A recent study conducted on CareerBuilder found that 1 in 5 workers regularly attend after-work drinks with c0-workers. What do they do there? Most commonly, they bad-mouth each other, kiss each other and drink too much. Big surprise anyone?
Unfortunately for you Type A’s, 85% of those attending said that the happy hours did not help them get closer to a higher up position. The survey did not question those who slept with their boss.
The truth is most of you go to work happy hours because you are lonely and want to bond with coworkers. My guess is this is not common practice in Charlottesville because most companies are so small.
Do you regularly attend work happy hours?
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From the company’s perspective, I once heard the number 1 predictive factor as to whether or not an employee would stay at their job was if they had friends at work, even more so than satisfaction with their compensation or workload (or their opinions about their boss). So it makes sense for businesses to encourgae extracuricular activities and have employees get to know each other.
I especially like when they pick up the tab.
I work with idiots AND they all hate me
the firm pays. as you all know, i like free food & drink. but goddammit, i need to not drink ever again.
/about to throw up.
I go to “work happy hours” all the time, but only with people I don’t work with..
I drink like it’s my job, so technically any happy hour I go to is a work happy hour. Last night’s meeting was very productive.
I’m really wary of those sorts of extracurricular activities… I don’t think it behooves me professionally to be “buddies” with my coworkers– I’m awkward enough as it is, and add alcohol and you get the potential for saying really embarrassing/ position-damaging things…
plus, my god, don’t we have to see these people -enough-??
i often go to work happy hours, as i like the people i work directly with and we have a good time. i have had jobs where i went to the work happy hours just for the free food/booze and didn’t talk to my co-workers much.
@6: I feel ya. I went to an after work thing one time and sat there awkwardly while everyone smoked too much and talked about stuff that wasn’t interesting to me. I’d rather go drink with my friends- people I choose to be around, not get paid to be around.
8– yeah, I’m definitely with you there. And it’s not like the folks I work with aren’t fantastic people— they are— but it’s just too much.
Chartreuse: where do you get your friends?
Most people who move to Charlottesville as post-college adults make their friends at work.
@10: I met my friends on the internet.
I met the internet once, she was all snarky and unpredictable. We got along fine until she started running my life. Now we have shared visitation.
I like to base my decisions on scientific fact and have come to realize that the internet has all the facts and therefore decides for me.
Does it choose friends too? Scary
i met my friends at the pub crawl.
i don’t have any friends.
i lost all my friends because of the internet.
sometimes i can’t sleep at night because i’m afraid the internet is hiding under my bed.
I am parlie, I am.
Dear The Internet,
Since you are under his bed every night, can you tell us if Parlie is getting any action, or is the floor strewn with crunchy Kleenex encrusted with dessicated half-babies ?
Just wondered.
tee hee
I can vouch for the presence of Goodyear trout just downstream of Parliment’s abode. Now if they were flushed for fun or disposal is beyond me.
if it’s true that you’re not cool until hundreds of random, anonymous people have an unhealthy and purely speculative interest in your sex life
then i haven’t been cool until today.
You know the way that bully kid from the Simpsons laughs? I’m doing that right now.
Ha-ha!
Yep, that’s it. I’m pointing at the computer too.
every single one of you is fired.
26: parlie, don’t you appreciate our team effort? You should take me and shenanners out for happy hour tonight.
Werd.
here’s something i learned at my work happy hour last week: if your boss has never heard of jimmy buffett, & you’re trying to describe him, don’t list “why don’t we get drunk and screw?” as one of his songs. stick with margaritaville & cheeseburger in paradise.
pfffft haha!!
Speaking of happy hours, are there any plans for this lovely Tuesday evening?
Im not sure what I will be doing, but it will not involve drinking an entire bottle of jose by myself and then pondering my life in the dark.
It seems to end poorly.
@32: you should come to jimmy buffett with me & echo over labor day weekend. it’s a great excuse to drink an entire bottle of tequila, but you’re with other people who are dressed funny so it almost always ends well.
/just realized i posted about jimmy buffett @29 also. apparently i miss the sun.
//or tequila.
@33: You miss tequila? It only took you 2 months to recover from last time.
I’m THIS CLOSE to offering people free tequila not to go see Jimmy Buffett. That old codger should not be further encouraged.
@34 i still haven’t had any.
@35 have you been to a buffett show? then stfu.
Huey Lewis could kick Jimmy Buffett’s ass.
I’m not gonna lie to you, Buffett shows are prooty damn fun. I haven’t been in about 8 years, but they’re a blast. You just gotta roll with it, baby.
And yes, I bet Huey could put a serious hurt on Jimmy.
I’m entirely and unequivocally prepared to offer Spain return of the entire state of Florida (an idea proposed by
a friend of mine a few years back). An often overlooked benefit is that Jimmy Buffett might be offed by the ETA.
/seriously; dude’s like right above Toby Keith on my list of personal douchebaggery
@39: Show us on the doll where Jimmy Buffett touched you
Show us on the
dollcheeseburger where Jimmy Buffett touched youFixed that for you, shen.
/it was right here; on the bun
I once had the unfortunate experience of being paid to watch a Jimmy Buffett cover band. my eyes were blinded by the nillas, my ears were angry at me and my heart broke into a million tiny islands. I was the embodiment of white guilt.
@39 me too, & i’m from florida. jimmy, of course, is from alabama.
43: Extraordinary rendition is a marvelous tool. We can have him in Key West by three o’clock. As soon as Zapatero inks the paperwork. Done and done. Then we get to pick a new fiftieth state.
Also: Al Abama? Sounds suspicious. We better arrest everyone there.
44: canada
46: I initially typed out Canada. Mindmeld, dude.
fist bump.
Leave Québec out though. They are such douchebags.
montreal is one of the best places in north america.
/have not traveled extensively in North America, but still. they rule.
I used to live in Montreal. mc couldn’t be more correct.
@50: Oh really? Did you speak English while you were there? Because a Québecois yelled at me the other day for daring to send her a general email in English. “EVERYBODY KNOWS WE DON”T SPEAK ENGLISH HERE” she informed me. In french of course.
No, I lived in West Island with the rest of the English speaking population. All the French people were in East Island. Although when you go downtown, everyone speaks French, but they all know English.
For practical purposes, I only speak merikan. I think in Quebec City or in the country they are more uppity, but in montreal, everyone is bilingual and awesome.
i’ve been to montreal twice, both times in january (& thus i am never going again) & i can swear to you, i did not speak any french while i was there.
@55: You must have been sober then.
Work happy hour is a misnomer.
My job sucks balls. I drink to cope with all the money they pay me. At least my pseudo-boss is cool and will do tequila shots with me.