So this sales meeting is a big thing for our company. They’ve done them, a few times, before and they’re always first class. Great flights, beautiful hotel rooms, not sharing a hotel room, all meals and snacks provided for us in addition to a few free drinks and an occasional open bar while we’re there. Cool right? Well all this planning a prepping comes hand in hand with TONS of Appropriate Work Place Behavior, Dress Code and Other Guidelines of (inserts company name) Business Travel emails, that we ALL got tired of reading over and over in the weeks leading up to our departure. I mean, c’mon! We’re adult, sales professionals who needs this sort of childish reminders? (Insert drunk laugh here)
Well each time we have one of these events its not uncommon to hear that between five to eight associates losing their jobs due to inappropriate behavior of some sort. One year we were at this bar and these dumb reps left the company function, drunk, caught a cab to another bar, jumped on another mechanical bull, drunk, and had the time of their life! That was, until the retard was thrown off and broke her leg. Yeah, I heard about her being taken to the hospital and sent home, unemployed, the following day. Stupid people.
But I digress, this years function one associate arrived to the airport for his flight ALREADY DRUNK! I shit you not. How he got past security, if he even did I don’t know, but his supervisor saw him in his condition, fired him and sent his drunk ass home. He never even made it on the plane. That reminds me of the movie Friday when Smokey (Chris Tucker) tells Craig (Ice Cube) Nigga, how you gonna get fired on yo day off? It takes a dumb mother fucker to get fired on his day off, maaan! And a dumb mo’fo sure did get fired on his day off. LMAO Jackass.
Then I heard, from my manager during dinner one evening, that on Cinco De Mayo in the hotel bar/club a dumb, drunk, chick decided that flashing her tits to the ENTIRE bar was going to get her lots of free drinks! Instead it got her escorted out of the bar, up to her room to pack her shit, escorted OUT of the hotel, sent to the airport and home. Fired. Can you get any dumber than that? The answer is YES!!
After the awards dinner I excused myself to my room to drink the few beers I had left while being a good girl/responsible drinking woman who is on company time and go watch a DVD on the lap top. After a few beers I needed a smoke so I stopped the movie, grabbed whatever I needed and headed outside for a few minutes. When I stepped outside I walked into the sort of conversation that makes your snap your neck in a double take thinking to yourself Did she just say what I thought she said?? Naaahhh. So I blew it off and lit up.
After about thirty-five seconds out there I realized I wasn’t hearing shit! The, very drunk woman, on the bench across from me was talking to two men, in suits, and she was talking dirty to them! (Um, we’re at a business conference, its 9pm’ish, they’re wearing suits this time of night don’t you think you should watch what you say??? Guess not. Carry on then!) She told the one standing up that she has been married for nineteen years and EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. of their nineteen years of marriage she and her husband have sex! *Liar!* Then she proceeds to tell the men that her boyfriend doesn’t get sex from her as much as her husband does because her husband is #1, as it should be! *look at her preaching* She then made some comment to the gentleman who was standing, something to the effect of “…What’s big with you? Your ego or…???” I shit you not!
Well, naturally I had to bust out my cell phone and start texting my girl Craze to give her something to laugh at when the man who was standing asked if he could sit on the bench with me. Sure, I said and scooted over. He lowers his voice, shakes his head and says Oh this’ll give you something to tell your friends about when you get home, huh? Blushing and smiling I close my cell phone and tell him I was in the middle of texting the situation as he approached. We laughed about it and he told me that Madam Drunk-Ass had already fallen out here before I arrived. *Dammit I missed that!*
He and I sat chatting and smoking, sipping on our beers and just carrying a casual conversation when we hear kissing noises! Our eyes grew, we looked at each other puzzled, then turned to the drunk lady in time to see she lunged forward to kiss the other man squarely on the mouth!
Holy Crap! I said. That’s OK, I know what division she’s out of and who she reports to, was what he said. That’s when I looked down at his badge. It had his name and under that it said Corporate Headquarters. Later that night we bumped into each other outside in the same smoking section and he was talking to a woman when he asked me to join him for a second and sad You were here with me, tell her what we saw! She doesn’t believe me! lol He was aready gossiping about it and needed a witness to back it up. So I told the woman what we saw. We all got a laugh out of it.
When I got to the office, yesterday, I looked him up in our global address book and his title was Director. That bitch is screwed.
And then I heard about one of my immediate own co-workers being a man whore and hooking up with a different chick each night! He’s fine as fuck so I see that being entirely true! lol
There was a story of a very drunk couple having sex in one of the fountains in the atrium, that story I find hard to believe. Then again, if my own manager hadn’t told me about the tit flashing woman I wouldn’t have believed that one!
Fucken drunks, man! See, and THIS is the reason why I took Mister’s lap top and a shit load of dvds with me, kicked it in my room once meetings were done because I wanted NO part of anyone’s drunken escapades! You know that saying Wrong place at the wrong time? Yeah, I didn’t want to be that girl so I kept to myself and TADA! I still have a job! Thankfully we only do these every few years. Part of me wants to bail out on the next one but then again it does make good blogging material. Hmmm…

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May 9, 2008 at 9:13pm
crazedreamer
LMAO I still can’t believe all that crazy shit, I mean DUH.. how stupid can a person be? You gotta save all that crazy drunkenness for girl’s weekend in Vegas yo!
May 9, 2008 at 10:35pm
Dixie
I loooove drunken work parties!! It’s so fun to see who can’t hold their liquor!!
And Friday is one of my all time faves!! Seen it a gazillion times! My favorite part is when Smokey says “You got knocked the fuck out maaan!”
May 10, 2008 at 3:18pm
Lisa
OMG that is some funny shit! Thanks alot for making me laugh.. I’m glad you were a “good girl” and still have a job.. Those girls should be more like us; Latinas are freakin’ smart!! LOL..
take care!
May 11, 2008 at 2:23pm
heidi
It just floors me that people get that wasted at work functions. How can they possibly think that’s a good idea!!
May 12, 2008 at 2:42pm
Ang
OMG! People never cease to amaze do they?? Holy shit!! Apparently some of those lunatics think being away from “home” means they can be free to do what they please even on the company’s dime?? Guess some find out the hard way, lmao!!
At least they kept interesting entertainment going for you!!
May 12, 2008 at 3:00pm
Lael
WOW! It is fun to watch other people sprial out of control though;p
May 12, 2008 at 3:50pm
Laurel
I do not understand why people behave this way at WORK events. You’re a grown up, you’re perfectly welcome to go booze and make an ass of yourself on the weekends. Just, um, DON’T DO IT AT WORK. Pretty simple, right?
May 12, 2008 at 5:53pm
Jena
WOW !! that’s pretty much all I have to say..
May 14, 2008 at 3:57pm
Beej
My mouth is hanging open. Hanging open in awe.
Though Todd was saying that at his conference last week they were always one step behind a certain cell phone company’s conference. So every where Todd’s group went was one day behind the cell phone company’s group, and the waitresses were always like “You guys are so much better than the people who were with Cell Phone Company. They were insane.”
We heard that a guy at the cell phone company conference got too drunk, passed out and died at the conference. Can you imagine??
May 15, 2008 at 4:40pm
Sue
This is why I hate the conferences I have to go to. Seriously, these people get out of their home towns on the company’s dime and it’s like a free for all.
I’m not like that. Sure, I can have my fun, you’ve seen that, but that is for when I’m with friends, not for anything remotely related to work.
May 27, 2008 at 4:56pm
Amanda
This must be the company’s way of downsizing. lol. Horrible idiots!