It's one thing to make slobby engineers hire tuxedos for a holiday party, as Yahoo's London management is doing. And, if the alternative is
a reject act from American Idol, the show at the internet giant's Bay Area party, then it may be best to skip the entertainment. But never, at least not in hard-drinking England, skimp on the free bar. It's a cultural thing. An outraged local, after the jump:
Further to your post about the piss-poor Yahoo Christmas party in the US, the Yahoo London Christmas party is by all indications going to be an order of magnitude worse. No entertainment has been booked for the party, and the venue that has been booked rather brilliantly has a capacity of 500 (there are 750 employees in London). Even better, the company isn't even putting its hand in its pockets deep enough to pay for drinks all night - there is apparently a 'limited fund' behind the bar (does not apply to Champagne), and once that has expired, us worker bees have to buy our own drinks all night. Oh and also, after complaints that last year's party 'theme' of black tie was uninspired and boring, this year's theme is Casino Royale. Or 'black tie', if you prefer.
As a result, the engineering department's pretty much boycotting our own Christmas party, and spending the money we're expected to spend hiring a tuxedo on booze in a half-decent bar instead. Some might point out that this is all a pretty good metaphor for the state that Yahoo is currently in, but I wouldn't be so unkind, no sir.
Valleywag
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I bet the UKYahoo!ers could pick up Pete Doherty and Babyshambles on the cheap...beats Chris Daughtry and his lame-o cover band AI shenanigans...if Petey is not completely wigged out...
Carry-o-key should be an option. I know some Korean girls that can co-host
Yay! This is the stuff I hang out here for! Finally, a real story.
Babyshambles would be a 50-50 show/no-show. Why not go the whole way and hire RockBitch for your corporate do? NOBODY would forget them.
Or maybe they can have Jordan & Peter Andre and they can sing 'A Whole New World' for Yahoo inspiration. ;-)
Well, I'm going. Less engineers = more booze for the rest of us. And dodging the Chris Dougher-whatever gig in the states is Xmas present enough for me.
when a company's staff dwells so much on the xmas party you know it's time to really re-think things ...
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