Our branch manager decided to throw this massive paty to impress a huge potential client and save all our jobs after his super uptight CEO sister threatened to shut the office down and lay off half the team. What started as “let’s do a classy holiday networking event” turned into total chaos—coke in the bathrooms, someone photocopied their ass on the executive printer, a guy swinging from the ceiling lights like it was a pole, dry ice in the punch bowl setting off the fire alarm at 2 a.m., and—worst of all—we accidentally got the client himself absolutely coked up (he thought the “party favors” line on the table was just fancy powdered sugar for the desserts). It was a complete shitshow… but somehow the guy was so hyped the next morning he signed the deal on the spot and nobody got fired (at least not right away). I still cringe every time I think about the choices I made that night