to ask you to help me feel a bit better

[ChairOfTheBored]

OK, so on Friday there was a works drinks do, at which I think I may have been a little tipsy (by which, of I course, I mean I was properly squiffy). Being a work do, I fear there may have been drunken ranting at senior types, and other associated silliness.

Now, hopefully nothing hugely career limiting, but I have a very low shame threshold, and I am simply mortified by the prospect of seeing people again, and 'the fear' is that this could affect my professional standing.

So, my question is this - please can you cheer me up with other tales of work place woe, and tell me everything will be OK?

Thanks in advance.

Every office do my supervisor was always to be found, knickers akimbo, puking and crying in the loo. I think she only hung onto her job because she WAS sleeping with the boss.

Well, there was the New York trip where I ended up falling out of an Irish bar at 4am, losing the company mobile phone, and behaving VERY badly with the Ops manager.
Or the time that I knew that I'd had more than enough to drink, but still had 3 glasses of wine waiting in front of me. And then I tried to cycle home. I did get most of the way there before falling off, and had to go into work the next day with a split lip, grazed nose, cut chin and various bruises...
Everything will be fine - and if anyone says anything, give them a glance and say 'really?' Yawn....

At our gala dinner, abroad, with all levels of a big multinational company I came out the loos with my dress tucked in my knickers. Chatting away and only realised when the manager of UAE came and told me....turned around and everyone was looking. On the plus side though, I was new to the company and it got me recognised. People I didn't even know existed started asking when I was going to wear THAT dress again. Go in to work, hold your head high and keep smiling!

I once took it upon myself at a work do, to tell a work colleague how dreadfully self indulgent and annoying she was and that she was incredibly hard work to be with. I felt awful the next day and still do!! Fortunately that office closed down and I no longer see her!

I console myself with the fact that although I was fuck pissed, I told the absolute truth .

I intended to email a colleague with my theory of why our boss was such an unpleasant twat - largely involved theories of small penis and premature ejaculation. I sent it to my boss by mistake.

he returned it with the message 'silly, silly girl.'

snogging in the corner of the dance floor, sexy looking a total idiot dancing with my boss, drinking shots then running to the loo to puke up, pulling gorgeous guy up to the dance floor in an you van not resist me i am so fucking not sexy way, telling the md that the women in the office believed he would be a great lover only to have him text me all night demanding to come round and show me

feel better now, there have been numerous faux pas that i have made but have realised that others were (i live in hope) jsut as drunk and can not remember my ramblings

I thought that collaring senior types was the whole point of work drinks.

We used to have a regular Thursday session - it would always end with someone being very drunk and haranguing a manager.

It didn't seem to have any shame attached to it.

Not a work place woe, I once called the vicar a twat to his face in front of a room full of people. Little innocent me thought it was the same as calling him a twit.

I once got very drunk with two senior managers on the train back from a horrible customer meeting a few years ago and complained bitterly about my poor pay in relation to most of the thirty people working for me at the time. Lo and behold, within a few months I had a 50% (yes, fifty per cent) pay rise (so only a handful of my team were better paid than me by then)... So, it's not all bad.

Also got really drunk and snogged a (different) former boss at a works Christmas do, but that worked out alright too. Four years later, the former boss is next to me on the sofa and our DD is sleeping upstairs.

Thank you all - you're wonderful! Head held high. Check. False sense of confidence. Check.

Nagging fear . Check.

Here we go!

good luck chair! i have a works do tonight!!!