You’ve almost made it, just one more day to go before you can kick off your shoes and finally slump down onto the sofa.
If you have got this far, it is almost inevitable that the office Christmas party has already been and gone. So I got a couple of friends, John and Sam to let you in on a few personal horror stories of what not to do at your Christmas party…
1. Don’t tell the MD of another company within your group that she has great boobs for a woman of her age (Guilliana Castle)
2. One year I was a bit tipsy on wine, and I offered to take a photo of my client and her partner… I had two glasses of wine in my hands at the time and when I took the camera off her, one of the drinks tipped all over her… nice! (Marie Fallon)
3. Don’t ask for a pay rise. (Matthew Brown)
4. Don’t get a big bag of sweets and spend the whole evening throwing them at the CEO, MD and senior clients. However funny you may think it is at the time. It isn’t. Really. (Dan Thwaites)
5. Planes made out of high quality paper stock (like the kind restaurants use for their Christmas menus) fly very fast and very straight. They also have extremely pointy tips that can leave angry red welts on the sensitive skin of your CEO’s temple. Ask Justin. (Paul Ziedler)
6. I once tried to demonstrate my skills of “straw-pedo” by inserting the STRAW in to my mouth before tipping up the bottle of beer….(Sarah Fitzgerald O’Connor)
7. Make sure that the person at the bottom of the vodka luge is ready when you pour red wine down it. Especially if they are a lady and wearing a white dress… (Sam Ellis)
8. If I don’t remember it, it never happened…(Emma Wales)
9. At a Christmas party at WWAV many years ago I took myself off to the loo and went for a wee, in the left hand urinal of three. Midflow another guy walked in and rather than take the right hand urinal he took the middle one. Now this made things a little close for comfort and is as you know contrary to gents toilet etiquette. This made me feel a little uncomfortable and in an effort to lighten the situation (and bearing in mind I was twatted on Stella at the time) I glanced over towards him and notice he was wearing the full cycling gear – funny shoes, shorts, lairy tshirt and hat. Now desperate to think of something to say, I inclined towards him slightly and said, ‘Nice helmet.’ He tensed up, said nothing, zipped up and left. I was utterly and horribly humiliated. I still wince now. (Jeremy Sharman)
10. Don’t punch your twin in face for disagreeing that your best friend has a cat that is half tiger. (Emma Wales)
And just prove that we just as normal as the rest of you, here’s some snaps from our Christmas Party:
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