🍺 PUB TEST: Would You Go To Your Work Christmas Party Just To Show Face?

Does going to the Christmas party just to show face pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Jam Ny it's Christmas party time at work, not showing
your face that the Christmas party does it pass the
pub test. There's a little bit of judgment from myself
when you're talking about the Christmas party and you say
you're going to the Christmas party and they say no, no,
want to go, and you think, oh, what a curmudget,
what a cranky pants.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's hard, isn't it? Because a lot of stuff goes
on at the Christmas party, which is why it can
be great fun. But because of that, a lot of
people don't want to go but feel they should. We're
at that kind of thing. There's an article in the
Herald today where they're talking about this and someone said
I want to skip the event, and others feel the
same way. But we're worried we'll be seen as difficult,
We'll be seen as up ourselves and curmudgeonly and prudish

(00:38):
if we don't. That's my reading of events. If we
don't go, I'm putting words.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
With Christmas party, though, is a work event if you
go on with the mindset that it's a work event.
But with free booze, I'm very mindful of how I
behave at Christmas party. I'm very mindful about who I
If I've got something on my chest that I want
to get off my chest, I don't tell executives that
I don't get into trouble. I just keep my pie
home shut and I'm very wind.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Sure you're just good fun at a Christmas I do.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
And because you know the years over all, all that
bad feelings are done, whatever happened throughout the year. To me,
it's just it's a book ends, you know. I like
the book ends. So it's a closing of that year.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
If you're a party guy, you have fomo you need
to be at these things. How do you feel showing up,
actually showing your face at the Christmas party? Does it
pass the pub test?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Whilst I think at this timing they're painful and they
are really a chore to go to, it normally turns
out to be a really good nut. So to me,
showing you face for the Christmas party or.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Reckon it passes the pub test.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
You don't have to go if you don't want to.
You're an adult. Do what you want, when you want,
how you want. I think it passes a pub test.
I mean you work so hard all year with everyone,
and then you know, even if you've had a not
so great year, at least you can score free alcohol
that your business pay for. There's always a bonus, so
why not.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
There's always no naval shots this year, though.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm not in the navy. And then