To ask how I can show my face on Monday

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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!

This could be you… hope the hangover isn’t too bad!

Oh my god - did you go to the same Xmas party as me????

Ok, deep breath. If you can't text a work mate you (like lots of PPs have suggested) style it out Mon and don't make reference to it. If someone brings it up, you laugh and brush it off.

Do this and I promise nobody will say anything. Been there a few times

This might make you feel better...
I once had a night out during a work conference overseas... skipped dinner, drank heaps and ended up doing tequila shots off a bar girl/hostess's body (was in Bangkok) and ended up snogging a (married) colleague in front of everyone including my manager. Got to bed about 4am - woke up in colleagues bed well after conference start time. Fronted up to conference the next day late and stinking of booze. Was told to go back to hotel and sleep it off by my manager.. got a formal warning from my head of dept when I got home. Still kept my job somehow - this was 15 years ago but I'll never forget it!!!!

It depends.

Being sick in the loos - ok.

Being sick anywhere else - not ok.

Farting? You'll just have to brazen that one out.

My own post party behaviour has been so shocking I can’t really disclose it ! Luckily was not alone in such behaviour. Next morning misbehaviour continued and involved stealing police officers helmet ‘for fun’ until we sobered up when threatened with arrest (all barristers jeopardising our careers fundamentally). Thank god I drastically reduced my drinking shortly thereafter. Haven’t been drunk in public/work setting for a very long time - decades - so much easier !
Good luck Monday op. You will love it down.

Probably not love it down but definitely live it down

“ having to step over other people's bratty kids on a night out.”

This. Much as I hate Xmas dos and no longer attend, I do yearn for the days you could have a night out without seeing kids there or en route home.

OP I hope you’ve got more details of what you did. One of my mates told the CEO, in no uncertain terms, what an evil arse he was and the CEO just waved away her apology in the morning. I don’t suppose it was news to him that he’s an arse. She was convinced it would be instant dismissal.

This was me last night. Far too much free wine and I ended up having a fag outside with the boss (I don't even smoke) and spectacularly fell face down in the entrance on the way back inside. I'm sporting a bruise on my chin and two bloody knees this morning. We've all done it OP. Unless you stripped naked on the dance floor or something, you'll be fine.

Xpost with Heron

Eek, the stories about barristers are always the worst! 😂

Loads of us have made an arse of ourselves at some point.

Walk in, apologise if you feel you offended anyone.

Move on, no real harm done.

Sometimes we all need to learn to grow up. There's a point where it stops being funny

@livefornaps if you have got through all this thread without convulsing with appalled laughter at at least 1 anecdote, you grew up too soon.
"Look at my mangina!"-screamer is so funny I puked & farted.
Being A Grown Up can be over-rated.

autumn when I think of my junior years in chambers it’s not funny at all, nothing to be proud of, can’t believe how I worked at high level and carved out career etc at the same time. Never messed up cases never let clients down etc. The profession has changed for the better in lots of respects. Think there were a few wild decades there. Not just the bar. Late 80s/90s was strange time. Hard times for many. Let’s hope we don’t swerve back there - fearful of this right now !

Yes we should be like the 'continentals' and feel like we're pushing the boat out by having 2 whole glasses of wine and having to step over other people's bratty kids on a night out.

Better the other people's bratty kids are upright and toddler sized in Europe than adult sized , comatose and lying in a gutter covered in sick ....

This is why, as a teetotal person, I fucking hate Xmas dos. I’ve had to break up fights, hold hair back, be a shepherd for missing people, endure drunken existential crises, and then be asked six billion times why I’m not drinking. I need an excuse not to go but I don’t have kids!

But to help you out, OP, not one of the aforementioned has ever been disciplined, mostly because I’m the only one who remembers any of it.

Heron, wasn’t there a legal organisation whose Xmas do ended up in papers? It might have been when I was a kid. I didn’t read it as a child obviously

I heard about it from a legal bod later but don’t want to to name the place!

Meh, throwing up isn't too bad. Most of us have been there.

It's worse when you say things you can't take back. Like "Do you know Bob in accounts that everyone calls you 'Bob the knob' because you're such a dickhead", or "Matt I've always had a crush on you will you leave your partner for me". All of which I have seen variations of at work Christmas parties, and that is as awkward as fuck in the office on Monday.

screamed, I don’t have kids. I just refuse to go.

autumn probably but don’t remember and don’t want to even look !

My boss was convinced he had a water-borne disease at this year's do. Not for any logical reason, obviously. He'd resigned himself to drinking in a sad corner away from everyone (to avoid infecting them...) until I went looking for him and returned him to the fold with firm assurances that he was not dying of cholera or similar.

At least I have a year to think of a good excuse for next Xmas... perhaps I can be suffering from a water-borne disease?

Thankyou for this post.. I'm alcohol free and was feeling a little itchy about not being able to drink at Christmas and your post made me feel better about being sober. All of thar shit gone and never to return I'm not being smug or trying to make you feel bad by the way.... Copping off with other people's husbands that are treble my age and falling over flashing all my smalls and not being able to get up were par for the course in my drinking days. But I DID have a problem. Most people I know have made an arse of themselves at a works Xmas do. It'll all blow over so long as you don't make it a serial event

@ScreamedAtTheMichelangelo. “ perhaps I can be suffering from a water-borne disease?”

Great idea in theory. In practice, it will not be kept confidential, will be plastered all over social media within 20 mins of you saying it and the govt will shut off supplies to investigate.

Much easier to just say no 😂

Better the other people's bratty kids are upright and toddler sized in Europe than adult sized , comatose and lying in a gutter covered in sick ....

Have you ever actually been to a party in Britain? I suspect you haven't. Mostly they're good fun. Some people might get a bit worse for wear but I have never ever been at a party which ended with someone "comatose and lying in a gutter covered in sick".

You're welcome to your dull Yurpeen 'family friendly' nights out, with an extra dose of smug on the side.

@AutumnRose1 Good point.

For the avoidance of doubt I also do not fancy the idea of Yurpeen family friendly xmas dos (whatever they are). I should really just embrace the fact that I'm an antisocial hermit.

My ExH called his boss’ wife a c*nt at his xmas party, yours CANT be worse than that! And he kept his job!😮
Go to work, they’ll be talking about someone else by lunchtime!