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To refuse to be a witness against colleague??

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Pukkajones · 09/12/2025 14:28

Christmas party, a few nights ago. At a hotel, as it was timed with a big sales meeting, so everyone staying over, 200 ish people, free bar as well as a formal dinner.
Drinking very much encouraged. Staff ages ranged from early 20s to the senior staff in their 50s. Everyone VERY merry.
One colleague, let’s call her Jenny, got a bit carried away, throwing shapes on the dance floor, too touchy feely with men and women apparently then groped one older male colleagues testicles at which point friends grabbed hold of her and steered her off up stairs to her room.
She escaped. Came back down - paralytic at this point - and flashed her boobs at a senior male colleague! In the side bar area so fewer people around me being one of them. Another colleague and I intervened and friends got her again and put her to bed, this time someone stayed with her.

Now I’m being asked to come and tell what I saw to her line manager. I’m in training for an event at the moment so it’s common knowledge that I wasn’t drinking and was sober.

I really don’t want to. She’s lovely, usually quiet and sensible, the company got her poleaxed and now want to carpet her. I’m not a bloody snitch plus - why can’t the guy she flashed at say what happened. Why do I need to be involved???

I’ve been working away since the party so have no idea what is being said in office other than the OMG, Jenny! What was she doing??? Messages. But trust me, there’s plenty of stories from that night… so she’s in good company.

YABU - snitch on her. A man doing that would be in so much trouble.

YANBU - deny seeing anything. If the company ply everyone with that much booze there’s bound to be uncouth behaviour and they probably have enough witnesses already.

OP posts:
fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:27

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:15

A bra is what covers the boobs (that you can still see)

Oh come on 😂

fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:24

TrippingOverMyAssets · 10/12/2025 21:16

From the OP ‘she grabbed a colleagues testicles’.

Did you not read the part where she said that was gossip and she didn’t see that?

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:20

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:19

The OP witnessed no groping! Yet you want this woman hung drawn and quartered on hearsay and office gossip. Merry fucking Christmas!

Gossip - other people's eyewitness testimony. Would you at least say the groping is wrong (if it did happen)?

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:19

SwirlyGates · 10/12/2025 21:10

So you're equating groping colleagues with being a "joy". Charming.

The OP witnessed no groping! Yet you want this woman hung drawn and quartered on hearsay and office gossip. Merry fucking Christmas!

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:17

TrippingOverMyAssets · 10/12/2025 21:16

From the OP ‘she grabbed a colleagues testicles’.

But PP says OP "didn't see that".

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:16

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:16

It must be great to see the world in such black and white. I can't imagine having such a rigid brain or thought process that cannot accept another person's point of view.

I actually have some morals and act with decency in my life.

Sounds like you could learn a bit.

TrippingOverMyAssets · 10/12/2025 21:16

fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:14

From the OP, ‘she flashed her bra’.

From the OP ‘she grabbed a colleagues testicles’.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:16

SwirlyGates · 10/12/2025 21:10

So you're equating groping colleagues with being a "joy". Charming.

Apparently when you're drunk at a party it's okay to act like this. Nothing about any basic decent standards. Why not flash your knickers as well?

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:16

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:09

It is wrong.

It must be great to see the world in such black and white. I can't imagine having such a rigid brain or thought process that cannot accept another person's point of view.

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 21:15

fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:14

From the OP, ‘she flashed her bra’.

Not what she said in the first post.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:15

fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:14

From the OP, ‘she flashed her bra’.

A bra is what covers the boobs (that you can still see)

fatphalange · 10/12/2025 21:14

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 20:44

She flashed her boobs, not her bra according to the OP's original post.

From the OP, ‘she flashed her bra’.

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:12

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 21:08

Hyperbole.

G. O. T

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:11

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:06

Why? He was sexually assaulted and told the staff who removed her ASAP. Had he slapped a girls behind nobody would have gone and said it was okay.

🙄

SwirlyGates · 10/12/2025 21:10

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 20:29

Let she who is without sin cast the first stone.

You sound an absolute joy. Are you a traffic warden?

So you're equating groping colleagues with being a "joy". Charming.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:09

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:07

What is wrong with you?

My opinion is not "wrong". Your opinion is not "wrong" we simply disagree. People as Alastair Campbell famously said "can disagree agreeably"

Give it a try before you die.

It is wrong.

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 21:08

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:03

Well he'd be in good company on this thread where someone needs to be marched naked through the streets having shit thrown at them with a jeering mob screaming "shame" to atone for their misdemeanors.

Hyperbole.

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:07

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:01

The other opinions are wrong. Even when I've been drunk and merry I still have some self respect and decorum. I know how to behave. Then again I don't drink anymore.

Also flashing a bra also means you can see the breasts as well given that is what they hold.

What is wrong with you?

My opinion is not "wrong". Your opinion is not "wrong" we simply disagree. People as Alastair Campbell famously said "can disagree agreeably"

Give it a try before you die.

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 21:07

Isinglass20 · 10/12/2025 21:02

Am I missing something or not read posts but the main issue did OP see colleague grab man’s crotch or not. That’s sexual assault and the genders not relevant.

No she didn't.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:06

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:03

Well he'd be in good company on this thread where someone needs to be marched naked through the streets having shit thrown at them with a jeering mob screaming "shame" to atone for their misdemeanors.

Why? He was sexually assaulted and told the staff who removed her ASAP. Had he slapped a girls behind nobody would have gone and said it was okay.

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 21:03

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 20:57

No.

Well he'd be in good company on this thread where someone needs to be marched naked through the streets having shit thrown at them with a jeering mob screaming "shame" to atone for their misdemeanors.

Isinglass20 · 10/12/2025 21:02

Am I missing something or not read posts but the main issue did OP see colleague grab man’s crotch or not. That’s sexual assault and the genders not relevant.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 21:01

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 20:51

In your opinion. Other opinions are available. I don't think it's a big deal and neither does anyone else I've asked about this thread irl.

The other opinions are wrong. Even when I've been drunk and merry I still have some self respect and decorum. I know how to behave. Then again I don't drink anymore.

Also flashing a bra also means you can see the breasts as well given that is what they hold.

Jjjg · 10/12/2025 20:57

Gloriia · 10/12/2025 20:44

Grin

You were joking?

No.

ilovesooty · 10/12/2025 20:55

Cailleachnamara · 10/12/2025 20:54

Edit my bad - it did say she flashed her boobs but the OP subsequently clarified the said boobs were not naked.

Actually she didn't say WHAT she flashed.

Edited

She said boobs in the first post.

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