Yes, both with actual office co-workers and more recently with professional colleagues/clients. The most recent occurrence was a fabulous night out on the streets of Lisbon until 4am when I was there for work 2 years ago. It sucked to wake up to a text message the next morning from DD's sitter in Paris saying that she had pink eye, mais je ne regrette rien.
Ok so a contractor was buying our drinks. I was literally hanging on him, not due to being flirty but because I couldn't stand.
Weep weep weep
I'm so basic
I fell flat on my face at a bar once and a co-worker had to drive me home. I was 24 at the time, but still, it happened and I still managed to get promoted later that year.
At my old job I got drunk at a work event and got picked up by a guy who was attending. At least by the time we were all drunk we weren't actually working the event anymore?
I have several times, but thankfully for me there was always someone else more trashed than I was. So really I have no advice but to say that I don't hold their sloppy drunkenness against any of them!
Post by londoncalling on Nov 21, 2014 10:52:58 GMT -5
Yep. Not my current position, but both during my internship and then during my first job out of college (same company).
I was already no-strings hooking up with a coworker by then, but it became abundantly clear to my coworkers what our arrangement was when I was sloppy and hanging on him.
ETA: There was an epic party hosted by another company I worked for and guy in his late 30's got insanely drunk. Management took his keys, but he was so drunk he decided to walk home (10-12 miles). Obviously that couldn't happen so they drove next to him until he decided to finally get in the car 2 miles later. Where he proceeded to vomit all over the back seat. He had to sleep it off in his office. And was not fired or reprimanded in any way.
Yes, it's almost expected at my firm. Partners buying rounds of shots to "celebrate" a big win. Ugh. I'm damned if I don't take them (not a team player! Antisocial!) and damned if I do (drunk and obnoxious, saying things I shouldn't).
Ok so a contractor was buying our drinks. I was literally hanging on him, not due to being flirty but because I couldn't stand.
Weep weep weep
I'm so basic
I fell flat on my face at a bar once and a co-worker had to drive me home. I was 24 at the time, but still, it happened and I still managed to get promoted later that year.
Oh if we are telling stories about our 20's then heck yes I have been drunk with coworkers. Election Night 2000. And then there was the recount or as I like to call it, "the world's longest hangover."
Also a long while for me. I used to go out drinking with some co-workers regularly - I think the first night we got together we ended up in an adult superstore and chased each other around with dildos. My career survived.
I once got so drunk at the firm Christmas party that I came home and puked all over our bedroom, to the point that we had to offer a carpet allowance when we sold the house a year later. My co-worker's wife got all the way home in a cab before she realized she was only wearing one shoe. There was much embarrassing singing on stage over the course of the night.
A couple weeks later, I found out I was pregnant with DS1, and H and I were both baffled because he had been traveling most of the month so we had not had sex any time that could have possibly lead to pregnancy. Then we were like, "wait, did we have really drunk sex after the Christmas party?" Yup, must have.
I used to work in sales, and there were many a boozy nights.
Even at my current job that's more conservative, nearly everyone has one story over the past decade about that one time when they had to much to drink somewhere that everyone laughs about. Don't worry, the embarrassment will fade--and then someone will bring it up someday as a toast at your retirement party LOL.
Oh God yes. In my 20's I worked in a mgmt program with lots of people my age. We regularly acted a damn fool around each other. Maybe occasionally hooked up, etc (disclaimer: we were all single).
At my last job, definitely. Including weepy conversations in bars and maaaaybe puking into a mostly empty bag of cough drops I found in my purse on the train on the way home...
my co-workers? no. most of them are recovering alcoholics though so it would be a bad scene.
H's co-workers? yes. several times. the only saving grace is that they are all waaaay more drunk than me. speaking of, his work christmas party is coming up and that is always a classy event. last year i was 29 weeks pregnant and someone's date was in the bathroom stall next to me, so drunk she puked on the floor instead of the toilet and i had to quickly hoist my feet up to miss getting hit. then i had to find a way to heave my pregnant body off the toilet, adjust my dress, and not step in the river of puke. i sincerely cannot wait for this year!
We had just wrapped a huge stressful thing at my last job, so our team went out to celebrate. I drank a lot for me that night. While standing at the bar, I became chatty with a couple who were on their first date. For whatever reason I thought they were so terrific that I insisted on paying for their dinner and drinks (~$100). It took awhile to live that one down, but at least it could have been way worse.
Ooooh this wasn't me, but a funny coworker drunk story:
We would throw these HUGE parties when we shipped a product. Think, several hundred thousand dollar budget for these things. We always had an after-party at a specific bar for the execs and any stragglers that they wanted to invite. We always provided a party bus that would take people to the bar and back home later. One guy was so drunk and new to town, and HE COULDNT REMEMBER WHERE HE LIVED. All he knew was that he lived in a brick building. We had a hell of a time calling random people in his phone to figure out where he lived.
At another ship party, portable hot tubs were brought in. There was some serious drunken hanky panky going on (these were HR people, too!!). I think some people even lost their jobs over it. All I know is that hot tubs were banned from corporate parties after that.
Ha, I forgot about my H's old job. They used to have lavish events. One time we had a track day where we had a private viewing trailer and open bar so I was basically day drinking for hours. Later we get to dinner at a steakhouse and I do NOT want any steak. I drunkenly explain to the waiter that I only want pasta and could they cut up some chicken and put it in it too? He tried to tell me no but I was like "I need pasta and chicken!"
I work in finance is a company where excessive drinking is almost mandatory. DH works with me.
DH threw up in his boss' car last year. Everything was fine with him and his boss. Things were not fine with DH and me, lol.
I got pretty trashed with an ex-coworker not too long ago and basically spilled my guts on how I felt about each person in our department. Ex-coworker is now a co-worker again and I cringe a little bit about the things I said about our boss.
Yes. At an off-site overnight event with all of our department managers. Picture approximately 60 people, 90% male and about 15-25 years older than me, all letting loose because they're spending a night away from their families. Last time it ended with karaoke. I participated in a fantastic (read: HORRIBLE) rendition of Summer Lovin' from Grease, of which there is video on someone's phone. I am still employed (and beloved, if I do say so myself. )
In grad school I got so drunk at a work party that I told my boss I was too poor to buy food (after she complimented me on how much weight I had lost since starting work). I must have really gone on about it, because I ended up walking home with three boxes of uneaten party food and a bag of bread. I vaguely remember them sending a co-worker to walk home with me, and I found out he had studied in France. I drunkenly spoke Franglais to him all the way home, and I remember him saying, "Why are you speaking French? I'm English."
My first job post-grad school was for a large retailer. Most leadership outings involved massive quantities of free booze in those days. I held my HR manager's hair while she puked, and then we hugged in the bathroom of a Mexican restaurant while she told me I had a "bright fushurrrr" with the company. I got drunk a lot with peers. I ripped our security manager's shirt at the bar one night. I hooked up with a few co-workers (obviously before I was with my H) after some drunken nights.
Yes, when I started this job there was a month long training session oot. There wasn't much else to do but drink! By the end we all (temporarily) hated eachother but it had nothing to do with the drunken nights and everything to do with spending an entire month in the middle of no where with the same damn Co workers day in and day out!
Getting drunk is almost strongly encouraged at my company. We have beer fridges in break rooms and they are building a beer hall on the work campus. Just last night I was out with coworkers till 3am drinking and swimming in the hotel pool after an event we had in FL. Oops! I am sure you will be fine:)