Comments on: The big chill for holiday parties?

In the tech industry, holiday parties aren't getting canceled left and right in the face of cost-cutting, but things are certainly being done differently this year.

[mmichaels]

"All employees across the country are getting two extra vacation days in exchange"

Better idea anyway, in my opinion.

[globalist_agenda]

Let's Have A Bake Sale! In the new Bush globalist economy workers just need to suck it up. Workers in Mexico and India don't get holiday parties, why should you? When workers lose hands and feet due to work accidents, too bad. We must not interfere with free trade. American workers should be treated just as badly as competing countries' workers in order to have a level playing field.

[sanenazok]

the automotive industry shows you what happens with a strong labor movement.

[fdunn3]

Oh, they can wipe the blood off that iPod and make it look new again.
It'll still sell as we have become a nation of buyers and not producers.

It's going to be a real situation if/when we have another global war and all of our parts are being produced in the very countries we are at war with.

But hey the Wall Street pencil pushers want short term payback so let us design it and send it off to some other country to manufacture it for us. That way we don't have to pay American workers and we don't have to deal with the toxic waste.

[bommai]

You mean companies have holiday parties!!! I work for a Fortune 10 company and we have not had a party in years. When they stopped the party in 2001 (after 9/11) the bigwigs thought - hey we can get used to this. So, no parties since 2000.

[gggg sssss]

you mean Christmas parties dont you? what other holiday is happening at thsi time?

[develand]

They are called CHRISTMAS parties, you PC (as in Politically Correct, not Personal Computer) shill for the ACLU.

[Mr. Dee]

What a depressing article. 2009 is looking more like dooms day.

[agsGeoff]

I'm all for getting rid of Office holiday parties. I spend all week working with people, I do not then want to give up an evening of my weekend to spend more time with these people. I have things to do, and would rather spend time with my friends. I also don't like to know that the company is spending $20,000 on a party for the office but then says that they can't afford to give a bonus or a pay rise.
Office parties end up being another round of office politics. If you don't turn up then you're deemed as not being a "team player". If you turn up you end up just spending time with the people you enjoy spending time with. It always seems like a complete waste of time and money.