'Miserable' office's Christmas decorations labelled 'most depressing ever'

A man who received a snap of his fiancée's office's Christmas decorations couldn't help but share the miserable offering to Reddit, where users tried to find a positive amongst the festive gloom

With December just around the corner, most workplaces up and down the country are showing signs of getting into the festive spirit.

However, one office's efforts have been labelled as the "most depressing ever" after a snap of its decorations was shared to Reddit. "Fiancée just sent me a picture of her work office's Christmas decorations," a user of the platform wrote. "I think it’s the most depressing thing I've ever seen."

The decorations – or more accurately, decoration – featured a two-foot tall, sparsely-decorated Christmas tree perched on top of the communal fridge. With no baubles whatsoever, the dismal Yuletide offering only featured a star on top, with fibre optic lights forming the tips of the tree's branches.

Fiancé just sent me a picture of her work office Christmas decorations. I think it’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen.
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"The lights look pretty cool at least," one Reddit user commented, trying to find a positive. "At my work we just had someone’s nan’s old fake tree in a corner of the workshop with no decorations whatsoever. Eventually we nabbed some tinsel from the office, along with a stuffed Tigger dressed as an angel that we put on the top. Then we jazzed it up with some jubilee clips."

A second pondered: "Less is more? We have a similar sized thing but a real tree (more like a small shrub). Had it three years. Comes in for Christmas and we decorate it. Rest of the year lives on the balcony quite happily and cared for. Being small is easily manageable and beats the 'throw away culture' of one use Xmas trees."

A third joked: "If you empty the hole punch tray into the air conditioning unit it will improve the festivity." Whilst a fourth added to the misery: "Imagine having to look at that for two months."

Defending the paltry tree, meanwhile, someone else admitted: "I have the same tree in my flat, and three little Christmas windowsill ornaments. I spend the festivities mainly at my parents' so I don’t bother jazzing my place up too much."

It prompted the original poster to explain: "The tree in itself isn’t the issue I don’t think. The whole picture is. It’s just on top of a fridge next to the fruit juice under an air con. I don’t know how to explain it, it’s just miserable."