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At 6pm today I decided that anything that I hadn't managed to get round to already could just wait until January, shut down my work laptop and put away all of my office equipment until the new year.

(I did, in fact, have a surprisingly productive day, possibly thanks to having an early night last night and an extra hour and a quarter in bed this morning instead of going for a grey twilight walk, and have even managed to draft the paper I've been noodling vaguely about for most of this week without getting very far, so there isn't actually that much left undone after all.)

Also, prompted by (a) the news and (b) talking to someone today who said they'd cancelled their Christmas lunch in accordance with University guidance but someone had brought in some mince pies and a couple of bottles of Prosecco and they'd all gathered in an office to consume them, a poll about parties:
Poll #26457 Office parties
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43


Which of these count as a work "Christmas party"?

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Going for a prebooked meal at a restaurant
41 (95.3%)

Going for an impromptu meal at a restaurant
31 (72.1%)

Drinks and a catered buffet in the office
43 (100.0%)

Drinks and nibbles in the office, prearranged
41 (95.3%)

Drinks and mince pies in the office, brought in unofficially by a colleague
22 (51.2%)

Mince pies/chocolates left in the kitchen for people to help themselves
0 (0.0%)

Does a Secret Santa exchange automatically count as a party?

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Yes
9 (20.9%)

No
30 (69.8%)

SEWIWEIC
4 (9.3%)

Are you going (or have you been) to a work Christmas party this year?

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Yes
5 (12.8%)

I was going to but it was cancelled due to Covid
8 (20.5%)

There is one, but I'm not going due to Covid
4 (10.3%)

We normally have one, but aren't due to Covid
13 (33.3%)

No, we don't have Christmas parties where I work
9 (23.1%)

Date: 2021-12-17 07:10 pm (UTC)
telophase: (Default)
From: [personal profile] telophase
There isn't an option for "the silver lining to COVID is that neither I nor my husband have to go to our departments' Christmas parties" so I chose "not going due to COVID" as the closest option.

Date: 2021-12-17 07:11 pm (UTC)
mountainkiss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mountainkiss
Secret Santa not a party if done asynchronously or remotely, which can be done. Otherwise party.

Missing SEWIEIC for last q: work Christmas parties now fully remote, but I am not going because Christmas party.

Date: 2021-12-17 07:26 pm (UTC)
nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Default)
From: [personal profile] nineveh_uk
Seconds on Secret Santa.

Date: 2021-12-17 09:00 pm (UTC)
mountainkiss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mountainkiss

That’s another reason I didn’t go.

Date: 2021-12-17 09:59 pm (UTC)
mountainkiss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mountainkiss

You are more responsible than I.

Date: 2021-12-17 10:18 pm (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28

I'm the boss and said "not right now, team" :-)

Date: 2021-12-20 10:36 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coughingbear
I cancelled my team's planned Christmas lunch, and did not substitute a virtual party. I did manage to take them out for afternoon tea a few weeks ago when things were better, and that has had to do for this year.

Date: 2021-12-20 12:09 pm (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28

I cannot stand the idea of a virtual party, tbh, so I'll substitute a lunch in March/April once we can sit outside.

Date: 2021-12-18 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] caulkhead
mountainkiss explains this much more succinctly than I could have.

Date: 2021-12-17 07:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] joyeuce
I am a sole employee, and always work from home in this job, so the work Christmas party thing doesn't arise. I suppose I could drink mulled wine and eat mince pies and designate that my work party, but it hardly seems worth the effort.

Both my choir and a clergy spouses' Facebook group I belong to have had enjoyable Zoom parties. The FB group has also done a secret Santa, by post.

Date: 2021-12-17 07:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clanwilliam
Mine went from "I'm not going due to Covid", when I had to cancel my trip to London, so for a while there, I was cancelled due to Covid, but then the party (team lunch, actually) was too.
Edited Date: 2021-12-17 07:36 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-12-17 07:50 pm (UTC)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
Answer for that last one: was going (catered buffet in office, after-hours), was cancelled for reasons unrelated to Covid. I am thinking it's fairly likely I will not be attending the January reschedule due to Covid though.

Date: 2021-12-17 07:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Retired so I no longer have to deal with this stuff.

I have to admit that I always loathed workplace 'compulsory jollification parades' and always found ways to avoid them.

Date: 2021-12-17 08:20 pm (UTC)
lnr: Halloween 2023 (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnr
"Drinks and mince pies in the office, brought in unofficially by a colleague" is a "maybe" really, not a 100% no. If you all gather together to eat/drink at a particular time then it probably has become an impromptu party, if the colleague drops in on you in ones and twos, or just gets them out during a coffee break, then much less so.

Date: 2021-12-19 05:39 pm (UTC)
serriadh: (Default)
From: [personal profile] serriadh
Anything with drinks other than the usual tea or coffee feels “partyish” to me.

Date: 2021-12-17 08:24 pm (UTC)
adaeze: (Default)
From: [personal profile] adaeze
Putting out mince pies for people to help themselves is suitably distanced. The problem with adding a bottle is that it encourages mingling while lowering inhibitions.

Date: 2021-12-17 08:44 pm (UTC)
girlyswot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] girlyswot
In normal times we maybe have two or three in-person staff meetings in a year, one of which is in December and includes a meal in a restaurant. This year we met in early December and went to a Turkish restaurant which was excellent. We did not meet at all from March 2020 until May? June? 2021. There are 8 of us if everyone comes.

As far as I know, everything we did was completely legal and I regret not a single strawberry ginger mocktail.

Date: 2021-12-18 12:06 pm (UTC)
girlyswot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] girlyswot
Ah, yes.

Date: 2021-12-17 09:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chiasmata
All of our work Christmas parties were cancelled (thank goodness), with the exception of my PI taking five of us out for dinner at the start of the month. That sneaked in before omicron.

Date: 2021-12-17 11:39 pm (UTC)
julian: Picture of the sign for Julian Street. (Default)
From: [personal profile] julian
We are in theory having a "Secret Santa and Team building" thing on Jan 11th, for the 15 person clinical team. I sssuspect events may intervene.

Date: 2021-12-18 01:28 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] caulkhead
We were supposed to have our Christmas party yesterday, but it was cancelled last week; instead* I got an unexpected hamper delivered yesterday with biscuits, tea and other nibbles that I reckon comes out to about the value of the meal - which is a really nice gesture. No alcohol, no meat, so inclusive for everyone. Nice box, too.

*They haven't actually *said* it's instead, but it looks very like it.
Edited Date: 2021-12-18 01:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-12-18 02:21 pm (UTC)
muninnhuginn: (Default)
From: [personal profile] muninnhuginn
We've had really nice hampers for the second-year now, in place of the cancelled Xmas and summer events. Two bottles of wine and a host of nice snacks, some of which are dairy free (and I'll pretend the rest are too). I assume that were there to be non-drinkers, a variant would be offered.

The box from laast year is no the box for storing Xmas decorations. This year's may become a w.i.p. box for some knitting and embroidery projects.

Date: 2021-12-19 12:34 pm (UTC)
jinty: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jinty
Oh, that is rather good! Well done whoever did that.

Date: 2021-12-19 12:31 pm (UTC)
jinty: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jinty
For that last question I wasn't quite sure what to put: our small team did have a pre-booked Christmas meal in a restaurant, which was paid for by work & definitely counts, but I couldn't go because other medical things. It wasn't cancelled but only because it was scheduled for *just before* everything came down - other parties for other teams in our overall area were cancelled.

Date: 2021-12-20 11:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] andrewducker
Same. We had a meal in a Thai place, where there was nobody else in, and we all took lateral flows in advance.

I wouldn't do that *this* week. But a few weeks back it felt reasonable.

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