What's the craziest behaviour you've witnessed at a Christmas work do?

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Years ago there were a couple of (female) Head of Departments that were frenemies. They actually worked really well together but there was an undercurrent of rivalry there. That year at the Christmas do they were friendly enough to start off with but a couple of bottles of vino later the gloves came off - one of them accused the other of giving a member of her team a BJ in her office, she totally kicked off and the pair of them ended up on the dance floor rolling around trying to pull each other's hair out. It was completely nuts. One of them later resigned and HR released a policy of how to behave when on work socials. That was the last year the company held a Christmas party.

My manager got a bit carried away with the dancing and accidentally flashed her minge to us all.

Christmas work do in Australia

It was only 3pm and the British temp was straddling the Aussie CEO on an office chair

20 odd years ago now. But head of transport bottled someone from environmental health. We got kicked out the pub and it took months for HR to deal with dismissing the head of transport.

It was 1983, my first job after leaving school. For months the two mid thirties typists had been flirting with the male 16 year old office junior. Like being really suggestive. At the party the boy attempted to shove his tongue down one of their throats. I don’t recall him having any shame over the incident. The typists did rein in the comments after that though.

The old claims manager got very drunk and didn’t make it into work the next day. He had the audacity to claim it was something he ate. Nobody believed him.

Our 30+ stone, middle aged boss got her boobs out and plopped them on the naice restaurant table, for comedy value apparently 🫣🤔.

We were horrified, the waiters were speechless, boss thought she was hilarious and the restaurant owner kicked us out.

Never been on a work night out since!

At an academic conference dinner, a Very Serious academic (female) ended up on a table, drunkenly screaming “you can leave your hat on”, while attempting a strip tease. She was lifted down and rushed off to her room by a few of us.

My female CEO made a pass at a senior male colleague of similar age in front of everyone. He rejected her gently. She started bawling crying, I mean wailing snotty crying in front of the whole company. No one came to rescue her either so it went on and on.

The couple who famously got together after shagging in the very small pub toilet (they got married and are now divorced). The woman who got fingered by one man before leaving with a different man (married different man, still together).
The lady who walked down a spiral staircase in a short dress with no underwear on.
We seem to have the policy 'what happens on the Christmas do stays on the Christmas do!'

One of our receptionists (vet practice) got completely toddled at a Christmas do about 15 years ago…told screamed at the top of her lungs that all we were murderers (allegedly putting down healthy and well balanced animals), complicit in the abuse of animals, fundamentally bad people and this Christmas do had just proved it because how could we be this happy after a day of murdering innocent animals…

Oddly, she handed in her notice a few days later. Can’t think why.

I've comparatively fortunate I think! I have a policy of never ever drinking on any work do. I end up being everyone's favourite person because I volunteer to be a designated driver. I have a high tolerance for other people getting drunk though as long as they are not complete twats. (Or indeed i see their twat).

I think the worst was when by a total coincidence my law firm booked a local restaurant for the same time as the local accountancy firm. We were all fine, but the accountants were shit faced and screaming and dancing on tables and started throwing food at us and shouting.

On the following Monday our senior partner advised us by e-mail that he had cancelled our payroll and auditing contracts with that accountancy firm and had engaged another one.

Bloody hell. How did she react on Monday morning?!

One of my first employers had a big do and brought in a hypnotist for the entertainment. Employees were encouraged to volunteer on stage to do supposedly hilarious things whilst under the influence of both him and alcohol. One turned into a chicken and pecked his boss, then pulled his trousers down and pretended to lay an egg on the boss's table.

Three employees were disciplined over their behaviour in the following weeks.

Not my works do but I went to a local comedy evening a few years ago with my sister and a local car seller was having their works night out and they filled half of the room. The car showroom has a jingle that is played on local radio 1000 times a day and the MC had us singing it several times so we all knew who they were. During the course of the 4/5 comedians doing their set, a few members of staff got absolutely bladdered. This led to a woman getting up in the middle of the set and stealing the mic off of the poor comedian. She then proceeded to start singing a song!!!! We were all screaming with laughter and her husband was mortified and came up and basically dragged her off of the stage. The set continued then the woman started to cry loudly and next thing we hear her husband shout YOU GOT ON STAGE AND SANG A SOONNNNNNNNNG!!!!

There was a little break and then the next comedian came on and this woman lit up a fag 🤣🤣 by this point lots of the crowd/ comedians/ her colleagues were fed up and the staff rushed over to tell her to put it out which she refused. You could see the managers with a face like thunder. Then, one of her colleagues made some comment to her to which her husband promptly turned round and punched him in the face 🙈 they started brawling, chairs were going everywhere, people were screaming…. The wife, husband and the other fighter got dragged out but security and the rest of the team sat there very stony faced for the rest of the night

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There was this a of tabloid journalists and click bait content creators down at the Harvester on Monday night. Things are pretty bad in that line of work and they’re not giving out much party energy. One of them decided to go to loo and try and drum up some content instead. AFAIK she’s still there, pants and tights round her ankles, bashing away on her phone and hoping to get paid SOMETHING before Christmas.

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Ha ha

DH once worked for a national recruitment company with a huge drinking culture. The company was a dreadful employer and its Xmas parties were so awful that they were never allowed to go back to the same venue twice. Think pissing on TVs etc. partners not invited obviously.

One time someone was decapitated by sticking their head out of a moving train. I cannot tell you how happy I was when DH left this company.

Secretary and grad caught shagging in toilet , analyst fight with bouncer , analyst shit himself whilst throwing up under table ... all past few years and the party has been cancelled since !!!! Analysts all young in 20,s and free booze don't mix

This wins.

One time someone was decapitated by sticking their head out of a moving train.

That's more than a bit mad....

Omg

Head of HR was drunk and going to each table, sprawling herself on it and yelling 'Who has some coke???'

Wow! Crazy

I've been on one and I'll never go again

We all went out for a curry-fine,I like curry

My colleague/mate was so plastered before we even got there (she'd Drank a large bottle of vodka after splitting with her arsehole ex) and started on the wine as soon as we got there

It ended with me holding her head so she didn't pass out into her korma and drown

We called a cab for her and amazingly,one took her home

She passed out on her driveway and someone found her,called an ambulance and long story short,she was sectioned for a few days

Same party-the bosses where keeping an eye on the under 18's to make sure they didn't drink

Didn't stop the under 18's from smuggling in a bottle or two in their handbags and getting pissed in the toilets

One got so plastered,she tried to dance on the tables and then,because she was the 'right height' leaned over and tried to undo the main bosses flies and screamed she was going to give him a bj

I've never seen a man fly backwards so fast-his wife (who was stood next to him)
managed to get her into the toilet,where she young girl threw up and ended up in hospital

Another (married with kids) woman had sex with one of the lads in the toilets-she was married

I got dp to pick me up and take me home and the party the following year didn't happen due to 'budget cuts'

Oh and we are all now banned for life from the curry house