Celebrating New Year’s Eve at the office may be the biggest oxymoron going. Let’s face it, New Year’s Eve is all about partying and celebrating and being at the office working is well… not. But if you are stuck at work on this celebratory holiday, make the best of it and celebrate office style:
Break out the sparkling cider. Personally, I’ll take it straight from the bottle but it does look nice and pretty in a champagne flute, even if you only score the plastic ones.
Have some fun appetizers. New Year’s Eve is all about hors d’oeuvres. Ask your co-workers to make something at home to bring in or if you are really stuck grabbing something at the office, make the best of the tuna salad and crackers from the vending machine, yikes!
Make your own New Year’s Eve falling ball and decorate your desk like Times Square so you can count down like Ryan Seacrest. Here are several ways to do it: http://www.ehow.com/info_12196863_make-new-years-eve-falling-ball.html Bonus: once constructed, you can use the same ball for all those disco parties you’ll have in the future.
Kiss your co-worker! Everyone needs some to kiss someone when the new year rings in, right? On second thought, let’s scratch that. Face time or Skype your spouse or significant other to wish them a Happy New Year and tell them how much you miss him/her. Of course, if you don’t miss him/her and would just rather be at work anyway, you may have bigger problems to tackle.
Either way, you’ll have fun however you celebrate but let’s hope the boss appreciates you working on this holiday and gives you a day off soon! Happy New Year!
If you’re going to be stuck at work why not make the most of it… I don’t know about kissing any co-workers though. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen..
I’m still trying to figure out what type of business would have you working on New Year’s Eve.
Maybe air traffic controllers, police officers or hospital workers, but these jobs certainly are too important to afford any time for frivolity. Restaurant wait staff and bartenders are definitely too busy to stop and celebrate the new year on their busiest night. Any other job that would require personnel to be on hand New Year’s Eve is probably a pared down crew of a few workers. Not much partying here. I’m just guessing that any boss that has employees working on New Year’s Eve wouldn’t be too thrilled having the workers celebrating anyway.