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.

Girl who had only joined the organisation the week before was refused entry to the venue in front of the whole management team as security found cocaine in her bag! HR didn’t sack her as they said it wasn’t on work time!

Went out as the senior leadership team for Christmas drinks and meal I think.
Although I can’t remember a meal, perhaps it was drinks all night.
My boss, was very interested in one of our very beautiful secretaries.
A lovely woman, who lots of the men adored, and who’d had some gorgeous boyfriend’s ( honestly, very good looking 🤣)

My boss, although charming, was not quite ( at all ) in the gorgeous category, but had arranged this outing, so that he could spend the evening with her.

At about 8 o’clock, she was so drunk that she had to go home in a taxi.

Ive always thought of it as the great escape.

I liked both people, but they didn’t seem like a good match, and I’m pretty sure that was her thoughts too. .

No but its damaging in a way that isn't for say a software firm when members of your school SMT are arrested or cationed on mass. Or maybe it isn't.

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Xmas Party on a boat, very early on the quiet new girl in the office fell out of a small cupboard with the new boy on top of her. She managed to get up and totter away but was later found lying on the floor in the packed bar, ‘enjoying herself’ as people sloshed drinks on her whilst trying to step over her.

Shared disco / meal type event. One woman got very drunk and threw up through her legs while we were all sat at the table eating. Most people were drinking and didn't notice but I was sat next to her. She was given a lift home and threw up in the back of a colleagues car. HR had words on the Monday and she never attended another Christmas party. Another do by a company in our sector ended with 4 very senior staff members leaving the business suddenly. Rumour has it they were openly snorting cocaine in the toilets all evening!

Early 90's the American Investment bank I was working at was about to merge with another similarly sized US investment bank. Management decided to have a huge 600 plus party for both banks staff to meet and socialise. Everyone destroyed by alcohol within an hour and the food fight began, one bank vs. the other. Head of one of the trading desks stands up on a table where his counterpart from the other bank was drinking and got his toddler out and urinated on him from height. Cue fight between the two banking groups. I went for a pass and found an FX trader snorting cochineal and munching on the crystals they put in the mens urinals like he was eating peanut brittle. Loud shagging noises coming from one trap with puking from another.
Everyone showed up to work on Monday happy, some bruises obvious but management happy that everyone had really got to know their new colleagues and embraced the spirit of Christmas too!
Different days perhaps but personally I loved working in the City in the 80's & 90's.

Mumsnetters work in crazy places. I've never seen anything as outrageous as any of these stories.

God - these are horrific! I've been going to work/office parties since the early 80s and never seen these sort of extremes...

A few things - one girl drank too much red wine and threw up on the white tablecloth before food was even brought out. Literally just red liquid, but gross!.

Aged about 21 - my BF wouldn't come to a 'boring bank do' so I went with my colleagues. Came out ready to walk home, one very good looking lad who had moved branches gave me a good night Xmas snog. Guess who was hovering having come to pick me up.....!! Poor colleague got punched in the face.....

One year we were in a quite nice hotel. People got a bit excitable and had a 'fight' spraying each other with the soda siphons. We all had to write letters of apology and were not allowed back. Simple times......😄

DH works in a manual place and I've seen more drunkenness at his dos - including puking on a minibus - and obvs you always get the illicit flirtng etc - but I have honestly not seen things like these mentioned here.

Private parties of course are different.......

Hahahhahaha

I used to work in the voluntary sector and in one place particularly, the Christmas parties were the stuff of legend. Then I moved to local government and it’s a completely different culture. People would have two drinks, maximum at a work do. I think if you’re paying yourself you drink less and neither the public nor voluntary sector has the money to pay for staff Christmas parties.

@CapitalKnockers I worked in a Russell Group univ for many years. The amount of illicit relationships between staff was off the scale! All those frustrated academics 😂

Was a works night out and one of the gals there had this low cut top and the tittie tape didnt work. She was drunk and didnt notice a boob slipped out right in front of my face when she was talking to me (I was sat down she was stood up). i did mention it and she popped it back, only to pop back out again a few moments later when she was chatting to someone else.

Oh yeah, I was at a christmas do and i got drunk and had lost my return tram ticket. The conductors on the tram home could see i was frantically looking to no avail. But, they could see i was worse for wear, and instead of giving me a £70 fine, they made me get off at the next stop and pay for another ticket at the booth of the tram stop and then get back on again where my husband was patiently waiting at the last stop to come and pick me up.

What goes on at Police works parties stays at said parties, especially the ones in the 90s and early 00s...

I’d say it would be far more reasonable to discipline the person responsible for hiring the hypnotist!

That's hilarious 🤣 🤣 🤣

I would hope that included the daft (malicious?) employee bringing in the hypnotist!

What?!!

You decided to surprise her with a £90 drink? WTF!

Exactly this. And the fact that anyone can be found on social media. So all this shagging in lifts and toilets at the work Christmas do and the hot young temp, tickling the CEO’s balls…it was easy because you could get away with it. Now someone could google ‘Martin Jones CEO of Martin Jones Estate Agents, find him on social media, find his wife, find his daughter and forward them the picture of the hot temp tickling Martin’s balls under the table. It’s not worth it. But I just love that I lived in an age where we had so much freedom. Nights out were so much fun because we weren’t distracted by phones and cameras. The whole night was dedicated to talking, dancing, flirting and just messing round.

Outing but in the early 90s, my BIL owner a supermarket.

After the nightclub at Christmas party, 4 of his staff decided to let themselves back into the store. They appeared to have someone sort of trolley dash, and rang everything in on a till each. We assumed that the winner most have been highest total or something.

They were all found the following morning asleep in the alcohol isle after keeping the party going.

The shop didn't open until lunch time the following day.

I genuinely think in the nineties and early noughties this was the absolute norm. There have been the extreme ones (decapitation and the blokes lining up for a Christmas BJ from the barmaid) but this is just what people have SEEN imagine the people that never got caught sucking off the CEO or shitting on the boardroom table.

Ended up in bed with two guys I worked with once (awkward for them after because one was the other's boss)

This and 'oh we are banned from the curry house for life' have sent me.... i think this needs to go in Classics.

The stories that I mentioned where teachers drank themselves senseless all happened after 2013... (Can't remember the precise dates, but 2013 was when I had to stop going to staff functions.)

The one that I found funny - maybe I have a bad sense of humour - was when a heap of the young teachers headed to one person's flat in another town to carry on the party.

They couldn't drive, of course, so they all piled onto a bus. Apparently, they were quite raucous and some older women on the bus began to tut.

The same lad who once woke up outside the public park turned round and said "Ye're aa right, Missus! Ye're safe wi us - we're aa teachers! We work at [name of our rival secondary school]."