Office Christmas Party Afterstories

Life in Recovery
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First time in 14 years I haven’t attended my office party. Today hearing about all the shots and drunk people stories, I’m happy I stayed home safe watching movies. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Great choice! I have a work brunch Sunday :roll_eyes: have to stay strong.

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Great choice! I am a martial arts & self-defense instructor. I often drill my students on John Farnham’s “4-rules of Stupid” which are:

  1. Don’t do stupid things
  2. with stupid people
  3. at stupid times
  4. in stupid places

Work parties violate at least one, if not more of these rules, especially when there’s alcohol.

During my third month of sobriety, I had to attend “mandatory fun” in the form of my company’s annual sales kick-off. I worked for one of the biggest office supplies companies in the country, so every manufacturers rep wanted in good with my company’s salespeople. Booze was free and plentiful.

We had a brand new salesperson. Literally just started on the first day of the sales kickoff. He got drunk and that night when we all retired to our hotel rooms, he thought it a good idea to drunk text several women who worked at my company. He was fired before noon the next day.

Me? I had a great time, staying sober. I watched people slowly devolve into fools and idiots. The next day I awoke early, worked out, and was fresh and ready to go for day 2 of the conference, and I got to watch people suffering with hangovers and cringing from embarrassing themselves the night before. I had nothing to regret or pay for.

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Did you watch this one? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I remember avoiding most of these “mandatory fun events”, I just didn’t go. Hate this kind of event. Once I went and from then on I knew why I always avoided it :flushed: Awkward talks with people you hardly know who get more wasted with every 30 minutes passing and cringy listening to people who think they’re funny and smart but aren’t :grimacing: Not to mention all the personal stuff shared! WTF! I don’t wanna know about your hemmorrhoids or your aunt’s stinky dog :exploding_head: And no, my private life is private, I don’t share it at work! The longest 4 hours of my life :woman_facepalming:

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