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 had to break into my bosses’ phone (facial recognition is great) and call his wife to get their address to drop him home as he was saying things he shouldn’t to staff. (He was normally a great boss, or I would have let him dig his own grave.) He puked out the window and all over the door, wound up the window and then rivaled Linda Blair. I swear he had barely a drop on himself. I stopped his wife from opening the door and we got him out via the back as the handle was so disgusting I didn’t want her to touch it. She is awesome, btw. I can’t imagine her doing the Florence Nightingale routine for his hangover the next day. Monday morning, he graciously thanked me for the lift and for stopping him from being a total dick at the party. I handed him my keys and said “That’s perfectly fine. Now… You are going to get my car professionally detailed inside and out by the morning. If I find a single recycled onion ring in any nooks or crannies, I will be asking you to get it cleaned again. When you see it, you’d understand why I’m going back home now to shower again before I start work today.” He just nodded and gave me the day off and my car was immaculate and I had a bunch of flowers and a card from his wife.

An intern after the free bat doing a huge red wine sick all over a Director’s vair expensive and vair tasteful cream outfit and cashmere coat.

I’m so sorry this happened to your daughter. I hope she feels ok, and she really shouldn’t worry. As you can see on this thread people do far, FAR worse than vomiting in the loos on a night out (in fact, I suspect 90% of the adult population have vomited in the loos from too much booze at some point in their life 😊)
Your daughter’s colleagues should not have encouraged her to drink. I hate the attitude of some adults that ‘you have to drink to be fun’. It’s totally untrue and I’m glad, for my own young DCs, that it’s an attitude than seems to have fallen out of favour with younger generations. Lots of companies are steering away from boozy parties these days because the ‘fun’ often goes bad.

I worked for a very expensive holiday village, and the Christmas do's were..... interesting.

We had a bloke in landscaping who thought he was God's gift- he'd walk normally most of the time but if anyone female hoved into view he had this slinky, aren't I sexy type of swagger. To be fair he was a good looking chap but really Dave, no one looks sexy in landscaping trousers, even with big pockets! We used to call him Gobshite.
We had the Christmas do, he was going out with a girl who didn't come to this do for some reason. Gobshite was chatting and dancing to another girl, rumour had it that they had a bit of a bunk up on the palettes outside by the shop (classy!) His girlfriend's best friend was somewhat annoyed at how close he was getting to this other girl (very steamy dancing) tapped his shoulder and told him in no uncertain terms that she thought he was not behaving very well, girl he was dancing with got involved, next thing we know the two of them were rolling on the dance floor pulling each other's hair and screaming insults at each other. The abiding memory I have is that the girl in the green dress had no knickers on, quite a night. I miss that job.

Some of these are so awful I wouldn't be able to show my face again!

I've never been at any really bad ones but at my first job many years ago people did get very drunk. We had someone get arrested and he was later fired but it was all a bit hush hush around what exactly went on. I think he was suspended following the arrest, and then during his suspension some other gross misconduct came to light when people had to cover his accounts.

And then just general drunkenness - one guy passed out in a pool of his own vomit on the pavement while our manager was waiting for an ambulance for him. And someone else got into a taxi but was too drunk to say where he lived so he woke up asleep on the floor outside a police station where the taxi driver had obviously dropped him off after realising he wasn't going to get an actual address out of him.

Oh around time of the Millennium I worked for a top architects and they hired a boat to sail up and down the Thames to see the Millennium dome, a few male colleagues refused to come. I bought a very low backed and bejewelled/embellished little black dress and a bottle of tequila and got off with 2 male colleagues one after the other, my best friend was with me from outside work, we then went to Hanover Grand nightclub where my bag was nicked. I was very drunk and realised tequila turned me crazy! Unsurprisingly the next February my name was down with a lot of others for redundancies after we lost a big contract.

There was one Christmas party where a young Muslim colleague who’d been to Dubai told everyone including our “trendy” managing partner that he’d done MDMA. We prayed that the partner didn’t know what he meant and called the young colleague how stupid he was.

Law firm where I used to work, before my time they took over a restaurant and threw food at each other and got the bill for the clean up. They also told me tales of barristers chambers parties which apparently were very drunken (with drugs).

Many years ago I worked at a place that had a big Christmas do where people's partners were also invited. A colleague's husband got extremely drunk on free booze and punched our CEO in the face.

Also had one where a guy who was with us on a year's fixed term contract started offering everyone cocaine. At 4.30pm.

I ask about feeling embarrassed after because I remember (back in my school days) girls regretting snogging someone at a party and then having to see them at school. Surely it's worse in the world of work.

In my first job I had a lovely quiet manager in his 50s. He never drank and left early after every do. Apparently years earlier he had gotten very drunk and separated from the group. As it was pre mobile phones he went to a payphone and phoned his wife begging her to get him. She asked where exactly he was and he answered 'the payphone' and hung up. The woman spent literally hours driving around looking for every city centre payphone, he was eventually found curled up asleep in the bottom of the box. Poor man never lived it down, every new recruit heard the story every Christmas! All very wholesome compared to some of these stories!

Young male with a spud gun and started shooting everyone in the restaurant!

I’ve experienced:

Being pinned up against a wall by a drunk male colleague shouting in my face why he didn’t like me. I was sober and 6 months pregnant at the time. Reported to HR and got an apology.

I have been that person who vommed in the back of a managers car on the way home. Had to pay for a full valet and felt so embarrassed

Witnessed lots of snogging between colleagues. Walked past two having sex in a meeting room once. Both married.

Why do people behave like this?

Years ago head of local council's finance department shagging a temp under a desk in what they thought was a deserted office, but a large group of their colleagues interrupted them.

My ex boss getting slaughtered and projectile vomiting over three colleagues - that one was caught on video too and did the rounds faster than the speed of light. Fair play to her, she roughed it out and made it to her on call shift the following day, albeit looking like death!

A colleague and her boss both got drunk and ended up passionately snogging in front of everyone. She had her hand in his pants. He was married too.

I took a carrier bag to bed after a night out and boked in it more than once, I didn't realise there were holes in the bottom.

A gangbang in the toilets.

Yes it's absolutely excruciating. I will never forget the fear on that Sunday night before work on Monday. I had snogged one of the guys at work right in front of my boss and had flashbacks of him grabbing my arse and us almost falling backwards at one point in the heat of passion. It haunted me for ages.

I just brazened mine out. But I think I got a reputation slightly.

My OH is currently out at his work Christmas do, so this is an interesting read 😆

My best performance was aged 28 when I got very drunk and told my 40 year old manager that I had been in love with him since I first met him. He came back to my flat for a very memorable night.

Oh to be young and gorgeous again!

At a job where we suspected a male colleague was having an affair with his female boss - but couldn’t say for certain (I was 21). He was seen whispering suggestively at her and she had booked a night in the venue to sleep over. No one else staying just her booked a room. Just before midnight a woman who was clearly his wife came in pregnant and said I have come to save you getting a taxi home and their faces looked horrified at her arrival. She dumped her handbag on the table and then started pulling out love notes etc and saying hang on this isn’t from me - they are signed All my love, Jane… who is Jane darling? Female boss (Jane)turned pale and male member of staff was all bluster bluster and then wife said ‘you said a group of you were staying over’ and looked at all of us, she carried on or was that bullshit and you were you just planning on having a nice bonk whilst I put the children to bed with Jane?

The room was silent. She said Mike all your stuff is in black sacks in the car park, happy Christmas all and waddled out.

Our eyes were on sticks, neither of them turned up on Monday morning and neither ever came back to work. We heard they both got divorced but didn’t get together with each other.

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I bet they had limits on what could be ordered after that.
I organise these types of things and I always advise limited drinks or a tab limit, usually a gentle "And of course, you will be liable any damage caused to the venue by your staff' makes them see sense pretty quickly.

In my days working them I've seen sex, fights, bits of people I don't need to, people hauled off by the police, and on one memorable occasion, a rendition of the 'lift" from Dirty Dancing, which ended up with a head injury and broken limbs and the party stopped while we waited for ambulances and they were treated at the scene, and I declined to reopen the bar afterwards, which got me threatened with violence. They were barred indefinitely, and word got around other similar venues and they refused the booking as well the following year.

I need to block this thread oh the feeling of shame has come back and I'm sure the hangover of 2004 🤢😷

I was working a function bar one Christmas. Exceptionally loud music!! A very drunk man came up to the bar and asked for a drink, I replied three times that I couldn't hear what he was saying.. The fourth time he grabbed my hair pulled me over the bar and roared in my ear "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???" I foolishly didn't call the police. I certainly would now! Ironically he died of a very unpleasant illness a couple of years later!

My own shame. I got absolutely pissed and drew caricatures of everyone in the office on the whiteboard in the meeting room, ranking everyone and signed it. So there it was for everyone to see at work on Monday. I was let go quickly after that.