What Not To Say (Or Do) At Your Office Christmas Party

Office Christmas parties are, and always will be, both a fun and dangerous event!  Knowing what to say and do, and more importantly, what NOT to say or do can be the difference between a happy New Year and a VERY awkward January in the office!

What NOT to say or do:

• Get so drunk that you end up asleep in the middle of the dance floor with your colleagues congo’ing around you.
• Corner the boss for hours talking nonsensically about how you would run the company.
• Sit in the corner waiting for people to come to you, it won’t happen.
• Assume that everything you say or do is off the record, it’s not (which will become evident when you’re next in the office!).
• Assume when you’ve had a few drinks, that everyone around you is a leaning post.  Feeling wobbly? Sit in a chair!
• Take advantage of a free bar, to the extent that you could open your own brewery.
• Assume you can break dance, you can’t.
• The above is also true of pretending to be a robot!
• Get all emotional and start crying, it’s not the time or place.
• Blow your wages trying to look cool and buying the entire company a round.
• Turn up in fancy dress thinking it will be funny, it will be for everyone else, but for the wrong reasons!
• Spread gossip.
• Start a food fight.
• Bring an uninvited guest.
• Harass the DJ every five minutes, he is the professional, you’re not.