Reply to: Need a plan to avoid team Christmas meal

[DiscoStu]

I think you'll find that your colleagues would prefer that you didn't go. They only invited you out of poilteness...

[rsingh]

I think you'll find that your colleagues would prefer that you didn't go. They only invited you out of poilteness...

[Wilmslow]

Got my get out of jail free card.

The dozy git booked the evening meal on the same day that the company is having it’s staff meal.

So, she has changed the team meal for the following day.

There is no way I am going to have two work meals in a row!

All I have to say is that I already have another commitment on that date, and, sorted.

However – the devious porker has now invited the boss’s boss…………….

[SuperZ]

Hate is such a harsh word, in my entire life I`ve never met a person to hate.
Don`t take life too seriously, go along and have a laugh if you fancy having lunch with the rest of the bunch. DOn`t let one person put you off. Heck, if she annoys you just tell her she should skip desert as she`s about to tuck in while telling her it`s fattening

[DiscoStu]

I doubt Wilmslow will be able to fake having "another commitment" let alone a "wife". This would imply some sort of social life outside work, which is wholly unbelievable.

You're quite right. In this sort of scenario a hospital consultant's appointment that you've been waiting 4 months for is a good excuse that won't get questioned too much.

[Platypus]

I doubt Wilmslow will be able to fake having "another commitment" let alone a "wife". This would imply some sort of social life outside work, which is wholly unbelievable.

[Sally BFCA]

Wilmslow's an interloper (i.e. permie) so ot applicable

Sorry, I thought he/you (Wilmslow) was a Contractor amongst Contractors!

[Flubster]

On the serious side, you have a legitimate excuse if you are outside IR35. It is advisable that you do not attend company functions as you are NOT 'part and parcel' of the organisation, you are a contractor.

....If you're inside IR35, well 'they' sound like they wouldn't understand it anyway!

Wilmslow's an interloper (i.e. permie) so ot applicable

[Sally BFCA]

On the serious side, you have a legitimate excuse if you are outside IR35. It is advisable that you do not attend company functions as you are NOT 'part and parcel' of the organisation, you are a contractor.

....If you're inside IR35, well 'they' sound like they wouldn't understand it anyway!

[SorenLorensen]

Just say no. Why do you need a plan?

[DS23]

easy. you have prior commitments that evening that cannot be moved.

[RichardCranium]

The following is what I would do:

Book the afternoon off (to show what a conscientious chappie you are).

On the day, go to the pub at lunch time with some of the normal people you work with.

Get ratfaced as fast as you can.

Then at about 13:45 either everyone goes back to work or one or two dipsoes stay in the pub with me.

If everyone goes back to work just say "I just need to pop to the shop to get a wotnot - I'll catch you up" then go home. Next day deny remembering going to the pub at all.

If any dipsoes stay with you in the pub, continue to get more rat-faced.

The 4pm event problem will then magically solve itself.

[BrilloPad]

I bet she says the same about you.

[MPwannadecentincome]

if she's useless can't you give her a bad review then sack her?

[TheFaQQer]

You're a pemie - go sick.