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<p> </p><h2>Remember to behave yourself at the office holiday party this year.</h2><p>In theory, a gathering with co-workers to celebrate and honor all the work that was done over the year is a great idea. More often than not, though, alcohol can bring out a slew of complaints about the workplace. If you&#39;re wondering if it&#39;s a good idea to berate your boss while chugging champagne and wearing a Santa suit, save it for the workday. Nothing will come from that except a hangover and a possible firing...</p><p>Of course, the drama can definitely be entertaining if you&#39;re not directly involved in it. Watching co-workers flirt and the boss make a 20 minute long drunken speech about how the company is his or her &quot;family&quot; is always a good time. So, when a recent <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3xjcw/whats_your_work_holiday_party_shit_show_story/">Reddit </a> user asked, &quot;what&#39;s your work holiday party &#39;sh*t show&#39; story?&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1. This would definitely be a wake-up call, &quot;nickmcsnapz.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>We went to the races for a Christmas party, one of the girls got on pingas, pissed herself on the members balcony then pulled her drenched underwear down and threw it off the balcony into the crowd. She never came back to work after that lol</p> </blockquote><h2>2. This is epic, &quot;HorseMeatSandwich.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>It was hosted at a really nice restaurant and there was an open bar. We all arrived, had a drink, started chatting and joking around.</p> <p>Then the CEO arrived and promptly called us all to attention. We assumed he would just be congratulating us on a great year and wishing us a happy holidays, but instead he announced that we would not be receiving bonuses that year and that there would be layoffs in the near future. People were PISSED.</p> <p>There was basically a mad dash to the open bar and we all said &ldquo;No bonuses? Fuck it, I&rsquo;m drinking my bonus this year then.&rdquo;</p> <p>The next several hours were an absolute shit show. More rounds of shots of top-shelf liquor than I can remember. The receptionist vomited onto her plate of filet mignon. Two coworkers had sex in the bathroom. The CEO&rsquo;s wife ended up passed out drunk in a chair next to the coat rack and had to be carried out.</p> <p>It was glorious.</p> <p>Edit: Also literally half the company called in sick the next day, and those of us who actually came in just spent the day taking turns puking in the bathroom.</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Oh my god, &quot;natvonbrat.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>We had our Holiday party on a barge whose top floor was rented out to a different company. There was only one male and female toilet per floor and one of the female party goers from that party had had way to much to drink before the meal was even served. Between dinner and dessert she stumbled down the flight of stairs pee running down her leg and falls into the men&rsquo;s toilet. Does her thing and falls up the stairs back up to her party. Next thing you know we hear her screaming fine then, I&rsquo;ll just go, and she jumps overboard into waters we all know are shark infested. Her date, knowing there is no way she can survive given how drunk she is (not even considering the sharks), empties his pockets and jumps in after her.</p> <p>They had to stop the barge, call the police and end the trip for the rest of us. No idea what happened to the jumpers and I didn&rsquo;t get any dessert, but at least I have a good story to tell!</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. Chaos, &quot;RobtheBanks.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>They hired out a members club so I thought it would be at least a decent standard facility. The bar was staffed by one rather grumpy older lady, someone brought a punch bowl and someone else spiked it and my friend went outside and vomited blood all over the place.</p> <p>Six guys wouldn&#39;t leave me alone the entire evening because they wanted to know how I had &quot;kept that on a tight leash&quot; because they found my wife attractive. There was a karaoke that only one person did and they wouldn&#39;t stop doing it. Two people not married to each other got caught in the toilets together.</p> <p>Oh and someone got drunk and tried to fight the boss, for the third year in a row. Different boss each year.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. Terrifying, &quot;liquorlanche.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Walked into the next-day board meeting to do a quick BSing on how the IT department was gonna schedule the switchover to our new clearing firm, which nobody would have paid attention to. As I went through the glass door to the conference room, one of our senior portfolio managers yelled out &quot;LOOK AT THIS GUY!&quot; and everyone started laughing. Comments like &quot;Aeeeyyyy you made it!&quot; and &quot;Look at this, he showed up all clean, washed and sober!&quot; were made.</p> <p>Still to this day, I have no clue what the fuck I said or did, the night before. All my boss would tell me was &quot;You had no clue who you were talking to, last night, did you?&quot;</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Damn, &quot;swampjedi.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Big boss kept asking much lower level subordinates to sit on his lap while his wife sat nearby and scowled at him. He &quot;retired&quot; soon after. This was 20 years ago - hopefully this wouldn&#39;t fly today.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. Solid plan, &quot;diesel-revolver.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>At the last company i worked for, one of the owners decided that it was not appropriate to spend company money on alcohol for employees. This rule covered the holiday party which was held at a hotel. Cue the entire company hanging out in the hotel bar and ditching the planed festivities.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. This is one way to make an exit, &quot;fresnel28.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Apparently one of the temps at my old work got completely wasted at the work Christmas party, then showed up the next morning at 8am (right on time), downed half a bottle of champagne in a single hit, said to nobody in particular &quot;fuck you all. I never liked working here anyway.&quot; and left.</p> <p>Nobody ever heard from her again and her contract still had three weeks left. HR made a tactical decision to leave it for a few days until they could declare she had &quot;abandoned&quot; her job and then got another temp in, who never heard how her predecessor left.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. This worked out, &quot;twopacktuesday.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Probably the time I was in my early 20s grinding up on an older lady on the dance floor to L.L. Cool J.&#39;s &quot;Doin&#39; it&quot; song. I&#39;d say at least 50 coworkers were cheering it on. Next day, I learned that was the wife of one of the Chairmen of the Board. Thankfully, he took it in stride, and was like &quot;She really appreciated you giving her the time of day, you should&#39;ve taken her upstairs afterward&quot;. I&#39;ll admit that conversation was awkward to me, but I later learned they were swingers, so it was all good.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. This is embarrassing, &quot;CarsenAF.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>We had a white elephant gift exchange. Pretty much every gift was a bottle of alcohol or a gift card. One person selected their gift and opened it and it was just a 4 pack of toilet paper. He tried to laugh but was obviously annoyed. Acted like a brat every gift opening after. Someone gets a gift card, a sarcastic &quot; Ohhh, wanna trade? &quot;, or &quot; Lucky you... &quot;. The last gift is opened and he just goes on a rant about how unfair it is everyone got a decent gift and he&#39;s stuck with toilet paper. Demanded to know who the cheapskate was who couldn&#39;t be bothered enough to buy a decent gift but was gladly going home with something someone else bought. A shy girl from another department raised her hand and quietly said &quot; I brought the gift, did you look on the bottom? &quot;. Sure enough he flips the toilet paper over and there&#39;s 2 tickets to an NBA game taped to the bottom. The guy turned red, quietly apologized, and sat down. He left like 2 minutes later without a goodbye to anyone.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. What is happening, &quot;I_RATE_BIRDS.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Intern at a law firm christmas party. One of the lead attorneys gathered me and all the paralegals to take tequila shots with him. The top-billing attorneys, a husband and wife team, both got hammered, took off their shoes, and began chasing each other in the ballroom shooting nerf guns at each other and the paras. Someone gave firm-branded hazmat suits as a gag gift and two other attorneys put them on and began fighting with foam swords.This was pre-Uber, so the firm paid for cabs for everyone to get home if they&#39;d been drinking.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. WOW, &quot;Nagsheadlocal.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>Big boss (as in, senior VP) shows up at party with his girlfriend. Since he was married with kids at the time this was considered in poor taste at best. It angered a number of mid-level managers who started looking into things.</p> <p>It turned out that he had engineered a no-show job for her at $95k a year and her primary function was flying with him - on the company plane - to conferences and such, even to investor meetings where the wives of the big investors took a very dim view of the proceedings. One of the managers leaked all this to the local newspaper.</p> <p>End result? He was fired, along with several director-level flunkies who had been keeping this all under wraps. Eventually even the CEO was forced to step down when it became apparent he was complacent about the no-show job.</p> <p>And it was a dull party to begin with, he could have easily skipped it. But he had to flaunt his girlfriend in front of us peons.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. You know it&#39;s bad if you&#39;re banned, &quot;YounomsayinMawfk.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>One year, one of the sales managers got drunk and tried to fight the DJ because he wouldn&#39;t play his song. To make matters worse/funnier, the DJ egged him on and was like, &quot;come at me bro!&quot;</p> <p>Our company is banned from a bunch of venues because the same sales manager has kicked in bathroom doors, broken chairs, threatened venue staff over the years. He makes a lot of money for the company so the higher ups tolerate his Christmas holiday party antics.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Her body her choice (to party?) &quot;SlicedBread35.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>In 2012, a woman I worked with decided to celebrate an abortion she had, during our Christmas night out</p> <p>To say people were angry would be an understatement</p> </blockquote><h2>13. Dear god, &quot;SpicyMcHaggis666.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>At my wife&#39;s Christmas Party a few years back, it was at a hotel and had 250-300 people. Most people got rooms in the hotel so they could party. At some point during the night, I noticed the line to the men&#39;s bathroom started to get really long. Turns out, the hot receptionist in her early 20s got so drunk she started giving blow jobs to the guys in the bathroom. Word got out and one of the wives there broke it up and the girl was fired on the spot. All bets were off at that point and she was telling people her room number and bringing several up at a time. Several of the guys in line were there with their wife and that started a few arguments. Thankfully, nothing physical. Needless to say, I didn&#39;t leave my wife&#39;s side all night. haha</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. True connoisseur, &quot;undeadgorgeous.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was 18 I worked for a very high end chocolate shop in San Francisco. We had our holiday party at a German restaurant nearby work. Since the entire restaurant was being used for corporate holiday parties they were not checking ID on drinks. My boss sees this, shrugs, and tells me to go nuts. This is not the first time I&rsquo;ve drank at this job (half of my job description involved tastings and attending food shows) so I feel confident ordering a Midori Sour. It arrives in what I can only describe as a medium sized fish bowl but whatever, I drink it. When I&rsquo;m in the bathroom my coworkers order me a second one, so I come back to find a refill I&rsquo;m too polite to waste. Right around then I hit my perfect level of buzzed- happy, comfortable, in that sweet spot between drunk and wasted. Then we do our Secret Santa. Everyone gets fun little gifts and the boss hands out gift cards. I assume the evening is coming to an end. Oh no. The boss pulls out a large box of truffles and gleefully informs us we&rsquo;re going to do a tasting right here and now. He puts six HUGE truffles in front of each of us and tells us to eat one in one bite. We oblige and it&rsquo;s immediately apparent why they have to be eaten that way: each one has half a shot of straight alcohol in it. You bit the chocolate and it burst to reveal liquor. Each one had a different type of alcohol, ranging from rum to vodka to fucking Everclear. At six truffles that was three more shots I just did on top of my two fishbowls. I officially went from &ldquo;drunk&rdquo; to &ldquo;completely fucking hammered&rdquo; in the span of a minute. I tried my best to hold it together. I don&rsquo;t remember much about the rest of the evening (my coworker later told me that I mostly sat in silence occasionally saying &ldquo;keep it together&rdquo; out loud) but I do remember my cab ride back to my dorm. My cab driver asked me what I did for work and I just whispered &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a connoisseur&rdquo; and started crying.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people share the messiest things they've seen at work holiday parties.

 Remember to behave yourself at the office holiday party this year.In theory, a gathering with co-workers to celebrate and honor all the work that was done over the year is a great idea. More often than not, though, alcohol can bring out a slew of complaints about the workplace. If you&#39;re wondering if it&#39;s a good idea to berate your boss while chugging champagne and wearing a Santa suit, save it for the workday. Nothing will come from that except a hangover and a possible firing...Of course, the drama can definitely be entertaining if you&#39;re not directly involved in it. Watching co-workers flirt and the boss make a 20 minute long drunken speech about how the company is his or her &quot;family&quot; is always a good time. So, when a recent Reddit  user asked, &quot;what&#39;s your work holiday party &#39;sh*t show&#39; story?&quot;1. This would definitely be a wake-up call, &quot;nickmcsnapz.&quot; We went to the races for a Christmas party, one of the girls got on pingas, pissed herself on the members balcony then pulled her drenched underwear down and threw it off the balcony into the crowd. She never came back to work after that lol 2. This is epic, &quot;HorseMeatSandwich.&quot; It was hosted at a really nice restaurant and there was an open bar. We all arrived, had a drink, started chatting and joking around. Then the CEO arrived and promptly called us all to attention. We assumed he would just be congratulating us on a great year and wishing us a happy holidays, but instead he announced that we would not be receiving bonuses that year and that there would be layoffs in the near future. People were PISSED. There was basically a mad dash to the open bar and we all said &ldquo;No bonuses? Fuck it, I&rsquo;m drinking my bonus this year then.&rdquo; The next several hours were an absolute shit show. More rounds of shots of top-shelf liquor than I can remember. The receptionist vomited onto her plate of filet mignon. Two coworkers had sex in the bathroom. The CEO&rsquo;s wife ended up passed out drunk in a chair next to the coat rack and had to be carried out. It was glorious. Edit: Also literally half the company called in sick the next day, and those of us who actually came in just spent the day taking turns puking in the bathroom.   3. Oh my god, &quot;natvonbrat.&quot; We had our Holiday party on a barge whose top floor was rented out to a different company. There was only one male and female toilet per floor and one of the female party goers from that party had had way to much to drink before the meal was even served. Between dinner and dessert she stumbled down the flight of stairs pee running down her leg and falls into the men&rsquo;s toilet. Does her thing and falls up the stairs back up to her party. Next thing you know we hear her screaming fine then, I&rsquo;ll just go, and she jumps overboard into waters we all know are shark infested. Her date, knowing there is no way she can survive given how drunk she is (not even considering the sharks), empties his pockets and jumps in after her. They had to stop the barge, call the police and end the trip for the rest of us. No idea what happened to the jumpers and I didn&rsquo;t get any dessert, but at least I have a good story to tell!   4. Chaos, &quot;RobtheBanks.&quot; They hired out a members club so I thought it would be at least a decent standard facility. The bar was staffed by one rather grumpy older lady, someone brought a punch bowl and someone else spiked it and my friend went outside and vomited blood all over the place. Six guys wouldn&#39;t leave me alone the entire evening because they wanted to know how I had &quot;kept that on a tight leash&quot; because they found my wife attractive. There was a karaoke that only one person did and they wouldn&#39;t stop doing it. Two people not married to each other got caught in the toilets together. Oh and someone got drunk and tried to fight the boss, for the third year in a row. Different boss each year. 5. Terrifying, &quot;liquorlanche.&quot; Walked into the next-day board meeting to do a quick BSing on how the IT department was gonna schedule the switchover to our new clearing firm, which nobody would have paid attention to. As I went through the glass door to the conference room, one of our senior portfolio managers yelled out &quot;LOOK AT THIS GUY!&quot; and everyone started laughing. Comments like &quot;Aeeeyyyy you made it!&quot; and &quot;Look at this, he showed up all clean, washed and sober!&quot; were made. Still to this day, I have no clue what the fuck I said or did, the night before. All my boss would tell me was &quot;You had no clue who you were talking to, last night, did you?&quot;   6. Damn, &quot;swampjedi.&quot; Big boss kept asking much lower level subordinates to sit on his lap while his wife sat nearby and scowled at him. He &quot;retired&quot; soon after. This was 20 years ago - hopefully this wouldn&#39;t fly today. 7. Solid plan, &quot;diesel-revolver.&quot; At the last company i worked for, one of the owners decided that it was not appropriate to spend company money on alcohol for employees. This rule covered the holiday party which was held at a hotel. Cue the entire company hanging out in the hotel bar and ditching the planed festivities. 8. This is one way to make an exit, &quot;fresnel28.&quot; Apparently one of the temps at my old work got completely wasted at the work Christmas party, then showed up the next morning at 8am (right on time), downed half a bottle of champagne in a single hit, said to nobody in particular &quot;fuck you all. I never liked working here anyway.&quot; and left. Nobody ever heard from her again and her contract still had three weeks left. HR made a tactical decision to leave it for a few days until they could declare she had &quot;abandoned&quot; her job and then got another temp in, who never heard how her predecessor left. 7. This worked out, &quot;twopacktuesday.&quot; Probably the time I was in my early 20s grinding up on an older lady on the dance floor to L.L. Cool J.&#39;s &quot;Doin&#39; it&quot; song. I&#39;d say at least 50 coworkers were cheering it on. Next day, I learned that was the wife of one of the Chairmen of the Board. Thankfully, he took it in stride, and was like &quot;She really appreciated you giving her the time of day, you should&#39;ve taken her upstairs afterward&quot;. I&#39;ll admit that conversation was awkward to me, but I later learned they were swingers, so it was all good. 8. This is embarrassing, &quot;CarsenAF.&quot; We had a white elephant gift exchange. Pretty much every gift was a bottle of alcohol or a gift card. One person selected their gift and opened it and it was just a 4 pack of toilet paper. He tried to laugh but was obviously annoyed. Acted like a brat every gift opening after. Someone gets a gift card, a sarcastic &quot; Ohhh, wanna trade? &quot;, or &quot; Lucky you... &quot;. The last gift is opened and he just goes on a rant about how unfair it is everyone got a decent gift and he&#39;s stuck with toilet paper. Demanded to know who the cheapskate was who couldn&#39;t be bothered enough to buy a decent gift but was gladly going home with something someone else bought. A shy girl from another department raised her hand and quietly said &quot; I brought the gift, did you look on the bottom? &quot;. Sure enough he flips the toilet paper over and there&#39;s 2 tickets to an NBA game taped to the bottom. The guy turned red, quietly apologized, and sat down. He left like 2 minutes later without a goodbye to anyone. 9. What is happening, &quot;I_RATE_BIRDS.&quot; Intern at a law firm christmas party. One of the lead attorneys gathered me and all the paralegals to take tequila shots with him. The top-billing attorneys, a husband and wife team, both got hammered, took off their shoes, and began chasing each other in the ballroom shooting nerf guns at each other and the paras. Someone gave firm-branded hazmat suits as a gag gift and two other attorneys put them on and began fighting with foam swords.This was pre-Uber, so the firm paid for cabs for everyone to get home if they&#39;d been drinking. 10. WOW, &quot;Nagsheadlocal.&quot; Big boss (as in, senior VP) shows up at party with his girlfriend. Since he was married with kids at the time this was considered in poor taste at best. It angered a number of mid-level managers who started looking into things. It turned out that he had engineered a no-show job for her at $95k a year and her primary function was flying with him - on the company plane - to conferences and such, even to investor meetings where the wives of the big investors took a very dim view of the proceedings. One of the managers leaked all this to the local newspaper. End result? He was fired, along with several director-level flunkies who had been keeping this all under wraps. Eventually even the CEO was forced to step down when it became apparent he was complacent about the no-show job. And it was a dull party to begin with, he could have easily skipped it. But he had to flaunt his girlfriend in front of us peons. 11. You know it&#39;s bad if you&#39;re banned, &quot;YounomsayinMawfk.&quot; One year, one of the sales managers got drunk and tried to fight the DJ because he wouldn&#39;t play his song. To make matters worse/funnier, the DJ egged him on and was like, &quot;come at me bro!&quot; Our company is banned from a bunch of venues because the same sales manager has kicked in bathroom doors, broken chairs, threatened venue staff over the years. He makes a lot of money for the company so the higher ups tolerate his Christmas holiday party antics. 12. Her body her choice (to party?) &quot;SlicedBread35.&quot; In 2012, a woman I worked with decided to celebrate an abortion she had, during our Christmas night out To say people were angry would be an understatement 13. Dear god, &quot;SpicyMcHaggis666.&quot; At my wife&#39;s Christmas Party a few years back, it was at a hotel and had 250-300 people. Most people got rooms in the hotel so they could party. At some point during the night, I noticed the line to the men&#39;s bathroom started to get really long. Turns out, the hot receptionist in her early 20s got so drunk she started giving blow jobs to the guys in the bathroom. Word got out and one of the wives there broke it up and the girl was fired on the spot. All bets were off at that point and she was telling people her room number and bringing several up at a time. Several of the guys in line were there with their wife and that started a few arguments. Thankfully, nothing physical. Needless to say, I didn&#39;t leave my wife&#39;s side all night. haha 14. True connoisseur, &quot;undeadgorgeous.&quot; When I was 18 I worked for a very high end chocolate shop in San Francisco. We had our holiday party at a German restaurant nearby work. Since the entire restaurant was being used for corporate holiday parties they were not checking ID on drinks. My boss sees this, shrugs, and tells me to go nuts. This is not the first time I&rsquo;ve drank at this job (half of my job description involved tastings and attending food shows) so I feel confident ordering a Midori Sour. It arrives in what I can only describe as a medium sized fish bowl but whatever, I drink it. When I&rsquo;m in the bathroom my coworkers order me a second one, so I come back to find a refill I&rsquo;m too polite to waste. Right around then I hit my perfect level of buzzed- happy, comfortable, in that sweet spot between drunk and wasted. Then we do our Secret Santa. Everyone gets fun little gifts and the boss hands out gift cards. I assume the evening is coming to an end. Oh no. The boss pulls out a large box of truffles and gleefully informs us we&rsquo;re going to do a tasting right here and now. He puts six HUGE truffles in front of each of us and tells us to eat one in one bite. We oblige and it&rsquo;s immediately apparent why they have to be eaten that way: each one has half a shot of straight alcohol in it. You bit the chocolate and it burst to reveal liquor. Each one had a different type of alcohol, ranging from rum to vodka to fucking Everclear. At six truffles that was three more shots I just did on top of my two fishbowls. I officially went from &ldquo;drunk&rdquo; to &ldquo;completely fucking hammered&rdquo; in the span of a minute. I tried my best to hold it together. I don&rsquo;t remember much about the rest of the evening (my coworker later told me that I mostly sat in silence occasionally saying &ldquo;keep it together&rdquo; out loud) but I do remember my cab ride back to my dorm. My cab driver asked me what I did for work and I just whispered &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a connoisseur&rdquo; and started crying. 

Remember to behave yourself at the office holiday party this year.  In theory, a gathering with co-workers to celebrate and honor all the work that was done over the year is a great idea. More often than not, though, alcohol can bring out...