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To ask how I can show my face on Monday

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cadburyegg · 07/12/2019 09:40

I went to a works Christmas do last night, drank too much and made a tit of myself.
I’m dreading going to work on Monday! AIBU to hand my notice in?! I can’t see another solution!! Help!

OP posts:
BrokenWing · 08/12/2019 18:36

potentially no one noticed the fart, if they did, hey ho accidents happen and no one is likely to mention.

The pucking, when talking to colleagues, just say what you've said here, first drink in over 2 years, didn't realise you had overdone it, first time you've pucked after drinking in 10 years/since you were 21 (make up a number) and sorry if you offended anyone/wont be doing that again in a hurry.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 08/12/2019 18:37

@xmaspartybull GrinGrin

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 08/12/2019 18:38

Is it just me that is bewildered by a few MNers who seem to have commented on the thread about drunken UK parties, and how much better-behaved their non-UK location is. Can I just point out that this is a UK site, therefore mainly populated by people from the UK. Did you mean to be so rude? Xmas Grin

Devora13 · 08/12/2019 18:39

'She was a young girl in a job she hadn’t been in long. Apparently she had rarely ever drank and believe there was a mixture of nerves and co workers plying her with alcohol and not really looking out for her. Poor thing. Still not the end of the world though, just must’ve seemed like it at the time.:
Happened to me at a work's do at my.girdt job. I was just short of 16 and as far as I recall, I did make it to the loo. There was much tutting then a sense of realisation that they shouldn't be letting a 16 year old drink alcohol, let alone copious quantities. So I got away with it 🥴

Savingforarainyday · 08/12/2019 18:41

" the honeymoon is over, we can fart in front of each other now"

Or similar.

I bet every single person there was thinking " there but for the grace of god"

You just have to laugh it off I think. People love a good fart story, but even more if you can laugh along with them
Glitterball 💨💨

Batshittery · 08/12/2019 18:48

@xmaspartybull that is brilliant. I can't stop laughing Crown Grin

MollyMinniesMum · 08/12/2019 18:50

Did you shag the boss? If not, don’t worry

Turquoise123 · 08/12/2019 18:53

Smile and say “ silly me I don’t normally drink much “ and then talk about something else . You are not the first person to do this it will blow over v quickly.

12FreeRangeEggs · 08/12/2019 18:55

I worked with a guy 19 years ago who got hideously drunk at a Christmas party then got in a fight afterwards. Too drunk to go home he went back to the office to sleep it off and was discovered as we went into work the next morning. He had done all 4 - bled, shat, pissed and vomited on both reception sofas. Still kept his job though.

Devora13 · 08/12/2019 18:55

@Mummytoonlychild
I was going to say look for a job in a company which has values more aligned to yours.
I think I'll just make it look for a job in a company which has values...

BrokenWing · 08/12/2019 18:58

My worst Xmas party, corporate do with 100+ attending, the DJ played a game where groups of 5-6 women got a volunteer male to sit in a chair in the middle of a dance floor.

We picked the visiting MD 🤦‍♀️ (big Swiss, non drinking, quite shy, bloke) which in hindsight was our first mistake. DJ said we had 2 minutes to dress him up as Madonna (it was the late 1980s).

2 minutes later the poor man was sitting in the chair with two balloons inside his 1/2 unbuttoned shirt, someone's bra outside his shirt (not mine!), bright red lipstick and various makeup, shoes and socks removed, trousers rolled up to knees and in women sized high heels...… and 😳 20 year old drunk me astride him (fully clothed thankfully, but in my hoicked up xmas frock, boobs at face level!) lovingly styling his sparse hair into god only knows what with a can of hairspray.

Career survived, but the next time I saw him was more than a bit awkward.

SonataDentata · 08/12/2019 18:59

You’re all making me feel much better. My boss threatened to sack me for making a “suggestive remark” at a work dinner and trying to sit on a colleague’s lap. Obviously not great but seems rather benign compared to most of the stories on here!

Toomuchtrouble4me · 08/12/2019 19:05

madambee

Dh used to have overall responsability for a project in UK (we are Scandi) he went to their Christmas do and a random wife of one of the employees was very drunk and entertained my dh with how bad the overall manager was and how her dh was much better. She didn't have a clue who my dh was grin

We laughed our heads off and felt a little sorry for her.

First - if your DH was a gentleman he would have stopped her.
Second - Perhaps she’s right, we’ve all had crap managers at some time or other, maybe your DH WAS crap. Her husband clearly thought so.

missnevermind · 08/12/2019 19:08

I was a couple of months pregnant at a Works Christmas party one year, so probably the only one sober.
Came to work early the Monday after and a colleague came over and threatened me that I had better not tell her husband what had happened.
I never saw a thing! She apologiesed the next day with chocolates but I never felt the same around her afterwards.

TileFloors · 08/12/2019 19:16

About 12 years ago I was at a work Christmas do wearing a new sparkly jumper that I loved. While a bit the worse for wear, in a small underground bar, I managed to spill red wine all down it. I leapt to my feet and ran into the very small ladies’ loo, whipped it off, and held the wine stain under the cold tap. After several minutes I realised the door hadn’t closed behind me, and all my colleagues, seated at the bar, had a direct view of me in just my bra. On the plus side, my prompt action saved the jumper.

Tinkerbelle57 · 08/12/2019 19:17

I’m sure everyone else was too drunk to remember or notice. Half of them probably feel the same as you.
You are not the first and certainly won’t be the last.
Hold your head up, go into work and face it and laugh with them.
If they talk about you , it won’t be for long. The next day they will be talking about someone else.

Adenosine · 08/12/2019 19:17

Oh god I've seen far worse at work dos. The woman who danced on the bar so everyone saw her fanny, then fell off into a load of beer trays before being slung out. The guy who was waiting with us in the queue for the nightclub we went onto, crossed the road to puke in full view of the bouncers then rejoined the queue. The woman who was slagging her boss off in the loo (never do this, incidentally) then the boss came out of a cubicle so the woman burst into tears, tried to run away out of there and fell over. The bloke who puked all over the taxi and everyone in it. The bloke who went missing and woke up in a skip.

You are fine. Really.

Tinkerbelle57 · 08/12/2019 19:24

If it makes you feel any better , at our Christmas parties we used to set each other challenges and dares. One of mine was to go up to the CEO and ask him to dance and before the dance ended to kiss him full on the lips 😳 . Which I did and he wasn’t impressed and just discreetly stopped me. There is even a photo of it.
Anyway I didn’t lose my job and worked there for over 10 years after the event.

SalemShadow · 08/12/2019 19:32

Just front it out. You can do this

DreamTheMoors · 08/12/2019 19:34

OP - DO NOT CALL IN SICK!!!!!
If you do, it’ll be WORSE when you do go in & A HUNDRED TIMES MORE EMBARRASSING.
Go in tomorrow & own it. You haven’t done anything that they won’t understand.
Laugh, apologise, and move forward. Take the teasing & laugh with your co-workers.
DO NOT CALL IN SICK - GO IN LIKE A CHAMP!!!

GoodDogBellaBoo · 08/12/2019 19:34

@Adenosine crying with laughter!!

GoodDogBellaBoo · 08/12/2019 19:38

If anyone says anything just tell them you know that you probably should be embarrassed but you haven’t been able to stop laughing the entire weekend. This one is on you, the next one is on them.

EugenesAxe · 08/12/2019 19:39

You can't help farting for goodness sake. I wouldn't worry - I expect half the people didn't notice. It's one of those things that becomes big with you alone, so ignore it and the issue will shrink away.

Looking at it in a very shallow way... if you have a child and partner/DH then it's not like you've scuppered your chances of romance with someone you fancy from work!

msflibble · 08/12/2019 19:43

Oh OP, bless you, sounds very tame really - everyone farts! I once did one in front of a roomful of people I wanted desperately to impress. I was perched on the edge of a sofa with my knees up in prime farting position and a friend next to me was making me laugh, and I knew it was going to happen, but couldn't stop it. The fart lasted 10 seconds at least.
When they didn't laugh and were horrified instead I realised they were a bunch of stuck-up shallow posers.
If your workmates are nice people they'll see it as something endearing and funny instead of something shameful. Go to work with your head held high and join in the joke, you'll gain more respect if you can show it doesn't get to you!

ToftyAC · 08/12/2019 19:44

Ah bugger it! I got absolutely wankered at the staff Xmas do last year and made an absolute show! I brazened it out and we all had a bloody good laugh about it 😁

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