Work's Xmas Party Exclusion

janninew

chesky wrote: »

My son organises the work do for his NHS team at Christmas and arranges all the catering and drinks from the department budget. He buys them all a present from himself. He stays for a drink for 15 minutes, then he's off. As they all quite like him, they always ask him to stay on but he never does. He goes out to dinner with his g/f. Result - everybody happy.

Does the NHS budget stretch to drink and food for workers?! Surprised at that, I work in a secondary school and there is no budget for anything like that!

System

MLA73 wrote: »

Oops I dont think Ive explained myself very well. The groom told me who wasnt being invited to his wedding and I said to him ok it might be a bit awkward but its your wedding. His future to be wife was regularly talking about her wedding in front of someone who wasnt invited and that person was very upset about it.

On the Xmas party thing you're right I should let it go. Confront wasnt the word I meant to use.

....but it really wasnt your business was it?

hazyjo

onlyroz wrote: »

Not sure why you’d want to invite work colleagues to your wedding if you don’t like them enough to socialise with.

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing.

We invited work colleagues to our wedding, but we like them enough to socialise with them.

I just felt it would be polite to invite the team I worked with - those who'd got married before from the team invited me. Was only the evening do. Actually only one came anyway (partner I work for and his missus who works for our company too). I also invited friends from work who I do see socially.

clairec79

chesky wrote: »

My son organises the work do for his NHS team at Christmas and arranges all the catering and drinks from the department budget.

How on earth?

We've never got anything for staff out of the NHS budget.
Our xmas meal and drinks are all paid for by ourselves - as have the ones in other trusts I've worked in (same as when I worked for a branch of the civil service - can't spend public funds on things like that - they don't even buy pens for us to write in the notes)

chesky

clairec79 wrote: »

How on earth?

We've never got anything for staff out of the NHS budget.
Our xmas meal and drinks are all paid for by ourselves - as have the ones in other trusts I've worked in (same as when I worked for a branch of the civil service - can't spend public funds on things like that - they don't even buy pens for us to write in the notes)

I checked with him again as I didn't want to give the wrong information. A small amount does come from the department budget. He also gets donations from local companies who the team has worked with in the community. Some of this is in cash and some in kind - food, bottles etc. The Trust Chief Executive (not sure that's the correct title) also chips in personally. He says it's a bit of a bind getting it all sorted but he thinks it's worth it as he thinks they work their socks off the rest of the year.

But that really wasn't the point - that was that he puts himself out to organise it (even more than I originally thought), tries to make sure it's going OK, then b

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s off and leaves them to it.

Comms69

janninew wrote: »

Does the NHS budget stretch to drink and food for workers?! Surprised at that, I work in a secondary school and there is no budget for anything like that!

Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.


If I go away with work for the day, I have a meal allowance. Same as most employees....

supersaver2

Comms69 wrote: »

Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.


If I go away with work for the day, I have a meal allowance. Same as most employees....

I’m a School worker and we don’t have food or drinks provided full stop no matter where you are. Certainly not for the staff Christmas party, not the best way to spend public funds in these current climates.

chesky

You wouldn't need a food allowance if you're always based in a school would you? They were talking about travelling to other parts of the country.

CruisingSaver

Having worked in the NHS for a while it surprises me that there is even a small contribution to the staff party from departmental budgets.

Certainly none of the NHS Trusts I've worked for have ever done this and most definitely not in the current climate of budget cuts. However, as senior managers we have clubbed together and paid for a Christmas buffet/ meal for our staff as a thank you but totally paid for out of our own pockets.

It simply is not appropriate for public funds to be used in this manner, any spare budget should be used to deliver patient care, after all that's why we're there.

AubreyMac

When I worked as a agency PA to a few Chief Execs for a Local Authority many years ago, there seems to be lots in way of budget for those at top but nothing for the front line plebs.


I use to order coffee machines and pods with proper china cups and saucers, mini fridges for their offices, gold engraved pens (that were over £100 each) to give out to other top members, proper white thick paper (as opposed to the usual recycled), breakfast catering that were £20 per head and when someone done half a days work at a interview panel they were paid £200 worth in M&S vouchers (to avoid tax I presume). A re-structure was strategically planned so that whichever one left they were able to get maximum voluntary redundancy which was not available to those at bottom.


Data/statistics is just an illusion as books do get cooked to hide a lot of things.