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On March 19 2015 00:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks work/social gatherings are super awkward? My company just announced that they're having a semi-formal 20 yr anniversary party with a "talent show", DJ, dancing, etc. Like, I enjoy drinks and dancing when it comes to weddings and shit, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it in a large work setting...
Nah, that sounds super awk.
Nobody wants to do a talent show with coworkers.
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On March 19 2015 00:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks work/social gatherings are super awkward? My company just announced that they're having a semi-formal 20 yr anniversary party with a "talent show", DJ, dancing, etc. Like, I enjoy drinks and dancing when it comes to weddings and shit, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it in a large work setting...
Just leave after one or two hours. That should do the trick.
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On March 19 2015 00:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks work/social gatherings are super awkward? My company just announced that they're having a semi-formal 20 yr anniversary party with a "talent show", DJ, dancing, etc. Like, I enjoy drinks and dancing when it comes to weddings and shit, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it in a large work setting...
that depends and depends on the rules for guests.
If your group of say, 6-8 friends that go out and do stuff together, and half of them work with you, then they bring a guest which is the other half, and its just another thing your friends do together.
but if you are like only work-acquaintances with people, then it'll be awkward.
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On March 19 2015 00:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks work/social gatherings are super awkward? My company just announced that they're having a semi-formal 20 yr anniversary party with a "talent show", DJ, dancing, etc. Like, I enjoy drinks and dancing when it comes to weddings and shit, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it in a large work setting...
That sounds fine except for the talent show part. And also what PX said ^
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On March 19 2015 00:07 PrinceXizor wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks work/social gatherings are super awkward? My company just announced that they're having a semi-formal 20 yr anniversary party with a "talent show", DJ, dancing, etc. Like, I enjoy drinks and dancing when it comes to weddings and shit, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it in a large work setting... that depends and depends on the rules for guests. If your group of say, 6-8 friends that go out and do stuff together, and half of them work with you, then they bring a guest which is the other half, and its just another thing your friends do together. but if you are like only work-acquaintances with people, then it'll be awkward.
I'm friends with a pretty small amount of people here, and close friends with really only a couple. But it's a 200+ person office on the east coast, so yeah, lots of just generic work-acquaintances. Talking with my coworkers, we all kinda agree that it's super weird; and it's on Memorial Day weekend, so who knows what the turnout actually would be...
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Nothing is stopping you from going with some friends then taking the party elsewhere after you say hello to your boss/beat him in some drinking game or whatever weird side-game turns INTO a drinking game and spend an hour or so hanging out.
The bakery had something like that, and we took the party to a beach house after and spent the Saturday on the beach with beer and lemonade.
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Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them.
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On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them.
more or less
@PX - I feel it's a little different for a corporate office setting vs a small bakery setting.
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On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them.
The last thing I wanna do is letting coworkers know anything about me. Remember, working is like going to court, "Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law."
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i just burped and spit out something green and slimey
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It's kind of an unfortunate state of affairs but yeah... It's like when a coworker friends you on facebook. Uhh... now I'm in an awkward place.
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On March 19 2015 00:24 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them. more or less @PX - I feel it's a little different for a corporate office setting vs a small bakery setting.
I have friends working at ad agencies now and they end up drinking and hanging out with their co-workers a lot and really enjoy it. Really boils down to company culture. I'd hate working somewhere where I wasn't friendly with most people. Although that might just be a symptom of working in the food service industry for so many year.
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On March 19 2015 00:24 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them. more or less @PX - I feel it's a little different for a corporate office setting vs a small bakery setting.
Maybe it's just me, but everyone outside of my group of friends at a party or event just become background noise. I've found work events to be some of the craziest outside of college frat events. Been to a few office parties, they can be fun.
though i dunno what kind of office you work at. i imagine a company with a lot of sales/marketing staff is going to be a better party than a software dev company, in the typical sense of the word party.
We still doing the ole which one of us is which hearthstone card?
because coma is now 100%
On March 19 2015 00:31 ComaDose wrote:
i just burped and spit out something green and slimey
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like i figured all the food colouring would be out of there by now i didnt even know it was possible.
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On March 19 2015 00:37 ComaDose wrote:
like i figured all the food colouring would be out of there by now i didnt even know it was possible.
naaah that stuff sticks to your insides like glue. food coloring is disgusting. trust me i worked in a bakery.
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My drinking activities will pick up tonight.
Wednesday really is the best day to get hammered.
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On March 19 2015 00:38 yamato77 wrote:
My drinking activities will pick up tonight.
Wednesday really is the best day to get hammered.
The thursday slump is the best day to go drinking. You come to work friday and no one cares because they want it to be the weekend, then you go out drinking after work and suddenly its saturday afternoon and you are laying on the beach. with some lemonade with muddled fresh mint.
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On March 19 2015 00:32 onlywonderboy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:24 jcarlsoniv wrote:On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them. more or less @PX - I feel it's a little different for a corporate office setting vs a small bakery setting. I have friends working at ad agencies now and they end up drinking and hanging out with their co-workers a lot and really enjoy it. Really boils down to company culture. I'd hate working somewhere where I wasn't friendly with most people. Although that might just be a symptom of working in the food service industry for so many year.
I think it more boils down to the types of people your friends are. There are certainly people here who are super social and love going out and making friends with coworkers, and I'm sure those people will have fun at this event. My company has a really good, friendly culture, but it's full of tech nerds of varying ages and backgrounds. Ad agencies tend to be very oriented towards younger culture because you need to be quick and adaptable to marketing.
On March 19 2015 00:32 PrinceXizor wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:24 jcarlsoniv wrote:On March 19 2015 00:23 yamato77 wrote:
Social gatherings with coworkers are extremely awkward.
I don't want the people I work with to know much about me, and I certainly don't care much to know about them. more or less @PX - I feel it's a little different for a corporate office setting vs a small bakery setting. Maybe it's just me, but everyone outside of my group of friends at a party or event just become background noise. I've found work events to be some of the craziest outside of college frat events. Been to a few office parties, they can be fun. though i dunno what kind of office you work at. i imagine a company with a lot of sales/marketing staff is going to be a better party than a software dev company, in the typical sense of the word party.
As I've said here before, I'm not huge on massive, blow out parties and dancing and shit. But, if I were to partake in such activities, it would not be with people I have to work with and see on a professional basis regularly.
And yeah, we don't have any sales/marketing staff. We're strictly in the farm credit software business, and have a core and static set of customers.
On March 19 2015 00:40 PrinceXizor wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2015 00:38 yamato77 wrote:
My drinking activities will pick up tonight.
Wednesday really is the best day to get hammered. The thursday slump is the best day to go drinking. You come to work friday and no one cares because they want it to be the weekend, then you go out drinking after work and suddenly its saturday afternoon and you are laying on the beach. with some lemonade with muddled fresh mint.
Sometimes I feel like you don't live in the real world. But I guess you have to get some compensation for living in Florida.
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I worked in a hotel with roughly 400 employees and we had a semi formal dinner every year. Everybody I worked with enjoyed them. Maybe its because my work relations all where work semi friends/friends so I could joke around with 2/3 of the cooks and waiters. Even if the age range was 20-50.
We rarely have time to talk normally so it was nice to get to know people better while eating and drinking in a non bar/club scenario. Then after you get completely wasted in club or bar after.
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On March 19 2015 00:40 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Sometimes I feel like you don't live in the real world. But I guess you have to get some compensation for living in Florida.
Yeah i understand. I was upset last week when i was going to the grocery store that it was too hot to wear my hoodie or long sleeves because i had been wearing an elbow brace and it left marks on my arm T_T.
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