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To ask how I can show my face on Monday

391 replies

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:
StCharlotte · 07/12/2019 15:24

Possibly outing... A colleague and I went to a work Christmas party as a pantomime horse (as you do). Towards the end of the evening a pair of hooves was seen under the toilet, their owner loudly vomiting. Had the devil's own job convincing everyone it was the other end of the horse (I had form to be fair).

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/12/2019 15:24

Nine days not minutes

StCharlotte · 07/12/2019 15:24
  • toilet door
SouthWestmom · 07/12/2019 15:25

Have you ever actually been to a party in Britain? I suspect you haven't.

Are you attempting an insult? A genuine query? What a strange comment.

Minxmumma · 07/12/2019 15:27

Oh you'll be fine, barely a scandal to be had from a loud fart and throwing up in the toilet.

Went to dh work do last year - a colleague / friend showed up with what was almost a blind date off tinder, drank himself silly and threw up down her cleavage! Now that is a bit much.

Gloss over it Monday if anyone remembers

Hohofortherobbers · 07/12/2019 15:27

Shock can you pretend the fart was the chair scraping along floor if it's mentioned? Just laugh and say 'oh no, I was joking about it being me, it was the chair scraping!!'

ReanimatedSGB · 07/12/2019 15:29

I don't think it's particularly 'depressing'. All cultures have some form of 'festival' where silly/intoxicated behaviour is accepted if not encouraged.
And I would far rather attend a workplace party that involves some booze than one that is ferociously 'wholesome' - ethical party games and vegan biscuits or whatever. Especially if it comes with additional whining about how awful 'intoxication culture' is. (I actually have a friend who sometimes invites me to that sort of party. I am invariably otherwise engaged...)

ReanimatedSGB · 07/12/2019 15:30

Vomiting hooves? Oh fuck me that is GENIUS....

IcedPurple · 07/12/2019 15:34

Was the fart accidental, or done for comic effect? If the latter, was it actually funny

Farts are always funny.

IcedPurple · 07/12/2019 15:35

A genuine query?

Yes. Do the parties you attend in Britain generally end with someone comatose in a gutter?

category12 · 07/12/2019 15:36

Puke was in the toilet, nothing too exciting. I got up at the table and farted in front of everyone about half way through the meal

If that's the worst you did, you're totally under the beer-fear and need to calm down.

At the Xmas dos at my work, they went on to a gay bar after the main event and one of the married men pulled there. And someone else fell on top of a colleague breaking one of their ribs. They both still work there.

BoxtheRight · 07/12/2019 15:37

OP, this doesn't sound bad at all.

I work on the basis that as long as I haven't upset or insulted anyone, fuck it.

Everyone else will have been pissed. If the few who weren't start the 'eee you were very drunk on Friday night' game of moral superiority, I find that 'I know... can't turn back time though, eh?' shuts them up.

Half of this will be beer fear. You'll feel much better about it in the morning.

Jingers5 · 07/12/2019 15:38

Stcharlotte, l really laughed out loud at your post :)

Elieza · 07/12/2019 15:46

Claim food poisoning and that’s why things were coming out both ends of you! Crown Blush

category12 · 07/12/2019 15:49

Oh, don't claim food poisoning or anything - it's cringey when people make up transparent excuses. People are far more likely to laugh with you than laugh at you if you just hold your hands up and say you "had too much and are so embarrassed, haha".

WeePinklet · 07/12/2019 15:50

Don't worry, OP. Puke and farting will soon blow over Grin

I'm sure almost all of us have felt as you do now, and we're still here to tell the story. Try not to worry - it'll be fine Thanks

IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory · 07/12/2019 15:51

It’s ok OP. I know someone who shit in a bin. Behind the till. At work. Totally sober. And told anyone who hadn’t witnessed it. Hmm there was no mention of her losing her job.

ScreamedAtTheMichelangelo · 07/12/2019 15:54

@IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory In which case I really hope your username isn't true. Grin

AutumnRose1 · 07/12/2019 15:56

OP I love the way you say “fart was accidental” as if you worried you might think you planned it for weeks Grin

LazyDaisey · 07/12/2019 15:57

I don’t think yours is nearly as bad as @madambee DH’s party. I’m guessing this wife didn’t work for the company. So she was repeating details her husband had bitched about. Not sure why madamebee’s found it amusing, unless it was a very very junior employee slagging off a very senior manager.

RexDangerVest · 07/12/2019 15:58

It's a great time of year to be sober. Really, REALLY is

IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory · 07/12/2019 16:00

In which case I really hope your username isn't true.

Grin thankfully she wasn’t a colleague of mine but that of a friend who told me what had happened.

MarshaBradyo · 07/12/2019 16:01

I got too drunk when I stopped bfding first time I went out with friends. I can usually handle drinking but after a couple of glasses I was two sheets to the wind.

Puke in loo fine. Fart. Funny but don’t worry about it.

Just don’t grope someone whatever you do that may well cost you your job. Not to op just in general. Prob no one on here.

MarshaBradyo · 07/12/2019 16:03

And I still cringe about the conversation / heated discussion I had. Hopefully it’s always way worse if it’s you and not as remembered if it’s not.

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 07/12/2019 16:09

Truthfully - if you can get another job I’d leave and get the other job. If not, just brazen it out. I have remembered the times that my colleagues have been the worse for drink. I don’t think the worse of them. But I have noted it. And I have remembered. Some are really extreme examples from years ago. Only you can really know how far along the spectrum of drunkenness you were. So if your relationships at work are very new and you can find another job I’d maybe do that and make a fresh start. And not drink next time. But if that is not possible then it’s fine to just brazen it out.