Tiff's Tips on How to Have a Successful Office Holiday Party

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning, chis good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Twenty four hours ago, I had talked about office holiday
parties here on my show, Sarah and I. Maybe you
were part of this conversation yesterday. If not, let me
remind you. Our company Christmas party was last night here
in the office, and we were just chit chatting about
kind of a do's and don't. So, now that I've
read that I've lived through the office holiday party, I

(00:25):
have the top five tip tips on how to have
a successful party, followed by the one thing you should
never do that I did multiple times last night. I'm
going to lead off with the tips that you should do.
You need to have water in between your alcoholic beverages.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm not going to be the friend you know. I'm not.
You know I know how to party.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm not going to be the friend that says, don't
drink at your office holiday party.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Just to make sure you have water in between drinks.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
At your office holiday party, like you got to be
able to get water. You have to get wrapped up
in conversation. It's easy. It's easy to get wrapped up.
You have to have a water in between your drinks.
Therefore slows you down a little bit, but you're still
having a good time. You wake up the next morning
and you're not in immediate regret. Your body's not like

(01:17):
help men. That's my number one tip on how to
manage like alcohol. Second tip has to do everything with
conversation the next few Actually, here's what I noticed about
office holiday parties is that even though you work with
these people, you don't sometimes don't really know much about them.

(01:37):
So picking out someone in the crowd that you don't
typically talk to that much or have the time to
talk to during the day could change your whole coworker trajectory.
Number one too, it makes them feel really good about themselves.
And three, you never know what's going to come from that, right,
So exam for example, there's this girl named whitname who
shout out to Whitney works usually later in the evening

(02:00):
for seven hundred Wow. I got a text message from
a different coworker of ours last night at one am
said that Whitney had gone out to karaoke with them,
and he was like, oh my god, Whitney came and
now we're like besties. That was all because we just
sparked up conversation with each other in our own office.
So look for the people you don't normally talk to,
and then you gotta schmooze a little bit. You never

(02:20):
know who you could, you know, spark a relationship with.
Next tip tip, by the way, if you're just walking
into this Caesar office holiday tips since I lived my
office holiday party last night. You have to have an
out when it comes to conversation. Let me say that again.
If conversation makes you uncomfortable, you have to have a phrase.

(02:42):
This is probably the most important thing I'm going to
say on how to get out of it. Okay, so
here's an example. Here's one that I use. You steal
these if you need to. If I'm talking to someone
and I feel like I want to bail on this
conversation or it's just dry, I say, hey, I'm gonna
go over to the bar and get a drink.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Would you like to walk with me?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
And usually it's like yeah, And by the time you
make it over to the bar, usually someone else has
joined the conversation and that's your chance to bow out.
I always have a backup conversation in mind. The other
tip I have on that one is like another one
you could use is what's a good one that I've
used yesterday?

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh? You know, I always say, remind me what your
name is?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I say that on the show all the time, because
you know, you meet a bunch of people and when
they say, hey, my name's Chuck, You're like, all right, Chuck, Well,
was so nice to meet you, and then you say,
I have to go to the next thing. You have
to have an out of a conversation. Oh you'll be
trapped there for hours. Similarly, you have to have an
in on the conversation. What's your go to question when

(03:43):
you're chatting with someone?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Mine? You steal it if you'd like, what neighborhood are
you from? What's your name? What neighborhood you from? I
say it on my show all the time. What's your name?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know now you know my tell what's your name?
What neighborhood do you live in? Have an in on
a conversation? Okay, and then take the leftover plants.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's a TIF tip right there.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
This place was filled with point setts. You wonder how
many how many point setus can fit in a Honda HRV.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I'll tell you the whole thing was full. Last night.
I walked out of here with the.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Plans all right, and then the one TIF tip that
I recommend you do not do is tell everyone in
your office that there's going to be an after party
and then not show up to it.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I was walking around here all night last night, being like,
you coming to our after party? I was like, so convinced.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Early in the night Tiffany was like, we're all going
out after this. By the end of the night, around
like I don't know, seven eight o'clock, I was like,
I'm not going out if you guys.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I need to go home. I have a job I
need to do tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
But at that point I had spread the rumor that
there was an after party at Chewice. I don't know,
Kevin from the office might still be sitting there waiting
for me to show up. All right, office holiday tips,
I love that you were here for them. Thanks checking
in for tiffmus on kiss one oh seven one, Hey,
we're still commercial free coming up.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
We're gonna do this around seven forty.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
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Speaker 1 (05:14):
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