Does your work christmas party have a shite theme? Does your work have a christmas party? Do you have a work?

No, we're Americans, mostly. We're all gonna be unemployed soon.

Whoa, Christmas parties have themes?

My werkz is too small, so, no Christmas party for meee.

mine is a "hippy" theme

god help us all

Good lord we don't have a theme, 'cept for scruffy academics who are socially awkward.

The usual.

The one work Christmas party any workplace of mine ever had was Hobbit-themed.

Hobbit-themed?

Why do you need a theme for a Xmas party? I'm baffled.

Well, that is to say. It was a Xmas party held at a restuarant/minibrewery called the Bilbo Baggins Pub or something, with a big hobbit mural on the wall, and a menu full of LotR allusions. Mostly people just got drunk.

I didn't actually go, I forget why. We also had a Xmas desk-decorating contest! Which... resulted in nobody getting any work done that week because we all kept running out to get more fake snow and ornaments and lights and cuting out snowflakes to fix on the ceiling above our desks. I made my desk into a mini Christmas village, and no one could use the scanner because it was a mountain with a skate rink on it. But the guy who won made his desk into a giant chimney he constructed out of cardboard and paper, and he suspended a Santa from the ceiling who was about to go down the chute.

My company has a huge party. We have all of our clubs in the midwest and the south get together in Memphis for a huge party. The food, rooms and top shelf bar is all paid for by our boss. There are feature dancers and porn stars on the guest list as well as whoever else we invite. Last year, Three 6 Mafia was there.

This year we cancelled our big holiday bash for our headquarters office, and donated the budget for it to charity. It's enough to cover 800,000 food bank meals. I'm not certain what's going on with my office, but we're probably doing the same thing here. We'll still have a get-together at the office where they'll get us liquored up, but it will be much less flashy.

We don't have a theme, but with an open bar (and taxi chits for getting home safe), prize give-aways (this years grand prize is a $4000+ all inclusive trip for two), and with the unofficial after party all to frequently being at strip club, I think a theme would be a bit excessive.