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Team Captain [476]
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Some genius at my wife's work
Oct 5, 2017, 7:19 AM
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Has decided that for the second time in 3 years to have a christmas party the same night as the ACC CG. Jesus H christ these people don't get it.
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I bought my tickets back in August
Oct 5, 2017, 7:25 AM
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To the acc cg not to your wife's work party
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Heisman Winner [120864]
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Yeah, my niece scheduled her wedding last year
Oct 5, 2017, 7:27 AM
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On ACC CG day, and her dad is a Clemson grad! She even scheduled it 10 months ahead.....the Gall!
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Hopefully she won't do it again this year.***
Oct 5, 2017, 8:30 AM
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Simple solution...
Oct 5, 2017, 7:32 AM
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Don’t go.
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Team Captain [476]
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Re: Simple solution...
Oct 5, 2017, 7:35 AM
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Possible solution. They usually throw like $10k parties for only 20 people so it's well worth it to go. The 2015 one was at the ritz on amelia island during our ACCCG with UNC. That hotel sucked dink and only had 1 tv in their little hotel bar that many people were crowded around. This one is dt charleston..not sure if the bar has TV's but I may have to make an early exit. And by early I mean before dinner even gets started
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Call the hotel and ask if the bar has TVs
Oct 5, 2017, 7:48 AM
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Telephones were invented along time ago
Did I do it right Obed®?
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Ask if Amanda Huginkiss is there***
Oct 5, 2017, 7:51 AM
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I needa Seymore Butts!***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:03 AM
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Team Captain [476]
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Re: Call the hotel and ask if the bar has TVs
Oct 5, 2017, 7:52 AM
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Did you know when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he had 3 missed calls from chuck norris?
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Thats the damm truth***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:42 AM
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When time permits, I keep them on the phone as long as
Oct 5, 2017, 10:58 AM
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possible, asking if every individual piece of the car is covered.
They finally stopped calling.
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Oculus Spirit [76104]
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I get them and one other company that always ask for
Oct 5, 2017, 11:00 AM
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Nicole. I rarely had issues with spam calls to the cell phone until a few weeks ago. Some ##### went overboard giving out my number.
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Team Captain [476]
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Re: I get them and one other company that always ask for
Oct 5, 2017, 11:02 AM
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I only ever get calls from those f'n telemarketers who spoof phone numbers
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I would make absolutely certain that you are wearing your
Oct 5, 2017, 8:34 AM
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I'M NOT A REAL FAN t-shirt when you go to this silly party.
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The company should do away with this Christmas party and
Oct 5, 2017, 8:36 AM
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just pay everyone a bonus. Then you can use that bonus to go to the ACCCG.
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Thats what my company does***
Oct 5, 2017, 8:45 AM
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Same with mine and I wouldn't have it any other way***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:12 AM
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Re: Same with mine and I wouldn't have it any other way***
Oct 5, 2017, 9:43 AM
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Xmas gifts and my HOA dues are always covered
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I've never had a Christmas bonus.
Oct 5, 2017, 9:17 AM
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Usually any bonus I have gotten show up in May-July.
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WE GET ONE TOMORROW
Oct 5, 2017, 9:19 AM
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In lieu of a raise this year. I am expecting mine to be between $250 and $400. I am starting to hate this place.
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That is so cheap.
Oct 5, 2017, 9:24 AM
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The world has gotten so cheap. When I was 15 close to 30 years ago I was a bus boy at a somewhat nice touristy restaurant in Honolulu. My Christmas bonus was 200 dollars. The waiters got 400 dollars. They had all been there for years though generally.
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I probably haven't been to a company Christmas gig in
Oct 5, 2017, 8:59 AM
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a LONG time. For many years, the company would have a buffet dinner on a Tuesday night in early December at the Winthrop Coliseum, everyone would dress up in their Sunday best and eat like slophogs and there was NO alcohol, then the ancient president would stand up and give a financial overview of the company's past year in an hour long monotone. The finale would usually be some washed up hack entertainer that could be rented for a couple of hundred bucks. I went maybe my first two years with the company, and then never again.
About 15 years ago, they decided to make the Christmas party a casual drop-in after work at the Baxter Hood Center at York Tech, with heavy hors d'oeuvres created by the finest chefs in the entire School District 3 cafeteria community. And again NO alcohol, not wanting to risk offending Jesus and having the wrath of angry old testament God smiting everyone on the way home, I mean. The gala was replete with glorious door prizes from Dollar Tree, and sprinkled liberally with the festive glitter of company propaganda. The typical entertainment would be a local party band slogging their way through Christmas tunes that they had obviously put in a long hard 30 minutes practicing the night before. I went ONCE when they changed the format, and based on the experience of the previous galas at Winthrop, my wife refused to go at all.
Last year, they decided that since the elder generation that had been running the company for 60 years had all died or were dying that the money for a Christmas party was probably better spent on bonuses or lavish vacations for the new generation of the family ownership/management group. And honestly, it is most likely money better spent.
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Oculus Spirit [81949]
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I'm surprised places even do company sponsored Christmas
Oct 5, 2017, 9:16 AM
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parties anymore. I haven't worked anywhere in 10 years that does.
Clemson did a departmental lunch at the Madren center. Not bad.
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Didn't know hookers had Christmas parties.***
Oct 5, 2017, 7:59 AM
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We won the Natty on my daughter's birthday
Oct 5, 2017, 8:40 AM
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Me and wife went to the game. Sent the kids to the grandparents.
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Team Captain [476]
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Re: We won the Natty on my daughter's birthday
Oct 5, 2017, 8:44 AM
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In the Mange you didn't say it was just a ....
Oct 5, 2017, 8:50 AM
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work Christmas party. That chnges everything. I thought your wife was throwing one. That's a no brainer. Bag the party.
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Re: In the Mange you didn't say it was just a ....
Oct 5, 2017, 8:52 AM
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people throw non-work christmas parties?
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I get invited to a dozen every year.
Oct 5, 2017, 9:09 AM
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I try to avoid them though.
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Oculus Spirit [79708]
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When was it that you realized you hate the holidays?
Oct 5, 2017, 9:24 AM
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Was around 2010 or so for me.
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When I was about 12 years old and got a drumset
Oct 5, 2017, 9:37 AM
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I was sooo excited to wake up at 7 a.m. to see a real Ludwig set with Ziljans and all the accessories, but my dad made me swore not to play them until later in the day.
I couldn't' resist, though. I started banging on those drums and woke my parents up.
Lo and behold, my dad took me out in the yard and beat me senseless with a set of rusty jumper cables.
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Re: When was it that you realized you hate the holidays?
Oct 5, 2017, 9:46 AM
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Probably the year after I graduated college. My wife calls me a scrooge every year. She just called me a scrooge today as I complained about the dating for this dumb party
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Oculus Spirit [79708]
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My wife came around to my way of thinking last year as we
Oct 5, 2017, 10:11 AM
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sat on I-95 in gridlock traffic on Christmas day trying to get home. We get a week off from work, and we spend it sitting in traffic in various areas of the state of South Carolina. Not enjoyable.
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when i was a kid christmas day was the exact same every year
Oct 5, 2017, 10:22 AM
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wake up and open gifts
scramble to pack the car
drive to columbia for family lunch
scramble to pack the car
drive to Williston for family dinner
spend night and come home at some point
it alternated every year which place we went first, but i never got more than an hour to check out my toys before it was hit the road time.
i refuse to drag my kids through that. i am trying really hard to get all the family on the we are at our house and if you wanna see the grand kids, yeah c'mon.
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Oculus Spirit [79708]
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That sounds pretty miserable, and I don't blame you
Oct 5, 2017, 10:36 AM
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Luckily my grandparents lived close, we'd go over there on Christmas eve, spend time with fam, and be home all day Christmas. I'm just glad neither of our parents are divorced, I know peeps who have to make 3-4 different stops. I'd be cutting ties with some of them.
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i didn't realize it was until i finally got to stay home
Oct 5, 2017, 10:48 AM
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luckily her parents and mine are right here now.
i just wanna cook a turkey on my BGE and spike the egg nog and have a good time without going anywhere
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That would make it a little bit better
Oct 5, 2017, 10:19 AM
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My biggest problem with Thanksgiving and Christmas is the travel and entire days spent off of work at someone else's house eating their cooking that I don't necessarily like, with people I see 4-5 times a year tops. Otherwise we have no interaction. What is the point in this? I don't mind eating with mine or my wife's parents and siblings, but once we start involving uncle's, aunt's, cousins, and people we're not even sure we're related to I think it gets excessive and unnecessary.
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Agreed; thats too much.
Oct 5, 2017, 10:38 AM
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I finally have talked my mom into not cooking for us and everyone just going out to eat.
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imma halp you out
Oct 5, 2017, 9:32 AM
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Dong dive the poo until she cant walk. Now you're off the hook for the party.
Leave her home and hookers/blow/acccg/profit.
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Over the years I've explained to my coworkers and bosses...
Oct 5, 2017, 10:23 AM
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that I celebrate the Lord's birth, death, resurrection and ascension everyday. I can't get all worked up one day a year and figure my dedication is all paid up. I don't do pagan.
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F that noise, I see these idiots enough during the week.
Oct 5, 2017, 12:11 PM
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You're not getting my weekend too. And you're sure as ##### not getting a Saturday during football season.
And i bought my ACCCG tix Sunday after the Lewisville game.
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