It seems a lot of people absolutely despise the idea of spending any of their free time with their coworkers, even something as measly as a lunch break that you're basically stuck at work for anyways. I could understand it if your coworkers were particularly nasty to you or something like that, but it seems that a lot of people have fine relationships with their coworkers and still would rather sit in a car alone to eat lunch rather than having a conversation at a table or go home after work and watch TV rather than get a beer or coffee.
I can understand people want to hide or whatever, but why is that such a widespread phenomenon now? It wasn't always like that as I understand. From a lot of what I've read and heard, fairly intimate relationships between coworkers were much more common. It seems like if we're talking about the general breakdown of society or the decay of the labor movement, this is an obvious symptom that doesn't seem to have anyone's attention. So what gives?
Well my coworkers are all reactionaries, and that's just the subtle ambient casual stuff I pick up on. Like ambient transphobia, complaints about immigrants, random weird statements like Biden is gonna outlaw the pledge of allegiance. One of them is deeply into Q and keeps getting reprimanded for bringing a gun into a workplace that handles explosives.
I've hung out with these people on a very limited basis, mostly stuff that had a very clear direction and was in public. Like we've had an informal company softball game, and I've been invited out to eat a few times. I would never, ever hang out with these people in private at their house or something. Or anything where alcohol is involved. Ever. I know exactly what would happen. Slurs would come out. They'd get drunk. They'd start spewing vile fascist shit because they're white people from the south who live in suburbs and I know what they're like. They think I'm one of them because I'm white and I say Biden's an idiot who should get killed. I'll tell them openly I'm a communist if they ask, because I don't lie about that or hide it, but it's never come up directly.