Name: How to handle a drunk co-worker at an office party
Uploaded: 2014-06-18T08:48:55.000Z
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: A drunken co-worker can ruin an office party, to say nothing of a career. How to tactfully handle a colleague or friend who's had too much before it gets completely out of hand? Sarah Ivens has the answers to this touchy subject.

How do you avoid the creepy guy from shipping, or the colleague who gets drunk and pinches bottoms? Sarah Ivens, former editor-in-chief of OK! Magazine, and author of six books on etiquette - including A Modern Girl's Guide to Etiquette - explains how to gracefully avoid the office oddballs at parties.

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A drunken co-worker can ruin an office party, to say nothing of a career. How to tactfully handle a colleague or friend who's had too much before it gets completely out of hand? Sarah Ivens has the answers to this touchy subject.

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