Work dos... how do you cope?

[becki1701]

I miss going for drinks after work. Where I used to work, unless something special was happening, we stopped work at four on a Friday and went to the pub. Where I am now, we don't. I tried to get people to come along for a pint after work a few times when I first started, but it fizzled out. A lot of people live a fair distance away and some have to drive home, and there are fewer of us, rarely all in the office together, and my immediate boss seemed surprised the first time I invited him for a pint. It's a shame, because a pint is a nice way to round off the working week and relax a bit.

I love going out for after-work drinks, it's the only time I get to see half my colleagues, and being in academic circles, after a few pints the conversation and debate can become quite funny, 'I think the kidney is the best!', 'No no, it's obviously the heart', 'Kidney!!', 'HEART!!', 'kidney kidney KIDNEY!!!!!'

 

[Strumpet]

Mine (where I work at mo) are not too bad. Small company and most of the ppl I work with are lovely and fun.

 

[astral]

Stay as sober as posible and try not to heckle during drag acts.

 

[equationgirl]

I've instigated drinks on a friday for the junior staff ebcause we're under a lot of pressure at the moment due to crap management, and it's helping us all unwind after yet another crap week at work.

We have board meetings every three months or so, and there's drinks with the board members, who to a man, simply don't know how to talk to a woman in a technical role. The last time I went, one of them told me I should drink more (I can't for medical reasons), told me all about his wife's champion flower arranging skills and his prostate cancer.

The night was only brightened by one of my colleagues putting on the pink tiara we'd bought him for his birthday and walking out whilst the board members spluttered into their drinks

 

[Looby]

I used to do work drinks regularly. In my first full time job the directors used to pay for drinks every friday at the same bar. It was either lager or cheap house wine and if the directors were in a really good mood or we'd had a good month we'd get shots too.

There was very few saturday mornings in the 18 months I worked there that I didn't wake up with a rotten hangover.
The christmas parties were , at last count the company were banned from one restaurant and 2 hotels. The bosses were all big drinkers and promotions and pay rises all depended on how you socialised and whether you fitted in so it was kind of expected that you turned up and joined in. If you went home early or stuck to soft drinks they thought you were a freak.

I never socialise with colleagues now and working in the civil service we don't get parties so the most we do is organise a lunch at christmas and for leaving do's.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I've instigated drinks on a friday for the junior staff ebcause we're under a lot of pressure at the moment due to crap management, and it's helping us all unwind after yet another crap week at work.

I'd say keep on with this - the danger sign IME is when the friday drinks _stop_.

 

[equationgirl]

noted, Fridge magnet