Christmas party from hell

This is a story about the Christmas party hosted by the local office of a Wall Street darling that rhymes with Hell.

So, this company uses a whole lot of contractors (consultants as they are called) in its Professional Services group to keep the costs down. Some 60% of the folks in the office are these "consultants". They call it the "leveraged" model. This year in keeping up with the eternal theme of keep the costs down the office management decided to bring in Thai lunch for Christmas (yes, the whole Christmas party was nothing but this free lunch from the neighbourhood Thai restaurant). And, they sent an email out to everyone in the office saying lunch is free for employees and costs 10 bucks for the "consultants". Needless to say there were hardly anyone for the lunch party - the employees were too embarassed to be there.

Maybe they should just do away with Christmas party and call it separation of corporate and religion.