Office Holiday Party

We were strongly encouraged, via a series of increasingly aggravated emails from HR, to attend our company holiday party, so that we might mingle with our coworkers and exhibit appropriate amounts of corporate-approved cheer. It was at a too-small Upper East Side nightclub, The Grand. The drink pours were very generous, the food was lousy and the DJ was familiar only with booty-shaking hits from the early ’90s, which was a mixed blessing.