That sounds so much nicer! My husband's is much nicer because it's a small group. There are only like 12 people who work there. They usually don't invite spouses, but they did in 2019 and it was a really fancy dinner. Not really my kind of thing either, but at least there's no loud music or anything. You can actually talk to people. And they did a sort of triva game with prizes they had gotten from their suppliers. I won a dinner card for either 50 or 100 euros (I don't remember now), because I answered the question "What part of the body is infected if you have Gingivitis?" Apparently they don't use that word here, and thanks to toothpaste commercials in the US, you can't NOT know what that is. So I was the only one who knew and I got the gift card. It was fun. At my work, they take all the gifts from suppliers and they hold a lottery type deal. They put raffle tickets in envelopes all over the Christmas tree. Everyone picks an envelope off the tree, and each number corresponds with some gift. It might be a cheap plastic sled, or a bottle of perfume, or a remote control car, or one year, there weren't enough things to go around, so they bought some packages of cookies, and anyone who got numbers whatever through whatever else, got a cookie instead of a prize. There's always something like that where they have a hundred of one thing and that's what the majority will "win". It's usually one of those nylon drawstring backpacks, or a beach towel or something. That's what I always end up with. But at least it's something, so it's nice that they do it. It used to be that you had to go to the party to get your Christmas package and the lottery prize, but they had so many things leftover from people who couldn't make it that they started separating it and there is a package pickup time where they have hot chocolate and oliebollen and you get your present. I like that sooooo much better, because I really don't like going to the parties.
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For the steak and potatoes
For your auntie
