Work socials

Idiophreak

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

That says more about you than it says about people who don't want to 'socialise' outside of work. Perhaps they find you more boring than the above tasks? Just a thought.

You're probably right...I am quite boring, now I come to think of it.

Evilm wrote: »

I think I'd bite my own ears off rather than work with you all day and then be expected to go to a social event with you afterwards!

(slightly tongue in cheek but I find the attitude you show in the post annoying - People have no right to say what I should or shouldn't do with my free time.)

So if you don't want to go, don't go. I've no issue with that and I certainly don't want to dictate what anyone should do with their own time...I just take exception with people who say, on principle, "oh, I'm not going to a work social...I've got a life!" and then just sit on the sofa scratching their butt for the evening. People who have a life don't use the phrase "I have a life".

Anyway, I can't stand a good percentage of my work colleagues (and I'm sure the feeling's mutual, see above), but I still make the effort to turn up if people organise stuff, unless I'm *actually* doing something better with my time. There are enough people I get on with to always make sure I have a couple of laughs (and do some networking / !!! kissing along the way).

I do feel bad for people who work in jobs where that isn't the case, though. I used to work somewhere where I actually disliked all the other staff enough that I'd rather watch TV than go out with them - and my life was completely miserable as a consequence.

dancingfairy

Lol. Thanks for all the replies. I just thought it would be fun and I don't always get to spend time in friendly way with my colleagues - to catch up with what their doing, their family etc etc (as someone said above). Obviously it would just be for those that wanted to go - I know not everyone wants to spend their spare time with work colleagues and frankly if they didn't want to go them that's fair enough.
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PasturesNew

dancingfairy wrote: »

to catch up with what their doing, their family etc etc

And that's another annoyance.... I wouldn't want to go and sit and listen to a group of people whittering on about their !!!!!!!' family. Not everybody has one - and we're not interested in hearing about others'.

Savvy_Sue

I'd say keep it simple and cheap, invite everyone, go for something you don't have to pre-book, and don't worry if not many turn up.

Bear in mind that at least some of your colleagues are likely to have religious reasons for not doing certain things at certain times, and others will have family reasons, and so on.

I had one team member who NEVER ate at work, so they never came out to lunch with us. I can't cope with noisy environments, so if you go anywhere with loud music, I'll leave. Actually, bowling's a bit like that too.