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....used to blithely go along with any and all foolishness I proposed in my workplace. While doing a little tidying up, I came across some photos of moments spent at my work when I lived in the UK. My floor was a group of very highly specialised IT professionals - they were a great bunch of people and I loved my work experience in the UK.
One of the reasons I loved it so much was their absolute willingness to suspend belief, sacrifice valuable free time, and go along with any hairbrained scheme I came up with to celebrate holidays, Red Nose days, Children in Need, you name it.
We were bought by another company while I worked there, and to form some sort of feeling of workplace harmony they decided to stage an 'Office Decorating Contest' for Christmas. One of my friends suggested Christmas at Hogwarts. Now this is a group of approximately 80 people, and with the exception of very few, they all participated by dressing up on the Contest day - many spent hours after work decorating.
The prize was a no-expense-spared champagne breakfast for the entire group, but by the time the judges came by, we didn't really care - we were having too much fun. We didn't win - a much smaller group won, but a group of consultants from Germany who worked with us had such fun they decided to give us that Champagne breakfast anyway.
I was flooded with memories when I found these, and wanted to share a few pics with you. Mind you, on other years, we did The Grinch, we hosted a 50's party, a 20's murder mystery, a Riverboat casino, Mardi Gras (complete with dubloons and beads) and scores of other things, and each time, this huge group of people listened to my silly ass idea and went, "Okay!"
( WARNING!! Major, MAJOR picspam beneath the cut )
One of the reasons I loved it so much was their absolute willingness to suspend belief, sacrifice valuable free time, and go along with any hairbrained scheme I came up with to celebrate holidays, Red Nose days, Children in Need, you name it.
We were bought by another company while I worked there, and to form some sort of feeling of workplace harmony they decided to stage an 'Office Decorating Contest' for Christmas. One of my friends suggested Christmas at Hogwarts. Now this is a group of approximately 80 people, and with the exception of very few, they all participated by dressing up on the Contest day - many spent hours after work decorating.
The prize was a no-expense-spared champagne breakfast for the entire group, but by the time the judges came by, we didn't really care - we were having too much fun. We didn't win - a much smaller group won, but a group of consultants from Germany who worked with us had such fun they decided to give us that Champagne breakfast anyway.
I was flooded with memories when I found these, and wanted to share a few pics with you. Mind you, on other years, we did The Grinch, we hosted a 50's party, a 20's murder mystery, a Riverboat casino, Mardi Gras (complete with dubloons and beads) and scores of other things, and each time, this huge group of people listened to my silly ass idea and went, "Okay!"
( WARNING!! Major, MAJOR picspam beneath the cut )
