Timeline for I just started my first real job, and have been asked to organize the office party. How do I handle this?
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| Nov 9, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | RedSonja | A girl? She's finished her education and has a job, clearly she is an adult. The word for that is "woman". | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 12:43 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | It seems like whether this answer is spot-on or completely off hinges on whether it's specifically the OP asked to do this party organization, or whether more or less every new hire gets this (or a comparable) task. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 13:48 | comment | added | Masked Man | Eh, no, there is not obviously a person responsible for this job. On the contrary, it would be rather unusual to have a person employed solely to organize parties and events. It is more common for a regular team member to "get volunteered" for such thankless jobs. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 0:26 | comment | added | PandaWood | As a programmer, I would be utterly shocked, flabbergasted and insulted to be asked to do this. Even imagining back when I was a new hire - in any size organization. I can't help feeling it's sexist in this case. Though I loathe to assume it. There's always someone, in the smallest company, in some kind of administrative role who is better suited to do this. Maybe it's in a culture, unfamiliar to me, where treating employees like waiting staff isn't such a big deal. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 22:32 | comment | added | Crowley | Why do you think it is joke on the OP if he was given a headcount, time and budget? | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | eMBee | i worked in a company with 50 people where all organizing of such events was done by HR, but i can imagine in a much larger company that teams want to organize their own parties and not let someone outside of the team do this. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 13:20 | comment | added | Raoul Mensink | @kubanczyk honestly I could argue that it is actually good practice to do this, especially with some people. Also I work at an fairly large firm and we don't have someone to officially do it. We still manage to get multiple good events going without complaints from the People that actually do organisation. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 11:32 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | Good answer but I want to point out that 35 employees is still a small company and while it's rare, some really don't have any dedicated admin staff that would be in charge of events like this. Some managers also dump admin work on new hires while they're getting up to speed with the technical side. It's not the best use of their time but it's not as outrageous as you state here and it can be a good way to become familiar with a new company or new colleagues. Finally I agree that the possibility of subconscious sexism is worth mentioning but the OP is not a girl, she's a woman. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 10:51 | comment | added | kubanczyk | @Falco But you do have the responsbile positions among the 1000 employees. They are not doing their job for your team, I'm sorry. The party could be organized spontaneously by anyone interested, if the team is like a huge loving family. Or by the manager. Anyone who is interested knows it's as simple to do as their own 30th birhtday. But it's still not a thing a manager could simply delegate to a newcomer. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 10:32 | comment | added | Falco | I disagree. We have a department of 40 people in a company of over 1000 employees and we don't have any "party organizing position". Organizing a party for our department is usually done by a manger or project lead and many times delegated to an employee who has the time to do it. - It doesn't require any special skill - any assistant or student could do it. You ask around what kind of party people want, what budget you have and if there are good places which were used last time. Then you just call there and set up a reservation. Our trainees can do this easily... | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 21:53 | comment | added | hookenz | Why is that a "troll" answer? quite honestly, I find it hard to believe anyone would give the new guy a task like that after only two months. Normally that would be organised by the management or the someone in the admin team. Weird! I smell fish. | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 21:13 | history | answered | kubanczyk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |