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To ask what’s the worst thing you’ve witnessed or done at a work Christmas party?

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BornInSydneyy · 11/12/2017 19:38

One year I was dating someone I worked with. I had a massive go at him at the party with a group of people then starting to watch.

This year one colleague who can’t handle their drink.

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MissConductUS · 12/12/2017 13:49

Most organizations in the US have eliminated alcohol from the Christmas parties. It's too easy here to get sued if someone gets drunk and then gets into a car accident.

EnglishRose13 · 12/12/2017 13:50

Three colleagues, including Head of Payroll, doing coke in the loos.

brasty · 12/12/2017 13:54

Only a boss getting drunk and dancing on a table, that quickly collapsed. But they are usually pretty tame.

Runningbutnotscared · 12/12/2017 13:55

Sorry... MakeMisogynyAHateCrime ..what?
Surely there is more to the story than that?
Because...well, why in hell would anyone do that?

wasonthelist · 12/12/2017 13:57

No stories - and not sure if I am pleased or feeling left out.

Cavender · 12/12/2017 13:57

MissConduct I’m not sure how true that is tbh.

I was at a Christmas party for a large corporate on Saturday night. The function suite contained several bars.

I haven’t heard of any dry Christmas parties among my friends...

Of course it may depend on the state.

extinctspecies · 12/12/2017 14:01

Temp getting so drunk she peed in the lift.

And shagged another staff member standing up between 2 cars in the car park.

MotorwayMingebag · 12/12/2017 14:20

At a Christmas party circa 1992 a drunk woman crawled into the false ceiling of the room in which the party was being held and it fell in on top of us. Luckily only she was carted off by the paramedics.

Same woman, same year, different party (not a work do, a house party) tried to give herself an enema with a kettle and a plastic tube.

Those were the days.

Rudgie47 · 12/12/2017 14:21

Worst thing I know about is a woman who agreed to stay at a colleagues house after the do.The agreement was it was just her who was to stay, but she sneaked in a bloke from work in the middle of the night and shagged him.
This was seen by the homeowners son, a teen, who got up to get a drink and thought his Mum was shagging someone on the settee and was really upset. The shagging couple lost the condom down the back of the settee and it was found by the womans long term boyfriend who also thought she was cheating.
So this poor woman had all this crap and it wasnt even her fault. The woman from work wasnt even that apologetic.
She wasnt invited to stay again.

MissConductUS · 12/12/2017 14:22

Cavender, I'm in NY. It may also be a cost saving issue. It's a lot cheaper to do the party without the open bar, and a lot of expenses were cut during the great recession.

But there have been lawsuits here over people getting tanked at their company party and then getting into accidents driving home.

pallisers · 12/12/2017 14:26

Most organizations in the US have eliminated alcohol from the Christmas parties. It's too easy here to get sued if someone gets drunk and then gets into a car accident.

Every work party I have been to in the US has alcohol at it. But our company eliminated anything more than 2 free drinks after a guy drove drunk after a holiday party (he went to a bar with a few people after the party and was doing shots), hit another car and killed 2 people. He served about 5 years in jail for that.

Cavender · 12/12/2017 14:28

MissConduct I’m in Texas.

There were certainly communications in advance of the party explicitly telling people not to drink and drive and I imagine that’s fairly common (and very sensible).

Bananalanacake · 12/12/2017 14:28

Trying to slow dance with someone they weren't interested and they crashed some other couples dance to get away from me.

purpleprincess24 · 12/12/2017 14:37

Going back a few years...

My boss and I had a love/hate relationship and at one Christmas party he tipped his whole bottle of beer down the back of my dress.

Another party was held in a hotel and I ended up in a bedroom with one of my colleagues 😜 at around 3am I came down in the lift and walked right into some colleagues who id said goodbye to several hours earlier ... oh the shame

amusedbush · 12/12/2017 14:45

Not a Christmas party but at a work function when I was 20. I worked in a private student accommodation and we were celebrating having no students around the start of the summer.

I'm not a big drinker and I've never been a wine drinker but I hit the cheap wine pretty hard at this event. I have almost no memory of the evening at all but from what I gather, I got absolutely sloshed and went missing. My manager found me in an empty student flat, crying and covered in vomit. She had to strip me down to my underwear and put me to bed in the empty flat, where I woke up the next day to find my stinking dress balled up in the sink and a pool of sick on the floor beside me.

I've never been so mortified in my life. I quietly cleaned up my mess and phoned my then-flatmate to come and pick me up

HooraySunshine · 12/12/2017 14:49

One was at Christmas work party where secret santa gifts were passed around. Everyone watching in shock/horror/amusement as CEO opened his rather large gift and a full sized sex doll popped out!

Second was a Christmas work party dinner at a rather posh restaurant in the city. My new boss got drunk (making her even more loud and obnoxious than usual) climbed up onto the tables and started stripping and ended up leaving with one of my drunk (married) co-workers back to her place.

BluthsFrozenBananas · 12/12/2017 14:52

My DH went to his company Christmas party in the US at the weekend. There was alcohol, however the company had opened a tab with a taxi firm for that night so people could safely get home for free. God knows how much it cost them as apparently there were around a thousand people at the party .

catwoozle · 12/12/2017 14:56

Always a punch up every year (usually a couple of the male partners)

Married male partner getting off with receptionist

Male partners doing a striptease on the dance floor

Colleagues secretary being too drunk to get Tube, vomiting on platform, sat on a chair and coned off by Tube staff. Her boyfriend came to collect her.

Lovemusic33 · 12/12/2017 14:57

I haven’t done anything bad at a Christmas parties myself (not a big drinker and quite shy) but I used to work at a posh function suit which often hosted Christmas parties for big companies. One year there was this young girls (probably 17/18), I don’t think she had ever drank in her life, her work colleagues decided to get her totally hammered, poor girls threw up all down the corridor and all over the bogs (the cleaner wasn’t happy), I’m sure she didn’t have a good night and it probably put her off drinking for life.

Emmageddon · 12/12/2017 15:00

*I once saw a nurse practitioner with what I at first (from across the room) thought was chocolate on her hands clapping wildly whilst shouting “not just a phrase”.

Reader, the chocolate was shit.*

WTAF?

ReanimatedSGB · 12/12/2017 15:05

In the days when I actually had a job that involved office parties (ie last century) most of us were big drinkers anyway, so there was probably more bad behaviour on an average Friday night out. But the Christmas do generally involved a fair bit of drunken crying...

Oh, and, whoops, me decking someone. (I had had a bad week and he was being thoroughly tiresome... but I only meant to give him a jokey clip round the ear.)

SlothMama · 12/12/2017 15:06

A male colleague got naked on the dance floor, was later fired as the Christmas party was in a very public place with not just our company there.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/12/2017 15:10

”I once saw a nurse practitioner with what I at first (from across the room) thought was chocolate on her hands clapping wildly whilst shouting “not just a phrase”.

Reader, the chocolate was shit.”

I hate that I know this, but there is a phrase, meaning something is so unpleasant that the person would rather do something even worse to avoid doing the first thing:

”I’d rather shit on my hands and clap!”

2017SoFarSoGood · 12/12/2017 15:23

Also in the US. Lots of alcohol still served at our parties but we plan I'm advance for how to get folks home safely, and have had to book hotel rooms for the drunkest more than once.

At my last firm I learned that several staff members had an annual habit of using the provided taxi voucher to pick up several friends and proceed to do all of their Christmas shopping over the next two days. Retaining the taxi to ferry them around. It was known but nobody had the balls to say anything. I did. Told them it was theft, and that they would be fired if it happened again. Never did. CF's!

MissConductUS · 12/12/2017 15:27

Also in the US. Lots of alcohol still served at our parties

I've obviously been working for the wrong organizations for the last 10 or 15 years.

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