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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:

Adenosine · 08/12/2019 19:49

@GoodDogBellaBoo 🤣 it wasn't all in the same year! I don't work with total degenerates! The worst that happened last year was a woman crawling under the table to be sick and then trying to grab a plate to put on top of it "to hide it so I don't get thrown out". (She did, ofc, get thrown out anyway.)

theoriginalmadambee · 08/12/2019 19:49

@Toomuchtrouble4me
You and others are right.
Of course the junior engineer's drunk wife, who thinks her dh could do better running a power plant conversion (example) is right.

I'm sure she will have full knowledge of company strategies, management plans etc. plus the experience and knowhow, so my bad.

Aglet · 08/12/2019 19:49

Nobody will care. We've all done it. Plead ignorance.

justgivememulledwine · 08/12/2019 19:49

Don’t worry op, many people will be so busy wondering if they made tits of themselves they will have forgotten about you. I got completely bladdered with the company finance director once. But I think she was as far gone as me and it was never mentioned again. 😂

Nearly47 · 08/12/2019 19:56

You really don't have to fear anything. No one will mention a fart. Just go in act normal and if someone comments just say alcohol upsets your stomach. It's really is nothing. I've done and seen so much worse and it was fine on Monday. You might a couple of jokes that's all but I don't think you will get even even that.... Nowadays I stick to only a couple of drinks

TheNameGames · 08/12/2019 19:56

@SonataDentata
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!

I'm with you! I am completely reading the tales on here and what people have got up to and still got to keep their jobs. I got seriously threatened with the sack for being a bit tipsy and gesturing to something and accidentally knocking over half a glass of wine (my own) on the table (which didn't spill on anyone). I'm wondering whether all these are from and about people in higher-up jobs and they are seen as 'more important' than a boring low-level office worker lol.

GnomeDePlume · 08/12/2019 19:57

@Mummytoonlychild I am sorry, I hope you are able to get away from there soon. He sounds ghastly.

Mummytoonlychild · 08/12/2019 20:04

@GnomeDePlume im only there till my child is older the hours are amazing right now so if they force my hours change I'll have to leave earlier than planned. We are doing a secret santa I was so upset I didn't get my boss as I have a few ideas that would have been amazing to get this is the one I really wanted im tempted to get it and label it to them and they get 2 😂 no way to track it back then is it lol

smell99 · 08/12/2019 20:11

Many years ago my boyfriends parents were stopping off at his place on their way back from a family visit prior to Christmas. Main reason for visit was to meet me, they hadn't met me before. My parents were wanting to meet them also (we were getting serious ). Unfortunately it turned out they would arrive on the Friday of my Christmas party and my parents had their party, a bit posher with an overnight stay). My BF said not to worry as they were here for two or three days and I'd meet them in the morning. After making a meal for them he came and took me to my party so I didn't have to drive. I called after midnight and he came and collected me. I was more than tipsy but when I got out into the cold air my legs gave way, I threw up and wet myself. I'd fallen in the puke and he picked me up put a couple of towels down on the seat and dove me back to his flat as he didn't want to leave me on my own. So my first meeting with my future MiL was with me naked on the bathroom floor as he'd undressed me. I was trying to throw up with him trying at the same time to wash the vomit from my breasts and clean up my 'girlie bits'. I woke in his spare bed wearing one of his t-shirts and a clean pair of pants (I had some clothes at his place).

There was some talking going on and he came in and asked how I felt. Pretty rough was the term. I got up and went through to the sitting room (in t-shirt and pants) to find my parents and his waiting. My parents didn't say anything, his mum asked if I was ok. BF made me some coffee and a sandwich. I was so embarrassed. My clothes were hanging on a clothes horse, his mum had given them a wash while I slept. BF brought a change of clothes through from the main bedroom for me and I went and got dressed.

My parents were so embarrassed by me and didn't let me forget, his mum and dad just said these things happen and didn't bring it up again.

shitpark · 08/12/2019 20:12

As a student, I did my placement year with the the consulting firm run by my personal tutor. I got that place against some very steep competition. I threw up over my boss/tutor's wife's expensive shoes, and snogged his son. But I was 20 and no-one expected any different.It'll be forgotten by next year.

cottonwoolbrain · 08/12/2019 20:26

Dont worry .

When I was 22 I woke up on my sofa at home still fully dressed and tucked up under a blanket with no recollection of how I got there.

Later found out I'd been completely out of it and had been more or less carried out by the managing director who drove me home.

That was the last time I ever ignored a doctor when they told me not to mix medication and alcohol!!!

They promoted me a few months later so cant have been all bad!!!

FelicisNox · 08/12/2019 20:28

I read the thread: hilarious.

Honestly, your story is tame. Just brazen it out on Monday.

KatherineJaneway · 08/12/2019 20:34

Go in to work as normal. Brazen it out.
"What am I like!"
"What night! So embarrassing, never again! haha"

Totally this ^^

Been there, done that.

Monkeymoo82 · 08/12/2019 20:34

Total beer fear. I did this a few months back and mid week!!! Took the next day off and then braved it, apologised and yeah I took a bit of flack but it's not been mentioned since

shinynewapple · 08/12/2019 20:36

Please don't worry OP. Farting is nothing! Think how many (mainly male) people would think nothing of farting at their desk or in a meeting! And at least you were sick in the toilet.

I doubt anyone would even remember these things - if you were my colleague I'd probably ask if you felt OK the next day, if you had a bad hangover but I wouldn't think any the less of you.

And the posters who actually agreed you should resign or throw a sicky really need to get some perspective.

gower4 · 08/12/2019 20:41

Honestly, if it makes you feel better I once accidentally farted at top blast at a quiet Christmas dinner in January before we'd even got started!! Everyone clearly heard and just pretended nothing had happened while I sat there in shock 😂

GreenFieldsofFrance · 08/12/2019 20:53

Op you'll be grand you really will. My worst one to date, and I've had contenders over the years, was at aged 22, having been for Christmas lunch with the big boss. She confided in me all the details about her dp's very fractious relationship with his dad, who had made an unprecedented visit from his home country to visit the family for Christmas. This was a big deal and the whole point was bridges needed to be built, so this reunion had been planned.

On the way home I dropped her in a cab and was supposed to carry on home but instead when she asked me in for a night cap I went in. Unfortunately the dad was there and I decided it was my civic duty to tell him exactly what I knew about what a shit dad he had been, and have a massive go at him. His estranged son (my boss's dp) threw me out of the house, verbally abusing me on the way. You can only imagine the terrors I went through for the next 2 weeks while the office was closed and this was at a time when it wasn't that usual to have mobiles so there was no getting in touch to try and smooth things over!

I still had a job come January and worked there for a good few years after!

SonataDentata · 08/12/2019 20:55

I’m sure seniority has a bearing on it but I once saw a director carried out because she was so drunk she could no longer walk! She kept her job, with no consequences as far as anyone was aware.

GlamGiraffe · 08/12/2019 21:06

Receptionist in DH's company (he is big boss) was at christmas do some years ago. She got really drunk, DH thought he had better put her in cab home and was trying to ring her husband to tell him his v drunk wife was on way home and would need dragging out of cab. She decided he couldnt ring him as she was licking DH's face, taking off her clothes, pronouncing her undying love and telling him she wanted to sleep with him "at his house" (obviously forgetting I existed, and he was sober!), in front of the whole office. He put her in the cab. After propping her up. Office thought it was hilarious.
She apparently had no memory when the staff told her and didn't come to work for 4 days, she avoided DH and I forever more, she would never look at him again.
I think that counts as having something to worry about!😂😂

Namechangerextraordinaire1 · 08/12/2019 21:07

Genuinely laughed out loud at some of these stories, and cringed like mad at others.

I'm in my 30s now and have realised that my relationship with alcohol isn't particularly healthy and I tend to drink too much and make a twat of myself. And vomit. I always vomit. So I don't drink at them anymore (or in general really), so I just take in the others behaviour and laugh.

I've made too much of a tit of myself on too many occasions, I eventually learnt my lesson!

maddiemookins16mum · 08/12/2019 21:08

Just laugh about it and blame it on the sprouts. It could have been a whole lot worse.

TheNameGames · 08/12/2019 21:21

@SonataDentata
I’m sure seniority has a bearing on it but I once saw a director carried out because she was so drunk she could no longer walk! She kept her job, with no consequences as far as anyone was aware.

Well that kind of proves the point I was making lol

KittyMcV · 08/12/2019 21:30

Puking and farting will be absolutely fine. In fact, almost anything that happens at works Xmas dos are absolutely fine. That is why they should be completely banned!! One of my colleagues at work did something much, much worse than that. We've never let her live it down. Offered .... um..... something - to her boss. It was nothing at all like her character ordinarily. She didn't resign, and twenty five years later is still working there. Brazen it out... it will be fine.

TWD89 · 08/12/2019 21:35

I once copped off at our Xmas do with a colleague. Apparently angered another male colleague who proceeded to chuck an absolute swearing shit fit at me in front of everyone, including my two bosses. Turns out he had a massive crush on me which everyone apart from me knew about and expressed it by being a wanker.

I was fired on Monday - apparently I was a “distraction” to the men in the office

Being 21 at the time I let it go but now I’m whenever I think about it!

Your story is nothing though OP. I wouldn’t even be embarrassed going into work TBH!

ThatssomebadhatHarry · 08/12/2019 21:40

Op you are worrying too much. You were drunk with others who were also drunk so your behaviour is always diluted. If everyone was sober it would be embarrassing to fart and be sick, slightly.
Laugh it off “ha omg I haven’t drunk for ages I had a massive hangover, i’m out of practice...”
There is nothing worse than hangover remembering all the crap you spoke about or things you did but honestly yours sounds tame.

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