Wasn't there a This American Life about this? I remember this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

They don't call it social studies for nothing...it is like you were doing research.

We should be friends. D0 you feel my energy?

I taught middle school for two years before I went back to academia, and this is all so true. No one could out-drink the Social Studies department. We were a force.

someday, everyone will just know that when a pregnant woman says now, they mean right fucking now

and a backwoods hooker

I love this! Two questions — did the guy's girlfriend find out, and did he get fired for punching his boss?

In the late 90's, I worked a shall-remain-nameless global bank in Sydney. This particular year, the xmas party was held in the very opulent ballroom of a luxe hotel nearby. The bank had had an extremely good year, and the party was off the hook.

omg HOW DID YOU RETURN TO WORK AFTER THAT? the balls. i am amazed.

You can jump around. I have done a lot of jumping around singing drunkenly in friends' faces to the tune of 'Name of Love'.

I set a supervisor's coat on fire and woke up in the bed of one of the dudes from Vampire Weekend (he was on tour and not present).

"The absolute worst part of it all was not the amazing hangover the next day or the horror as I wondered what the hell I'd had done at that party." THIS. EXACTLY.

I won something!! ::bows::

I'm a former high school teacher and this story is so frighteningly familiar.

Bless my SO for reminding me of his worst. He's a highschool teacher, so they got to the bar by 3pm for his holiday party. I was in grad school, didn't show up until 5pm, and it was like walking through the looking glass, they were all WASTED. 5 pm, and they had already done like 3 shots of tequila, that they…

I worked for a hospital with a pretty successful heart program. One of the cardiovascular surgeons (in his 50s) would rent out a bar for the night every christmas and provide lots of drunk snacks and an open bar.

"I DON'T NEED YOU! I DON'T NEED ANY OF YOU!" love this, feels like it could have been me at that age

Two years ago, we went to the restaurant with all my coworkers and boss (I work in retail) for the annual holiday party. Alcohol was free so with the other twenty-somethings, we get pretty drunk. I have a longtime crush on one of them and I start flirting with him after a while (I'm quite shybut obviously get more…

Well, this story isn't from a holiday party, but it was an office party, and I sure as hell did make an ass out of myself. It was my first big party at my first real job; I was in charge of planning the day's activities, so naturally I was in panic mode for an entire week straight before the event. I wanted to impress…

I got drunk on corn whiskey at my office's holiday party. I was home for 5 minutes before my wife made me sleep on the couch (her quote "You smell like cigarettes and a backwoods hooker". The next morning I woke up stark naked wearing nothing but Christmas socks. In an apparent attempt to cook (or maybe blow up my…