This year Jake and I both had work parties to attend; after going to both of them we decided that there is a huge difference between his work atmosphere and my work atmosphere. I will explain...
Jake is currently working part time at a call center. He works with a bunch of 18-19 year-olds; a handful of people in their 20's and a few managers and such in the 40-50 age range.
Jake's work party went something like this:
The song "Shots" going on in the background while 5 girls and 5 boys did shots of eggnog, after eating 5-10 hot dogs, until they threw up. All in hopes of winning some sort of prize that was absolutely not worth it. While this was happening, all of the teenagers were jumping up and down mosh style cheering them on with their camera phones out recording all of the action.
We tried to get to know some of his co-workers a little bit better too but the only type of conversations that were going on at that party were those that in most work places would constitute sexual harassment.
Now to my work party. I work at a law firm and I'm one of the youngest employees. It's a pretty decent size company. This is the atmosphere at my work party.:
Gentle Christmas music was playing in the background and "happy hour" was in full swing at the golf country club house. We enjoyed a delicious buffet and discussed grown up topics such as the fiscal cliff. A raffle was done where we won an iPad Mini. Poker tables were set up to be played the rest of the night. Upon leaving, we were granted a door prize full of S&J memorabilia.
Very different. Both very entertaining.
He seriously hates it and I feel so bad. It means so much that he still wants to work though, he's the greatest!
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