I avoid them these days, but I remember one from the bad old days at a hotel in London that [stupidly] decided to let in a bunch of idiots. Things were ok until one of our lot stole all the spoons and another, following a small food fight in which the assistance manageress got broccoli down her blouse, offered to retrieve it for her.
That and one bloke being taken away in an ambulance due to over over imbibing pretty much saw us banned from that end of London.
Happy days.
edlong - Member
I recall seeing a colleague I vaguely knew wandering round the dinner tables after everyone had finished the meals, necking as much red wine as was left on each table.
I love this kind of attitude at Christmas parties
ooh, just remembered one where I required stitches in a split eyebrow, ahh happy days!
Big M - Member
ooh, just remembered one where I required stitches in a split eyebrow,
Head butting the boss I presume. Please confirm...
I'm looking forward to ours for the first time in ages. Just the six of us in the CID office going for a curry, then inevitably back to the gaffers house to make a substantial dent in his collection of single malts.
Wife managed to get brother and sister in law on her works do. Brother in law had a ruck with the bouncers and got chucked out. Well behaved 😆
I thought CID kept the whisky in the filing cabinet ? or is that just on 70s and 80s police shows ?
That's just for special occasions these days 🙂
I was at a works do where my colleague's brother ended up in the gents with the MD's secretary's sister
I went in for a wee between pints only to hear "You dirty girl, now do it again!"
On the Monday morning my colleague and the secretary were very sheepish as they exited the MD's office
Once had a do at a posh hotel that had a festive display based around Santa and his sleigh in one of the rooms that had obviously been moved to allow us to have our do. It was found by a work mate but he'd been beaten to it by a girl from accounts, who in turn had been beaten to finding it by the tech support manager. She was so impressed that he'd found it before her that she thought she should reward him by noshing him off on the front seat of Santas sleigh.
Which is when my mate walked in, saw what was happening and left the room.
To tell as many people as he could find what he had seen.
Her BF (now husband)/colleague, was not so impressed with the tech support manager.
Not me but one of my collegues has a good story to tell.
He was staying in a pretty low level b&b for the night. Went out and got pissed. When he returned he went to bed. Later on he woke needing a pee. As I said it was pretty low level and the rooms shared a toilet and in his drunken stupor he went out to the toilet naked and had a drunken pee. Yep as you thought he then couldn't get back into his room.
Now the funny bit. Any normal person in this situation would think about going to reception and trying to bluff your way out of the situation. Not this guy. He found an unlocked room, broke in and stole some guys golf trousers from the room. Then he went down to reception and got let back into his room.
The really funny part happened the next morning when a knock at the door from the manager and the 'guest' asking for his trousers back. Apparently the guy had been in the room in his bed when my collegue had blundered in pissed and stole his trousers. The guy deemed it safer to let the drunken oaf sleep it off and get his kegs back in the morning.
The aftermath of ours was on the front page of the Manchester Evening News about 7 years ago.
and no I'm not going to expand on that further I'm afraid.
Bregante - Member
The aftermath of ours was on the front page of the Manchester Evening News about 7 years ago.
My 4th year Christmas Dance (many moons ago) made it onto the front page of the Daily Record...... all parties since have seemed a little insignificant 🙁
Today's Christmas party highlight so far was a bank we had in for lunch.
Boss instructed them to avoid champagne given the impression in would give. Cue 2 jokers ordering a bottle of Veuve and the boss storming out.
Didn't help that the poor lad organising it managed to get everybodys food orders wrong. The guy who got the veggie option when he wanted steak was thoroughly unamused.
I start reading these threads wishing I worked for a company and had a christmas do to go to. Then I read the stories and it brings back memories of when I did and why I didn't enjoyt it!
I used to work with someone who was a Jehovah's Witness and who used to join us at the office party which always got a little out of hand - pre party drinks of homemade wine etc. Would making him sing Christmas carols now count as a religious hate crime?
Two years ago a mates crowd of nerdy IT support people apparently ended up in a bar with a group of very attractive young ladies who turned out to be dancers at a local gentlemans apparently. Like Big Bang Theory but with more Pennys.
Turns out one of the nerdy IT support crew is a Mens Health cover model. The others were kind of caught in the crossfire.
Manager of 1 department , manageress of another department caught glancing too often , they went to toilets and got caught in the bogs ,The man told the woman to jump out the window as his wife was banging on door ,the bogs were 3 stories high , the couple in the bogs are now married with a daughter 18 years now , ha ha piss funny night .
Thing is my Christmas party is full of lots of drunk Swedish women.. Stay focussed Martin
thegreatape - Member
That's just for special occasions these days
but apparently you work for Rebus!
🙂
ah the Christmas party..
A colleague who had already been banned in previous years, drank like a fish while on anti depressants. We left the hotel to get a few beers in town, as we walked back he pissed himself without noticing. Then back in the hotel tried to pick a fight with the old guy in the team and it ended up with me stood in the middle before 2 people convinced him to go to bed...
Following year same guy lost the plot in a nightclub in west cumbria, managed to say something racist to the biggest guy in there, it was suggested we took him home. He then spent half the night banging on peoples hotel room doors telling them he wanted to kill them.
Then there was the year I drunkenly told the director that my boss was wasting money on a project and it was doomed to fail and be a horrible mess (in confidence) he then turned round and told my boss....
Woke up under my desk at 5am this morning . Good times 🙂
