Risking it All at the Office Holiday Party

Demoted

Demoted Productions

Comedy, Business, Careers

4.8 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Is there an opportunity for career advancement at your office holiday party? Probably not. As you will hear from these stories, you may be putting your career and life at risk simply by attending. From innocent coworker hook-ups to full fledged infidelity and physical altercations, this episode explores just about everything that can go wrong at your end-of-year work party. Ross and Natalie read through listener-submitted stories of past year’s parties and give advice on how to not commit career limiting moves. Ross shares his experience attending office parties with his overzealous sales teams and Natalie describes her art of being the fun plus one. Stay tuned for a terrifying ghost story from Ross’s childhood, a PSA about spiking the office party punch bowl, and a quarter-life crisis after serving donuts to the interns. Go to https://cornbreadhemp.com/DEMOTED and use promo code DEMOTED for 30% off your first order Go to https://Goodr.com/demoted and use promo code DEMOTED for Free Shipping! Find and book top-rated doctors with ZocDoc at https://zocdoc.com/demoted Join the Salesblazer Community at https://sforce.co/demoted

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0:00.0	We asked for your holiday party stories. Boy, did you deliver. Let's just say holiday Christmas
0:04.5	parties are right for career limiting decisions. And that's, of course, when you're talking to
0:07.9	the leadership team about like what they can do better to run the company. Or when you buy
0:11.1	a round of shots for the entire team, even though you have work the next day. Yeah, 2 a.m. That sounds great.
0:15.4	From hookups to mistakes to non-consensual mushroom chocolates. This episode has a little bit of everything.
0:21.5	Is there an opportunity for career advancement at a holiday party?
0:25.1	Are you serious?
0:32.2	Demoted.
0:35.3	Happy, happy, Merry Merry Christmas.
0:37.4	Jingle bells. Jingle bells. Telling, can we add some like, shing, happy, Merry Merry Christmas. Jingle bells.
0:38.8	Jingle bells.
0:40.1	Talon, can we add some like, shing, shing, shing.
0:41.9	I can hear and feel the holiday spirit.
0:44.0	Yeah, the snow is falling somewhere else in the world, not here.
0:46.9	I recently realized that Bo, our editor, Autotune Me.
0:49.8	Did you see that kind of lore of Thanksgiving break?
0:52.0	You didn't really, I mean, you didn't need it.
0:54.5	Your voice is great, but it was very clearly auto tuned.
0:57.1	I actually thought I was.
1:00.3	A little like wobble.
1:01.3	Victoria DM me, like you sounded like T-Pain.
1:03.6	Yeah, a little wobble.
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