Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly; Christmas Traditions in Your Workplace

Ugly sweaters are coming out christmas eve/day. Oh yeah!!!

Ugly sweaters?????? LOLDo you have any pics of these ugly sweaters. HA HA HA or rather.....HO HO HO

We put up a fake Xmas tree up in the office, hang ornaments precisely the height of our boss to annoy him as he walks into them, and bomb the rest of the space with lights, ribbons and wrapping paper. Even the fridge door got decorated with sleigh bells. We bring in cookies and goodies to indulge in, as this is the one time of the year we're all not fussing over training or diets. I have several practical jokes planned to 'wrap up' the working space of a coworker who is notoriously grumpy for no good reason,and some awesome Secret Santa gifts planned. I even like the awful fruitcake that the boss's ex-wife sends to us every year. I <3 the holidays!

Quote from Wrench PartyWe put up a fake Xmas tree up in the office, hang ornaments precisely the height of our boss to annoy him as he walks into them, and bomb the rest of the space with lights, ribbons and wrapping paper. Even the fridge door got decorated with sleigh bells. We bring in cookies and goodies to indulge in, as this is the one time of the year we're all not fussing over training or diets. I have several practical jokes planned to 'wrap up' the working space of a coworker who is notoriously grumpy for no good reason,and some awesome Secret Santa gifts planned. I even like the awful fruitcake that the boss's ex-wife sends to us every year. I <3 the holidays!

Ya know.......... maybe we could post some pics here......just to spruce up the place......make it more festive.So if any of you have pictures of your workplace decorations, feel free to post them. Or pics of your home decorations are fine too. It might inspire some of us.

We do not decorate at work. TI like Secret Santa. It's fun if you know people well. I got unlucky this year with someone I don't know really at all!

Quote from That GuyUgly sweaters are coming out christmas eve/day. Oh yeah!!!

Quote from Jean Marie46514lol, slightly off topic to WORKPLACE festivities, but, my daughter is going with her BF to his families' annual "Ugly Sweater" family get-together, which was so funny, i spit my coffee out laffin over.LOVE this article, TNbutterfly!!

Quote from KatieP86We do not decorate at work. That is unit policy, not hospital. Our manager is a scrooge.I like Secret Santa. It's fun if you know people well. I got unlucky this year with someone I don't know really at all!

One thing our workplace did,which we all thoroughly enjoyed so so much,was "Adopt a Family" each year.I can't quite recall, where we got the info on the family we were adopting, maybe some social worker? not sure,but,we were given a desciption of the family. Like, "Family of four, whose father has cancer and are broke. The mom is a size 12, likes needlepoint, and loves the color red. Oldest son, is age 15, is into Atari games, and wears size 10 pants,..." etc etc.Then, each of the (nameless) family members,would be listed on a separate piece of paper, like,"Dad"Bedfast, but alert, wears size Lg pajamas, interested in hockey, etc etc."Age 6 girl"Loves Dora the explorer, the color pink, and ballet, wears size 4 clothes.and so on.Under it, all of us nurses would sign up under one member of the family, and sometimes, we'd write in what we got, so no one would duplicate the item. "I got Age 6 girl a pink coat" or whatever.We'd always make sure, that EACH member of the family got equal amount of nurses giving gifts, so that not everyone would sign up under "Age 6 girl", lol!We would bring the item already wrapped, with tags like "Age 15 son" which the social worker would take off, and write REAL name of person, prior to delivering to the family's home. It was kind of heartwarming to see the pile of gifts getting bigger and bigger day by day. By deadline, it always seemed a very impressive pile of gifts!!Also, the admins would add in gift of money, or turkey dinner, etc.WE LOVED DOING THIS.

Decorations are not allowed to deck our halls There is one very large tree in the main lobby. We are not allowed to decorate any area at any time. Our personal lockers cannot even have pictures on them. In many cases, our management seems to focus on the trivial while totally ignoring the important things.

Besides the Secret Santa and few scattered decorations in the break rooms/control desk, we tend to make a holiday meal for those that work the holiday so we can have Christmas with the "family". There was one particular Surgeon that wrote messages on dressings. Another decided to tie a sparkly ribbon around an ace-wrapped leg on a kidlet. Adorable.Last year we made stockings up for the pediatric unit and the younglings in ICU. Even had a gent dressed as Santa deliver them.They won't let us have a tree with lights though. Something about a fire hazard which I find interesting as we're allowed to operate a cautery machine near alcohol, drapes, etc. But apparently if you give us fairy lights, all bets are off.~~CP~~