(December 7, 2022 at 3:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(December 7, 2022 at 3:00 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Is attendance mandatory? My company function isn't, but I didn't attend last year due to Covid restrictions. Most everyone didn't attend, but this year, I need to make the effort. 

Your boss treating you well, and the fact that you like her ...that can outweigh a lot, imo. I do get along quite well with everyone and my boss, and just received a great annual review...so, in my case, not going would make stress more. lol

Bold mine - I agree.

No, it's not mandatory but we have been in COVID mode since I started working there (actually here, but you know what I mean) so gatherings have been limited.  I will probably go but will bow out when it seems to okay to do so.

I've been retired since 2014.

I won't be going to my company's Xmas party, because the boss is an asshole.

(December 10, 2022 at 5:45 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:

(December 7, 2022 at 3:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Bold mine - I agree.

No, it's not mandatory but we have been in COVID mode since I started working there (actually here, but you know what I mean) so gatherings have been limited.  I will probably go but will bow out when it seems to okay to do so.

I've been retired since 2014.

I won't be going to my company's Xmas party, because the boss is an asshole.

I’m self-employed. I never attend work social functions because my boss is also a tool.

Boru

(December 10, 2022 at 5:45 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:

(December 7, 2022 at 3:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Bold mine - I agree.

No, it's not mandatory but we have been in COVID mode since I started working there (actually here, but you know what I mean) so gatherings have been limited.  I will probably go but will bow out when it seems to okay to do so.

I've been retired since 2014.

I won't be going to my company's Xmas party, because the boss is an asshole.

I also retired in 2014. Some of my supervision was of the anal persuasion. Well, most of them. I've never taken the time to see any of my co-workers, except for some who were peers and friends.

(December 10, 2022 at 5:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(December 10, 2022 at 5:45 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I've been retired since 2014.

I won't be going to my company's Xmas party, because the boss is an asshole.

I’m self-employed. I never attend work social functions because my boss is also a tool.

Boru

That's no way to talk about your wife!

(December 7, 2022 at 10:26 am)*Deidre* Wrote: Just how much I've changed since the Covid lockdowns, and don't really like crowds...so, mildly dreading my company holiday party this month. 

Deidre reappeared and none of you bastards told me!!

(December 10, 2022 at 12:10 am)Jehanne Wrote: The Vikings never wore horned helmets; the first historical reference to such was from Richard Wagner’s 19th century opera Der Ring des Nibelungen.

(December 10, 2022 at 7:20 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(December 7, 2022 at 10:26 am)*Deidre* Wrote: Just how much I've changed since the Covid lockdowns, and don't really like crowds...so, mildly dreading my company holiday party this month. 

Deidre reappeared and none of you bastards told me!!

Not a bastard by about mumble mumble months. It's on your own lookout when members return, dear. 

(December 10, 2022 at 9:37 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(December 10, 2022 at 7:20 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Deidre reappeared and none of you bastards told me!!

Not a bastard by about mumble mumble months. It's on your own lookout when members return, dear. 

I'm feeling like examples have to be made again
...

in air traffic control, the process of resolving conflicts between different aircrafts attempting to use the same block of air space is called, what else, “deconfliction”.

(December 11, 2022 at 12:39 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(December 10, 2022 at 9:37 pm)Fireball Wrote: Not a bastard by about mumble mumble months. It's on your own lookout when members return, dear. 

I'm feeling like examples have to be made again
...

I returned just in time.