Company Christmas parties.\u00a0 Love them or hate them, unless you are self-employed you probably have one coming up on your calendar.<\/p>\n
There are a few schools of thought on these events.\u00a0 Some folks say they are essentially mandatory if you want to advance at your company.\u00a0 Some folks avoid them like the plague because they DO want to advance and don’t want to put themselves in compromising positions.\u00a0 Some folks don’t go because they genuinely don’t like their coworkers and\/ or employer.\u00a0 Some folks find the party their particular employer puts on is lame, boring, or even worse.\u00a0 Some folks simply don’t like crowds in any form.\u00a0 Some folks don’t celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n
I have found myself in several of these camps over the years.\u00a0 Currently I’m blessed to be working for a great company with a lot of great coworkers.\u00a0 Our Christmas parties are pretty tame but a nice time nevertheless.\u00a0 And this year at my work party I’m going to be among the people receiving a service award – mine is for my 10 year work anniversary.<\/p>\n
10 years is by far the longest I’ve worked for any employer.\u00a0 I’m very happy to be where I am and I have spent exactly no time looking for anything else since day one.\u00a0 \u00a0I know I’m fortunate to be where I am.<\/p>\n
So yes, I’m going to my company Christmas party.\u00a0 I might have one too many cocktails and say something foolish.\u00a0 I might not get to sit by the people I want to sit by.\u00a0 I might not love the necklace I picked out for my service award.\u00a0 I might stay too late and be super crabby in the morning (have to get up early for the football game I wrote about a couple of weeks ago).\u00a0 But I’m going.\u00a0 And I encourage you to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Company Christmas parties.\u00a0 Love them or hate them, unless you are self-employed you probably have one coming up on your calendar. There are a few schools of thought on these events.\u00a0 Some folks say they are essentially mandatory if you want to advance at your company.\u00a0 Some folks avoid them like the plague because they DO want to advance and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t