Around this time of year, Japanese companies start holding their end of year office parties, known as “bonenkai”. At these events there are certain protocols and niceties to be observed, but the presence of all-you-can-drink beer and cocktails tends to make people forget this.

What Japan Thinks has kindly translated a list of things not to do at a bonenkai, taken from an online Japanese survey of 1056 people.

I would have liked to have read this last year, before attending to my company’s bonenkai!

Here are the top twenty no-nos:

Rank

1 Droning on and on with the welcome speech

2 Fiddling with your mobile all night

3 Skiving off attending

4 Give everyone a piece of your mind

5 Pulling a colleague

6 Arriving late, returning early

7 Being a Soup Nazi with the stew

8 Not having enough money to pay your share

9 Talking shop all night

10 Picking a fight with your boss

11 Crying

12 Treating it as a dating party

13 Passing out drunk

14 Complaining about the food

15 Taking the unfinished booze home

16 Joining a different party

17 Scoffing all the food

18 Ordering extras

19 Paying by credit card to get points

20 Squirting lemon, etc over all the food

Yep, I think I’m guilty of most of them. (Except, naturally, the one about talking shop.)

Although they’re not on the list, it’s safe to assume that photocopying your tits and puking on the boss’s toupee are also bad form!

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