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Office Christmas party tribes 2023: who to avoid this year

Source: ES

It’s office Christmas party time again, that traditional chance to let your hair down and relax in a consequence-free, non-judgmental environment.

Yeah, right. Christmas parties are of course a riot of disgust as your colleagues reveal their true, highly dysfunctional selves — and you realise with dawning horror that your career is in the hands of total morons.

As such, here are some of the types you may encounter, and should probably stay clear of, this year.

The Biohacker

Why is it only the worst people in the world who want to live for ever? If the planet is destined to be inherited by this bunch of joyless, vampiric, pedantic, arch-narcissists, then euthanise me at 50, please.

The are a new breed at office this year, marked".

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