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Disgraced myself on a work night out

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ethanrayne · 15/07/2017 15:55

Can anyone share their tales of similar drunken foolishness to make me feel better???

I can't remember most of details but according to a co worker vomiting and falling asleep in bar were involved 😳

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SingingOutOfTune · 16/07/2017 20:21

Smile It is bad but you will survive. Most people will not mention. And many will have been there...
When I drink too much I talk. A LOT. and have this urge to tell what I think of people...
And I dance and talk to people I don't know and flirt with everybody. I usually very shy...
Told my boss wife some anecdotes showing what a chauvinistic pig he was [Embarrassed]... among other pearls...
Still here several years later. My boss doesn't like me though. Grin

G5000 · 16/07/2017 20:24

Some years ago, after works dinner, went to a bar with 3 guys and a couple of women. Women soon left, I kept hitting the tequilas. And lunged and kissed one of the guys. Shit happens, right?

trouble is I don't remember which one . Still don't. None of them have said anything. I can't exactly ask either..

honeylulu · 16/07/2017 20:27

OP there will almost certainly be someone else who behaved worse and that's who people will remember.
My worst story is a Christmas do at the city law firm where I still work. We had it in the same place each year, really fabulous venue, must have cost a bomb. But this year it all went bad.
For some reason there was a much longer pre drinks before the dinner session and we were having champagne almost poured down our throats for two and a half hours. I was in a foul mood as I'd messed something up at work and was really stressed. Also had had first cycle of fertility treatment and had tested the day before - negative, and had a massive row with husband.
Sat down wobbily for dinner, had two bites then rushed of to vom, didn't make it to toilet, vommed all over the carpet in reception. A colleague got me water and a bin bag and dispatched me in a taxi to the station where I fell asleep on the train, went past my station, ended up in the middle of nowhere (with no trains back again) and was picked up and delivered home by the police.Blush
However no one remembered what if done as apparently there were seven other public vommings, several people exposed themselves on the dance floor (boobs, willies and fanjos )and then several members of staff "stormed" the bar stealing bottles of spirits and punched bar staff. The ridiculous thing about this was that it was a FREE bar anyway!
Also one of the female partners got totally blotto and went around offering herself to male members of staff, even those known to be gay, then passed outing sofa and her husband was called to come and collect her, which he did after driving through central London at 2am with their two small children in the back of the car.
We were permanently banned from that venue unsurprisingly.

Also despite neg test I discovered afterwards I was actually pregnant. Mortified.

SingingOutOfTune · 16/07/2017 20:28

G500 Grin maybe is for the better you don't remember...

piggypoo · 16/07/2017 20:37

At a job over 20 years ago, it was in media, so alcohol and work were linked a fair bit, got hammered at a do, puked all down my manager, copped off with a fair few of the blokes there, and ended up going home with one of them, everybody knew, I never lived it down. My sister met one of my ex-colleagues by chance a couple of years ago, and was told that I am still talked about at that company, a "legend" is how it was put. My poor sister was really embarrassed, I can't change the way I behaved in my early 20's suffice it to say, I suffered from self-esteem issues, Just laugh it off, and if like me people are still talking about it years later, it goes to show that only interesting people are remembered!

The80sweregreat · 16/07/2017 20:48

I hated my office disgrace, but i feel better now 27 years on reading these ones!
I cant drink much now im old either and i dont go out anymore sad to say.
It is funny, but alcohol is lethal! Never drink on an empty stomach either.

ethanrayne · 16/07/2017 20:51

Oh my god honey 🤣

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SkaterGrrrrl · 16/07/2017 20:57

Oh god my 20s were a non stop piss up.

Shagged a colleague, stole a life sized cardboard cut out of Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality 2 was just out) and tried to flag a black cab using Sandra (unsuccessful), got off a night bus to smoke a joint with 2 random Albanians in an alleyway, had a mock jousting fight with a mate in IKEA using rolled up carpets, puked in various night club loos, got the whole top deck of the night bus singing the song from Home & Away, snogged bouncers, chucked out of pubs for doing coke, stayed up all night at a party then went on a midday blind date (unsuccessful), etc etc.

It's a relief to be a 40 year old mother of two.

ingeniusnonsense · 16/07/2017 20:59

I always found that if you could front it out over breakfast then you're ok because people think "well she can't have been that drunk, she looks fine now." Conferences were a killer, but I knew that if I got up and showered, put my face on and then made conversation so that the other person did all the talking, I could get through to mid morning, when I would be urgently called away to something highly confidential, and could head back to my room for a poo and a kip. Can of redbull, brush teeth, and then ready for the next round of pre dinner drinks!

MumsTheWordYouKnow · 16/07/2017 21:04

Yep been there done that. Too many times. Usually quiet, but large gob when drunk and embarrassing as can't take my drink anyway. Too many nights out on an empty stomach! Would never in a millions years do that now. Thankfully it's many years ago and the fear is gone. You'll live it down. Your story is very mild compared to others. From experience I would say if you:
a) have this happen regularly
b) have any kind of time loss
c) go from enjoying a couple to being out of it so quickly you have no judgment on your drinking or what you're doing
Please consider what you're doing and what potential danger you could put yourself in. I had a v bad experience once. I stupidly carried on drinking, but eventually realised I had a problem with how I react. I still have a drink, but very moderate and never in a state (getting extraordinarily bad hangovers helps as can't do it now thankfully) looking back though I think anything could have happened to me.

Nupro · 16/07/2017 21:06

feel so bad, last week i was stressed and upset about personal things.
I went to a BBQ with my partner and one of his long time ago ex was there, it was his best mates mother ! She was so vile and she does not know I know he told me about it ages ago. She spoke to me and kept calling me the wrong name I felt insane and really insecure I don't know why this was years ago that he had his dalliance before he was even with me.... i got very drunk and woke up on the sofa at his house we have a house each and the BBQ was near his place. Apparently i said some disgusting things to him when we got back i really don't remember he said that I told him I had been in contact with my ex....i have not he said that I also told him he would never match up to him. I am so ashamed i have no recollection of any of this. We only booked a holiday two weeks ago now he says that he hates me and that I am dead to him, he also said that I had no idea how much he loved me but it was over. He will not speak to me i have emailed so many times saying how sorry I am he will not take my calls. I know he is not a bad man in fact he is amazing and a fantastic dad , it is me who has the issues. I get very anxious and don't communicate well. I am not normally jealous . he has started a new job and is working out of Town he returned back to his place on Friday and is out of town again on Monday for another two weeks. he has been under a lot of pressure with work . He said he has cancelled the holiday but I know he has not as I have checked so many times , I put it on my card but he is the lead passenger and the only one that can make changes. I have hurt him so badly I cant eat i have not eaten since Friday and I am not even hungry. I literally feel like I am dying . I can't go on like this. he has been hurt in the past and is very stubborn but also very loving. I am completely lost I don't remember saying those things but I know I must have. I have just sent him another long email saying how sorry I am I wonder if he will ever forgive me . Never felt so bad in my life what can I do?

Katastrophe13 · 16/07/2017 21:12

Spent a very long time straddling my boyfriend and snogging his face off, fell down a flight of stairs and felt a colleague's tits.

ethanrayne · 16/07/2017 21:16

mumstheword this is no regular by any means but I do have time loss, which is one of reasons I'm so mortified. I could have done or said anything and also put myself in a vulnerable position which is why I'm beating myself up so much.

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Prideinmyplace2 · 16/07/2017 21:20

Tell him the truth Nupro and I hope he'll forgive you!

mamamia999 · 16/07/2017 21:26

Was so drunk at the meal BEFORE the night out started that couldn't remember eating any of the courses (ate 3), then during dessert flicked a massive spoon of chocolate cake really hard across the table at a colleague. It flew right past her and down over the mezzanine level and landed on another diners head GrinGrin

CattyMcCatface · 16/07/2017 21:35

Years ago, worked in large branch of a high st bank, and there was often displays in the banking hall - at this time there was one from an Opera Company of Madam Butterfly with the 'three little girls from school' costumes (kimonos and big Japanese wigs etc). Anyway, late on at a Christmas party two staff (one male, one female)strip off two of the manikins and dress up in the kimonos and wigs, then burst into the staff room to perform 'You're the one that I want' (John Travolta & Olivia Newton bomb). Very funny, but I expect you had to be there. Manager was a bit anxious they didn't ruin the Opera Company's costumes though.

ethanrayne · 16/07/2017 21:43

nupro sorry to hear that - maybe have it moved to relationships though? To get proper advice, hope it gets sorted x

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TesticleMeElmo · 16/07/2017 21:54

I've only skipped through the thread (sorry!) but I have -

Started a drinking competition with my regional manager

Won said drinking competition and requested 'You're not the boss of me now' on karaoke

Projectile vomited across the table

Passed out on the disabled toilet with my knickers round my ankles, having to be rescued by aforementioned regional manager and my area manager

Obviously this all occurred on the same evening. I have no regrets. The night was awesome!! Grin

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 16/07/2017 21:55

These are magnificent. The best Xmas party I've ever been to involved 20 stone HGV drivers drinking white wine from pint glasses, a traffic clerk with spaff in her hair, a massive fight and DW kneeing my boss in the nuts.

kastiekastie · 16/07/2017 22:15

19Lottie82 (I think)
that was brilliant! Drunk with balls of steel - love it!!

Tazmum01 · 16/07/2017 22:18

Oh my days, these are bloody hilarious !! I've done many, many stupid things under the influence, as it seems most of us on here. The most recent bad bad time was at a funeral of my DHs family down south. I knew some of his (local to us) family, but none of the deceased' immediate family. The funeral was at a race course club. The free wine was going down so well, no one but me drank the red, so I went through two bottles of it in a couple of hours. I proceeded to get everyone together for a family photo, including the recent widow and her children who had flown in from abroad for their dad's funeral. I got a waiter to take the pic and you can just see me at the back, jumping up in the air with my arms above my head. (OMFG) I went round a few cockney old timers asking if they were gangsters and doing selfies with them. I stole loads of the buffet to take back to the hotel that we were staying in with DH's aunts and cousins, we had to cross the race course to get back to our hotel and I fell down a big dip in the ground. Went arse over tit, couldn't get up for laughing and had to be carried (dragged) back to the hotel between them. Spent the whole night barfing, missed breakfast, then had to go to the widow's house in the morning. I had to stand outside while everyone said their goodbyes, because I couldn't look anyone in the eye. Then we had a six hour drive back home with his aunts in the back of her car, my face was green and I had to press my face up against the cold car window the whole way home.

philoSlothical17 · 16/07/2017 22:21

One of my best (and drunken) nights out with work was when a few of us decided to go and watch a Scottish football match in Manchester with the Scottish consultant and his ex uni mates. Ended up being the only female and tried to keep up with them drinking pints. There ended up being riots in the street because the big screen was broken so ended up in some dodgy back street bar and the women's loos were out of order so they made the men's unisex. Went to toilet and for some reason me and the consultant decided to swap clothes... His kilt and my short blue dress that didn't quite cover his balls. Walked out of toilet and slipped on spilt beer. Got home with a pair of aviator sunglasses with one lens in (not sure where from) and flooded my bathroom trying to clean off god knows what was up my legs from toilets. Consultant rang me the next day to see how I was and I had to hang up on him to go and throw up

AgentCooper · 16/07/2017 22:23

Ah this thread is comforting Grin At a colleague's leaving do (straight from work so no dinner) I got sitting beside one of my superiors and told him all about my sex dream about his office mate. Then I got lost (this pub was on several floors) but found the group again just as Let's Dance by David Bowie came on and proceeded to do a really enthusiastic dance.

gunting · 16/07/2017 22:27

In my previous job the guy in the office next to us had an epic pissed up catastrophe.

He went to a dinner, grabbed a woman's arse and got punched by her boyfriend.

Unfortunately for him, her boyfriend is Gregg Wallace off Masterchef and he ended up with pictures of him getting twatted in the face by Gregg Wallace in the Daily Fail.

Grin
fannydaggerz · 16/07/2017 22:28

How can I nominate this for classics?