Comments on: The Christmas Give-away

By: AngelAndriel

AngelAndriel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:40:37 +0000

I work in the marketing department and let me tell you things get dirtier during Christmas. Deans actually texting my company to DONATE lechons to their parties, asking for plane tickets etc in exchange for the fact that their students are reviewing with us ELSE I quote one dean “I’ll release the TOR of students who will review with you”.

By: Joe America

Joe America — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:10:13 +0000

Ahahaha,

Dean,

I guess our bankers’ parties were less over the top than yours. Or off with the top.

Joe

By: BongV

BongV — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:56:51 +0000

Christmas party in my hood means heading to the nearest beachfront Marriott, have great lounge/breakbeat music with the best grooves, hours d’oeuvres, variety of entrees, booze.

A friend’s company has separate parties for each department – their department will be enjoying the apertifs amidst the ice sculptures in Central FL. Another department in her company will be having theirs at Universal City Walk’s Margaritaville – for Caribbean-style cocktails and food, and live band music.

And yes, that’s for a recession year – 2009.

By: Hyden Toro

Hyden Toro — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:57 +0000

Christmas in America is Shopping till you drop. Christmas
Office Parties consist of a lot of Food Delicacies from
employees. Most of the employees come from diffetrent parts
of the world. So, its time to taste food delicacies from
almost all parts of the world. We always have Christmas parties and Christmas bonuses. Employees of other faiths celebrate Christmas with us. It is time to be Merry and not to
think what your faith is.

By: Hyden Toro

Hyden Toro — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:05:34 +0000

Reverse Engineering is widely used in the design of Equipment and
things. If it is used on other fields. You will be exposed in copying the mistakes of others. Which sometimes cannot be easily detected.

Christmas comes only once a year. We dont know if we will be still
here next Christmas. It is time to give!

By: Dean de la Paz

Dean de la Paz — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:26:32 +0000

Dear Joe,

American Christmas parties are a bit wilder than those in Manila. I remember a vice president of the company I worked for taking her top off and dancing on top of a conference table. The fact that she was in her fifties was lost to us…until the top came off.

Here, Christmas parties are like gameshows where gifts are raffled off at intermitent times so as to keep the employees from sneaking out.

Dean

By: Joe America

Joe America — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:04:06 +0000

“. . . beautifying the hopelessly ugly . . .”

Yeah, there are some things that cheap paint won’t help much. US corporations go through similar exercises this time of year, parties, bonus grantings, rabid SWOTting, and a few gifts, though I think not as elegant as here. Then in the early part of next year are the manager’s conferences aimed at pumping up the minions and pointing them in the right direction.

I rather enjoyed the activities myself. Each year gives a fresh start and a great deal of hope.

Joe