2007-10-18 21:41:20 · 3 answers · asked by evelyn 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
My boss would have a dinner at the best restaurant in town. It was "Sunday Dress Formal". We would order a nice steak and have dinner, drink expensive drinks, and hang out. His executive secretary would buy very inexpensive gifts for the female employees and our female spouses. It generally cost the company $5000 an event for less than 40 people.
Then, when he was good and tanked, he would give a state of the company speech and thank those that worked the hardest, omitting those that did not. If you did not get the praise, it meant that you had to work harder to get it the next year. So, there you are with your spouse getting your butt chewed out by the boss, at a social setting, the week before Christmas for not working 50 hours a week (10 of which, you did not get paid for).
I found it fascinating that the boss would provoke half of his employees to want to quit (only after they got what meager bonus he doled out).
So, the last year we had this, the VP of the company (who was trying to impress everybody with his knowledge of Scotch - the reason he was VP was because he was the company snitch that told the boss who was doing what and who was showing up late for work) started ordering shots of a 25 year Scotch for himself, and a few others. I was in a position to watch what was going on (he got tanked), and the boss was fuming. There are 26 shots in a bottle and the guy and his stooges drank every one of them at $10+ a shot.
On the next Monday, the boss was furious. He was so PO'ed that we never had one again. Granted, it was a $260 bottle of scotch, but he was sitting there sucking down $50-$100 bottles of wine the whole night.
2007-10-18 23:28:00 · answer #1 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our small family owned business use to take employees and family out to a good restaurant and give small personal gifts. The attitude was kind of Ho Hum. So now, we just do a luncheon at the business for employees and give them an extra day off from work with pay. I think they prefer this.
2007-10-19 05:52:22 · answer #2 · answered by oldknowitall 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always a dinner party where everyone comes in their evening party clothes (most of girls comes in glittery clothes), chat to the people they usually chat at work anyway & talk about things they often talk about, and of course get drunk.
2007-10-18 22:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by psalm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋