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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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HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 15/07/2017 23:51

At an early evening work Christmas meal everyone else was sober, but one lady turned up v drunk. She insisted very loudly the waiter had bought her the wrong meal, we all told her it was what she had ordered and to stop being rude, so she picked up her plate and flung the entire meal behind her. It landed on the floor behind her seat, and she put her empty plate down on the table and carried on chatting.

MichaelaS · 16/07/2017 00:02

This one is definitely outing, but never mind....

I was celebrating my 10 year work anniversary with the boss who hired me and a few other colleagues. Boss had been through a divorce about 2 years earlier. He is a really sweet guy and I decided I should work out who to fix him up with. I told him this, rather than asked. After listening politely for a bit he told me he was seeing someone.

With no apparent reason, or indeed social filter, I decided to ask him if it was serious or not. But not in so many words. What I actually said was "is it love, boss, or is it just fcking fucking?".

He went very quiet, then said it was more the former.

When I cringingly went in to his office to apologise the following work day, he said that once in 10 years is forgivable. Good job he wasn't around on all the other highly embarassing nights out when I decide I am God's gift to the conversation and should therefore dominate it with my sparkling wit.

KeepServingTheDrinks · 16/07/2017 00:04

Love that "Hopelessly"!

Most of the sanctimonious on this thread have melted away, but just in case you're all still lurking......

Loads and loads and loads of us get worried and scared about going on a social night out (we feel we HAVE to attend, rather than because we want to) with work. So we act out-of-character.
Loads and loads of us don't generally drink, but on works nights out get offered/poured drinks we don't usually drink, so they affect us more than we expect.
Loads and loads of us are young and stupid, or middle aged and stupid or old and stupid, and drink more than we were planning or expecting.
Loads and loads of us work in a high-pressure environment, and when we're invited to let off steam, we let off more steam than we planned.

But most of us are good and responsible people most of the time.

So feel free to bore off with your morals stuck up your arse! [in the nicest possible way, of course!]

affectionincoldclimate · 16/07/2017 00:52

I'm up with a teething baby sleeping fitfully on my shoulders and just wanted to thank you for the laughs. I'm crying and shaking silently as not to wake up DD but I'm feeling 100% better.

I nominate this thread for mumsnet classics!

MorbidBibliomancy · 16/07/2017 01:43

Oh man.

Many years ago I was on a work trip abroad. Had a pretty heavy night out with the team. Everyone was hammered. Got back to the hotel and tried to sleep, but woke up feeling more than awful. Ended up throwing up in the toilet, then getting in to the shower fully clothed, turning the water on and Skyping my partner back in Britain whilst crying.

Did I mention that I was sharing a room with my co-worker? Because I was. Luckily she was totally conked out, but the next day I was so hungover I made her find a quiet bit of the exhibition hall with me so we could hide and eat hotdogs. Luckily she was in as much of a bad shape as I was, so was more than happy to go with me.

Not one of my finer moments! But no harm done after all, and the co-worker still likes teasing me about it!

GinAndGooseberry · 16/07/2017 02:30

ha ha! love these, I've only ever said the wrong thing. Never shat or puked.. I had a reputation for missing my mouth when I lifted my drink to my lips which prevented me getting drunker than drunk.

I loved the story of being locked out of hotel room only half covered and having to ask a manager for help, dying of embarrassment, only to later see him pissing on the curtains! ha ha

Oblomov17 · 16/07/2017 04:06

These make me feel a whole lot better!!

Pawsbutton · 16/07/2017 04:23

Eeek!

No, I tend to avoid drinking in front of colleagues as I cannot handle my booze!

One year, a senior manager got trashed at office do and streaked topless through a roomful of her colleagues. Don't think she ever lived it down.

Rhubarbginisnotasin · 16/07/2017 04:50

Not me but we all went for a works meal and a guy from my office was so drunk that he went outside and did a wee against the restaurant window where we were all sitting! We seen everything!!! Then later on that evening we went to a bar and the same guy and his manager ended up having a fight in the men's toilets. They both came out with ripped shirts and covered in wee from the floor

This is the best. Its really tickled my fancy and Ive had a good laugh at the thought of them coming out of the loo.

CatOzzy · 16/07/2017 04:52

Danced on tables and when a manager joked that I worked at the local lapdancing bar told him "no. It that one" so he thinks I'm a stripper! WTF

CatOzzy · 16/07/2017 04:54

One of my colleagues was locked up for being drunk and disorderly and spent the night in a police cell. He was pulled into the office the next day!

Babybeesmama · 16/07/2017 06:04

Attempted to pole dance 🙈.. waking up with bruising inside my mouth & cheeks - this was from smashing my face into the pole but at the time I didn't feel it... fell over several times... my line manager stayed at mine & I was that pissed I couldn't get her sofabed out so she had to sleep in a bed with me & I chundered all morning 😳🤣

PetalMettle · 16/07/2017 06:48

My first Xmas do I got hammered and threw up - there and in the cab back which I had to pay £72 to have cleaned (in 1999!)
At another one (different company) I got very flirty with our coo which ended up with us getting off together. There was only my receptionist mate there at that point which was fine, but later we started an affair in the office and I'd just disappear for ages during the day to have his office. Amazed no one ever did anything about it. I still cringe about a colleague walking in while I was sat on his lap kissing him with my shirt completely undone.
You'll be fine op, just don't get a reputation for it always being you

bouncydog · 16/07/2017 07:31

I worked with a group of colleagues with a huge capacity and tolerance for alcohol. Being much smaller I couldn't compete and there were a few occasions when I got tipsy. However nothing was as embarrassing as turning up to DD's school (run by nuns) on parents evening to read in her news book " On Fridays mummy goes and get drunk then goes to Pizza Express for lunch". . Complete with a stick picture of mummy with a large glass of wine and a pizza!! Sister came up to me and said "children have such vivid imaginations don't they Mrs P".

mogulfield · 16/07/2017 07:33

hopelessly your stories are brilliant! I'm trying to surpress my laughter as I'm lying next to a sleeping DH!! Especially the plate one
In my last place (armed forces) if you weren't at mess functions getting drunk and schmoozing you didn't get promoted, it was all networking and having the funny story to tell.
At one unit a few of our colleagues had died so everyone got VERY drunk, and decided to burn a piano (tradition, in ww2 they burnt the piano of the pilots who didn't come home), this then escalated to ALL the mess furniture being burnt . Literally sofas were just being thrown on.
We clubbed together and all bought new furtinure and all was forgotten. (Someone also left an actual human shit in the corridor).
so what you did isn't that bad Op, own it, apologise if required, pay for damage- all is forgotten.

fsos · 16/07/2017 07:35

To the people upthread making excuses, sorry, but if you're honestly so anxious that you need to get THIS plastered to spend any free time with work colleagues, you need help.

Stop making wimpy excuses. It's not about feeling anxious or forgetting how many drinks you've been handed or letting off steam - you made the choice, you swallowed the stuff. So for gods sake own it and enjoy it!

(But then what do I know, some of us are just sanctimonious for daring to suggest it's not a good idea.)

pinkstripeycat · 16/07/2017 07:52

People are always doing daft things drunk or not. It's part of life. You do laugh about it later. I would get v drunk now I'm older but It's still funny to watch others get drunk and do daft things at my work xmas party. To some it's childish. To others It's just part of life. I love reading these stories. My husband was in the army. Parties were always eventful. They always started very formal and by the end end (usually after the 1 am champagne breakfast) there had been so many incidents. We all still talk about them today. Those really were the days!

pinkstripeycat · 16/07/2017 07:53

I would not get v drunk now I'm older is what I meant

PetalMettle · 16/07/2017 07:56

TBH now I'm management I do restrict my drinking at work events as I worry about authority (I was junior when I was messing around!)

juneybean · 16/07/2017 07:57

Ahh it's not a works night out without some disgrace.

My own involved drinking every drink offered, having my hair held back in the ladies (with accompanying picture) and being sent home in a taxi by 10pm with sick down my arm.

Prior to this one of my colleagues was put to bed by our boss on their sofa where I had to kindly escort them out of the house the next morning.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 16/07/2017 08:05

bouncy

Goingtobeawesome · 16/07/2017 08:38

Possum - makes a change that the man is sacked after work based shagging.

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ethanrayne · 16/07/2017 09:32

Diet Coke for me from now on at work functions, and a full meal. Thank god the hangover has passed but residual fear is lingering....

Some bloody hilarious stories! Thanks all

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CodLiverOil556 · 16/07/2017 10:42

This will out me massively but fuck it

Brand spanking new soldier at my regiment and it's decided that I should be initiated so start drinking god knows what at around 10am. Anyway I lose a good hours of my life and finally wake up wearing nothing but a duvet in the jail cells.

They put me in there when I was found wandering round camp wearing said duvet, they didn't have a clue who I was so stuck me in the cells.

I brazened it out and did the notorious walk of shame with my duvet across the parade square, the bastards never let my live it down and was mentioned on my leaving speech 3 years after the event

Pawsbutton · 16/07/2017 10:49

Sorry to put a downer on this thread, but I worked in a firm where a guy actually died from alcohol poisoning after our works do

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