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.

Wow...I think you win this!!!

At a courier firm I worked for as a teen the motorcycle courier drove through the wall of the female toilet while the manager's wife was on it.

Jesus christ what an awful person. Not for being too drunk, that can be forgiven as a silly mistake but for her behaviour in the aftermath. Sounds like a narcissist of the highest order.

After my Xmas do on Friday night, I ordered an uber for a very very drunk young male colleague who had taken advantage of the(awful and I'm no wine snob and love white wine!) Free table wine with dinner. Seemed to have downed about 3 bottles. He flew down the concrete steps outside the venue and landed on his head. Very lucky to have not smashed his head open.

Anyway, he never got in the uber I ordered, instead heading off to a nightclub with other staff. I got into the uber (around the corner from the venue) to explain and ask if it would take me and my other colleagues into the town, rather than back to the hotel as the person I'd booked it for no longer wanted it. Driver didn't listen to me and began driving. I kept saying to turn around and go back for my colleagues 'no, no I'm booked for rhe hotel!'

Eventually I got thru to him and he drove back to the venue but colleagues had all already left. Realistically, I'd had enough so said to take me to the hotel after all. I was drunk but fine IFKWIM.

I'd been back and hour or so when colleagues rang to see where I were. I'd gone around the corner and this was a dodgy part of Glasgow.

I know I'm not their responsibility of course, but that isn't something I'd have done.

Luckily flying-too-much-wine bloke was fine.

I worked for a department store (now defunct) and we went on a staff party to Warwick Castle all dressed in Tudor fancy dress. Drink was free flowing and in true Tudor style it was mead. One of the young lads (ironically dressed as a jester) failed to realise how strong it was and threw up down a horrified woman from another party group! It gets worse…It turned out she was a shareholder of said department store and contacted the CEO to complain. Naturally management were tasked with finding the culprit but fortunately for the lad we all covered for him and said we hadn’t seen it. There were several jesters costumes so it was impossible for them to narrow it down. I guess the CEO sent the poor lady a nice gift to make up for it. This was late 80’s

Of course that's a awful thing to happen but it was an accident surely. I'd not be truing to apprehend anyone for it. Glad you covered for him.

I motor boated a colleagues wife at my first work do when I was 18. I was hammered. Completely forgot about it until now. Luckily, I worked with people who had a sense of humour. The wife didn't mind

The mind boggles at what "motor boating" might be!!

Motor boating is apparently placing of his/her head between the woman’s breasts and making the sound of a motor boat with the lips whilst moving the head from side to
side.

Every day is a school day!

Thank you! I've lead a sheltered life until now!

Many years ago, DH took his staff out for their work Christmas shindig. Everyone was rather nonplussed when the, hitherto very masculine, Warehouse Manager turned up in studded leather chaps & matching peaked cap. DH was even more nonplussed when said Warehouse Manager propositioned him in the mens' loos, not once but twice.

It was never spoken of again.

Leather man seems quite tame compared to some of the escapades on here

For me it HAS to be 2 post room boys comparing d size in the Gents.

How do I know they were?, you're thinking.

Because I and another girl were pulled in as referees.

Yes, we were all not exactly drunk, but "well oiled".

The craziest thing was that I and the other girl were only 18 year old temps, invited at the last minute and not even knowing the boys concerned (although, as the other girl said, afterwards we knew them "intimately").

Years ago, I worked in a large firm.

They had a dinner dance every year. It was always a massive piss up.

One year, two men started a fist fight, a senior executive was found choking on her own vomit, a bloke told his boss how much he hated him, a senior executive stripped to her waist and ran around the room topless.

Tragically, a recently married young man drank too much and actually died two days later from an alcohol related blood clot that travelled to his heart. Very sad.

I left the company soon afterwards, I'm glad to say.

This thread is hilarious and shocking in equal measures!! And I now feel much better about being a bit rambling and forgetting someone's name on my works do on Friday! Actually, I feel quite tame...

@CovenOfCheeses

I think that you should have got a medal for that. It appears that no good deed really does go unpunished.

You're an absolute mug for all that!

I have just remembered that many years ago a colleague of mine fell asleep on the loo at a Xmas do and woke up in the early hours of the morning, venue had closed hours before but they'd just left him in there.

As far as I remember he found some sort of emergency contact button and one of the keyholders had to get out of bed to go and let him out.

How is she a mug? She decided to look after someone that could have been in lord knows what situation if she didn't help. Not many people would do that. Not many people at all. The behaviour of the woman she helped is what is outrageous.

Anyway, surely this thread is going to classics?!

This is not really shocking behaviour from a Xmas party but an interesting story from a few years ago. I used to work for a firm that was taken over by a US company and most functions were then TUPEd to an Indian outsourcer. Their first gesture was to transport us to a country house hotel hours out of London for a weekend and a Christmas meal.

I and a few other senior managers drove so we could head off early and let the junior members of staff enjoy themselves. The hotel was amazing with a spa, free massages and all food and drinks provided so I stayed longer than expected. On the second night the hotel was a bit boring and a few of the staff persuaded myself and the Indian head of EMEA to drive to the local town where there were a few bars and clubs and a bit of nightlife. We dropped everyone off and went to find a car park and decided to meet them at a local nightclub. We were both stone cold sober as we were driving.

Once we parked we went to the club. I am over 6 foot and blond. The head of the Indian company was a short balding jovial Indian guy.

When we got to the door the doorman said you can’t come in, you are too drunk. We suggested that we were sober and my compatriot suggested he did not drink. We said our junior staff were in the club but were refused. After we left we noticed some very drunk people being let into the club. This repeated itself in the town at other bars (“sorry not your night”, “too full”, “too drunk” etc) so we texted our staff and went back to the hotel. It seemed very strange that the town seemed to have bouncers on the doors of most places and also every single place refused us.

Or the police.

Nutshell. Legendary. DGH is 'job'. Shize.

Many years ago I worked at a company where the Christmas dos before I started were apparently pretty wild. The most talked about party (before I started there) was when a pretty young sales assistant snorted coke off the Area Manager's knob in full view of everyone. They were a lot more restrained by the time I started there but I do remember one of the sales guys lying on the floor looking up my dress while I was standing at the bar to see if I was wearing knickers (I was).

That's not wild. That's sexual harassment.

At ours there was a guy, who I think must have been on drugs, being absolutely vile to the women on his table and it just got worse as the night went on. He said a few times that he has no interest in anything that a woman has to say. He repeatedly referred to us as 'birthers'. A particular highlight was him saying 'I told you I don't care what birthers think, especially when they are fat pigs' and then he laughed to himself for ages.
5 complaints have been made to HR and his line manager. Our company bangs on a lot about wanting to support women in business and asking how they can support them. Let's see if they are prepared to put their money where their mouth is and sack this guy.

Wild. Was this a 2024 party??