“Did That Really Just Happen?”: 35 Scandalous Workplace Christmas Parties That Are Hard To Forget
Back in 2000, financial publisher Bloomberg reportedly blew £1 million (£1,472,625 or $1,785,672 in today's money) on an office party with a "seven deadly sins" theme for its 1,500 British employees.
As well as a "lust room" containing a 25-foot-wide bed of purple satin, the event boasted ten bars – one, themed "gluttony," with a trough of truffles and sweets.
While not every company is willing to go to these lengths, many are organizing events to show appreciation for their workers, boost morale, and encourage team building. Especially during the festive season.
So when Redditor Expression-Little made a post on the platform, asking others "What's the craziest [and/or] worst thing that happened at your workplace Christmas party?", many had memorable moments to share.
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Company directors at a large estate agents bought wine for all of the tables (a few bottles on each)... Turns out they bought the cheap wine for everyone else, and got expensive wine for their own table.
One of the directors was actually a decent bloke, and when he found out, he refused to sit at their table, and made a big deal of making sure everyone knew. He then proceeded to get absolutely hammered and buy expensive wine for everyone but the other directors.
Colleague of mine woke up with a horse in their back garden. Turns out they were so drunk and couldn’t be [bothered] to walk home that they just barebacked a horse from a field whilst carrying a pizza and a kebab. Rode it back the next morning. Man’s a nutter.
Chonky colleague sat bare a*s on the photocopier, glass cracked and trapped his cheeks like a bear trap. He was yelling for help but nobody could because they were wetting themselves.
Nope… A while back I got a call from a customer where I had just a few days back sold a large reprographic scanner. Glass was broke already and the customer was going ballistic. I come with a new replacement glass and repair the scanner… It always saved the last image scanned…. In this case the operators vagina.
Nurse climbed on a chair and tried to swing from the chandelier. The chandelier came crashing down. Nurse tried to hide the chandelier under a table.
My company took us to Granada studios where there was a Victorian street set that was used in a lot of TV programmes. Next to it is housed the Coronation Street set with security guards walking around it. I decided that it would be a good idea to explore the Coronation Street set so I got 4 equally drunk idiots to join me and we dodged the security guards and drunkenly walked down the Street. We were spotted and yelled at us so we ran off and spent the next 10 minutes going from back yard to back yard to get back to our table. We could hear the security guards looking for us and I really don't know how they didn't find us as we were so loud. Best game of hide and seek ever!
This is brilliant! Should have gone to the Rovers for Betty's hot pot and a pint.🤣
Shagged the boss' sister in the disabled loo.. woke up in his girlfriend's bed.
Sacked on the monday.
I worked in a theatre and we used to have our Christmas parties in the auditorium and foyer. Problem with doing it in the auditorium was that it meant there were several ways of very easily and inconspicuously getting backstage, which was expressly forbidden. Funny if a couple of people went backstage for a bit of festive rumpo and got locked in the building overnight, right? Well it’s even funnier when it’s four couples and a three.
One guy had recently been promoted to a position above his previous boss, the guy who'd actually hired him in the first place. Alcohol and [drugs] brought the long simmering tension to a head and, after a bit of a shouty row, the previous boss jumped up onto the new boss's table, whipped his c**k out and helicoptered it in his face yelling "you might have the big job but we all know who's got the big d**k!" They were both still working there when I left 6 months later and nobody ever, ever mentioned that evening.
You think this is interesting? Bah. Read about Lyndon Johnson, press conference, morning briefings, trousers, and Jumbo.
The company I worked for thought it was a good idea to pit the two factories against each other in a big competition. The two factory directors hated each other as well.
Cue the Christmas party and a 40 person punch up ensued as the 'winning' factory taunted the 'losing' factory. Was the last time we got a fully open bar, too. Was a 2 drink maximum then cash after that.
At a pub, constricted spaces for seating. At one point a manager decided to climb over the table to get out but neglected the candles the pub provided, setting fire to his trousers.
Not the craziest but the funniest. There was some girl in the office who was annoying as f**k. Did nothing and was being monitored for poor performance. She went to the Christmas party and got leathered and tried it on with female managers. Forcibly kissed one but the best bit was the party somehow ended up at a bowling alley. She was hammered and decided to not let go of the ball and flew down the alley like superman, hit the pins (wasn’t a strike) and then proceeded to get stuck in the mechanism. The place had to call the fire brigade and they got her out. She was sacked the following week. Absolute head case she was. I used to have a pic of them pulling her out of the mechanism.
Director slips and ends up lying on his back on the dancefloor, big smile on his face (as you do), very 'portly' fellow. Next thing you know, my colleague (we were quite junior) does a running belly dive on top of said director. The timing was perfect, slapstick comedy: one of those 'did that really just happen?' moments. All taken in surprisingly good humour, everyone else p*ssing themselves laughing. This was 30+ years ago, and I can remember it like yesterday.
This was at the Christmas party last year, I don’t work there anymore. A selection of people decided to go out on the town after the party ended. This one lad, probably only about 20, got absolutely sh**faced. He lived out of town so nobody knew how to get him home as they didn’t know his address, just that he wasn’t local, and he was too sloshed to tell anyone. This one girl who lived locally said he could sleep it off in her spare room. No funny business just so he was safe. This mf woke up in the middle of the night in this girls spare room, didn’t know where he was, and for some reason his first assumption was he’d been kidnapped? He decided in his drunken state, that he was going to try and escape out of the window, on the first floor, without his phone or keys or anything. Idiot fell out of the window down into the garden and completely f****d his leg up. Pretty sure he also got concussion. The girl woke up, obviously panicked, and had to take him to A&E. His job was quite physical too so he f****d himself. Saw him hobbling around like a month later when he finally came back into work. Just refused to speak to anyone else about it but everyone knew about it lmfaooo
Don't IDs in UK/Australia/NZ (or wherever this happened, just guessing by the verbage) have your address on them? My buds and I have driven/helped more than a few folks home just by looking at their ID during my public drinking days.
Several years ago, big Christmas party. Drinks are flowing, everyone having a great time.
Dirty Dancing song comes on. Pat and Jenny (names changed) decide its a great idea to re-create a scene from the movie, the one where the dude holds the girl in the air, arms fully stretched.
Jenny has a run up, leaps in Pats arms, he lifts her up, for a few brief moments it is a magical moment, then disaster. Pat loses balance, Jenny goes flying backwards, lands horribly, breaks her neck.
Jenny is in hospital for a long time, I can't remember exactly how long but months. Thankfully, she isn't paralysed, but she had lots of problems and it was difficult to overcome. The general consensus, no one was wholly to blame, both Pat and jenny were equally responsibly for being so stupid. Year goes by, Jenny can not let it go, she is constantly complaining about Pat, making a fuss, blaming him repeatedly (he naturally feels terrible about the whole ordeal) but after the constant complaining by Jenny, the office actually turned on her, got so bad HR had to intervene and either asked her to leave or she decided to resign, no one really knew.
TL;DL- Dirty dancing move lead to one employee breaking her neck
My manager peed herself on the dance floor, removed her pants and flung them at a colleague’s husband.
A chap I know was at a Christmas party in Manchester. It was in the office, two guys got into it, someone stepped in as peacemaker to break it up. One of the guys and the peacemaker both fell into a window and crashed through it. They both fell 30 metres to their deaths.
Drunk guy groping a bunch of women and very clearly had too much to drink so my old manager tried to escort him out of the party, and the drunk guy bit him so hard on the finger that he drew blood, and then he promptly walks out in the road and gets hit by a car! My old manager then has to go to A&E to get stitches and a bunch of vaccinations, and the drunk guy walks off the hit and sleeps in a store cupboard in the office, and p*sses on a load of merchandise. Wasn’t heard from again.
I got taken home in a police car at 3am because I was walking home (7 miles dual carriageway) using a golf club as a walking stick and they thought I was blind.
Coppers asked me where I got it from and answered for me before I could: "you pinched it didn't you?"
What I didn't tell them was I somehow had it in a nightclub for 3 hours in my trouser leg, and that I thought it was the funniest s**t.
Had lost my wallet, phone was dead, feet were sore and I was ready to pass out. My antics earlier on with sticky fingers got me a lift home and a slap on the wrist.
Someone brought her boyfriend and her sister.
Sister and boyfriend were caught getting it on!
After that, parties started being held away from the site. The first year, the following day an all-users email came round asking for the venue's outdoor decorations (large light-up snowmen) to be returned.
Healthcare staff party. Nurse partied so hard she dislocated her elbow on the roof. Doctors tried and failed to put it back in. She went to ED, 45 mins later she came back with it xrayed and plastered to continue the party.
Good planning on her part to consume the anesthetic before the injury.
Headteacher (female) (late forties early fifties, married to man) found coming out of toilets with around 25-year-old TA (female), both lifting skirts, fixing blouses, lipstick everywhere. TA didn't return after holidays, HT left in the summer.
Happened to me. Many moons ago I worked as a bartender in a nightclub. Our Christmas party was in January- December is too important for clubs to shut shop. On a random Sunday in January we had our Christmas party. The club was closed and the “party” was in two stages. First work and then party. We first cleaned the club top to bottom. It was all hands on deck and we scrubbed the place. I remember my boss being on a ladder trying to dust the spot lights. He’s short, I took over. After the work we hit the showers and dolled up. Owner got in posh take away and managed the bar. What we wanted, we got. After did and our own body weight in stupid expensive alcohol we had cut-the-queue free pass to a very, very posh club.
The next day I was not well and I went to A&E. Cracked skull.
No one saw anything. Everyone said I was jolly and happy and steady. I don’t remember anything from the day. I have flash backs of arriving, boss on ladder, looking at pretty tiling while on toilet. The whole day, wiped out. I do not remember drunk bits, I don’t remember sober bits. I remember nothing. No one saw anything. There were +20 of us and no one had a clue.
One guy fell asleep at the start of dinner, face first into his turkey and gravy.
Last year my new staff member broke my other new staff members arm by challenging him to an arm wrestle. He snapped him like a twig.
I fell over *nothing* and flashed both my bosses. I like to think I took one for the team and saved everyone else from the Who Was The Worst? title, like a noble heroine.
Early 2000s, upper management approved a celebration in Vegas in mid December.
About sixty of us for three days of conference and celebrations.
A lot happened, but two things stand out.
One developer lost about ten grand playing blackjack on the first night and spent every spare moment trying to win it back, rumour was he was over thirty grand down at the end.
A pair of developers got banned from several casinos for card counting, but only after they had taken them for tens of thousands.
That group made the first developer whole at the end of the trip and still flew back first class.
One VP went missing and we found he had been arrested for drugs offences.
One developer was groped by a manager, she fought back and kicked him in the nuts so hard he had to go to hospital.
Beyond that a ton of extremely drunk people running riot in Vegas, it was a hell of a cluster.
I’d just started working at the company; I’d been there for about 3 months. My next door neighbour desk wise was a very quiet, reserved, mid-20s woman. She’d been there almost a year but only really spoke to one other woman. She was found in the blokes bathroom, of the nightclub the company had hired out for the Xmas do, giving bl*w jobs to a few guys. The woman that she was chatty with, a mid 30s mum of three, was later caught rolling around the dance floor, topless, getting off with her female team leader. It was the last time the company had a free bar. The early ‘00s were mental before the dot.com bubble burst!
Staff Christmas Party when I was a teacher. Husband and wife, both teachers at the school, she finds out at the Christmas Party that he's having an affair with a student. Kicked off all manner of f*****g chaos. They had children at the school too - one in the same year as the student he was having an affair with.
Someone used the company credit card on a fancy strip club in London. About 5k was spent. They got away with it because one of the executives went along with them (they didn't know about company card being used, and when they found out about it later, they wanted it to be kept quiet from their wife).
CEO threw a TV out a window, nearly smashing through the awning over the hotel entrance on the way down.
Someone put their ballsack on the CEOs shoulder in the team photo. She was not happy.
HR actually pulled the photo out in the disciplinary. Incredible.
What I would like to know is how one manages to pull out only their ballsack out of their pants without also flashing their d**k?
One of the admins got caught on CCTV blowing one of the managers; one of the middle managers punched the CFO; the police had to be called because people were openly having s*x outside the establishment where the party was being held (it was in town centre at a convention centre). They stopped doing free bars after that.
Many years ago, one of my team members got thrown out for drunkenly pissing on the bar whilst waiting to order a drink. The photographer let slip a few weeks later that he'd had to Photoshop his testacles out the group shots as he'd discretely popped them out his fly and no-one noticed until the shots were being edited.
An alcoholic storeman had a fight with a guy who was dressed as Superman. Alcoman won.
Got absolutely smashed and called my boss a ‘big fat frog’ over a Chinese meal years ago.
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Is it considered a good management strategy to pay for an open bar so you can find the idiots in your company and fire them? From the looks of these, that's something all CEOs adhere to.
Is it considered a good management strategy to pay for an open bar so you can find the idiots in your company and fire them? From the looks of these, that's something all CEOs adhere to.
