It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s also a time whenoffice Christmas partiesare happening left and right, and alcohol flows almost freely. And whenbooze-filled behaviortakes over, you can expect an unhinged event to take place.These responses to a recentReddit postprove that. One user asked, “What’s the craziest thing that has happened at your work Christmas party?” People shared personal accounts of their wildest work party experiences. Some are laughable, while others may induce feelings ofsecond-hand shame.Enjoy scrolling through these stories, and if you haven’t celebrated your company’s Christmas party yet, do so responsibly. This thread should be your cautionary tale.This post may includeaffiliate links.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s also a time whenoffice Christmas partiesare happening left and right, and alcohol flows almost freely. And whenbooze-filled behaviortakes over, you can expect an unhinged event to take place.
These responses to a recentReddit postprove that. One user asked, “What’s the craziest thing that has happened at your work Christmas party?” People shared personal accounts of their wildest work party experiences. Some are laughable, while others may induce feelings ofsecond-hand shame.
Enjoy scrolling through these stories, and if you haven’t celebrated your company’s Christmas party yet, do so responsibly. This thread should be your cautionary tale.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
We played Yankee Swap. Fairly early in the game, one of our older, obnoxious, and rude employees unwrapped a homemade painting and made a joke along the lines of “I didn’t realize we were doing gag gifts. I’ll definitely try and get someone to take this thing that was probably grabbed out of a dumpster.” I could see our very young office intern — who also happened to be one of the kindest and sweetest humans I’ve ever met — go red in the face, and she was clearly trying hard to hold back tears. Of course, the rude employee was clueless. Needless to say, I stole that painting later in the game and hung it up in my cubicle with pride, where it remained for several years before I changed jobs.
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In the first hour of the party, the CEO grabbed a microphone and lectured us all to not “get wasted and embarrass the company tonight”.Four hours later, we watched him argue with his pregnant wife about which of them was going to drive since she was stone-cold sober and he was s**t-faced. He got pulled over not 50 feet out of the restaurant parking lot and we all watched him get arrested for DUI while still wearing his blinking Santa hat.
Around 11-13 years ago a male colleague showed up to our fancy ball in a dress, long wig, full face of makeup. No one knew if he did drag previously or anything, it was completely out of the blue to us all. He downed many drinks, accused every one of being judgemental about his life choices, picked fights with individuals, and was then found almost passed out in a toilet stall where security was called. He ended up punching on with the security guard and more were called so he was removed from the event kicking and screaming, whipped the wig off his head and then kept whipping the second security guard with it.It was a lot.But on the Monday it was even weirder. He was called to the big bosses office and proceeded to say it wasn’t him, he never did drag, he wasn’t even at the party, he’d been at his wife’s work Christmas party on the other side of the city.Wish I knew what happened but I left that job soon after.
All in the same night, one of the guys broke up with one of the girls and she ran out crying, two of the married workers hooked up in the bathroom (they were not married to eachother), one of our guy’s wives got extremely drunk and was flirting with EVERYBODY and I managed to win a tablet and $100 in amazon gift cards.
I won $1000 in a charity 50/50 draw we did a few years back.That covered my bar bill, and hotel costs (since the party was some distance from where I actually live). Plus prob paid off most of my Xmas shopping.Huge win.
Our very drunk, very white CFO walked up to the only black man in the company, clapped him on the back and exclaimed “Billy! My n***a!”.
President of the company pulled a “don’t you know who I am?” When a girl rejected his advances asking to dance. She walked over to the head of HR (who was also at the party) and explained what happened. Head of HR said she was going to arrange a meeting Monday morning. President stepped outside and shot himself in his car.
Guy who was normally really nice always turned into a mean drunk and had too many. Insulted one of the older sales reps to his face in front of his wife. We were a very button down group and this went over very badly.Monday morning he’s sitting in my office despite not reporting to me ashamed as hell and I’m giving him the Dutch uncle advice because his whole management chain is pissed at him.Basically told him he was a mean little drunk and that I advised he give up drinking because I had never seen such a Jekyll and Hyde transformation. Told him he needed to go apologize to everyone and mean it and especially the rep.He didn’t get fired but it was a close thing.
The assistant manager had a few and she did a strip tease to the Shrek soundtrack.
I met my future boss while photocopying my as. Said boss later made out with intern. Someone else broke the photocopier while copying own as and was badly cut.
Small office Christmas party at the owner’s house. Party was going normally, everybody was drinking and having a good time. At some point some of the office girls start dancing and the owner, just some middle aged schlub, gets a boner watching the festivities. His wife notices and loses it and sends everyone home. 10/10 would party again.
Small company, one of the sales knobs got really s**t faced and starting hitting on the CFO’s wife. Plot twist all three went back to their hotel room together. The rumors about that were still swirling around when I let 2 years later.
Wall Street in the early 2000s. A banker bit another banker’s ear off over a love triangle with a coworker.
Company used to rent a hotel ballroom for big christmas party for all 400 employees that cared to attend (and even subsidized hotel rooms in case of drinking). HR Director got shitfaced drunk, took off her panties and started twerking/humping random male employees on the dance floor (in front of their partners). Two HR people came out and tried to get her under control, but were also shitfaced. All three ended up literally rolling around on the floor laughing and fighting anyone who tried to get them up and to a room to calm down. Then the vomiting started.We haven’t had a christmas party since.
Fist fight over someone winning a 32" flat screen tv. This was back in like 2006 or 2007. Our company never held a Christmas party again after that.
Used to work in IT for a mid sized UK law firm - company went all out and hired a fancy hotel for our Xmas do. Pre-dinner drinks are happening and some of the trainees had decided pre-pre-dinner drinks were a good idea. That idea proved to be a bad choice when a trainee threw up in the lap of the MANAGING PARTNERS WIFE before we’d even been shown into the dinning room.
It was an ‘alcohol free’ party at work in the morning. A co-worker brought in a bunch of pies, all home-made and heavily laced with rum. By noon, everyone was schnockered and calling taxi cabs.
Had a big party in a posh hotel but it then came out that work had a 250 cleanup bill because someone took a s**t in the foyer. There were a few rumors as to who was the suspected culprit but no proof until one day a video appeared of the cctv footage of a colleague stumbling out of the party room, stopping, unzipping and just letting loose infront of horrified staff to shocked to stop him in time.It was also exactly who everyone expected it to be as well.
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Owner jumped on the bar of our brewery and took her top off, dancing to ICP. Later banged two guys in the back office while her husband played Jenga and nursed his vape.
When most people had left the party, the Executive Director of a non-profit used the conference room big screen to look up staff member profiles on a court case website. This was done in front of everyone that was still there, and he thought it was just a funny joke. I heard about it after I had left. He was was later fired for a litany of other improprieties.
One of the company executives ending up kissing a member of his sales team. While he was kissing her, another woman who was also in his team, grabbed the girl off of him (because she clearly liked him even though she had a boyfriend) and they had a fight in the middle of the dance floor. The next day none of them were in the office. The girl who started the fight was told she either had to resign or be fired. She opted to resign out of embarrassment.
The owner discovered that the VP had been giving the operations department a hard time, so he came up with a clever way to address it. For the company Christmas party, the owner ordered an open bar, knowing the VP would likely overindulge. By the end of the night, the owner started playfully roasting the VP in front of everyone. While it was lighthearted enough to pass as friendly banter, the underlying message wasn’t lost on the operations team, who were blushing and laughing the entire time. Meanwhile, the VP, visibly intoxicated, had no idea how poorly he was coming across. It was a masterclass in subtle yet effective leadership.
Sales guy brought a girl he met on tinder. First date, never met her before. Tue party was at a pretty nice venue. She got absolutely wasted, threw up all over the bathroom, and had to be carried out of the venue.
Old job about 15 years ago someone took a s**t in the bosses office in the garbage can.
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Huge ballroom. near end of night. I was in my late 20’s and in sales. the general manager was feeling good and dancing with my girlfriend. I told the bartender to buy all of us shots and a beer and put it on that guys bill- I looked over at him and yelled his name. i raised my glass, gave the ok sign and thumbs up to him- he gave the thumbs up and ok sign backthe bar went wild… the bartender poured us all drinks. he thought i was just saying hi and have fun with my girl. lolnext work day, it was one of the highlites and he pulled me aside and said he thought it was a hillarious prank and he thinks my girlfriend is a real keeper (she wasn’t).
A couple years ago at our staff xmas party, the owner used to have a draw for cash prizes. Pretty generous too, like $1000.Not even two weeks earlier, our GM hired this couple that needed money and was desperate for work. After they started working, it was obvious why they needed money - they were junkies.By now, I’m sure you’ve guessed who won the big money at the Christmas party. The couple proceeded to get hammered, drinking in the parking lot and left the party in the back of a police car. We never saw them again, they never came back to work and had disconnected their phone.
The hottest blonde at my office attended an open-bar Xmas party at a co-worker’s house. Everyone was having a great time. At one point I went outside to get some fresh air as the house was pretty warm. She was standing near the side of the house having a smoke. She waved me over. We were both pretty drunk but not so bad that we couldn’t chat.Then out of the blue, she starts making out with me, grabs my hand and pulls me into a dark spot behind the house. I went down on her and she ripped my pants down, tearing them. Tells me she wants me to f**k her. Then all of a sudden people start coming out of the house. We scrambled to get re-clothed. Then she left.We ended up starting to date around 6 months later, got married and had kids. Yup, How I ‘met’ my wife…
One of our producers threw the keys to the company van down an elevator shaft.
One year the owner punched one of the salesmen in the face in the middle of the party and they both rolled around on the floor fighting for a good minute. Most holiday parties are boring but this one was fun.
Boss/Owner’s daughter brought her new boyfriend from collage to the party and he could not handle it. He got super drunk and started wandering around the party asking all sorts of sexual questions to people. He would come up to couples and ask them how often they had sex, what kinds of positions they liked, what kinks they were into. It was an HR nightmare.
The boss and a workmate (both very drunk) both decided it would be fine to get in a car with an also very drunk woman who they’d literally just met, who somehow decided she was fine to drive and they crashed 5 mins down the road. Thankfully, even though I was also very drunk, I could clearly see how f*****g idiotic this was and got in a cab. They were all fine, miraculously.
They caught my partner’s wife making out with her sister.
One of the staff did a handstand in short dress with no underwear on.A different staff member who was beyond wasted was trying to do a striptease on the bar.
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