When after work drinks go wrong...
Discussion
J4CKO said:
I know a guy who is a big drinker and has gone from a slim, normal bloke to having a massive beer belly and the complexion of a Ribena Berry, he drinks every night and then goes mental for big nights out, its weird as people sort of expect his "antics",
On the mic at a Christmas do shouts "You're all a bunch of
s"
Offering to "ruin" female colleagues
Shouting "Do you swallow" at a group of the HR ladies.
At the end of the day he has never touched anyone which I think is the line that cannot be crossed, words can be brushed off a bit more easily than anything physical, especially when almost everyone else is usually pissed anyway but more worringly I can see him living much longer, he looks utterly dreadful.
On the mic at a Christmas do shouts "You're all a bunch of
s"Offering to "ruin" female colleagues
Shouting "Do you swallow" at a group of the HR ladies.
At the end of the day he has never touched anyone which I think is the line that cannot be crossed, words can be brushed off a bit more easily than anything physical, especially when almost everyone else is usually pissed anyway but more worringly I can see him living much longer, he looks utterly dreadful.
If I worked at your place, I think I'd end up buying him lots of drinks just to see him go off on one.
CountZero23 said:
Something similar happened a couple of Christmases ago when he took a swing for another guy a work, being a Christmas thing and people being exceedingly nice nothing ever came of it.
Really nice fella, just has this temper which comes out of nowhere when he's pissed - but only once in a blue moon.
I recently had to dismiss someone for similar behaviour - a really nice chap and good at his job. However once he'd had a few he would become violent - and there's a point where this becomes unacceptable.Really nice fella, just has this temper which comes out of nowhere when he's pissed - but only once in a blue moon.
Interesting thread.
I've known one or two people who have complete personality transplants when they drink - without exception all the people I would refer to as "problem drinkers" conform to this stereotype.
What's interesting is that some of them have been quite heavy drinkers and yet the personality switch happens after a very small amount of booze, in the "8-Ace" style.
I've known one or two people who have complete personality transplants when they drink - without exception all the people I would refer to as "problem drinkers" conform to this stereotype.
What's interesting is that some of them have been quite heavy drinkers and yet the personality switch happens after a very small amount of booze, in the "8-Ace" style.
IanCormac said:
Nanook said:
So funny! You make him sound like a woman, and that's hilarious!!!
Well done, such a funny man! I bet you're really hard!
Never said I was hard but if a gunk from the office swung at me I wouldn't run away and have him chase me through the streets. Maybe you would. Well done, such a funny man! I bet you're really hard!
OP I suggest martial arts lessons. If you'd have been able to put him down without damaging him you wouldn't have had to run off. What if he'd caught you? If you can't protect yourself you would've been at his mercy.
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zarjaz1991 said:
On th e rare occasions I drink, I go quiet end up falling asleep. Never understood this aggression thing that afflicts some people.
i'm similar, i tend to people watch.i have a mate though that likes a drink, but he could get nasty when had too much, he would be fine for most of the night then, like a light switch he would get nasty with the comments etc.
we realised that it was if he changed to rum, beer doesn't affect him, in fact he's very funny on most stuff, but if he starts on the rum then his dark side comes out.
now we keep him away from that on social nights and laugh all night, he seems to have a bottomless pit of jokes and one liners.
i would add that it's verbal only, he's never been physical and if he gets too far he then switches off and falls asleep.
weird.
jesta1865 said:
we realised that it was if he changed to rum, beer doesn't affect him, in fact he's very funny on most stuff, but if he starts on the rum then his dark side comes out.
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I have always been a fairly handy drinker, not a 16 pints a night type but I can hold my alcohol, or more to the point can work out when I need to slow down and go soft for a few rounds or sneak in that G&T whilst the others are still gazing at the last half pint before they hit the shorts.
I can't actually recall ever being an aggressive drunk but know a number of people who either have to avoid certain drinks, or make sure that they very much limit them. One I know has to avoid larger and an other whiskey based drinks. With them both neither gets too silly but both will become quite argumentative and vocal on the wrong drink.
The other version I have seen many times first hand is that 4-5 beer point. One mate give him 3 beers and you could introduce him to your grandma. Between beers 4 and 5 though you either need to give him a couple of doubles or be prepared to keep him sat down so that no one can bump into him, call his pint a poof, etc. By the time he is 6 beers in though he's back with the programme and one of the most entertaining drunks you'll ever meet.
Odd thing is again this is only on the beer. get them on G&T and they will sink a bottle without once getting the Hulk on.
DonkeyApple said:
If your industry fired everyone who was a monumental chopper during a night out on the leuven there wouldn't be many people in the office come 9.30 Monday. 
As a Chartered Surveyor myself that left London only four months ago, I can say without doubt that the drinking culture is in the top three of 'things I miss like I'd miss a limb'.
Robbo 27 said:
Only got into one, middle of the day, walking along, some nutter crossed the road and assaulted a woman walking behind me, ripped her dress, I pushed him, he hit me in the shoulder, I hit him on the nose and he ran off, not quiite Die Hard stuff. Woman ran off in the opposite direction, I am stood there thinking WTF did I do that for.
How ripped? Could you see everything?Our department organizes 'friday night drinks' quite a lot and nothing really comes of it sadly. The most interesting it got was once one of the girls got some 'unwanted advances' by some random person. 9 of us surrounding him and telling him to kindly go away sorted that out.
On my first thursday at work, we went out for someones leaving do, and I tried to 'prove myself' by drinking 18 pints over 5 hours. Didn't turn up for work on friday, didn't answer my phone, didn't wake up until Sunday... Walked in on monday to a round of applause for turning up at all and a final written warning 6 days into my new job... (still there now 9 years later though)
We used to have one big company party every year. When I started it was a free bar, good meal etc. I got waterbouyed (sp) on my first year, and ended up drinking 17 shots of sambuca within an hour and a half, passing out cuddling a toilet and home in bed by 11.30...
Second year I just got so drunk I got my coat at 1pm, staggered outside to call a mate to pick me up, then, I wandered over the lawn of the hotel to a tree, took my suit jacket off, threw up everywhere, then laid on the grass and fell asleep/passed out. My mate came and went, and was incredibly fked off when I woke up at 5am and phoned him back... No one could see me where I was, and I was very ill afterwards.
I toned it right down after that and had several very enjoyable years, and got to witness other people's fkwittery.
One of the girls who used to work with us turned into a crying, jibbering wreck when drunk, we avoided her
Several of us played 'steal all the stuff' at a pirate themed party (Still got a 6ft by 10ft pirate flag somewhere from that;
Watched the hotel security staff drag someone from a different part of the company out kicking and screaming, upending several tables in the process etc. Didn't see him again.
We also regularly drank the bar tab out, even with shots limited to singles (thanks to me I found out, my sambucafest cost a fortune). I remember one year the bar went to cash, everyone started to get angry/upset, when the MD was bought to the front, had a word and suddenly the bar was free again.
It's changed now, £30 per head and each department has to organise their own party. So food and 2/3 free drinks. Luckily many of my colleagues are rich, so when pissed insist they buy drinks, so I tag along during the rounds but get a beer rather than cocktails etc, and usually they are so pissed by the next round they forget I haven't had my turn at paying yet and just buy me a beer.
Last year we had a new guy, and we found some of his friends in the pub we were at, and hounded the poor guys friends about him to the point the new guy squared up to 2 of the girls in our team and told them to stop or he would batter them... No chivalry from us chaps there, they fking nearly murdered him. All forgotten about monday morning though.
On my first thursday at work, we went out for someones leaving do, and I tried to 'prove myself' by drinking 18 pints over 5 hours. Didn't turn up for work on friday, didn't answer my phone, didn't wake up until Sunday... Walked in on monday to a round of applause for turning up at all and a final written warning 6 days into my new job... (still there now 9 years later though)
We used to have one big company party every year. When I started it was a free bar, good meal etc. I got waterbouyed (sp) on my first year, and ended up drinking 17 shots of sambuca within an hour and a half, passing out cuddling a toilet and home in bed by 11.30...
Second year I just got so drunk I got my coat at 1pm, staggered outside to call a mate to pick me up, then, I wandered over the lawn of the hotel to a tree, took my suit jacket off, threw up everywhere, then laid on the grass and fell asleep/passed out. My mate came and went, and was incredibly f
ked off when I woke up at 5am and phoned him back... No one could see me where I was, and I was very ill afterwards.I toned it right down after that and had several very enjoyable years, and got to witness other people's f
kwittery. One of the girls who used to work with us turned into a crying, jibbering wreck when drunk, we avoided her
Several of us played 'steal all the stuff' at a pirate themed party (Still got a 6ft by 10ft pirate flag somewhere from that;
Watched the hotel security staff drag someone from a different part of the company out kicking and screaming, upending several tables in the process etc. Didn't see him again.
We also regularly drank the bar tab out, even with shots limited to singles (thanks to me I found out, my sambucafest cost a fortune). I remember one year the bar went to cash, everyone started to get angry/upset, when the MD was bought to the front, had a word and suddenly the bar was free again.
It's changed now, £30 per head and each department has to organise their own party. So food and 2/3 free drinks. Luckily many of my colleagues are rich, so when pissed insist they buy drinks, so I tag along during the rounds but get a beer rather than cocktails etc, and usually they are so pissed by the next round they forget I haven't had my turn at paying yet and just buy me a beer.
Last year we had a new guy, and we found some of his friends in the pub we were at, and hounded the poor guys friends about him to the point the new guy squared up to 2 of the girls in our team and told them to stop or he would batter them... No chivalry from us chaps there, they f
king nearly murdered him. All forgotten about monday morning though.
Landlord said:
Robbo 27 said:
Only got into one, middle of the day, walking along, some nutter crossed the road and assaulted a woman walking behind me, ripped her dress, I pushed him, he hit me in the shoulder, I hit him on the nose and he ran off, not quiite Die Hard stuff. Woman ran off in the opposite direction, I am stood there thinking WTF did I do that for.
How ripped? Could you see everything?Edited by Quhet on Monday 12th September 16:28
One guy at an old place of work come back to the office after a big night out with clients and decided to sleep back in the office as im guessing he missed his train. He managed to get to the lifts but after going up he couldn't open the lobby door into the reception area with his pass as there was a timer on the doors. This also meant he couldn't get to the toilet so he decided to sleep and sh*t in the lobby.
Everyone found out because it was all on CCTV. I didnt get to see this but the lads on his desk gave him so much sh*t for it for ages. It was impossible to get sacked at that place if you were a big earner.
Everyone found out because it was all on CCTV. I didnt get to see this but the lads on his desk gave him so much sh*t for it for ages. It was impossible to get sacked at that place if you were a big earner.
The last place I worked at before I became self-employed had quite a big "drinking culture". The week I started, there had been arranged a big company launch bullst thing at some hotel near Chester. Usual nonsense - day "brainstorming" and "blue-sky thinking" etc., on the piss at night, presentations the following morning then some "team-building" crap.
Not wanting to look a wuss, I stayed up way beyond my bedtime on the first night & got far too pissed. I remember Sambuca and Jack Daniels being involved - both of which I normally stay well away from. Anyway, following morning it's presentation day & in the middle of my presentation (and feeling really rough) I could feel I was going to be sick & just puked in the nearest wastebin then carried on my talk.
Didn't get bked, in fact our head of department seemed impressed I'd carried on - more than a few people didn't even make it out of bed.
t thing at some hotel near Chester. Usual nonsense - day "brainstorming" and "blue-sky thinking" etc., on the piss at night, presentations the following morning then some "team-building" crap.Not wanting to look a wuss, I stayed up way beyond my bedtime on the first night & got far too pissed. I remember Sambuca and Jack Daniels being involved - both of which I normally stay well away from. Anyway, following morning it's presentation day & in the middle of my presentation (and feeling really rough) I could feel I was going to be sick & just puked in the nearest wastebin then carried on my talk.
Didn't get b
ked, in fact our head of department seemed impressed I'd carried on - more than a few people didn't even make it out of bed.Until recently we had a rather passive aggressive chap in our office. He was early 30's but not very glued into the maturity that most are use to in a work environment. He was big into conspiracies and was to our amazement a very vocal supporter of the IRA, hates the "brits" but loves to live in England and enjoys all the benefits of living in a western country. On his first day he was so forceful in his opinions that 9/11 was all an inside job and that I must not care about humanity and how innocent people were killed, irony from an IRA supporter. Then he went on a rampage about the global economy. He wanted to go out for drinks and I had to decline as I can't imagine how angry he must be as a drunk if he was like that sober. Real in your face aggressive with his views.
I've borne witness to some monumental work/social train wreck parties over the years but far worse is having a team of male and female colleagues working on a project and staying in the same hotel from Monday to Friday over a prolonged period of time.
Marriage breakdowns, pregnancies, fights, private detectives, Police, criminal damage...
I'll raise my hand and say that the particular period of time I have in mind I was not directly involved in any of the shenanigans but was unjustly implicated during some of the disciplinary processes which stuck in my craw somewhat.
It's quite entertaining watching it all unfurl from my beer addled perspective though and recounting some of the frankly unbelievable stories kills a few hours at times.
No, I'm not about to start either. It would take far too long to type out and I don't think you'd believe me anyway.
Marriage breakdowns, pregnancies, fights, private detectives, Police, criminal damage...
I'll raise my hand and say that the particular period of time I have in mind I was not directly involved in any of the shenanigans but was unjustly implicated during some of the disciplinary processes which stuck in my craw somewhat.
It's quite entertaining watching it all unfurl from my beer addled perspective though and recounting some of the frankly unbelievable stories kills a few hours at times.
No, I'm not about to start either. It would take far too long to type out and I don't think you'd believe me anyway.
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