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I worked for a small startup company - was there 20 years in the end before it became small again 🙂
We were looking for VC input and invited the prospective VCs to Christmas Do - one of the engineers flipped when plied with free beer, started slagging off the VCs daughter, picked a fight with the MD, had to be escorted off the premises. Amazingly he didn't get the boot.
As it turns out the MD used to comment that it was good thing in the end :0)
Nothing too drastic. One guy broke a finger on his way home...
I've been the 'entertainment' several times at Christmas do's, now a bit old for it (and the boss)
But the best for me came not at a Christmas do but at a summer barbecue event, that the Tech Director used to put on once a year. We got mullered on some strange 'cocktail' concoctions using the bottles of stuff that lurk in the back of his wine cabinet, and then were doing shots of sambuca and polish bison grass vodka and cinnamon aftershock and...... and the Sales Director cum site director refused to join in. So i fixed him with a steely gaze and told him to stop being such a miserable irish see you next tuesday. True pin drop moment as he rounded on me with a
'Well......!'
(fully expecting instant dismissal moment here)
'.... I've never been called miserable before!'
Chapeau, Mr Jones. Monday morning was a bit arsetwitchy but he never mentioned it again.
A few years back I got into a competition with someone early in the night as to who could say the most outrageously offensive thing. This man had an active and depraved imagination so he was pretty confident - he was also extremely laid back and hard to offend. Anyhow it ran throughout the evening until some time around midnight I came out with something that had him try to come at me with a glass. I have no idea what I said and neither I nor he remember.
^^ I'm sure he does really though!
I used to work for Bank of Scotland in Chester many many years ago. There were only 3 guys in the office, the rest were women. Our Xmas do's were nuts. The last one I went on ended up with 1 girl and her boyfriend being taken to A &E after overdosing on speed, one of the lads I worked with ended up in a hotel room with one girl he pulled and disappeared for 2 days. His girlfriend/partner was at first worried then went completely bursar on him. 😯
I had a long term girlfriend at the time so I was quite well behaved, just got hammered and spent most of the night requesting the DJ to play Ska all night.
Our Xmas do's nowadays are crap in comparison...