Work social functions

[Titty Meat]

So my job is already planning their holiday party and the boss has came out and said any activity that involves drinking will require all employees to Uber. Which got me thinking of the one time an old job took a party bus to a Chiefs game and one of my co workers got so ****ing hammered she ended up being REAL flirty with all of the male employees and ended up puking her brains out and passing out on the ride back from the game.

People forget while these things are intended to be fun you're still at work by extension. What's your funny story about a social work function?

[DrunkBassGuitar]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

So my job is already planning their holiday party and the boss has came out and said any activity that involves drinking will require all employees to Uber. Which got me thinking of the one time an old job took a party bus to a Chiefs game and one of my co workers got so ****ing hammered she ended up being REAL flirty with all of the male employees and ended up puking her brains out and passing out on the ride back from the game.

People forget while these things are intended to be fun you're still at work by extension. What's your funny story about a social work function?

your coworker is cool and your boss is a buzzkill

[RockChalk]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

And yet they kept having them. Was it some sort of weeding-out process? Or did they just take sick pleasure in seeing who was going to implode each year?

I think it was a bit of both, to be honest. I'm pretty sure they've cooled down quite a bit in recent years, but from about 2003-2012 they had a pretty solid stretch of batshit crazy holiday parties.

[Eureka]

One year I just happened to finally bone the receptionist the night before the Christmas party.

During the Christmas Party the next night I walked up to her table and asked the woman sitting next to her to dance. I don't think the receptionist liked that. I ended up dating that other woman I danced with for 5 years.

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by notorious

Getting laid chances skyrocket at those functions.

I worked in a bank while at college. 80% young women. Do the math.

You had a 4-way??

[Pinchshot]

Those of us 60+ had great parties with no regrets.

It's such a different culture these days. Everyone is afraid to say how they really feel. Most of us WFH now so there's less pressure. Putting us together for a function is harder than going to work.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Pinchshot

Those of us 60+ had great parties with no regrets.

It's such a different culture these days. Everyone is afraid to say how they really feel. Most of us WFH now so there's less pressure. Putting us together for a function is harder than going to work.

It’s a very Boomer opinion to think a company function is the appropriate time and place to “say how you really feel”.

[Pinchshot]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

It’s a very Boomer opinion to think a company function is the appropriate time and place to “say how you really feel”.

You sound like someone I would avoid at the party. Us boomers have just had a better, more interesting life. It would really suck to be a young person today.

[AdolfOliverBush]

Originally Posted by Pinchshot

You sound like someone I would avoid at the party. Us boomers have just had a better, more interesting life. It would really suck to be a young person today.

"More interesting" is debatable, but better for sure. Not just better than younger people, but also better than older people. Better than any other generation in American history, generally speaking, and not because it was deserved.

[Megatron96]

In Japan, it is understood by employers that intoxicated employees are going to happen at those type of social functions, and they give a lot of leeway in terms of their behavior in those situations. Basically, an employee can say just about anything about their employers/peers/etc. while drunk at a work social function and it's forgiven.

But in the US these days, it's become kind of fashionable to exploit any faux pas by anyone, regardless of where they are or what the situation might be. Doesn't even have to be a work-related function anymore. Get drunk and post something on FB negative about your boss/something remotely politically incorrect; "YOU'RE FIRED!!!"


This new world is so soft and over-sensitive it's fatiguing just to read about it.

[Katipan]

How about we stop using alcohol as a crutch to say whatever we want?

[AdolfOliverBush]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

In Japan, it is understood by employers that intoxicated employees are going to happen at those type of social functions, and they give a lot of leeway in terms of their behavior in those situations. Basically, an employee can say just about anything about their employers/peers/etc. while drunk at a work social function and it's forgiven.

But in the US these days, it's become kind of fashionable to exploit any faux pas by anyone, regardless of where they are or what the situation might be. Doesn't even have to be a work-related function anymore. Get drunk and post something on FB negative about your boss/something remotely politically incorrect; "YOU'RE FIRED!!!"


This new world is so soft and over-sensitive it's fatiguing just to read about it.

These days? In the USA it's always been a bad idea to talk shit to your boss, or on the company that employs you. It isn't because society is "soft", it's common sense and something most people learn before they even enter the workforce.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by notorious

Getting laid chances skyrocket at those functions.

I worked in a bank while at college. 80% young women. Do the math.

I just ran the numbers, and that means that 60 percent of the women had bicurious hookups. That's amazing.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I just ran the numbers, and that means that 60 percent of the women had bicurious hookups. That's amazing.

Women are tramps

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I just ran the numbers, and that means that 60 percent of the women had bicurious hookups. That's amazing.

Its really sweet that you find that amazing.
Unless you mean like amazingly good job.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush

"More interesting" is debatable, but better for sure. Not just better than younger people, but also better than older people. Better than any other generation in American history, generally speaking, and not because it was deserved.

My wife mentioned an article to me (Wall Street Journal or New York Times) that set forth the proposition that the best time to be born in modern American history was during World War II. Those people came of age in the post-war boom while wages were high and prices were low and employers were offering pensions. They also enjoyed a couple of decades of work before wage stagnation hit in the 1980s.

I want to do my own research on this, but I found it interesting.