Little Christmas

Qualiteers' Traditional Little Christmas Party took place on Friday for the first time as always before Christmas. All of the personnel was there. The Boss and the secretarial staff appeared first, the marketing department had booked a fancy restaurant in the middle of Helsinki as the venue, customer care somehow had managed to NOT invite any customers (more for them, they thought, I guess), the trainers had prepared a presentation on the successes and failures of 2006 and of course I, your lowly blogger, was there to keep you updated.

As always, the smallest Little Christmas Party in the world started with a mixed sauna with mixed feelings. All the staff went, and the six-person steam room proved just about adequate. After some refreshments the evening continued with a brisk walk in the Christmas streets of Finland's capital city. All personnel followed their leader, this time without Nordic walking sticks. The fancy restaurant (thank you Marketing Manager!) turned out to be Saaga, a restaurant with Lapland as theme. As program there was a magician, a quiz and a fight. The marketing department has truly internalized the cost saving mantra, as all the program was for free. They had ingeniously reserved such tables that all the program could be overheard. Thank you Uponor for paying for the entertainment. The fighters were so spontaneous that it might have been a spur of the moment thing and didn't seem to come from the Uponor group. The performance group was possibly a pair of aged art students, who decided a frisky wrestling match on a restaurant floor was going to get everybody's attention.

I'll leave the food criticism to our nutritional team to discuss (yes, they were present, too), they will be better at describing the state of the reindeer meat, the setting of the plates and the service attitude of the waitresses. All I can say is everybody was satisfied after the meal. A brief walk on the art street of Helsinki (Bulevardi) lead our happy and culturally enlightened workers to an Irish pub with a welcoming doorman for one last drink.

Overall, I think this tradition will continue, most likely before Christmas 2007.

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Suomennos: firman pikkujoulut Helsingissä. Ei raportoitavaa.