Manage your drinking time
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If the party is a long lunch, the pub and possibly a club afterwards, determine to leave the restaurant sober. Book a cab before the party. If you are hammered by the time you leave the pub, don\'t go on, go home. If it is an evening do, don\'t get drunk at dinner or turn up tipsy. Drink lots of water throughout.
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Avoid conflict
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If you end up hammered dance and talk to other women and avoid people you don\'t like or have unresolved issues with. That way you are far less likely to snog half the company or start a row. Stop drinking as soon as you realise you are hammered. If you are still out of it after two rounds of water, call a cab. If you start to feel more sober, carry on drinking water.
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Avoid the boss
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Talking to him/her half cut, or worse still drunk, is only going to lead to trouble. Okay, so it\'s a bit mean to treat them like a social leper, but if you haven\'t had much contact before and the first thing you say is, \"I think you\'re a total git\"/\"I think you\'re crap at your job\"/\"I fancy you\", it is not going to go down well on Monday. Remember, it might be a party – but it\'s still work. The chances are most of us have never seen our boss drunk. There\'s a reason for that.
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Sex under the desk
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If you and Mark from accounts simply can\'t resist each other (because, naturally, after five vodkas he looks less like Phil Mitchell and more like Brad Pitt), try not to do it in front of the entire office. Could be very embarrassing on Monday morning – especially when he starts looking like Phil Mitchell again.
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Dealing with the morning after
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If you wake up the following morning knowing that you humiliated yourself but unsure as to how, ask one person you trust to give you an honest answer. Don\'t ask loads of people. Once you\'ve sewn all their perceptions together, you\'ll make yourself sound like a cross between Katie Price, Shaun Ryder and Mike Tyson.
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Say sorry
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If you got into an argument or insulted someone, seek them out as soon as you get into the office and apologise unreservedly for being a drunk idiot. Even if you meant every syllable of the character assassination you gave them, say that it was the booze talking and that you are sorry. You have to work with them, after all. Everyone has got drunk and acted like an idiot at some point and few people will bear a grudge if you act like a grown-up afterwards.
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Laugh about it!
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If all you did was get drunk and talk bollocks, don\'t worry - so did everyone else. Whatever you said will seem worse to you than others, who will have been getting on with having a good time and probably won\'t even remember. In fact, they are probably just as worried about what they said to you - and do you remember or care about that?
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Laugh even more
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The same goes for minor incidents. Even if you did whatever it was in the middle of the dance floor, not everyone will have seen it. Apologise if you feel the need to, but don\'t go overboard. Self-flagellation is embarrassing; self-deprecating humour is much more appropriate for the inevitable party post-mortem.
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