Depends a lot on what happens at the party and how many people get fired for it the next day...

These are the only parties I don`t drink at.  (And before you ask, of course I drank at my kid`s birthday parties.  How the hell else do you get through them?)

Hated them. They just turned out to be another place for office camps to regroup.

Hey I can have fun with anyone,an open bar and a fat santa that will let me sit on his lap..I just don't like the secret santa thing.

If I wanted to socialize with you outside of work, I would have initiated that at some earlier point. I spend enough time with you, and hate feeling forced into participating in lame-ass "Secret Santas" and pot luck meals. This is one of my biggest peeves about the holidays.

I know, we can have a RIA Christmas; we can have cage matches for reviewers who want to discuss politics, have a soundproof room for people to stop in and enjoy new babies . . . but I'm staying the hell away from the spa  . . .

CS law #78- Never, ever drink to excess at the office party.  DC-types (half of whom are self-loathing types anyways) can't help but drink to excess at the Xmas party and you can really enjoy the show caused by certain people if you wait long enough. . .but it's great theater for me. . .

These can be fun...especially after Jan is caught with Steve in the guest room while Jan and Steve's spouses are downstairs pretending they were NOT flirting with each other, as "White Christmas" plays and the cops arrive.

There is nothing like having to spend two months planning some Christmas party that no one really wants to go to, to go to the Christmas party and find everyone drunk, one of the bosses puking in someone's bedroom, and another boss hanging off one of his co-workers like it was get-lucky hour at the local strip joint.  You sit around talking to people that you alraedy talk too enough, giving impersonal little gifts to each other that you never really look at again when you bring it home when you could have used the $25 to buy a perfectly good bottle of Margarita and enjoyed in peace watching some holiday movie like.. Kill Bill.