Stop. Stop it NOW!

[caddyman]

At this very moment in the atrium, there is being held a "Big Jubilee Lunch Party". It's a bring your own affair, though you can buy cake and possibly, just possibly a glass of cheap wine. There is a live, or at least half alive band playing some sort of music. Up here, from through the glass a floor up, I can hear the drums (Oh, God the drums, the infernal drums...)and what I take to be the occasional flute. They might be pan pipes, actually. I suspect that were I to look, I should see a bunch of munters playing the sort of crap that got them booted out of the Andes in the first place.

I am against office celebrations on principle.

I am happy enough to go to the pub for celebrations with colleagues from time to time, Christmas, weddings, birthdays, retirements etc, but any attempted social that takes place in the office building is an abomination, full of forced chit chat with people you know little and care for less. You cluster into small groups with the few people you actually know and speak to the smaller number you actually like about how little fun you are having.

So stop it, please just let it end.

The very attempt at jollity at work demeans the purpose and act of going home and enjoying your free time!

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[glassfinger]

I have waxed lyrical about such grim goings-on in the past, so I shall merely say that I had to look up "munters".