided to exchange, Christian or not) and got together at our supervisor's house. We exchanged office supplies since we had to pay for them.

Haven't done one since...

 

[candykisses]

Our entire company has a luncheon the second Thursday in December.

I leave gifts for our group on Dec 6 from St Nicholas.

There is a gift exchange on Christmas Eve along with snacks and then the company closes at 1:00, buts pays us till 4:30.

 

[OhMari]

Nada!

We don't even put up decorations!

 

[SnowAngel]

There is usually x-mas parties for each unit. We also have a children's x-mas party. Then we get a week off on either x-mas or new years.

 

[crz4mm2]

I work in a multi specialty health clinic.
The clinic hosts a Christmas party with dinner and awards etc.
Our dept has a pot luck lunch and we draw names. We also each have a stocking and the week before xmas everyone puts some small thing (think pack of gum etc) in each others stockings. It is fun.

 

[powellrj]

I office I work out of now always has a nice office party the last friday before christmas with a catered dinner and a gift exchange, but I am changing offices on Monday and I don't think my new office does anything....

 

[luvwinnie]

We rent a room in a restaurant and NO ONE wants to go...you can see us all trying to think of excuses at this time of year.