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.

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That has just sent me into a Korma 🤣🤣🤣

I actually don't think that is funny. The colleague who drank a bottle of vodka followed by wine and ended up being sectioned is actually lucky to be alive. She could very easily have died from alcoholic poisoning.
So yes it's a crazy party story but for someone to risk death and end up sectioned it's actually scary, not funny.

Veterinary staff here too and I have attended a Christmas party where:

1. All the staff had a massive food fight and the walls of the hotel dining room were literally covered in food. The practice received a £2000 cleaning bill and a ban on any of the staff crossing the portal again - ever.

2. A senior partner had printed off the log of all the porno sites a junior partner had viewed on the nights he had been 'called in' to the practice and put them in crackers handed out to the staff.

3. Receptionist giving a BJ to a vet student in the car park then taking a piss on the tarmac, all watched by other staff members from the windows as well as partygoers from other companies.

4. Vet nurses arsing about pissed and a senior old dear that was our Cats Protection League co-ordinator getting knocked off her feet and sustaining broken hip and wrist for Christmas.

5. Similar horseplay pissed up vets and senior partner ends up falling in the lock of a canal but somehow managing to keep his packet of fags above the water. There was actual ice on the water.

6. The worst. Person or persons who shall remain nameless put spanish fly in the drink of the senior partner. He had a priapism that hospitalised him for four days.

I worked in a posh private school. At the annual school ball, one of the PE teachers got drunk, made a pass at the headmaster on the dance floor in front of his wife, and then threw up all over his shoes. She left at the end of term without serving her notice.

Holy hell. That practice sounds totally bonkers! How did the partner react to the crackers? And how the fuck did the receptionist ever live that down!?

Heres a little insight from the other side of the christmas party. I used to work bartending at a 5* hotel and we would often get venue hires for corporate christmas functions. These functions would usually involve a meal and an open bar, which our bar was VERY expensive. One lady asks me to surprise her with a drink so I figured I would give her a Japanese whisky, triple shot. She then proceeded to order one for EVERYONE at the function. This drink was 90 quid a head. So you can imagine the bosses face when he asked to close out the tab and 80 people has been drinking some of Japan's finest whisky because Susan from accounts thought it would be a good idea. He was annoyed but he had not specified a tab limit or restrictions on what to serve so I can only imagine the bollocking she must have got after that one.

Not my work Christmas party (our's are all pretty tame tbh) but my best friend, who (a few yrs ago now) had been temping at a haulage company. They kindly, so she thought, invited her out for their Christmas party, it was all men other than my friend and another female member of staff who worked in the office doing admin as did my friend. The night started at a curry house (seems to be a popular theme!) and they then went onto a local pub which too be fair had a bit of bad reputation. My friend who was in her early twenties, felt a bit out of her depth as they were all men and drinking lots, but tried to have a good time. However when a lot of the guys seemed to disappear she thought it a bit strange and mentioned it to the other female worker, who simply shrugged and said "go out to the back car park, you'll find them there, but I'd advise not bothering". My friend who is really nosy went out to look and there lined up against the wall were at least 10 of her fellow co-workers (male) with their willy's out ready to be serviced by one of the barmaids (orally). Apparently it happened the previous year and hence why they went back. She found out the following week when back in the office, the barmaid was paid for her actions and it was just seen as harmless fun!

Most of the crazy behaviour at mine involved me 😂

She was one of those people with no shame, even after the event.

Unlike our Director who went back to the restaurant to apologise 🫣

When people who hook up as a one off at a work party (be it a snog or something more)...... Is it awkward seeing them after the party?

Not a Christmas party but a works day out with awards. A group of the cool kids, for tea want of a name, decided it would be cool to have triple jack Daniels with coke, and they drank an inordinate amount of them in 2 hours.

The following year we hasd to stay in the conference room with warm wine and lager.

Worked for a company that used to have really big Christmas parties (think 500 plus people) and free booze. Plus some teams met up for drinks beforehand so rolled up well on their way to oblivion.

As well as the usual fights, falling over drunk and breaking bones, we had one woman get a friend to film her, boobs out, masturbating in a loo which was then sent to the object of her affections who then forwarded it on to all his friends. By the end of the night I think you could count on one hand the number of people who hadn’t seen it.

Same company, different year, one chap wandered up to a table of girls, got his dick out and waggled it at them, then later at the bar got it out again but this time rubbed it up against someone and slapped her arse. He was fired the next day.

Last week there was a thread on MN started by an OP who shared a taxi home from her Christmas do with her supervisor and was totally mortified because she had to stop the taxi to throw up. She didn't know how she would face her supervisor again.
I was comparing the poor OP's shame in that thread with the woman whose film of herself masturbating in a toilet cubicle was viewed by virtually the whole company. How on earth did that woman style it out when she went back into work? Not that I think I would ever have done something similar no matter how drunk I got I think if it had been me I would have taken myself off to some desert island and never been able to face anyone ever again.

I didn’t know her before that so not sure what happened to her afterwards, I imagine she changed her name and emigrated to Australia!

I've also remembered one woman from work who lived near her boss, so when her DH came to pick her up they offered her boss a lift home as well. Boss sat in front passenger seat, she sat in the seat behind, windows down as they were all feeling a bit worse for wear. Her boss threw up out the window as they were driving along and it went back in the rear window and hit her.

Years ago we were waiting about for taxis etc when we realised our friend was missing. We frantically looked for her, she had a habit of making bad choices with men when drunk.
We eventually found her upside down in a wheelie bin, fast asleep.
It was her snoring that alerted someone to where she was.

That's really harsh!!! You can't bring in a hypnotist and then discipline employees when they get hypnotised (pissed or not!)

Not mine but DSisters works do. I was going to pick her up at midnight.
Walked in to see one of the secretaries with her hand down the transport managers
trousers who accidentally broke her wrist in getting her hand out.
It seems she had tried to do it with every male in the room.
She resigned after the new year.

This was me and now DP. I woke up with such bad hangxiety the following morning and was dreading going in on the Monday - it was awful!!!

Thankfully we don't work in the same office but we didn't speak for almost a week until he rung me one day under the pretence of needing my help with something work related (I knew it was rubbish and he just wanted an excuse to ring😂). Just as we were done and I was about to hang up he (very awkwardly!) mentioned the night out and asked how I felt about meeting up again soon.

We got together the next week and haven't been apart since 😊

This is pretty dangerous but also hilarious 😂We once lost a colleague on a works night out and found her asleep next to a homeless man, underneath his blanket with his dog lay on her 😬

I wasn’t there but female partner at a big accountants firm apparently got so drunk she fell over, she retired early at 50.

Nothing much else really in all my years of working.

Heard of sales colleagues staying for Christmas party at a hotel sleep with each other, one married one not, that was at a big nationwide removals company HQ.

Our CEO getting hammered and turning her end of year speech into a rant about our competitors, and then sort of pole dancing on one of the pillars in the pub we were in. It was one of my first jobs in the UK I was quite shocked 😅

No, it usually becomes more than a one off

Ended up in bed with two guys I worked with once (awkward for them after because one was the other's boss), but I would probably say the worst was one abroad where someone got arrested in Germany for being both drunkenly violent and coming out with a lot of offensive pro-Nazi language. Ended up in a cell and missed their flight, had to explain to HR why they didn't get on it.

I think that must be a common mistake, we had the same thing happen at ours because we went to a bar that was frequented by very rich footballers. And yes there were normal priced drinks on the menu but the most expensive thing was a £10k bottle of champagne.

This is hilarious 🤣