An employee decided to impress her co-workers by hosting a holiday party at her rental home when she worked for a used car dealership in Minnesota in 1990s.
The party was plagued by multiple issues, including one co-worker turning up with raunchy lingerie for her secret lover, an unexpected number of guests, and male guests urinating outside and forming a vibrant yellow urine stain outside of the house.
Even though the party was a disaster, the employee was begged to host the holiday party for three more years.
Although she told her boss she would agree to host again only if the band Korn would play, it does not appear that they ever accepted the invitation.
The employee was pragmatic in that she knew she was unlikely to be able to top her disastrous party.
Sentimentality for the time she spent with her co-workers made her feel glad that she hosted the party in the first place.
The tale is just one of the many stories recounted by readers of Ask a Manager.
The blog offers advice and strategies on getting ahead at work while sharing reader anecdotes and Q&A sessions.
It also shared another hilarious disaster story from a reader about a company-popular colleague who ended up caught in a shopping mall’s elevator during a holiday party.
Though the colleague was eventually extricated from the elevator, the event turned into a debacle that the writer did not forget.