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.

I haven’t done a big all expenses paid Christmas party in years now, but a few years back you could always tell how the venue was being paid. If your drink was snatched away by waiting staff the second you looked away, they were billing the company per drink. If you got enough vodka or whatever spirit to floor an elephant in your drink, they were billing according to how much was used overall.

'Not sure that is 'Susan from Accounts' fault. I doubt she was expecting to be given a £90 drink as her surprise. Unless you told her the price before she did the big order you pretty much ripped them off.'

I agree @Sayoonara, it's just taking advantage of people, and the fact that you didn't say anything about the price either when you gave her the drink or when she ordered a shot for everyone says a lot about you @ThelittleBee. That woman may have been fired because of you.

Christmas do at a nice Italian restaurant, I was heavily pregnant. The others got completely ratarsed and starting causing trouble because of some imagined slight by the waiting staff (don't even remember what it was, if anything). They started arguing with the staff. Next thing they all got up and went outside - I was like, "oh right we're leaving then?" As I was gathering my stuff they banged really hard on the window (the restaurant was full of other people) - everyone turned to look whilst they all bent over and rubbed their bare arses against the window! This was a group of women too!

I just sat there shocked, mumbled an apology to the staff (the main waiter looked at me and was shaking his head and gesticulating in Italian like I was complicit in it!) and ran out 😂 i could've killed them!

Also why would one person be allowed to order for everyone?

What about non drinkers (religion, pregnant people, ex-alcoholics, tea-teetotalers, people on medication etc...) or people that don't drink spirits or like whiskey etc...?

I'm a whiskey drinker but in general life I find very few people actually are, I'm more often than not the only spirits drinker in the group most still to beers and wines... I image there was a tonne of waste.

Banned! Ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣

The Buckingham Palace after-party at the pub sounds as if it was a one-woman brawl. She was arrested, held overnight and given a penalty notice for disorder.

A woman was arrested for common assault, damage and being drunk and disorderly and was put in a cell overnight before being released with a fine.

How very infra dig, my dears. Quite unlike the home life at Christmas of our dear, late Queen.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14187837/Buckingham-Palace-maid-arrested-staff-Christmas-party-glasses-smashed-punches-Bar-One.html

Me neither and it puts my antics in the shade

Princessfluffy · 11/12/2024 07:04

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

FF to 1:05.

I'm an academic and have seen some very interesting sights at some of our major conferences, but IME it's barristers who are the absolute worst!

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

@Princessfluffy you're going to have to say something more about this.

Do you mean literally? I guess so???

Many years back I worked for a small mail order company. A few weeks before the Christmas party, the owner had had a bad skiing accident and came to the party with an arm and a leg still in plaster. (He shouldn’t really have gone out, but the company was very much his baby and he didn’t want to miss it.)

His wife had been having to help him get around, so once the dancing started he told her to go and have some fun. Unfortunately as she’d been sitting with him all night while everyone else had been mingling, she’d put away quite a few drinks. She started dancing with this young “Jack the lad” type from the warehouse and got WAY too into it. She was virtually giving a pole dance using him as the pole, while her husband sat like a eunuch watching and fuming. He couldn’t get up to tell her to stop making a fool of herself (and him); none of us knew her well enough to intervene, and we certainly weren’t going to ask our boss if he’d like some help onto the dance floor so he could ask his wife to stop acting like a trollop. Warehouse boy, who usually had enough bravado to make male TOWIE stars look shy and retiring, had realised things were going way too far, but couldn’t extricate himself.

Boss never ever acknowledged it had happened. The only man the boss’s wife danced with (other than him) at the next function was openly gay. As for warehouse boy, he actually got promoted a few months later, so either all was forgiven, or the boss had realised he was innocent in it all and rewarded him for not making it any worse!

Same. Our Central Government parties in the 80s were legendary.

@IAm16StoneHalloween2024 on the way home from the Xmas party, everyone beyond pissed, one guy stuck his head out of the train window.

After this they reined in the alcohol culture somewhat.

Prior to this all sales incentives and socialising centred around alcohol.

Previous works parties always trashed the venue (think TVs out of windows etc). But I believe that this was the first time accidental death was involved.

I’d be upset and angry too .
My youngest is well over the legal age to drink and she’s autistic too .
The friends she has at the moment wouldn’t do that and they all look out for each other , maybe have a couple of cocktails or buy a pitcher to share between the 4 of them

I’m crying laughing at some of these 😂

It's not even really a prank, is it? Where the 'fun' is in the reveal and the inclusion of the target when they suddenly get the practical joke. It's more of a kind with a waiter secretly spitting in someone's food.

I’m pretty sure I remember reading in the news about this!

@Garcws I've just Googled 'priapism':

Priapism is a painful, persistent erection that lasts longer than four hours

That poor guy - hospitalised for four days with an erection....

Words fail me!!

I went to a party of management and staff where the men put their cocks though holes in sheets hung up and guesses were made as to who. The women put their tits through.

This to the Cakewalk Rag being played on the piano by a man being 'sat on' facing him by a junior staffer.

After ten pints of dog bolter and half a bottle of Janneau, it's surprising what folks will do but when you arrive at a party and the balloons on the tables are being weighted down with stainless steel butt plugs, you know you are in for an interesting night.

Or veterinary.

He was really ill.

He had a heart condition that he chose to keep to himself. Whether knowing about it would have made a difference to his 'assailants' is another question.

This is actually not as uncommon as you'd think. There have been a fair few decapitations by moving train.

😱

Very quiet female all over a full of himself accountant, I tried calmly to pull them apart as she could barely stand, I knew she’d be mortified, they were both married, his wife not long given birth. Anyway they left together and the next day (yess mid week bash) I got into the office to see a bra dangling from the post above my desk. The female worked on the other side of the post/partition

There were lots of jokes from my team who were very loud as opposed to her very serious team. The jokes were aimed at me but I didn’t mind, they were all saying the bra must have been mine and I copped off in secret, we all knew it wasn’t true but I was happy to go along. It was clear the bra wasn’t mine, 36H here as a posed to the 32 AA bra hanging above my head.

Another company, sleezy ceo all over young receptionist, his drunk wife attacked the receptionist so alcohol was banded for all employees except management going forward. Poor receptionist left. The thing is it wasn’t the receptionist the wife needed to worry about but one of her friends who’d been shagging the ceo for years.

Third company ended up removing beds from their first aid rooms as they were regularly used as shagging spots, not just at work Christmas dos but regular monthly drinks.

Blimey! I'm not surprised you're upset. That's an appalling way to take advantage of a young woman. I daresay she was too polite to refuse.