Every year around Christmas, companies throw holiday parties they clearly don't want to throw. Employees of these companies go to the parties looking to get wasted and hook up with a co-worker. The clash of breathless expectations and corporate penuriousness is like a crashing wave upon a rocky cliff, except instead of salt water the wave is fashioned out of a year's worth of accumulated workplace bile. Send tales of your company's trangressions to tips@gawker.com.
Today's shitty corporate christmas party comes to us from the Fillmore East, the concert venue that used to be Irving Plaza. It is pretty shitty.