Excuses to Skip the Office Christmas Party

December has roughly nine usable evenings in it and approximately fourteen events that want one. The office Christmas party competes not only with your friends, your family, and your partner's office Christmas party, but with the simple fact that it is dark at four in the afternoon and everyone is already tired. The scheduling clash is the most credible reason there is, because it is almost always true. 'It's the same night as my partner's work party and one of us has to go to theirs' is a complete and unarguable sentence. So is the travel one: the venue is a two-hour round trip, the taxis afterwards are theoretical, and the last train is at nine, which means you'd arrive for the starter and leave before the raffle. The move that keeps you in good standing is to be conspicuously present for the low-cost parts. Do your Secret Santa properly and in person. Come to the team lunch, where you can hear people speak. Nobody who does those two things gets remembered as the one who skipped the party. Below are ten excuses to skip the office Christmas party, plus twenty in the generator.