For Those Of You Who Work, Is Your Boss Paying For Your Christmas 'Do'?

[Treacle71]

We work for bosses who are loaded, yet we (admin staff) have to pay £25 each for our 'do'.  We're not sure that we should. 

Anyway, what is your workplace doing for Christmas?

[Old_Geezer]

Is a 'Christmas Do' a part of your working contract ? If so, point out that the company is obliged to provide it.

[Treacle71]

Very good point, Old_Geezer.  

[Redhelen72]

No I have never had a job where the boss pays for it!

They MAY put some money behind the bar to buy a round of drinks but I would not expect my boss to pay for my christmas do!!

I thought you were an agency worker? so do you mean the boss of the agency or your placement boss?

[THECORBYLOON]

How many employment contracts include a reference to the employer paying for Christmas parties???

[Canary42]

No, I've never worked at any place where the boss funds the Christmas do.

Admittedly one boss did arrange a discount for all of us at his Golf Club, but the meal was grim and the ambience bleak 🙄. 

[youngmafbog]

Been to many fully paid for do's as a contractor but then I worked in Banking.

You dont have to go so dont.  Who wants to spend their hard earned to mix with many people you would rather not socialise with anyway?

[Hazlinny]

Most have been where staff all chipped in with boss/es donating the drinks.  Same if it was a Xmas meal at a pub/restaurant.

[vulcan42]

Not many years ago my boss invited senior and admin staff to a Christmas lunch at a local hotel. We thought this most generous as it hadn't happened before. After lunch, he made a small speech urging us on to greater things next year and then left. His secretary then came round to collect money to pay for the meal. Adding insult to injury, we asked the hotel staff how much did they charge per head and discovered it was less than what we had donated. We assume our boss had wangled a free meal for himself.

[barry1010]

I have always had to pay for my Christmas do.  If you don't want to pay you don't have to go

[ToraToraTora]

Yeah we get a pony a head for the official bash.

[-SharonA-]

£25 that's cheap!! When I worked I can remember paying over £35!!!!

[ToraToraTora]

we don't pay that we get allocated that for the dept to organise a bash.

[bhg481]

I worked at large government scientific establishments all my working life. The works canteen always did a Christmas meal, which you had to pay for if you wanted to go. Some local heads of sections laid on a buffet at their own expense for all their staff.

[Countrylover]

Years and years ago most large companies organised free Christmas doos, usually dances.  But then those were the days where coffee breaks were common and tea and coffee and biscuits, even cakes, were brought round on  trollies morning and afternoon.  And there were canteens with subsided meals.  And there were Christmas parties with gifts for staff's kids.  But those days have gone.

I must admit at the last place I worked in 2004 we had free lunches of amazing variety and a staff coffee lounge for after lunch!!  

[Countrylover]

The last place I worked was government linked and subsidised

[Countrylover]

Subsidised meals!!

[roopower]

I worked in a private school for a year. The head was loaded, the staff small in numbers and he paid for the Christmas meal. Afterwards he said that was the last time as it had cost him a fortune, mainly in alcohol! That was the year I discovered green chartreuse - I wasn't the only one!

[THECORBYLOON]

"Years and years ago most large companies organised free Christmas doos"

 

Free Christmas pigeons?

[Hazlinny]

Treacle, what is the £25 actually for - party in office, meal out, etc?  Is it part-payment or total payment?  Considering the price of Christmas meals these days, £25 must surely be a part-payment?

[Treacle71]

OMG, vulcan42!!