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What's the craziest behaviour you've witnessed at a Christmas work do?

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ChristmasDoDo · 11/12/2024 01:19

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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LifeisNOTlikeemmerdalefarm · 12/12/2024 19:57

Grandsons Christmas party a couple of years ago.
Headmistress and sports teacher were caught having sex on the bonnet of his car.

Both sacked

UghFletcher · 12/12/2024 20:10

Recruitment Agency days

One of our interns got shit faced on the free bar and then vommed all over the men's toilet door - the one to get into the gents. Not even in the cubicle inside.

There was a party where coaches were provided to / from the venue, senior sales manager propositioned every girl on There till one accepted his advances.

Hour · 12/12/2024 20:11

I once got wasted at a work event in Zurich. Fell over, needed supporting back to my hotel room. It was mortifying. I only had 3 beers and a glass of wine but having not had a drink in 7/8 months before (strict dieting) it totally caught up with me. I will never drink more than a glass of wine with colleagues now. Not worth it as far as I am concerned. I haven’t done the Xmas do in recent years as it is simply not fun as a sober person in my current company

Slooodie359 · 12/12/2024 20:12

Another Xmas party.

The Head of HR, appeared to be un-sexual strait laced woman, was about 32, a really BIG for someone so young. Earlier in the day she reminded everyone about Xmas party behavior. The Xmas party was huge, all corporate & back office.

On dance floor, with everyone watching Head of HR grinding and deep messy kissing a more junior man who was openly and out gay gay gay. All of HR just like ????? How unlikely!!

Months later, I learned that Head of HR was also long term mistress of 60 yr old, married, CFO … made me wonder if the gay man make out was for to make CFO jealous …and if her liaison with CFO us how she got the Head of HR job so young!

HR the worst!

Gabbianni · 12/12/2024 20:17

.... and all in the name of Christmas 😂

Charlize43 · 12/12/2024 20:19

I've posted this before, but my own. I still cringe with embarrassment but also have the odd chuckle now and then: When I was around 20, I was a temp and was sent to work at a government quango. At a very large Christmas party (around 200) I had far, far too much white wine, and for some insane reason - mainly due to reading at the time a biography of the 1920s actress Tallulah Bankhead, who was known to strip naked and cavort at parties - I discarded my blouse and bra and was parading myself through the hall in just my pencil skirt and heels (this was the early 90s and at 20 I was quite tit proud) until some older woman caught up with me and grabbed me by the shoulders and whisked me away. Needless to say, the agency called on the following Monday to tell me that I needn't return.

The things one does in youth! 😂

MummyJ36 · 12/12/2024 20:20

Princessfluffy · 11/12/2024 07:04

DH once worked for a national recruitment company with a huge drinking culture. The company was a dreadful employer and its Xmas parties were so awful that they were never allowed to go back to the same venue twice. Think pissing on TVs etc. partners not invited obviously.

One time someone was decapitated by sticking their head out of a moving train. I cannot tell you how happy I was when DH left this company.

😮

What's the craziest behaviour you've witnessed at a Christmas work do?
Ticktockk · 12/12/2024 20:21

WearyAuldWumman · 12/12/2024 19:32

Honestly, I have so many stories of teachers getting particularly pished at Christmas.

Teachers are always so bloody tired by Christmas that it doesn’t take much!!

housethatbuiltme · 12/12/2024 20:27

ChristmasDoDo · 11/12/2024 01:19

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.

Someone got drunk and accused everyone of being homophobes for absoloutly no reason, just started screaming it and threatening to fight people. They clearly could not handle their alcohol.

At one of DH work event a wife of a co-worker got pissed and physically attacked someone, once again for no reason (she had been bragging about kicking someones ass at her own work party too before she got pissed... clearly a lovely woman).

I can't say for certain it was a work party but I saw the most hilarious drunk fight in a take away at home time over the christmas period when all the work dos where out. It was the very childish use of words that made it hilarious, like two 3 year olds fighting. Lots of thinks like 'yeah well you're a nincompoop', 'well, you're a little bugger', 'I'll show you you scaredy cat, you gonna pretend your pooly now to avoid me', 'I don't get pooly so nah', 'what you saying you never had a bad belly before, lies you tell porkies' etc... it went on the whole time we waited for food like free entertainment as they where stumbling over their own 6 inch heels and falling into each other. Still no clue why they where fighting lol, one of them nicked someone pizza though.

BashfulClam · 12/12/2024 20:29

TheNameBeChanged · 12/12/2024 18:11

Not the office party, but the secret Santa before the party. The first present out of the bag was oddly large and soft for a cheap gift. It was the center of attention as it was unwrapped, and a dead goose complete with feathers was revealed

there was much consternation and the rumours began to fly. Was it someone’s dark humor, was it a warning along the same lines as finding a horses head in the bed. What did the dead goose mean?

in the end someone had to own up they had gifted the goose and it was a perfectly normal Scottish gift

after that, all the other presents were an anticlimax

erm no that’s not normal up here!

WearyAuldWumman · 12/12/2024 20:31

My second-last school.

We had a particularly young HT. He'd worked with many of the staff when he was a lower 'rank' as it were. At our school, he'd been an Assitant HT, Depute HT and had just taken over as HT.

The poor soul tried to be a "good sport". He finished up being tied to a chair while a probationer PE teacher in drag danced round him and thrust his balloon breasts into his face. I found it excruciating, but maybe it's because I'm ND.

Later, the Head of PE - who fancied himself as a joker and had put the rest of the PE dept up to the nonsense with the HT - headed for the Gents.

Earlier in the year, the PE HoD had played various 'pranks' on several other members of staff. While the HoD for Home Ec was out at a conference, he'd wandered into the Home Ec Dept with a clipboard, nodded at the probationer there and said "Carry on. The Head asked me to give you an crit lesson in the absence of your HoD." Really not on.

At the Easter do (no alcohol and held in the staffroom) he'd gone up to a probationer in our dept and grabbed his plate of snacks, saying "Thank you, Waiter!" Our probie whispered something in his ear and the HoD went pale.

Our probie was a mature entrant to teaching. I later found out he'd said "Call me 'Waiter!' again and I'll peel your nose off your face..."

That's only a sample of his work - but he seemed to pick on unpromoted staff in particular.

Anyway, at the Christmas do, while he was in the loos, another staff member came up to the PE chap's chair, dipped his hand into his jacket pocket and extracted his car keys. He made a "Shhh!" gesture to the rest of us. (This included a member of the SLT.)

The keys were returned without the PE chap realising they'd been gone.

Towards the end of the evening, the Head of PE came running back into the hall. "Aw, c'mon guys! I can take a joke...but where's the nuts for ma wheels?"

Yup. Some of the other teachers had exacted their revenge for his "pranks" by removing all 4 wheels from his car.

WearyAuldWumman · 12/12/2024 20:31

Ticktockk · 12/12/2024 20:21

Teachers are always so bloody tired by Christmas that it doesn’t take much!!

This is true.

CapitalKnockers · 12/12/2024 20:31

I used to work at a very old school style English university (think Oxford but smaller scale). The Xmas do was always hosted on campus in the big dining hall. My first (and only) year there I was looking forward to the free food, free alcohol and free on site accommodation. It was all organised by a senior member of staff who had been there for years, but never went themselves. Which I thought was weird until I discovered why.

It turned out that virtually all the staff were having it away with each other. Old, young, married, single...once the meal was done it turned into what I can only describe as a sex club. Lots of people doing stuff in corners in full view of everyone else. I cant really describe it, it was horrifying. It turned out affairs were everywhere as part of the norm and very much 'a thing'. I was told that for most of those involved it only happened at Christmas as though that made it OK and that if i got involved it would be fine and nobody would ever tell my own long term partner. I went home as soon as I felt I could without making a scene.

To make it even more seedy, the manager who organised the event every year and never went - had spies among their team who would report back on who was shagging who. This info was saved to be used if the manager wanted to at a later date. They had a fearsome reputation for getting people they didn't like sacked.

I've never experienced anything like it. I left shortly after thankfully. This was Christmas 2019 and I thought I'd gone back in time to the 50s.

Pinkruler · 12/12/2024 20:32

NeverSeenAFarmerOnABike · 11/12/2024 01:32

My manager got a bit carried away with the dancing and accidentally flashed her minge to us all.

😯 How? No knickers ?

PandaChopChop · 12/12/2024 20:32

TheNameBeChanged · 12/12/2024 18:11

Not the office party, but the secret Santa before the party. The first present out of the bag was oddly large and soft for a cheap gift. It was the center of attention as it was unwrapped, and a dead goose complete with feathers was revealed

there was much consternation and the rumours began to fly. Was it someone’s dark humor, was it a warning along the same lines as finding a horses head in the bed. What did the dead goose mean?

in the end someone had to own up they had gifted the goose and it was a perfectly normal Scottish gift

after that, all the other presents were an anticlimax

This has killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

icelolly12 · 12/12/2024 20:39

@CapitalKnockers Ooh which Uni? I guess Durham.

Leypt1 · 12/12/2024 20:39

Princessfluffy · 11/12/2024 07:04

DH once worked for a national recruitment company with a huge drinking culture. The company was a dreadful employer and its Xmas parties were so awful that they were never allowed to go back to the same venue twice. Think pissing on TVs etc. partners not invited obviously.

One time someone was decapitated by sticking their head out of a moving train. I cannot tell you how happy I was when DH left this company.

Wtf, this took a dark turn 😧

Notmydaughteryoubitch · 12/12/2024 20:43

So many but probably the worst was, one of our colleagues got desperately drunk, she was in a relationship with a man (who was a very big deal local drug dealer) who she'd met when working in prison. On this works do she told us that her partner was threatening to kill our director and/or firebomb her house. We obviously reported this back because it was worryingly credible. It ended up with a Police investigation (there was significant intel around serious weapons etc) and we all ended up having to have the police visit us at home to safety review as he went on to threaten us all too.

CapitalKnockers · 12/12/2024 20:44

icelolly12 · 12/12/2024 20:39

@CapitalKnockers Ooh which Uni? I guess Durham.

Probably best I don't tell since many of the staff (including the senor manager) are still working there 😂

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 12/12/2024 20:45

Moveoverdarlin · 12/12/2024 19:57

Absolutely fucking howling at this one!

*growling. Surely?

TherapyFrog · 12/12/2024 20:49

I'm feeling a bit lacklustre and was debating not going to my new works Xmas do this weekend, but now I may turn up just to see what happens ...some of these stories are mad! 😅

TherapyFrog · 12/12/2024 20:52

Princessfluffy · 11/12/2024 07:04

DH once worked for a national recruitment company with a huge drinking culture. The company was a dreadful employer and its Xmas parties were so awful that they were never allowed to go back to the same venue twice. Think pissing on TVs etc. partners not invited obviously.

One time someone was decapitated by sticking their head out of a moving train. I cannot tell you how happy I was when DH left this company.

WTH!

SerafinasGoose · 12/12/2024 20:55

SanFranByAir · 11/12/2024 06:42

One of my first employers had a big do and brought in a hypnotist for the entertainment. Employees were encouraged to volunteer on stage to do supposedly hilarious things whilst under the influence of both him and alcohol. One turned into a chicken and pecked his boss, then pulled his trousers down and pretended to lay an egg on the boss's table.

Three employees were disciplined over their behaviour in the following weeks.

On reading this post I began laughing like Muttley and couldn't stop.

Inspired!

Em1ly2023 · 12/12/2024 20:55

NeverSeenAFarmerOnABike · 11/12/2024 01:32

My manager got a bit carried away with the dancing and accidentally flashed her minge to us all.

Oh my God!!! 😭 😭 😭

SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament · 12/12/2024 20:56

CapitalKnockers · 12/12/2024 20:44

Probably best I don't tell since many of the staff (including the senor manager) are still working there 😂

I'd also bet good, old English money that it's Durham. 👀