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God I hate "team-building" shit like office Christmas parties--I work with a bunch of Gen Xers whose personality is mostly golfing and family stuff. Meanwhile my personality is mostly dick sucking and socialist media consumption. I literally do not know how to talk to my coworkers about anything other than work.
:100-com: I alienated the only left-leaning peer I had with the communist memes & dick sucking talk lmao.
“oops, I’m having router problems, I’ll be on again when I figure it out”
go get high and watch LOTR
Online Christmas parties will only be acceptable if there is a separate bathroom-themed chat room that people can switch to to do cocaine in.
I'm using the 'oh sorry I didn't see the email' strategy this year.
Company Christmas parties are the absolute worst, especially when nearly everyone in your office is above the age of 40
Actually there are quite a few young people over here, but most of them exude the libbest/bougiest energy of all.
in-person party with booze > online party > in-person party with no booze
It can get worse, is what I'm saying.
My company hasn't announced anything yet so I just hope they ain't gonna bother.
Lmao yes I plan on napping during the Christmas zoom call on Friday
Well apparently everyone got a bottle of wine, but it's sitting in the office and theres no chance in hell I'm going there just to get it.
Thet're shittier but mine is like, an hour, instead an actual event I have to drive to and be at for a few hours.
You got me there. But the cringe definitely gets concentrated into a thicc poison liquid.
My partner's company is doing an online holiday party.
They even hired a catering company to deliver meals to everyone
It's quite possibly the single most deranged thing I can imagine, but I am getting a plate of ribs out of the deal so just call me Johnny Deranged
Corporate culture is already forced upon the employees. You can never have an online party, just like you can't build a "family" in a fucking corporation. Like that's the usual psychopathy you find everywhere now, the worst being that it is the norm now.
I unapologetically skipped every single work party, happy hour, whatever. I don't owe those people a second of my time that I'm not being paid for.
That's a chad move from you, but doesn't your boss/manager notice that ? I know corporate culture sucks so badly precisely because they want to create some "artificial family", not matter how creepy/corrupted it is by capitalism. Substracting oneself from that is always hard, so I'm curious to know how to manage to do it.
Alas, poor Jorick!
My office is not much of a faux-family hellhole, luckily, and most of my colleagues are way older than me and have families of their own. But even still, I'm always very private about my personal life around my coworkers. I laid the groundwork for this well before the pandemic, which obviously helped. But if I got invited to stuff I'd either say, "maybe, I haven't decided yet, I'll have to see how I'm feeling," (like if it was far in the future) or just very plainly, "I'm sorry, I can't today/tomorrow." No one has ever asked me "why not?", but if you just say something vague like "I have other plans" then most people will take the hint. I try to ask my manager how the event went afterwards, just to show polite interest and not let it become a weird awkward thing we don't talk about.
It probably helps that, when it comes to work stuff, I am wide open and make myself available and useful to my teammates and my coworkers in general. So I perform well and am open to engagement while at work, but that's it. None of my managers have never made a big deal of it.
I've never worked a job that had a company christmas party. Though I've been to union ones and they're a lot of fun. What are company ones like? My only experience with them is through media like The Office.
Well it depends on the company and the people organizing it. There's usually some official part where the boss or whoever talks about how much money the company made and other statistics using powerpoint, trying to make it fun / festive at the same time. They praise everyone for their hard work etc. Then they try to lighten the mood by embarrassing themselves a little. Putting on a silly costume or singing or something equally weird. Usually dinner and maybe some drinks are paid for. There might be some sort of group activity to entertain everyone. If you like your coworkers you go to a bar afterwards (or whatever you wanna do lol). Its possible to have a good time if you have friends in your coworkers, and some companys do more than others of course. But imo it always feels a bit.. forced. And all the parts that could be fun don't really exist when its done online so yea. I mostly watched old people do weird jokes and other old people not understanding said jokes.
