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rubber_chicken
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Woe is me, the anti-social coworker
rubber_chicken
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Tonight is my company's big holiday party. It's freaking HUGE. Everyone is invited - our subsidiaries, everyone's spouses. They takeover a huge hotel and have open bar and a photobooth and dj blahblahblah.
This is the second year in a row I'm not going, because quite frankly, I hate these things. So why should I get dressed up and find a babysitter and drag myself and my husband into the city to awkwardly stand around with people I see every.single.day.
Well, the Sr VP that heads up my division just walked up and down all our cube rows to ask us all if we're going. I have not seen this woman since August, we don't interact with her on even a monthly basis - my manager's boss reports to her - and she was all snide when I said, "no, I am unable to attend tonight." Like it freaking matters if her division is all there - no one's taking attendance. There will be 2000 people there, no one will notice at all!
So now I feel like an anti-social dunce, like I should leave the baby with DH, get dressed, drive an hour in the city, have my one drink and then drive an hour home.
GROAN.
This is the second year in a row I'm not going, because quite frankly, I hate these things. So why should I get dressed up and find a babysitter and drag myself and my husband into the city to awkwardly stand around with people I see every.single.day.
Well, the Sr VP that heads up my division just walked up and down all our cube rows to ask us all if we're going. I have not seen this woman since August, we don't interact with her on even a monthly basis - my manager's boss reports to her - and she was all snide when I said, "no, I am unable to attend tonight." Like it freaking matters if her division is all there - no one's taking attendance. There will be 2000 people there, no one will notice at all!
So now I feel like an anti-social dunce, like I should leave the baby with DH, get dressed, drive an hour in the city, have my one drink and then drive an hour home.
GROAN.
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Re: Woe is me, the anti-social coworker
Honestly, I'm amazed they still do this. I don't know a single other company that does anything outside of the office. Seriously, they spend THOUSANDS on this - I'd rather they cancelled teh party and cut me a check :P
THIS!! haha. I wouldnt feel bad about not going. guarantee it when she is there tonight she wont be looking for you and wont even remember you said you werent going (no offense!)
Before I became a teacher I worked for a large company. I went to three or four large parties like this. I don't mind huge events but there's usually somewhere else I'd rather be.
Don't beat yourself up over this. Don't go. You'll be more productive at work tomorrow than many of your party-going colleagues :-)
And you're right, next year I'll just lie ;P
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I get annoyed by these gatherings outside of work hours. If you want me there, then pay me. If you're not paying me, then I'm going to decide how to use my free time and depending on how I feel, I may or may not go. Maybe if I made tons more in my paycheck I would feel more generous about this and go to more functions.