The holiday season is a time for togetherness and reflection. It’s a time for gift giving, merrymaking and telling Karen from accounting that you always thought her haircut was terrible. Wait. Scratch that last one.
If you’re like many Americans, the holiday season involves the rite of passage commonly known as the office holiday party. Unlike other traditional American drinking events such as the frat-house rager, the July 4th cookout and the Super Bowl Sunday, the holiday work party ups the ante by throwing an open bar into your workplace, then surrounds you with professional peers, your boss and—oh, yes—HR department. One too many can quickly become one job too few in that scenario. So, in the holiday spirit of giving, there are five drinks to surely avoid if you want to guarantee nobody at your work party ends up dancing with a lampshade on his or her head.