The reason I'm in London is to participate in the end of year wrap-up management meeting and then to attend the management Xmas dinner. You know there is something fundamentally wrong with an organisation when people are dragging their feet to free a free meal with liberal amounts of wine. In most of my previous companies I looked forward to the Xmas dinner (which was not limited to management) and which was usually a fun event. I'm pretty sure that most of the dozen or so people who are attending would rather be somewhere else. If we wanted end of year parties to be truly useful we should tell people they can either attend or their share will be given to their favourite charity. At least dysfunctional organisations would then serve a purpose.
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