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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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Foslady · 15/07/2017 16:58

Luckily it was at my leaving donfrom the 1st job - I swear I must have had a spiked drink as I lost half an hour in a 'fun' pub and next thing I know I'm in the back bar bit. It was an almost all male workplace and the only other lady had disappeared so they had to put the shout out for her. Didn't have a clue where the ladies was and was worried that I'd throw up on the tiled floor....,,table of empty pint glasses......the poor glass collector (but the floor stayed clean) Blush

sobeyondthehills · 15/07/2017 16:59

went out, drunk way more than I should of done. Fell up the stairs, knocked my two front teeth out, had to go into work the next day, without my 2 front teeth.

wonderingwhy2 · 15/07/2017 17:00

One of our Scottish bosses got hammered at a works black tie do, he was in full highland dress and sharted down the back of his legs, into his special Scottish socks.

Shat into his Special Scottish Socks.

Funniest thing I've read in ages. Grin

You have an interesting way with words!

FloatyCat · 15/07/2017 17:01

The shame still haunts me from 2001, fell down some stairs, embarrassed myself by pestering the boss to death, turfed people out of a taxi insisting it was mine it wasn't . I was a new manager and was told not to drink in the next works do by the big boss Blush

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ethanrayne · 15/07/2017 17:01

Oh my godsobeyondthehills

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Bluntness100 · 15/07/2017 17:02

Some of these are really funny, the break dancing one made my husband and I howl with laughter, 🤣

chipscheeseandgravy · 15/07/2017 17:02

First night out with my new office... vomited in the middle of the bar and then over my boss. Fun times! Grin

GirlOnATrainToShite · 15/07/2017 17:03

Never apologise more than once.

BeefyCakes · 15/07/2017 17:04

One the fear has passed, you'll be OK. Your boss seems OK, so you're fine.

You'll know for next time.

The thing with work do's is that there tends to be a lot of alcohol flowing, whether that's a free bar or cut price drinks.

Obviously everyone should exercise common sense, however once you've had a few that tends to go out the window.

Do you have workmates on Facebook? Look for photos and delete/untag yourself.

Get yourself some irn bru, cheese and onion walkers, and a Mcdonalds - you'll be grand.

SabineUndine · 15/07/2017 17:08

Colleague of mine vomited on the boss's shoes. Was all forgotten by the next Monday.

Kittychatcat · 15/07/2017 17:08

Recently DH and I were staying in a hotel and there was a large work conference staying there. The second day at the breakfast buffet a young woman (looking very pale) went round apologising to everyone for the previous night. It sounded like such a good night we were sorry to have missed whatever had happened!

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn · 15/07/2017 17:09

I don't remember everything as it was years ago but I do remember a song from dirty dancing came on and I proceeded to grind around the dance floor with the hot guy in my team (he wasn't complaining) in front of all the manangers. We were having a summer ball so a fairly posh affair. The HR manager remarked that I looked like I enjoyed myself when I next saw her Blush. I also told many people how I was going commando because the style of my (thankfully long) dress would mean I had mega VPL.

When I was a teenager I was working part time and we had the Christmas party. The sleazy manager made an instant bee line for me so I lapped it up because he was buying my drinks. We then decided to play spin the bottle and everyone knew I had a mega crush on a much older colleague (I was 17, he was 35) and they kept daring me to go over to him etc, as I was hammered, dares always seem like a great idea and I will happily do anything. I still cringe when I think about it now. Thankfully the man knew they were trying to embarrass me and was very good about it and tried to stop me doing things.

Mummymummyme · 15/07/2017 17:11

I honestly wouldn't worry, vomit happens a lot on nights out and falling asleep isn't too shameful. I sh*t myself on a night out once (was just recovering from a tummy bug, obviously wasn't as well as i'd thought) and had to go home. It was a rather obvious smell and cleaning myself up in the toilet just wasn't working so I had to leave, no one said anything but i'm pretty sure they knew it was me as the smell certainly followed me home.

sobeyondthehills · 15/07/2017 17:11

ethanrayn

I dont have much luck with teeth, about 10 years later my son headbutts me in the mouth (he was 2) knocks them out again, two days after I have them fixed, the dog jumps up at me, knocks them out again.

But they wouldn't of been so weak, if it wasn't for that drunken night.

steppedonlego · 15/07/2017 17:14

On a work night out a few years ago that I was thankfully absent from, one of my colleagues was so drunk she was dancing on a table, all standard drunk fun, but when the bouncer came to ask her to get down, she refused, had to be dragged down, wrapped her legs around his waist and promptly wet herself all over him.

Thinkingofausername1 · 15/07/2017 17:15

Can I ask why people feel the need to get so drunk they make fools out of themselves? And especially if you are in management doesn't look very professional!!

StealthPolarBear · 15/07/2017 17:17

While I love this thread (not sharing my own) Blush I think aqua has a small point

The80sweregreat · 15/07/2017 17:17

Yes, a few times and i still cringe 27 years later.
i am pleased that social media was not about.
i learnt my lesson about alcohol then and never again.
we all live and learn.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 15/07/2017 17:18

I don't think it's a 'need' to get drunk. It just happens. Especially if all the booze is paid for and your glass keeps getting topped up so you lose track of how much you're drinking.

sobeyondthehills · 15/07/2017 17:18

Thinkingofausername1

In my case it was because I was young and stupid and didn't know how much I could handle.

I learnt from it, because any work do after that I had one glass of wine and then stayed on diet coke. I became the driver for a lot of them, which meant I didn't drink at all.

I have had more drunken moments, but all on night out with friends, drinking and work do not mix.

Bluntness100 · 15/07/2017 17:19

Thinking, no one " needs" to or " wants" to, simply sometimes after having a few our inhibitions are down and we drink too much and do daft things.

No one goes to a works do and thinks, " im going to get totally plastered tonight and totally embarrass my self. Can't wait"

KeepServingTheDrinks · 15/07/2017 17:20

I sang.

I REALLY can't sing.

Loudly.

Yesterday. Blush

Slimthistime · 15/07/2017 17:20

I know of someone who shat herself so badly that it took 3 people to clean her up. Luckily it was a posh office so they had the party in the office in a bar/dining area, otherwise I suppose a venue would have charged for clearing up?

she laughed it off on Monday but the people who cleaned her up were quite upset, understandably.

anyhoo, I suppose the answer is, don't worry about it, you'll live it down - but for the future, please don't ask anyone who doesn't go on work dos "why don't you...."

the answer is we just don't want to deal with this. Last work do I went to (not current company to be fair) people were so drunk they were collapsing on the dance floor.

I had actually run away from the party to meet a friend !!!! so I met her for a couple of hours, went back to say bye to people and pretend I'd been there all along Grin and ended up apologising to the DJ and other host event manager on the way out. I just said something like "I'm really sorry you have to deal with this". They did look completely pained, I guess when we arrived it didn't seem like it would get as bad as it did.

one poor woman accompanied a drunk vomiting colleague home at 3am - via several night buses because obviously a cab wouldn't take them - to find the door opened by an enraged babysitter and a little kid who wouldn't sleep, saw the state of her dad and screamed "what's wrong with daddy etc".

Babysitter stormed out and my colleague ended up staying the night. We didn't even know said colleague had a kid.

anyhow there is so much you can get stuck with due to a work night out.....never ever again.

so actually OP how about you look after the next person who needs looking after - that will get you back in the good books too.

StealthPolarBear · 15/07/2017 17:21

Lol :) no matter how drunk I get I'm never stupid enough to sing. Would be less embarrassing to wet myself

Scoobydoobydont · 15/07/2017 17:22

Can I ask why people feel the need to get so drunk they make fools out of themselves? And especially if you are in management doesn't look very professional!!
Blah blah blah.

I bet you are the life an soul of the party.

No it doesn't look very professional but is hardly the end of the world and not exactly something people plan but hey ho, shot happens (literally according to some of the posts above)