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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How awkward to announce a donation-dependent party, then have no one donate enough. Because you can be sure that across several departments, people are just going to assume someone else is giving, and the total amount is not going to be enough.

These should be banned.[/quote]

I thought this was the awkward part of it. It’s one thing to offer to throw a party. But to say "I want to throw a party and want everyone else to pay for it" is off putting. [/quote]

This is very much the norm -- an annual employee-funded holiday party --  in some (most?) government workplaces. In a private workplace, the company or association or whatever picks up the tab for an annual holiday party. That has been the case in every non-gov place I've worked. That isn't possible at the government, so attendees have to contribute. That was what we did in my office when I worked for a fed agency. This is a pretty standard thing. It isn't like some random coworker decides to throw a party and just up and asks people to Venmo her. I'd love to see holiday parties (actually workplace socializing in general) disappear; I think it is a vestige from different times. But it's still here at a lot of places. [/quote]

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