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.

Did you ever speak/interact with that guy again?

A young colleague didn't turn up for work the day after his very first Christmas do.

We were getting worried and thinking about phoning his emergency contact (as we'd seen him very pissed the night before), when we got a call from the hospital saying he was safe with them.

He's got on the wrong night bus, and tried to jump down the stairs when he realised, resulting in a broken leg.

Senior managers at head quarters of a national bank showing up with their names and address on luggage labels pinned to the lapel of their suits, for when they got so drunk they could not remember either.

Temping at a printing firm with a very hard drinking culture. Christmas party was on a boat on the Thames. On the way back it ran aground and 30 drunk people had to be transferred to a smaller river police boat. I felt for them that night.

I felt it was harsh, but didn't understand enough about hypnosis to know if it is possible to be influenced in this way, or whether they were just drunk and taking the piss.

Most office Christmas parties I’ve attended have been excruciating, and notable only for their dullness. Probably the lack of free bar!

Many years ago when hypnotist shows were very popular my then bf took me to see one. I didn't know much about them but my bf warned me not to follow the hypnotists instructions when he was putting the audience under. So thankfully there was no chance of me participating. But it truly amazed me the outrageous and stupid things the hypnotist was able to get the audience members who ended up on stage to do.
So I agree it does seem harsh on those staff members.

My friend snuck back to our office with a colleague and gave him a BJ during our Christmas do. They told no one, he had a serious girlfriend.

A few weeks later we were having a company dinner to celebrate something and our boss gave a speech and for the punchline revealed our security guard had seen the footage of the action when he came in on the Monday morning and shown the bosses.

My friend walked straight out of there and refused to discuss it from then on.

Walked into the cloakroom at the hotel where our do was and literally walked into my boss shagging his secretary. His wife was sat in the restaurant and I still to this day regret not telling her.
A funnier one at a different company was when the older warehouse guys started picking on a young lad who had just started, he was only about 20 and went outside and a few followed him having a go.
I felt sorry for him and went to the door to tell them to leave him alone, turned out he was a very well respected and top martial artist, he absolutely battered them and I've got to be honest they deserved it.
He left in the New Year and I saw him on TV Bellator MMA a couple of years later, he won on that as well.

A few senior colleagues had a drunken food fight in a restaurant during our Christmas meal. We got kicked out. Mortified.

That's not funny it's rank

I agree. It's not remotely funny.

Actually quite a few of the stories are pretty horrible.

I found @Elferbowton story of her boss shagging his secretary while his wife was in the restaurant next door upsetting tbh.
As are the other stories of people so carelessly cheating on their partners in name of Christmas fun.

I worked for a company who thought it was a good idea to have giant ice sculptures of penises and breasts with vodka spurting out which you had to drink like a fountain.

This was the same company where the MD was caught shagging a member of staff during a party.

One of the secretaries invited the boss and another bloke back to hers for a threesome. They didn't take her up on it. I missed all the excitement because I was looking after the new girl who was being sick in the loo.

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 had to google spanish fly and priapism - OMG 😱

Tbf the OP said craziest not funniest. And that person didn’t say she found it funny.

If the person or people who had ingested Spanish Fly had had cardiac problems or been on certain medications this could have had lethal consequences. (Why Spanish Fly is now illegal.) Where the hell did they get it?

Yes I understand it's craziest and not funniest. And I wasn't criticising the poster.
But I hadn't expected so many of the stories to be quite frankly disturbing.

Aww, my ex colleague did the same! Tbf we did work in a plant related job. Romance in the air! Or should that be in the stomata 🤔

Oh theres many. Would be funny if afew turned up here

How old are these stories? I can't imagine things like that happening these days. My work has a no alcohol policy and has had for years. Xmas do is always a tame lunch somewhere.

DH the CEO was offered a line of coke in the loo by a very junior and new staff member (declined!)
Another Staff member hitting on me in front of said DH / his CEO
Our work parties always got quite messy but more tame nowadays the younger generation are way more sensible thank god. We never went to a venue we could ever return too after for the bad behaviour of our staff
Was fun though but wouldn't care to repeat now and we turn up for a drink and leave them too it

Mine was about 15 years ago, but I was at a work event 18 months ago which had a social evening at the end of it. Lots of people from different firms in the same sector. Quite a few were booked into the hotel to stay over. Went to settle my bill the following morning two receptionists calling people forward. The woman next to me, was sheepishly having to pay an extra cleaning charge because she'd soiled the bed in her hotel room.

If you need further evidence of work debauchery at Christmas mad Friday is next week...

Yep... I heard about that one too

I agree, that was bad form from you as the barman.

Gobshite , love it!! You've got to be in the East of Ireland 🤣 Lol