Office holiday party here at WHS,
right? Doesn't anybody?
Especially this time of year.
But haven't we all heard
about those holiday parties
where everything goes wrong?
Well, joining us right now,
this is like timed perfectly is
Mark Lampin and I have a feeling
he's had an experience
with an office party at 2.
But actually get this easier
today to warn about the
bad behaviors to avoid.
Learn from my mistakes
and I've been in the 20s. I may
have had it off office party or two.
But now I'm wiser and a little bit older,
but you're learning.
You did it in your 20s.
That's not in your 30s, your
40s where you should know better by then,
right? 40s and 50s I've learned, right. And I
feel like you know the reason we want
to talk about this because people
are really back in this full swing,
especially this holiday season with
holiday parties and everything.
And we've all had that office party
where people are like people are
meeting out at top golf or you're
meeting at places out of here.
And and so I think automatically
you want to drink too much.
That's what happens to these parties.
Listen, I, I called two different CEO.
On my way down here and to see if
their ideas were the same as mine.
And I said, what are the biggest mistakes?
And obviously,
number one is drinking too much. Yeah.
And hey, not drinking too much at the
Christmas party means not drinking too
much before the Christmas party, right?
Because if you're drunk,
Donnie, on your third drink,
and you think you're the best dancer
at the party, trust me, you're not.
And you don't want to be that guy.
So that's the number 13 CEO's this morning.
The number one thing is people drinking
too much and not respecting the office,
you know, how about tried not
drinking at all at the holiday party,
right going. Let's keep it,
you know super one last one like that,
that keep that business down.
You're not at a non social party.
Alright, so the other thing,
let's talk about dress. What is do
you think the appropriate dress for
you know, you look perfect.
You're about to say kids these days.
Yeah. Perfect for a Christmas party.
I can throw a silly jacket on.
And this is sad to say,
but men do have it easier than women.
Yeah, we can throw on a holiday
tire Jack, and be there.
The new generation.
Look, half of them look like
they're clubbing, right?
You're not going out to a bar, right.
I think the sweats and the joggers or
things that are just too revealing
obviously is is just too much. And I wanna
say dressed to impress,
but I'm going to say dress for success.
Yeah, so dress to impress when
you're going out to a club,
but dress for success.
And I hate to say it,
but especially from.
Females got a tougher
when it comes to that.
Well, I think too,
I wanna go into something like that,
thinking that my boss would
trust me on a work trip.
That's exactly.
I would go out and represent
the company that I would be
behaving like pull together
and believe it or not,
even your Christmas party,
you are representing that company
and your coworkers are going
to judge what you're wearing.
Hate it or not.
And I mean, love it or not,
that's what's going to happen,
alright. We're kind of like a
polarized country right now and
I feel like religion comes up.
A lot of things come up a lot, right.
But you know, religion and politics.
Sammy Kershaw. Sammy Kershaw,
politics, religion and her nobody
wants to know your politics,
nobody wants to talk about your religion.
No. And nobody wants to hear you
spill your beer over your ex, right?
Divorced or not, it doesn't matter.
And it's OK to say Merry Christmas.
It's OK to say happy Kwanzaa,
it's OK to wish someone
your holiday believes,
but you're not there to argue
and you respect their beliefs.
And if you want to be ultra conservative,
if you're brand new to the company,
always safe just to go with happy holidays
and it doesn't diminish your beliefs.
But in 5 minutes at a Christmas party?
They're not gonna change anybody's politics.
You're not gonna change anybody's religion.
So take the safe side.
Do that. And you know what
else is like a good rule?
This is not a Facebook forum.
It is real life. Real life,
talking to people,
right? You're not.
Listen, I have made the mistake on Facebook.
Not at a holiday party, but this one,
this could be the case of used to
share our political belief or two.
And I learned the hard way.
I lost a nice account over
this and I really did learn.
And they slapped me right in the face of.
Knowing you're not gonna
change someone's views.
It's OK to listen.
But you don't have to retort
to everything someone does.
You don't have to go down to that level.
And I made that mistake and it cost me.
I'll raise you on that.
We don't need to change.
We need to also respect other
people's. Absolutely. Especially nowadays.
I mean, we should have done it all along.
Right on. But with fake book out there,
yeah, we we really need to do that.
Alright. Finally,
mistletoe Dad told me a long time ago.
Don't date your honey
where you make your money.
Nothing good comes out of it.
Especially if you're married.
So. I'm telling you right now,
I can't offers, romances don't work,
and after that third drink gets back
to drinking too much, we're in.
Additions go down,
we've worked together,
we're next office and I
misperceive you flirting and
we're off to the side and I give
you an inappropriate grab or holy.
We're Bachelor in Paradise
hanging out at the holiday
party. And if you don't want
that advance, guess what?
Nowadays you get fired. Really.
It cost people their jobs last year.
I know two people last year
that lost their jobs because of
inappropriate behavior with coworkers.
This is a serious thing nowadays.
Especially.
Yeah. All good advice.
Yeah, right. So keep it in check.
I know you have a holiday
party to go to later today.
Kind of a a meeting to have a drink today.
That's good. That's 9:15.
I'm very proud of you. Alright, stay
with us. You're coming up
in another segment as well,
but if you're interested in getting
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