Craziest Christmas Party Stories

Just with the season here I wanted to hear if any of you have some great stories from past Christmas parties, senior people drinking too much, hr saying something wild, anything of the sort I would love to hear about

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I know a guy at Goldman who as an analyst years ago hooked up with a partner's daughter in the bathroom during a Christmas party where said partner was in attendance.

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Updated my comment, he was an analyst at the time. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 
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It isn't a Christmas party if nobody gets fired.

We used to have pretty crazy parties back when we were private.  We rented out a (very large) and super classy local bar/restaurant for the evening. Because five hours of drinking wasn't enough for some people there was normally an after party at a local dive. (The downtown cop/firefighter bar--IYKYK)

I was told that one year two of the external wholesalers got into an argument about who had the better year at the after party.  It turned physical, and one guy gave the other a black eye.  The following morning one called the other and they both agreed that it never happened.  The external wholesalers really are prima-donnas. (Last I heard base was ~$45k and average total comp was $300-500 for most)

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