Every holiday season, there’s an endless stream of unsolicited advice about how to play nice with family you’d otherwise pretend didn’t exist. And while some of it is useful — especially this — I prefer to look to the stars on how best to navigate the Christmas dinner...
You spent last Christmas lodging with family, gobbling their ham and guzzling their beer, so it makes sense that you felt compelled to return the favor this year. Now, these relatives — whether your own or ones you acquired upon marriage — are nice and all, but...
Holiday season, apart from probably being the only time you’ll drink copious amounts of spiked eggnog, is inevitably the time you’ll be forced to hang out with family members you’ve spent the majority of your life trying to avoid. Maybe it’s the uncle who assumes the role...
When you have a long-time partner, bringing them as your guest to the office holiday party is an obvious move. But as a single person, your plus-one situation becomes much more of a consideration. Do you go alone? Do you bring your best friend? What about hopping...
You tried to forget about what happened at the last office holiday party, but with the next one just around the corner, your colleagues have started, once again, cracking jokes about how you took full advantage of the open bar and puked on the dance floor. Maybe...
Get your best sweater-dress-shirt combination ready, because Office Holiday Party Season is upon us. It’s time to meet the guys named Mark your significant other spends all day Slacking. I know, I know, the only way to get through an event like this is to drink gin-and-tonics...
Ah, the holiday party: That annual challenge where you’re expected to look nice, but also sort of cosy, while perhaps also somehow incorporating red and green in a way that doesn’t look like absolute festive crap. We asked some experts what to wear to every kind of...
My disappointment is profound and my rage knows no bounds: Despite my dad always getting an annual holiday bonus before he retired a few years ago, I have been notified that holiday bonuses are apparently not much of a thing anymore, and therefore, I will not be...
Ah, the annual company-wide holiday party, where any semblance of professionalism between your colleagues goes out the window and that one person from finance, without exception, drunkenly professes their undying love for their coworker before crying and passing out on the bathroom floor. Sounds… uncomfortable. But is...
Winter is upon us, and that means one thing: an influx of socializing opportunities that you can screw up by taking someone you’re dating, and then proceeding to ditch them for three hours while you talk it up with all your pals, get hammered, and ignore them....
Few workplace activities open up the office to awkwardness and outrage quite like Secret Santa. No matter how many guidelines are put into place, at least one person is bound to bring something that would send even the most relaxed HR department into a panic, and somehow,...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: The Christmas Elf’s Guide to Easy Gift-Giving The Festive Guide to Dropping Hints (Without Looking Greedy) How to Buy For the...