If you are feeling sad about the lack of a Christmas do this year then perhaps this will remind you of the dangers of drinking with your colleagues....
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Back in 2013, a friend got a job at a property management company in Brighton. He was not due to start until January, but they invited him to the Christmas do at a posh hotel on the seafront. The last thing he remembers from the night, is being on the dance floor swinging his (2)

shirt over his head, whilst showing the hotel DJ his Kylie vest top, in an effort to get him to play one of her songs. Then it gets patchy again, but he knows he was frogmarched out with his arm behind his back by the managing director, his future boss. He had to wait over (3)

the entire Christmas period until he started in his new position and on his first day, he was called into the office and given an official warning. But, surely teachers don't do this sort of thing? Well....(4)

At a school I used to work at, there was the Christmas the TA was found sat outside the pub in a pool of her own sick and the cover PE teacher who get slapped by several of the female staff for inappropriate comments. But it was the next 2 years when it went really wrong. (5)

We had a colleague who worked in the office, who was kicked in the back by a TA, who had decided she gave her a funny look. The problem being that she had been standing at the top of a long flight of stairs, sending her tumbling down. Leading to near police charges and (6)

an awkward series of meetings for the head on the Monday. Surely the next year would be better? Someone should have told the Year 1 teacher, who on having a huge argument with the Year 4 teacher and burst back into the pub to announce to everyone that she was going to have (7)

us all dealt with, as and I quote, "I know people......." Leaving the rest of us to ponder during the night, whether or not she had just had us threatened to be killed? Didn't seem very festive. Roll on the next do.....(8)

Another posh hotel and two teachers decide to make videos of stunt rolling down the stairs (you know, like in the old cowboy films) Cue many attempts and nearly every banister being snapped in two on the stair. The manager ran out and they promptly told him that there from (9)

the school down the road (our sort of rivals) So, there you go. Maybe you'll miss the drinks, meal, secret Santa and shots at the bar, but at least you are all going to wake up without the fear. (10)

Oh and just in case:

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. (11)