To plan on getting quite drunk at my work Christmas party?

In the UK, NHS Christmas parties are paid for by staff. Arranged by a staff member. Entirely the staff members choice if they go. It's a night out, with people you know from work.

The absolutely OTT abstemious comments are unreal. I am so glad I love the people I work with, and we regularly socialise together and have a blast. If someone drinks too much and makes a tit of themselves no one really particularly cares. It's certainly not talked about for years (is there nothing else going on in your lives?!) Some of our colleagues are not up for that, ok that's fine and they can drink their one drink and go home. The rest of us can have fun and relax and bond and party.

I am a nurse. Currently pregnant so no drinking or getting drunk this year for me. I’ll be honest, I’ll absolutely get merry with my CLOSE nurse friends. We’ve known each other for 10 years. But that will be a private thing with a few of us. For a formal work event? Absolutely not. Having a few drinks is ok as long as you are full control. Getting drunk? NO! Most of them are your colleagues and NOT your friends. You’ve been there for less than 6 months. Don’t embarrass yourself with people you have to behave professionally with a few days later.

If you build individual friendships with some of them further down the line, that’s different if you want to go out on nights out with them. But don’t embarrass yourself with just your work colleagues you barely know!!!

Medicare, similar to the NHS in the UK, is not a corporate affair. Medicare is the public universal health fund fully paid by taxpayers in Australia.

Xmas parties organised by public service areas of government are funded from the moneys they allocate from taxpayers and small contributions from the staff over the year. Boozy parties have been long gone because they can't be justified in money or ethics.

I've been a nurse for many years and have NEVER met a new nurse like the OP is making us to believe she is,

I worked in the public sector. Our Christmas dos were self funded and usually in venues near,but unconnected with,the office. Every year a notice appeared on the intranet reminding us of our responsibilities with regard to drinking alcohol and behaving inappropriately.

It's a party organised and paid for themselves ,
There would be hardly any staff left if they disciplined everyone who had a few too many in the trust I worked forat Xmas

Again how ,if it is a do organised a paid for by the staff themselves in a venue not connected to the hospital?

Intelligent input.

Doesn't matter where the venue is. Staff are still viewed as if they were in the workplace and must behave accordingly.

Must do ,the.parties i went to tended to to consist of à ward organising a meal in a hotel /restaurant with dancing etc after which staff paid for themselves ,or sometimes a pub crawl or whatever

Best advice is to treat the work Christmas party as still being at work.

People have long memories and you don't want to be the person that everyone says in 5/10/20 years time 'remember when @Anon00 got so drunk
she threw up over matron
she snogged a waiter
fell asleep in the loo
had sex in a back alley
we had to call an ambulance
stayed so late she got locked into the bar.

Go out and get drunk with your real friends. Work is not the place to do it because few people there will really have your back. Possibly none if you are new.

I get trollied but work with very good friends for 15 years. There's surely a balance between getting very drunk and being sober. I'd plan for that. If I were you I'd get merry and have fun but not drunk drunk

God yeah. But do it away from work.

You do know that you can be disciplined for behaving inappropriately at a work do? Just in the same way as in the office.

Time to get a bit of common sense.

It has happened in all the hospitals I have worked in.

You pay like £20 or something and the whole department goes.

Maybe it depends on the hospital.

I'm not sure you do have a brain in your head, but if you do, you'll heed the good advice given here and not make a tit of yourself.

You really are extremely immature though - nobody is "bitter"! How ridiculous and totally juvenile.

You asked the question. You got answers from people who have been there, done that and regretted it, and from others who've witnessed it, and you have the neck to call people "bitter".

Look forward to seeing you back on crying here when you've done something really embarrassing or slept with someone you shouldn't...

You sound like great fun. Stories of your drunken antics will spread far and wide around the hospital and cause huge mirth.
But mark my words they'll be laughing AT you, not WITH you.

I have a brain in my head tho, won’t get too drunk.
People with brains in their heads don't usually need to ask if it's a good idea to get shitfaced at their work xmas party...

Which tends not to happen in the NHS at least in my experience all the Xmas parties I went when I wax a nurse were at venues paid for by the staff themselves

Get pissed and have a laugh. Life is short x

The workplace is not university, your colleagues are not your friends. You are new to your team and you don't know if all your fellow employees are OK with obviously drunken behaviour, least of all your bosses - who may view you as extremely immature as a result. Everyone may get blind drunk and have to go home wrapped in bin liners but until you know that for sure, don't turn up already buzzed.

In your shoes I would not get drunk at a works do but save it for when you go out with friends (if you must).

My advice is to not get drunk at work events. And any afterword/Christmas do is a work event. It is fine to let your hair down and have a few drinks. But do not get drunk. Once you feel a bit tipsy, change to non-alcoholic drinks. People do remember what person x and y did at Christmas do. You don't want to be a story.

Do not get drunk, you will not be doing yourself any favours.

That’s just work drinks.

Work Christmas party is when the whole department goes out, this is why people are telling you to stay in control.

My advice would be to stay sober. It is more professional. There have already been stories of becoming unwell due to drinking. I cannot stand drunk people myself.

I'm assuming the Op is not Australian though and in the UK. Xmas parties in the NHS are not corporate affairs they are usually organised and paid for by the staff themselves in a venue that is not connected to the hospital in anyway.

No, that's not what you said in your original post and the title said it all "Planning on getting quite drunk at the Christmas party"

And then you told us you were a newly qualified nurse. Bullshit. You are a nurse as I am a martian.