Holding your drink, and knowing when to fur cough out of it when you see that others aren't holding theirs, are skills that should come with age. Those skills ought to be required for promotion as well.
Yes, recollect being asked, at interview, how I'd deal with a colleague having a go at me in a bar. Realising, for the first time, that there may be a political problem in this outfit, I, of course, replied that I would attempt to de-escalate and, if that failed, quietly leave.
Fortunately, I never had to cope with " and another thing, you £**ing a*$ol*!"
