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It has nothing to do with the party or your friend’s family traditionshave you ever rang in the holiday season at an office sponsored vacation an event?
With the holidays in full swing, many companies are throwing their annual celebration for all of their employees. Depending on the workplace, of this party it can be impressive or overwhelming between open bars at fancy restaurants and cake in the office after hours, but people agree they’re always fun.
Last night (December 15) Saturday Night Live parodied the stereotypical “office Christmas party extravaganza” in an all-too-relatable skit that prompted many fans to share their “sadly very true” experiences at their company party.
The sketch, which stars Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernández, Sarah Sherman and guest host Chris Rock, begins by focusing on the office during the “craziest event of the year.”
“Sixty employees and seven interns are all working hard in the same space they were working in fifteen minutes ago,” shouts a voice as the “co-workers” awkwardly stand against the wall, sipping drinks from their red solo cups in Santa hats.
“It all starts at 5:45pm when your cute, boring office is completely transformed into your same cute, boring office, but with a few lights on,” the voice continues. “With music on Ya-Ya-Jason’s laptop as soon as he figures out how to pair the speaker with it.”
Characters include “a shy marketing girl who takes one drink and reveals too much about herself” and “a guy who brought his kid and immediately regrets it”, while the harsh reality of food and drink is attributed to “ice-warm beer”. ” and “the youngest food you’ve ever seen.”
“Sales Day,” played by Heidi Gardner, pretends to start a 45-minute “Secret Santa” swap before someone’s “quiet” boyfriend is introduced.
The drama begins when a male colleague, played by Chris Rock, introduces his wife to his “work wife”, the woman he is closest to in the office.
“Drinks will be consumed, HR complaints will be made, and someone here gets a DUI, but it’s not what you think,” the skit adds before noting, “And just when you thought the party couldn’t get any more furious, it’s not because it’s Tuesday in the evening, and you all have work tomorrow.”
Immediately after viewing SNLIn the skit, viewers flocked to the TikTok comments section, acknowledging the reality of their company’s Christmas party.
“Ours was during work. Catered food. We all grabbed our plate and went back to our workstations to eat. A multi-million dollar company. Oh yes, we have $50,” one candid woman wrote. Another said SNL the sketch was “unfortunately very true.”
A third admitted: “We had a long-distance Christmas party in the teams. It was a grueling 1.5 hour meeting with mandatory cameras.”
“One of my colleagues brought her newborn baby to a Christmas party this year haha,” said a fourth.
Meanwhile, one person said: “We went to a restaurant for lunch and everyone had to pay their bills separately. There were 40 of us.”
Another viewer claimed her Christmas party experience was “worse” than SNL‘s portrait. “Mine was worse with the clerk,” she wrote, before explaining how her office was expected to meet at 7pm at the venue after leaving work an hour earlier. And to make matters worse, everyone was expected to be in the office the next day (Wednesday) at 8am