Work Happy Hours
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?
Popularity: 43% [?]
Daylight savings time. In addition to causing 3% of people to be late for work yesterday (I just made that up) it also gives us “Spring Fever.” Spring Fever is a medical condition; a shock to the system resulting from the one-two punch of marginally warmer temperatures and a precipitous increase in late-day sunlight levels. For some people, this causes a marked increase pathological dating. Let the record show that I am OK with this. Another common symptom is an almost irrepressible urge to leave work and head directly to the closest outdoor happy hour. It’s not a good idea, but goddamn it, you’ve had a hard day doing… whatever it is… you do here. Pull up a chair and take a long, slow pull of the strong waters. You’ve earned it (no you haven’t).