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 😅

Big NHS team, I was quite new so went to Xmas do at a pub chain type place to try and fit in.
Very senior nurse got absolutely pissed and tried to get off with quiet nerdy male nurse, sitting on his lap suggestive comments and trying to put his hands on her boobs. He was not into it at all and had to be rescued several times.
Same woman was so rude to the teenage girl waitress she wouldn’t wait on us. I and a few others left at this point cos it was so awful, but afterwards teenage girl waitress was replaced by a teenage boy who nurse also tried it on with.
I did not go the following year.

Not crazy behaviour from the attendees, but crazy behaviour from the venue:

My mother rang the bells at her local church. The ringers had a Christmas do at at local pub. The wife of the Tower Captain got a phone call from the landlady at 3.00 a.m. the next morning telling her that the ringers were all permanently banned from the pub. My mum (aged 82) was most bemused. 'It was the ringers, and the choir........ and the churchwardens!'. Most of them were in their 70's and 80's too.

I used to work in corporate at a big financial place, Christmas parties were always mad.

firstly once the very big ego head of marketing pretended to play a practical joke on everyone which he thought was hilarious which was he was going to give a presentation on numbers and data at the party and then shouted “ONLY JOKING!!! HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!” Thinking everyone would find it hilarious and amazing but we were all just like.. OK, cool…

Next, and this one isn’t funny, senior guy who was married with kids launched himself on a number of younger women trying to snog them etc. lots of HR complaints afterwards.

Different company a guy just randomly
got his junk out for the group picture. No one noticed until later looking closely at the picture

I did also drunkenly kiss someone quite senior to me at a work Christmas party, we’re now married with kids! 😇

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've worked in a lot of different practices and although 'this sort of thing' mostly happened a good few years ago, I never cease to be amazed at how ...ummm...professional people (!) behave.

To be honest, none of the above has actually disturbed me compared to some of the stuff I have witnessed.

I vommed on the dance floor about 20 years ago in my first big girl office job.

One of my colleagues, female, married with children, told our boss, also female and married with children, that she wanted to lick her bottom, and repeated it over and over, each time getting louder and louder. Then she flashed her boobs to everyone and someone called her husband to come and collect her. She had no recollection of any of the above events the following day.

Or so she said.

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Sorry, just realised I didn't answer your questions.

All just carried on as if nothing had happened. Partner went a bit red at the time. Senior partner had to have lots of heart checks after the Spanish Fly incident but it's a close environment and all knew far worse stuff about each other so it's all just swept under the rug until the next blistering event usually.

I could write a book. I won't but I could.

New female boss did the dirty dancing lift AT a young admin... flattened him.

Oh that's reminded I did too, then slipped in it and split my trousers 🤦

I used to work for solicitors over 20 years ago and they used to have client / staff Xmas parties where clients, barristers and other people we had dealt with all year round were invited for a few drinks in December.

There was a young female trainee whose father was a client and also good friends with our boss. She got in the lift with a solicitor and they snogged for a while as the lift went up and down and kept opening in reception where her dad and our boss were having a conversation right outside it.

We had one of our packing ladies beaten up by her husband in the car park after he came to pick her up ( early). This was because he saw her talking to a male colleague while she was waiting for him. Some of the men hauled him off her and he got a good sock to the jaw for his trouble. She was back with her husband in the New Year though, refused the offer of any counselling and acted as of nothing had happened.

Fully agree
She had been to hell and back with the ex (he was a cocklodger who was shagging anything that moved)
She didn't seem drunk at first-i know that sounds daft,but she was walking and talking just fine-I was chatting to her on the short walk down
She got stuck into the wine (she had at least a full bottle) as soon as we walked in and suddenly 'went down'
Face first into her korma-i was holding her by the chin and hair to stop her
If she'd been alone or nobody noticed,she would have drowned in it (thankfully I was sat next to her-it took about 5 minutes to get someone to take notice of what was happening)
Somebody should have taken her home,not just dumped her in a taxi (id gone home as i was on a very early shift the following morning,but trusted the bosses to take care of her-as is their duty-in fact i begged them to take care of her and they said they would personally get her home)
She passed out,on her driveway,snow thick on the ground,wearing a thin black dress and heels-no coat and thanks to a neighbour (who saw her and rang an ambulance) saved her life
She thought that drinking as much as she did and what happened afterwards was hilarious and brags about it to this day
I don't think it's funny-she could have died at any point and wasted a lot of nhs time and money

I work in events. I've seen everything from people having sex, to multiple 'accidents' (front/back). People fighting, vomiting, crying - the usual too drunk stuff.

The biggest eye opener for me is the number of affairs. People hooking up at the events and also those obviously already involved (plus a few who invite the other women!). CEO's, IT 'geeks', Sales people (THE WORST)... from the meekest to the loudest, most important, to the work experience person; absolutely rife at every level and every event.

When people say they didn't think their husband/wife would be 'that' person, sadly I'm never surprised. I've seen it all.

My daughter just had her first Christmas drinks I had to go pick her up after she vomited all over the loo. She is 20 and autistic, she said people kept buying her drinks and telling her it makes her more sociable so she can come out of her shell. She is mortified and I’m quite cross about the whole thing.

Most people I've worked with would not consider taking you on a night out if you weren't prepared to puke at some point. It's the lowest rung on the ladder. Being mortified by vomiting is a mere nothing.

I was sick very very quietly and discretely (honest) into my handbag on a coach from the venue back to our workplace where we were put in pre booked taxis with other people who lived in our direction.

As i sat, hiccuping in the taxi with one of our directors I realised my bag was slowly leaking into my hands. humiliating.

Saw colleague dancing (slowly) with a full body sized pot plant. A huge green thing with massive leaves. He was nuzzling it and effectively cheek to leaf - went on for a while and he appeared quite enamoured.

couldn’t look him in the eye after this really.

Used to work in derivative trading early on in my career. Parties were always mad. Lots of people copping off with other people and snogging on the dance floor. Lots of coke being consumed as well. Not just in the toilets but also at tables. Two events stick out. One was our 50 something compliance officer copping off with a the c 22 year old accounts assistant. He sent her a note the day after asking for marks out of ten... she left within the week. The other was the party where we had a temporary tattooist. It started off okay with little roses on arms and hearts, but as the evening went on big facial Maori tattoos started to appear on all the men. Which was quite funny until they left and tried to get taxis...none of them would stop.

Years ago now - two blokes from the same team falling out, over who was going to try and go out with the new girl that had just joined said team. Ended up in a full scale fight where both got arrested and the firm was permanently banned from that restaurant.

Subject of much gossip when both blokes turned up to work on Monday with black eyes and bruises. As it wasn't an "official" work do, they kept their jobs but got final warnings. HR swiftly published guidance on acceptable behaviour when socialising with colleagues outside of the office.

Accompanied my then Council Leader and the Deputy Leader to a week long professional conference in Liverpool. It was soon clear that their priority was to take full advantage of the free evening hospitality from the companies that sponsored the event. Spent the week cringing as they demanded more bottles of wine at the social events each evening and then dragging them back roaring drunk to the conference hotel. They then insisted on finishing off at the hotel bar at which point I left them to it. I concluded they were functioning alcoholics as they were both fresh as a daisy at breakfast next day.

Colleague got plastered and vomited everywhere right in the middle of a busy dance floor. Not just in front of us, his fellow work colleagues, but there were also loads of other companies there (one of those shared parties at hotels, where you have dinner & disco). Personally I’d have been mortified but even afterwards he was pretty unashamed!

I think this thread belongs in classics

I wasn’t actually laughing at that part I was laughing about her last sentence saying they have all been banned from the curry house for life.
Sorry if I gave that impression