[End year parties]

Year end parties are a good note to wrap up the season. Good as they may, there's something wrong all the time to draw out of them whenever they're held. Most of the time it's from the employees side. It's behavioural things like racist slurs, sexual harassment, thrown punches at times, etc. that comes to the fore and ends up ruining the fun and one common element is alcohol.

How we choose to consume free alcohol is a slap to my thought. A party can be a controlled function if we can start seeing alcohol as just beverages to spice up our fun and maybe we won't abuse it. The rate of its intake is a worry. But then, that shouldn't be the only singled out element in that how we dress for the occasion another instalment to the disaster premium.

A lot of unfinished business gets revisited during the year end party, and it spells danger in caps. In some companies employees are allowed to bring their partner whilst in others not, and where it's allowed a common course to step on differently on the day as people tend to behave in a different manner when in the presence of their spouses or better halves and loved ones, and you failing to step on egg shells on the day may have bitter consequences.

The other issue is that, secretly employee career prospects and advancements gets laid on the review table and scrutiny bang on them. It ain't a fair practice but for the employer a good way to sifting spoilt ore from pure grade extracts. Employer invests in employees with expectations of good returns there from. If employees can wake up to the true purpose of office parties for the grey denominators they are, then a lot for them wouldn't be that hard come resumption of the next round of production cycle.

I'm conclusion: your place of work is first your space of energy plied for conversion in principle to measured productivity outcome, and as such employees should factor that thought whenever they step in. Any other activity outside of that common objective shouldn't count as part of the primaries. So, as a system to the main back feed of the employer, mind your actions whenever you're zoned in that space outside of your job description for your longer days in the shelter of their mercy. Yes, I say mercy because a job is now an obvious case of being under the mercy of another who took a risk that includes placing you in a responsibility bind position with expectation of performance and sustainable development of their plans. As such, be mindful of whom you choose to be when they want entertainment out of you as it might be your last twerk of your life under their mercy not of the year. Be safe on the trap board with the knowledge that it's always secure seated at the edge...dp