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The mechanical contractors I used to work for had great parties in the 70’s, By the time it got dark there would be plumbers and pipe fitters fighting in the parking lot. There would be cars in the ditches all around the office. People fornicating in cars. A good time was had by all!!

From my experience cops are terrible at handling their booze in public.

I've been to big beer busts back when everybody was in their early to mid 20's where some drama occurred. But nobody thought much about it. We were all just kids and kids do what kids do.

I've never been to a party where adults got out of control to the extent mentioned in the OP.

The last big bash I went to was a wedding party a few months ago. It went on until late at night. There was an open bar and many young people as well as adults were in attendance. Quite a few people there had the big buzz on before things shut down for the evening, (me too) but everybody maintained their dignity,...even the young people.

In fact, everybody had a great time.

Any adult who hasn't developed the ability to drink without making a scene needs to leave it alone.

As a young man I'll admit it took a couple of showing my ass at the Xmas party moments to realize how to act.

The thing for me is where I live, I'm not paying $40 for an uber just to get schitfaced with people I work with....and I sure as hell ain't hanging out with them sober.

Hell, this is just everyday norm in some offices.

You noticed that too, huh.

Instant ass holes. Just add alcohol.

I remember a company Christmas party I was at many years ago that got so out of hand that it had to be shut down early and of all people the plant manager was the one responsible.

Plant manager, a relatively young man himself, had too much to drink, tried to pick a fight with a younger hourly employee. The younger man, trying to avoid escalating the situation, turned around and started walking away. The plant manager all of a sudden attacked him from behind, pulled him down on the dance floor, and started flailing away with wild haymakers.

The plant manager's wife, real nice lady, already eight and a half months pregnant, was crying and begging someone to stop it. Feeling sorry for her, especially with her being so far along pregnant, I jerked her husband off the other guy, walked him outside and sat him down in his car, scolded him like a naughty kid, told him to stay there while I went to get his wife to drive them home. He promised he would but didn't, though.

The employee he jumped on had a older and bigger brother that worked there too who was also at the party and was very upset when he found out what happened. Apparently they came face to face right after the plant manager made in back inside the building.

The next time I saw the plant manager he was laid out inside a big commercial galvanized double sink. He was semi-unconscious butt down in one side side of the sink, one leg in the other, his other leg dangling outside, with a trickle of blood running from between his eyes down the middle of his face, mumbling something or other.

Next day back to work the plant manager had a band-aid over a pretty good size knot between his eyes . He darn near lost his job, too.

Sounds like the Campfire get together's I've heard about.

A place with employees and significant others like that probably has a bigger issue than a raucous Christmas party.

As a surveyor this is sound advice. Our yearly convention is one heck of a party. Most of us can hold our liquor but sometimes someone will get out of hand. We are a loud rowdy bunch.

Lol the one know one is allowed to talk about..

I thought Toby would be in there some place!

Damn, you had a busy night!😉

(Sorry, couldn't resist. It was too easy.)

lmao Bestest thread in awhilst.

LOL.

It's not generally the survey management or RPLS's that are the issue.

The field crews can get interesting though.

Anytime they're not paying for the drinks there are some who will drink to excess. Then there are the jokers who will spike their drinks to make sure they get really wasted.

I was in supervision for most of my working days and was invited to the Christmas Party everyone of them. I went to one and swore that was the last one. They had a band that played so loud, you couldn't hear yourself think. The meal was terrible and the drunks were plenty.

Never again for an office party.

Several of us that worked at this place decided to all get together and take our spouses out to eat. 4 couples of us and we had our own Christmas Party. We did this for several years and always had a great time.

GreatWaputi: Sorry the drunkards spoiled your evening. Sounds like you won't have to be putting up with that bunch anymore in your future Christmas's.
For 29 years I was the police in a large west coast city and we used to dread the two weeks before Christmas and through New Years due to the large numbers of "adults" who don't normally drink much and then comes the office parties and the after work "drinks" of the same occasional imbibers. In other words people who don't drink often and don't know how to "hold their liquor" or pace themselves!
Anyway the resulting disturbances, fights, car crashes, family fights and "passed out" people calls went up ten fold!
Again sorry for your unpleasant evening - its NOT rare!
If you think Christmas office parties get rowdy you should attend a "big city police departments" picnics!
The police usually get very little time off during the holidays and especially during the evenings around the holidays!
So they (we!) made up for it at our annual summer picnics.
Fist fights abound, non permissioned fully clothed throwings into the lake are RAMPANT/CONTINUOUS and I have seen threats to kill, nakedness, guns pulled and divorces started at 29 years worth of "police picnics".
Again folks not used to drinking very often and don't know their boundaries can cause real problems when the liquor flows freely.
I don't drink much at all (beers now and then) and I am a large person so I have only been "drunk" a time or two in my whole life - and I regretted those instances - not for any outrageous behavior but for the dreaded hangover.
The VarmintWife and I just last week hosted 43 (fourty three) teachers, counselors, school superintendants and principals and many of their spouses at our home for the VarmintWifes workmates "Christmas office party". And the party was indeed boisterous but never profane or obscene! One lady teacher had never seen a "bidet" before and embarrassed herself asking about what it was and then, how it worked!
I am sure she would not have ventured forth with that had she not "had a couple" beforehand!
Tis the season to be jolly, but NOT profane.
Hold into the wind
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