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    There are plenty of ways to have your night – and career – ruined at the office Christmas party | Brigid Delaney

    Bring your own cigarettes and don’t ever, ever, ever dress up
    by Brigid Delaney Dec 05, 2019 4 minutes
    ‘When people ask the next day if there was “any gossip from the party”, they will be getting high off the fumes of your unlikely affair.’ Photograph: Oppenheim Bernhard/Getty Images

    It’s Christmas party season and by now HR should have sent an all-staff email warning you that “it is a work function and an appropriate standard of conduct is expected”.

    Much of the focus is (rightly) on sexual harassment and bullying.

    But there are plenty of other ways to have your night – and career – ruined.

    As the veteran of 147 jobs (truly), I have catalogued the way you can torpedo your career (or at least have regrets the next day) at the office Christmas party.

    Consider the future when you consider your costume

    Although on the outside you

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