Xmas parties bring out romance in revellers

LOQUACIOUSNESS is losing out to lust at Christmas parties this year.

Almost half of revellers admit to having a romantic tryst but just one in five let bosses know exactly what they think of them.

The vast major of revellers at office parties in Ireland this Christmas will over-indulge, with 82% of respondents to a Recruit Ireland poll saying they drank too much at the party, 85% of men and 80% of women.

When the drink is in, the truth comes out, especially for men, giving yet more support, as if any were needed, to the Roman adage in vino veritas.

Men are more expressive at the Christmas bash with 5% of men admitting they have resigned at Christmas parties with just 3.5% of women telling the boss where to shove their job.

The confidential survey, carried out over the past two weeks, by respondents who filled in the questionnaire on-line at recruitireland.com, found that more that a quarter of men were sufficiently alcoholically enlightened to tell their bosses exactly what they thought of them at the Christmas party.

While women, it appears, were a bit more discrete, just 17% of respondents telling the boss what they "really" think. This means bosses face the trauma of at least one in five staff sharing their true thoughts about them.

Research also shows 42% of respondents admitted having a romantic interlude with a colleague at the christXmas Party. Curiously, more women than men admitted to romance at the Xmas party.