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.

The best Christmas parties I've been to were when I worked for a small company. Maybe 8 of us, plus partners usually.

One year one of my colleagues had smoked a bit too much weed, got scared and rang his parents who in turn rang an ambulance. I can still picture him slumped in the doorway of the pub, paramedics talking to him while other pub goers just squeezed around them.

Another time we were having a snowball fight walking between bars, someone's bad aim hit a car that was driving past. Two young fellas got out and started following us up the road. They started a fight just as the police were driving past. Quickly apprehended and some of the group had a day in court as witnesses.

Mine is the manager of our company stripping naked and running down Sauchiehall street many moons ago pissed. Even the police burst out laughing at him. His wife came to his rescue as he said isn’t it cold 😂😂😂😂.

We found ours tied to a lamppost with tinsel and balloons.

PMSL at this one, I wonder if he had some weird plant fetish? that's one I've never heard of lol

We've got our work Christmas party tonight.....I work in a school...though I'm retiring next week!

Now is the time! I’d go fucking crackers.

Bloody hell!

Sorry but that was a ridiculous drink to "surprise" her with. "Drink responsibly" and you're handing out triple shot drinks? Let alone pick an extra expensive one.
That's just exploitation.

It's very tempting @SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament ! 😜

I await the tales of your legacy tomorrow morning…

A&E department night out. Free bar (limit 3k) gone in 45 mins. Banned from the hotel for lite

So, she wasnt wearing any knickers then?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mv92l9720o

This one made the news.

I can't believe that palace staff only went to all bar one for their Christmas do!

I had some crazy Christmas parties back in the late 90s but my DH’s antics about 10 years ago mean I can retain the moral high ground. He managed to close one of the (many, confusing) exits of Bank tube station after his recruitment work do because he was drunk and dicking around, fell down the steps and hit his head, out cold, paramedics called, that part of the station closed. A more sensible, lovely female colleague found me on FB and messaged me, stayed with him and kept in touch with me as he was observed for concussion. He arrived home the next day covered in bruises and was very sheepish. He’s not a good drunk.

"I can't believe that palace staff only went to all bar one for their Christmas do!"

I didn't get to be buying gold crowns and palaces by spending my money on staff!

I decided that the open air ice rink was just too inviting so dragged my female colleague onto it for a skating session despite it being closed and us having no skates. We were barefoot being chased around the rink by a security guard.

I don't think that it was the same party where we got very frisky in the toilets despite her being straight,. but it may have been.

Other party highlights have included food fights, trying to steal paintings from restaurant walls, being caught shagging much younger colleague from another office by my new boss, dancing on tables, blow job to one guy then snogging another mere minutes after, throwing up on the stairs.

90s and early noughties. Finance and sales. Carnage. Thank god there was no social media then.

My most wtf moment was when a colleague bit me on a Christmas do. I was sitting chatting and next min felt a sharp pain on my shoulder and she'd walked up behind me and bit me, when I asked wtf she was doing she said 'I don't like you' for the record I got on really well with everyone else, had had very little interaction with this woman and had no idea what her problem was, others asked me not to make a fuss as she 'had stuff going on' so I didn't. About 6 months later she must have decided she liked me as was really nice to me. Looking back I should have done more but i was much younger and not as wise!

You probably don't want to know what happened in the 90's literally anything went, long lunch followed by booze flowing in the office, you avoided any cupboards because they were probably "occupied" then meeting up with fellow industry people in a pub and onto a club ... one colleague work up in Trafalgar Square by the lions one year! This is before phones on cameras so these things stayed far more secret I should point out, office flings stayed secret

These ones weren't me....
3some in the public square in front of the office
Boat party....vomit rolling up and down the dance floor as the boat moved
One girl took a colleague home. Wouldn't let him touch her but made him sit and watch her masturbate.
Boss that offered his preferred woman a late start next day if they went home with him.

Senior woman thumped a male colleague in full view of everyone else for trying it on with much younger member of her team.
Snogs and more in full view of everyone else didn't get more than the occasional raised eyebrow.

Has nobody mentioned karaoke?

I remember a do involving a karaoke competition, with an extra game for non-singers: you would be blindfolded, and guess who was doing the singing.

Very true. This was nearly 40 years ago - still not clever back then.

I was not one of the very thirsty ones involved in this. I found out later that evening. I was in a different group at the event.

Like many of the accounts on this thread - questionable/stupid/irresponsible behaviour fuelled by alcohol.

After two 250mL white wines and a couple of spirit shots, about 85 minutes after the canapes and snacks, Raelene, a receptionist removed all her clothes and approached several young men aged 25-35 asking them to engage in sex with her. Several fellow female employees rushed to try to re-dress her and to get her home to her mother and sister.

It was the talk of the office staff until closing time that night and back at work when we resumed on January 3rd.

Raelene, poor woman, remembered nothing ... but the reaction of her colleagues meant she found alternative employment very soon after.

Well, the pay is dreadful, so....

Family members worked at Balmoral some years ago. The pay - as one family member said - was "the basic agricultural wage plus sixpence from the Queen". I've heard that it's no better in other royal residences and estates.