[Drinking] Man wins right to be boring at work after he was fired for not going out for drinks

[Jesus Gul]

The court decided Mr T had the right to dignity and respect of private life, and he was simply expressing his freedom of expression by deciding to not take part in the company’s late-night antics.

Mr T said 'I ain't going to no pub, fool'

 

[GT49er]

I miss office 'do's' - and sometimes drinkies after work on a Friday. Being retired, none of these happen with me any more. For the last 15 years of my working lfe I worked in an all-woman (except me) office. We went out for Christmas lunch every year, but it was a very staid and respectable affair.
Some of the office 'do's' from the 70s, 80s and 90s though - yes, I do rather miss them!

 

[Questions]

I only work with people I like. Trades I sometimes introduce to my customers because we all get on, have fun and just about get the job done between us. No boss.

 

[jakarta]

Dreadful things, so glad I am self employed and don't have to do them any more. As an aside, how the f*** do some people get home afterwards? I been on late trains back from London and have seen blokes who have either puked up on themselves or pissed themselves. Not my Idea of a good night out...

 

[Sirnormangall]

This surely belongs in the long-standing Bell Cheeses at work thread?

 

[Arthur]

I think office/works dos are brilliant. An absolute guarantee that someone will disgrace themselves in spectacular fashion. One particular outstanding example of this was one young chap, who had recently joined, was completely pissed and decided to have a pop at the sales director. He staggered over to the director and loudly announced “Mr. ————, you’re a f***ing c*** and I f***ing hate you!” And on that note our young man collapsed to the floor dead to the world. Marvellous!!

P.S. The junior employee was never seen again.

Funny when shit like that happens but I've experienced people doing grim and one incredibly grim action after works Christmas do.

Firstly the not as grim one. A newly started (maybe a month or two into the role) senior (director level) member off staff had his jacket lost by the cloakroom staff to which he let out a tirade of racist abuse towards the cloakroom attendant. He was never seen again.

The really f***ing grim one was this guy:

Jail for Ealing man who pulled woman to ground in sexual assault

Rafiul Akbar approached the victim in Hanger Lane last year and pulled her to the ground before sexually assaulting her

www.mylondon.news

He was such a quiet unassuming asian guy with a wife and kids. He didn't normally drink. I guess we now know why. Worst thing about it was he was obviously on remand for nearly a year so carried on working and nobody knew anything. Then one day he didn't show up. His wife rang to say he wouldn't be coming back but no reason as to why. Then it hit the press.

 

[SK1NT]

Since Covid i now never have to go to the office. I started a new job July 2021 and i have never met anyone face to face. This is a dream for me. No pointless London commute. I have enough friends that i already find hard to make time for. I don't want to waste time with idle chit chat with some work people i never see or hardly chat to.

I had a lovely job between 2010-2018 of which we all meet up every year which is really nice however i do not see anyone from my jobs previous to that one or after.

As for xmas does. My first one was at the Grand Brighton in 1999. I took my gf along. The night was great but as we were leaving my gf was beaten up by another girl at the company. My gf, well ex was full of herself and probably deserved it but i didn't see her get the beating but she still went mental at me for not protecting her. We broke up a few months later. Since then i never went to a work do again. To much grief and i don't want to be part of the office gossip. It was this same company that i went to one other work do and the managers gf pulled me infront of the office. I was young, naive and very drunk. I didn't have a clue what was going on. No surprise i was sacked for something i never did soon after.

Actually i did infact go to one more xmas do since. I was driving to my old mans and had to pass my companies xmas party venue. I turned up in tracksuit bottoms and a hoody just in time for the dinner. I ate and then left straight after.

I have done all the work socialising in my life... its for people in their 20s maybe 30s.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

I've done about 10 Xmas office dos in the States and they were certainly a bit different to ones I'd done in the UK. Most American employees tended to leave quite early on (sensible folk) so the Brits were left holding the fort. As the MD was a complete wanker it was a question of keeping out of range as much as possible. Nobody wanted to be the first to scarper but when someone did it was a mass exodus and then meeting up with some friends in a local bar. As some other posters have said once you get past your 30s these affairs have about as much appeal as a root canal

 

[BLOCK F]

Long retired, but like most other bods I worked with some people I liked and others that were complete and utter tossers, with some in between.
Used to enjoy a meal and drink or ten with my own team and a few others we liked and invited to our little get togethers, but some other larger do’s were often a complete pain in the arse and to be avoided if at all possible…..full of brown nosers and other similar pointless prats.

 

[Arthur]

Since Covid i now never have to go to the office. I started a new job July 2021 and i have never met anyone face to face. This is a dream for me. No pointless London commute. I have enough friends that i already find hard to make time for. I don't want to waste time with idle chit chat with some work people i never see or hardly chat to.

I'm in a very similar situation. I've just had my second anniversary at my current role. When I joined it was fully remote then they got an office at one of those We Work places and it was optional to go in. Nobody did. So they got a smaller one but still no one went in. I think I went to the bigger office 3 or 4 times in 6 months and the smaller one once and that was only because I was meeting a pal for lunch. The times I did go out for drinks with people all we did was spend the evening talking about work because that is pretty much all we had in common.

Start of the year the CEO came over from the states and he did his monthly meeting from the London office and put on drinks afterwards. The meeting was on the web for those who couldn't attend. My colleague asked if I was going and I said no I'll watch it on the web. He asked why it was free booze afterwards. My response was I'd rather pay for it and go out drinking with my pals.

I have done all the work socialising in my life... its for people in their 20s maybe 30s.

Quite agree. But when it is good it's good. I had a very social heavy role in the late 2000s and I'm still very good friends with a lot of those people to this day.

 

[FatSuperman]

The work do, is always a silent dread for me.

I'm a natural introvert and the idea of it always causes me varying levels of anxiety.
As I have got older, they always tend to be far more pleasant than I expect, but I would still rather spend the time with my family instead.

December 15th is our one. Where I have been told it is karaoke and my team are versus another department. I am absolutely terrible at singing, so along with my general disinterest in going our with several hundred colleagues, getting up on stage and performing a karaoke battle in front of them is among the worst things I could think of.

I'm desperate for the train strikes to get extended.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

December 15th is our one. Where I have been told it is karaoke and my team are versus another department. I am absolutely terrible at singing, so along with my general disinterest in going our with several hundred colleagues, getting up on stage and performing a karaoke battle in front of them is among the worst things I could think of.

I'm desperate for the train strikes to get extended.

Yep that's up there as possibly the most horrendous "do" I could think of.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Almost as bad as the "mandatory" / emotional blackmail collection. Fine in a small office but I worked in a building with over 600 people so it was someone's birthday, wedding, anniversary of their first day in the office, etc. And heaven forbid If someone had a baby, male or female, came the "suggested amount" of a fiver minimum. last straw just before COVID lockdown was for Jane the junior who started two weeks ago and her pet cat had died so they wanted to give her something to buy another one! Bah humbug I guess my moaning didn't go unnoticed as when I got made redundant during lockdown after 34 years,bi literally had ONE person text me to wish me luck..fekk em all..

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Almost as bad as the "mandatory" / emotional blackmail collection. Fine in a small office but I worked in a building with over 600 people so it was someone's birthday, wedding, anniversary of their first day in the office, etc. And heaven forbid If someone had a baby, male or female, came the "suggested amount" of a fiver minimum. last straw just before COVID lockdown was for Jane the junior who started two weeks ago and her pet cat had died so they wanted to give her something to buy another one! Bah humbug I guess my moaning didn't go unnoticed as when I got made redundant during lockdown after 34 years,bi literally had ONE person text me to wish me luck..fekk em all..

That’s apawlin

 

[Stat Brother]

Almost as bad as the "mandatory" / emotional blackmail collection. Fine in a small office but I worked in a building with over 600 people so it was someone's birthday, wedding, anniversary of their first day in the office, etc. And heaven forbid If someone had a baby, male or female, came the "suggested amount" of a fiver minimum. last straw just before COVID lockdown was for Jane the junior who started two weeks ago and her pet cat had died so they wanted to give her something to buy another one! Bah humbug I guess my moaning didn't go unnoticed as when I got made redundant during lockdown after 34 years,bi literally had ONE person text me to wish me luck..fekk em all..

One too many, teacher's pet.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

December 15th is our one. Where I have been told it is karaoke and my team are versus another department. I am absolutely terrible at singing, so along with my general disinterest in going our with several hundred colleagues, getting up on stage and performing a karaoke battle in front of them is among the worst things I could think of.

I'm desperate for the train strikes to get extended.

As a social anxiety sufferer that would be off-the-scale terrifying, although the reality is rarely as bad as the weeks of dreaded imaginings and self-defeating mental run-throughs leading up to it, plus the insomnia the night before etc.