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re: Work social functions
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:23 pm to burger bearcat
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:23 pm to burger bearcat
Times have sure changed. When I first went in the Navy and at NAS Jax, my Chief took me to the base club for lunch. We had 2 pitchers of beer and watched fully naked strippers dancing. He got so shitfaced I had to take him home.
Get back to work late in his truck and Master Chief asks me why I’m late returning with that “stern face” look. I explained and his response was “next time you go to the club for lunch make sure you check with me of I wanna go. Oh, and great job taking Chief home”.
I also told him I needed to get his truck back to his house after work and he had another chief follow and pick me up. Good ole days.
Get back to work late in his truck and Master Chief asks me why I’m late returning with that “stern face” look. I explained and his response was “next time you go to the club for lunch make sure you check with me of I wanna go. Oh, and great job taking Chief home”.
I also told him I needed to get his truck back to his house after work and he had another chief follow and pick me up. Good ole days.
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Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:27 pm to OU Guy
Oh, and they also had midget tossing on weekends. Velco on wall and midget. Damn, that was some of the funniest shite I’ve ever witnessed. Those midgets made a lot of money too, going from bar to bar.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:32 pm to burger bearcat
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I’m not sure if this is a millennial thing or what. But there seem to be an increased trend Ive noticed where younger people, especially the women, come up with all sorts of ways to organize these “fun social days” where people leave work and go do some activity like a bunch of children on a field trip. Can’t people just put in their time, get their work done and go home?
I'm sure all the dorks from my work who I dominated at bowling in front of our cute Afro-Carribean intern agree with you.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:33 pm to burger bearcat
I have 0 interest in bonding with coworkers. My boss wants us all to fly to DC in September to meet as a team, and I'm hoping he forgets about it.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:37 pm to burger bearcat
Stop acting like you have anything better going on
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:39 pm to Epic Cajun
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I doubt anyone is forcing them to do this.
Our offices do these quite often, they’re having one now actually.
Staff goes, management doesn’t or dips out early. Easy and typically pretty cheap way to keep morale high. Talent is scarce and expensive, if having a $350 bar tab every 6 weeks or so keeps them from quitting, good deal
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:41 pm to OU Guy
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Times have sure changed. When I first went in the Navy and at NAS Jax, my Chief took me to the base club for lunch. We had 2 pitchers of beer and watched fully naked strippers dancing. He got so shitfaced I had to take him home.
Get back to work late in his truck and Master Chief asks me why I’m late returning with that “stern face” look. I explained and his response was “next time you go to the club for lunch make sure you check with me of I wanna go. Oh, and great job taking Chief home”.
The shite some of yall will make up is fascinating
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:42 pm to burger bearcat
I agree with that.
I don’t want to spend my free time outside of work with work people
If it’s during work, ok sure.
Not after hours
I don’t want to spend my free time outside of work with work people
If it’s during work, ok sure.
Not after hours
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:45 pm to Fat and Happy
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I agree with that. I don’t want to spend my free time outside of work with work people If it’s during work, ok sure. Not after hours
But if it’s optional and you don’t have to go, why would anyone care if other people enjoy it?
As I said, it’s not my thing, I’ve never made “friends” at work that I wasn’t friends with before I worked with them, but if other people want to have social relationships with their co-workers I don’t care.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:52 pm to burger bearcat
Last time I went on a work field trip the venue called us afterwards to find out which jackass was throwing pubic hair in the urinals. 
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:55 pm to Power-Dome
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Not in 2025. If you have a cell phone your work goes with you
Speak for yourself boot boy
Posted on 8/1/25 at 1:58 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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if having a $350 bar tab every 6 weeks or so keeps them from quitting, good deal
Or maybe you could put money in their pockets to keep them from quitting. I know it's a crazy idea
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:04 pm to WigSplitta22
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Or maybe you could put money in their pockets to keep them from quitting. I know it's a crazy idea
A lot of that is out of our control. Overall budgets are set more enterprise wide. These come straight out of our operating budgets, ie out of the partners pockets
I can’t just give someone a raise or bigger bonus, that has to go up the chain. I can expense a bar tab though.
So the two options are do nothing and they still get paid what they get paid, or do these events (that they want us to do) and they’ll get paid what they get paid.
People leave firms for relatively the same amount of money of morale reasons all the time
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:09 pm to tigerfoot
During work hours is odd but whatever.
First job after undergrad we had a cool mixed crew of young single people and had some epic outings after hours. Superior, Caterie, etc., sometimes pretty sloppy drunk and lots of fun. Only lasted a few years before people started aging out or moving on but was great.
First job after undergrad we had a cool mixed crew of young single people and had some epic outings after hours. Superior, Caterie, etc., sometimes pretty sloppy drunk and lots of fun. Only lasted a few years before people started aging out or moving on but was great.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:10 pm to burger bearcat
its a young woman thing. They click up and want to do all sorts of work events at work and outside of work these days.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:10 pm to burger bearcat
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There is a company I used to work for that is always doing these type of outings with their employees during normal work hours.
You're complaining about getting paid to socialize instead of actually work?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:12 pm to burger bearcat
Seems pretty normal. We used to do all kinds of stuff like that in the Navy, spend some MWR money and get hammered.
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:12 pm to LNCHBOX
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You're complaining about getting paid to socialize instead of actually work?
Hourly hands don’t do these kinds of things, they don’t understand
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:17 pm to burger bearcat
My employer is one of those types that just has to involve everyone in his multi-day social events. Seems that at least once (and sometimes twice) every year, he gets a bug up his arse to make the whole office crew fly out to Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho for hiking and fly fishing. Of course it involves helping children insofar as his son is usually with us and might need some help netting a trout or whitefish.
So far, no one has complained about this.
So far, no one has complained about this.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 2:32 pm to burger bearcat
Office extroverts have no idea how much office introverts want to run them down with a car for dreaming that shite up.
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