“Did That Really Just Happen?”: 35 Scandalous Workplace Christmas Parties That Are Hard To Forget

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.

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.