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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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GreatGatsby212 · 15/07/2017 21:51

I love this thread. I've been very drunk in the past and decided karaoke was a great idea when I'm a terrible singer, I mean really bad.

I had a manager though who was uptight, very anal, only sipped on water and lemon during the day. Imagine my surprise when I was shown a you tube clip of him at an Xmas party doing the caterpillar with the whole dance floor cheering him on! I've always wondered if that's why he never went on nights out Grin

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 15/07/2017 21:53

I do morph into the world's greatest dancer after a few. Which is weird because I can't actually dance Confused

The80sweregreat · 15/07/2017 21:55

I like a boggie and a sing song too. Shame ive never mastered either.

Llanali · 15/07/2017 21:58

@GreatGatsby and @ILostIt

Well, I'm pleased I'm not the only one who gains an alter ego akin to Ginger Rogers when wankered. Except that night I was aiming for Ashley Banjo and achieved something between Daddy Pig, Vanilla Ice and Kevin & Perry Go Large.

Gingernaut · 15/07/2017 22:00

Stone cold sober.

I was a few months into a new job.

They had paid for a 'private' session in one of the many themed areas of a local nightclub.

There was greasy food and very expensive drinks and some very smartly dressed complete strangers arrived about half an hour after we started.

One of them buys me a (soft) drink and I thank him clearly clueless as to who he was.

Shouting to be heard over the very loud music, he asked if I knew who he was.

"No" I replied.

He asks "Sorry?"

I say "I have no idea who you are!"

He roars his head off, pays for the drinks and moves on.

Later on, the music died and the CEO of the company congratulates us all on our challenging year and hopes we can retain our remaining contracts in the year to come.

Guess who he was?

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 15/07/2017 22:03

Trying to liberate a bottle of champagne from NYE do by hiding it under my jacket. Concentrating so hard that I slipped and slid down a full flight of stairs with the bottle clutched to my chest.

It was actually my dad's works do. I was 17 Blush

GreatGatsby212 · 15/07/2017 22:07

Haha, I would paid to have seen that @Llanali ! Beyonce, Shakira, I've emulated them all :D

daisygirlmac · 15/07/2017 22:08

Absolutely crying at some of these...the Christmas tree half in half out of a lift, Special Scottish Socks (my in laws are Scottish so this is especially funny) Grin

I have embarrassed myself faaaaar too many times to recall but the works do where I got shitfaced in a Chinese restaurant and refused to eat "Mystery Meat" (it was chicken, no idea why it offended me so badly) then fell down the stairs top to bottom in the restaurant was memorable. I ended up at the bottom of the stairs in front of a full restaurant with my dress over my head. I don't know what happened next but I did arrive home bleeding heavily from quite a serious cut on my arm and told DH to fuck off because I was 'avin a faaaag when he inquired after why there was blood dripping off me.

I have also, in no particular order and thankfully not all at the same job:
"Playfully" smacked a male colleague for being sexist (he was but still!)
Disappeared
Woken up 30 miles from where I should have been
Stolen an actual tree in a pot (taxi driver helped me get it in the taxi!)
Cried. A lot.
Danced REALLY REALLY badly. With a director. After I told him I was a semi professional dancer. WTF.

kmmr · 15/07/2017 22:14

I got very drunk, but knew enough to leave before it got out of hand (so I thought) and got a taxi home. Got home to discover I didn't have my laptop, so made the taxi turn around back to the venue, no sign them home again. Cost me close to £100.

But, it gets worse. I decided to use my blackberry to send a drunken text to my colleague at 1am to see if he had it. But.... I used an old email from him and hit reply all! On a group email including the ceo, my boss, my big Boss etc etc. In a global insurance company. The only saving grace was blackberries seem to limit to 50 recipients! So everyone got a misspelled email asking if they knew where my lpaptot was.
Never really lived it down! Was (affectionately) mentioned by almost everyone on my leaving card some years later!

kmmr · 15/07/2017 22:17

Oh, and to top it off. Next day I get a call from IT. The laptop has been found, and someone called the number on the security sticker. All good.
An hour or so later the taxi driver shows up! It was in the cab the whole bloody time on the seat. Charged me another £50 to deliver it!

IWouldLikeToSeeTheseMangoes · 15/07/2017 22:27

Just remembered another couple.

Tried to get into the VIP section of a club claiming I rightly belonged there as I was on River City. (I was not.) In fact I never even watched it so I'm as confused by that lie as anyone.

Apparently walked straight into a lampost. Then apologised to it. It's good to have manners even if you have just face planted an inanimate object.

DancesWithOtters · 15/07/2017 22:27

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rabbitcakes · 15/07/2017 22:29

I'm sure we would have made it more if the company credit cards hadn't maxed out and the hotel bar hadn't run out of gin. Glad it has made so many laugh.

I was hungover for days. Think it was probably Wednesday before I felt right after the previous Friday.

Since then I'm a reformed character. Sort of.

natwebb79 · 15/07/2017 22:32

@danceswithotters yes I was frequenting that joint between 1998 when I moved up here to about 5 years ago when I suddenly felt like I looked like everyone's mum! Mainly Britpoppin, All Our Yesterdays and general gigs/indie nights. Misspent yoof. I was known to pop into the Ferry Boat but we mainly staggered there from the Magdalen Street/general city area. Ahhhhh memories (or lack of, ha!).

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Earlyriser84 · 15/07/2017 22:43

I still have shudders about a couple of work christmas dos where on one i got so drunk i insulted my boss, fell over all the over the place and got asked to leave. I'd somehow managed to lose all my money etc so the boss who i'd insulted also had to lend me £30 to get a cab (which i didn't even remember). Probably also vomited. It wasn't good!

That said, I went back in on the Monday (very nearly didn't) and just had to take it on the chin and apologise profusely to practically everyone. I still got a promotion several months late after working hard

You won't be the first and won't be the last. Once you get Monday out of the way no one will be bothered

Good luck Grin

natwebb79 · 15/07/2017 22:46

@Danceswithotters sounds like we may have, ha!

GuiltyPleasure · 15/07/2017 22:53

I was 21 & a holiday Rep for an 18-30's type holiday company in a well known Mediterranean party place. Whilst escorting my clients on a pub crawl I got so pissed that I passed out on a bar. I was severely reprimanded by my manager at the next team meeting.

Weallcringe · 15/07/2017 22:57

Some of these have me dying laughing!

I once changed the display on one of those boards with the little plastic letters that you stick in holes saying what the party is to "chewy cunt hotel", poured a round of drinks for us all when the bar had closed and then went home with the intern who was a good eight years younger than me.

Actually yeah that was a good night ...

OP don't worry about it. We've all done it. As long as you haven't been rude about your colleagues you'll be fine.

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ethanrayne · 15/07/2017 22:59

daisy I'm crying with laughter

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WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 15/07/2017 23:07

When I was younger I was introduced to the big, big boss at the office Christmas do. The music was thumping so I crouched down beside him to hear, stumbled and stepped onto the front of my strapless dress. Flashed my tits RIGHT IN HIS FACE!

Worst bit was, I was stone cold sober Blush

perdigal · 15/07/2017 23:08

Aquamarine is literally the biggest fun sponge. Everyone dreads being next to him or her at the company dinner 😂

whirlycurly · 15/07/2017 23:12

I once woke up (fully clothed) lying between my boss and my boss' boss after a party. Both male. We were all married, not to each other. Nothing sexual happened, thank god.

I hosted a party at my house for my colleagues, Greek themed. At Christmas time for some reason. I claimed to be the ouzo queen, did about 10 shots of ouzo at the start of the night then totally passed out and left dh to it. Someone fell through the Christmas tree and he had to chuck everyone out.

Then there was the time I snogged a director in the basement of our office at a work party. In the afternoon.

And the time we were almost caught together in a toilet at work by the MD at midnight while I was dressed as a cow girl in a pink sparkly Stetson.

I could go on Blush

That was all at the same place. To say I cannot imagine doing any of this where I work now is the understatement of the century.

PossumInAPearTree · 15/07/2017 23:28

I shagged a contractor at the works Xmas do (we did go up to my hotel room). Apparantly everyone saw us leave the venue and then come back and realised what had happened. The managing director sacked the contractor the next day and I never saw him again! Felt bad for him.

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 15/07/2017 23:37

I saw two colleagues snogging in the ladies toilets in the bar at a work social.
I decided to share the gossip, so I drunkenly dragged everyone off the dance floor and shouted that they had to stand in a semi circle around the toilet door as I had something to show them.
The in my drunken state I decided to open the door dramatically by kicking it with a high kick, only the door was closed on the latch and made of thin wood, so I actually kicked a hole through it and my foot was stuck.
The snogging couple disentangled and helped get my foot out the hole.
My colleagues didn't see them snogging and all thought I'd insisted they come over to watch me kick a hole in the door!
Bar owner was unimpressed, especially as it looked like I'd done it on purpose.