Post by Carrie H on Dec 1, 2008 14:33:14 GMT -5
Here's a question. My company isn't having a Christmas party this year, so I'm going to do something at my house for all of us. (We're a small company with about 20ish people and I'm only inviting the employees, no managers.) I figured I'd incoporate a cookie swap in with it and the response has been good so far. I also figured I'd do a grab bag. (We did this in the office a couple of years ago and everybody loved it.) I figured to include the guys of the company, I'd make it an open house/cookie swap so they don't feel like they're at a girl's party.
I invited my aunt and her friend cause I've been talking to her about it and felt bad for not including her. Plus she knows almost everyone at work, so no big deal.
Now I'm getting it in my head to make it a full-blown holiday open house and invite some more people (family, friends outside of work, etc.)
But how do I do that and not make them feel like they have to take part in the cookie swap or grab bag? Should I just keep it to work people and scratch the whole open house idea? Or should I stick with the open house idea and do the grab bag and cookie swap at work (we're going to have a catered lunch in the office so that we can at least do something around the holidays.)?
I invited my aunt and her friend cause I've been talking to her about it and felt bad for not including her. Plus she knows almost everyone at work, so no big deal.
Now I'm getting it in my head to make it a full-blown holiday open house and invite some more people (family, friends outside of work, etc.)
But how do I do that and not make them feel like they have to take part in the cookie swap or grab bag? Should I just keep it to work people and scratch the whole open house idea? Or should I stick with the open house idea and do the grab bag and cookie swap at work (we're going to have a catered lunch in the office so that we can at least do something around the holidays.)?