Welcome back to the Office staff! It’s your favorite exec, BowTiedCEO and we have special holiday installment of Tales from the C Suite. Since Christmas is right around the corner, Christmas parties will be happening (or maybe not if your company is struggling). Therefore, I wanted to give you all a glimpse into one of the craziest Christmas parties I ‘ve ever been a part of.
If you ‘ve read Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, or if you’ve seen one of the hundreds of movies that have been made from that book (even the Muppets made one) then you know Scrooge was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future and I will be visited by the same, with a few twists.
So without further adieu, let’s begin.
Our tale begins at a hotel. A very large hotel, one with multiple, large all purpose rooms. These were used for weddings, events and, you guessed it, company Christmas parties.
This particular party was for all corporate employees of the company I worked for. All in, the room held 3,000 people and we filled it up.
I sat with my current department’s staff. We were a relatively small group within a larger organization so we only needed one table.
An hour or so in I make my second trip to the bar, when I am approached by a woman. A woman from my past. The day then took an interesting turn . . .