Christmas party for job #2 (call centre)

So this evening I went to the Christmas party for my job #2 (call centre). It was FAR away! It took me about an hour to get there with public transport… I arrived at 18h40… WAY too early! I didn’t see any familiar faces. Then I spotted a young coworker sitting on her own so I joined her. Then more people she knew from her training joined (but no one I really knew)… Later I did see a few familiar faces but we weren’t sitting at the same table! I saw one of the support guys. He told me him and another support guy found my website and laughed when reading my weblog. Good thing or not, no idea! But I wonder how they found it… Googleing names? Searching for something else?

Dinner was alright… It was Italian inspired. First soup, then pasta, then salad (I was already full here…), then chicken and veggies, then YUMMY desert of a pancake with ice cream filling and fruit over it! Delicious though very cold! And to top it off they had a chocolate fountain where you could dip fruit in! Wine was also flowing from glasses to mouths but not mine! I don’t drink wine. So I had a beer when I arrived and the rest of the evening I had water or soda.

The music was sucky. The old hits (from YMCA to footloose, latin music, old 90’s dance songs, a couple of more recent hits, etc). It’s really not my taste. So that made the evening a bit longer… Still it was funny watching everyone dancing… And the phenomenon that happened… The new Black Eye Peas song My Humps comes on and you see many older people walk back to their tables. Old boring dance music comes on and you see some of the younger generation come back to the tables. It must be hard for the DJ with a crowd from young uni students to old ladies, finding a music to please everyone!

They gave everyone a gift wrap of different products the company sells… Prizes for the evening included wine, gift certificates for different stores (IKEA, Montreal Shopping Centres, etc) from 25$ to 500$, weekends getaways in Quebec hotels as well as one 2500$ gift certificate in a travel agency! I did not win that. I won the wine. And of course me… I don’t drink wine! I’ll bring it at the next dinner I attend… Probably back home this Christmas!

At the end of the evening I was in line to get my coat back from the coatcheck and I saw a colleague from my training session. It’s nice when we meet each other at work we chat a lot. So she offered me a lift to the nearest metro. Once in the car she asked where I lived. And she then offered to bring me home as it wasn’t too far from where she was dropping other people!! So I gladly accepted her offer! That saved me a long ride back home! Within 15 minutes I was here! Now my hair smells of smoke and that’s disgusting.