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[quote=Anonymous]I work on a ‘team’ with about 25 people. About half are in the same area and the other half are in multiple locations around the country. We don’t actually work together much (think along the lines of an HR team where each person supports a different business group). Even those in the office don’t interact (my boss sits on a different floor and I see him in person maybe once every two weeks).

A member of the team was leaving, and a goodbye happy hour was planned. I had never met or worked with this person and declined the invite. I ran into my boss after the event took place and had an odd interaction:

Boss: Aren’t you usually in on Wednesdays? I looked for you last week and didn’t see you. 
Me: Yes, I am in every Wednesday, did you come by my office, I may have stepped out for lunch? [I thought this was odd because boss never swings by my office and we have our meetings in his office]
Boss: No, I meant Larla’s happy hour, it would’ve been great for you to come if you were free, I really like the team to get to know each other.

Was I in the wrong here? I am relatively new to the company (less than a year), but I felt odd going to celebrate someone I’d never met or spoken to. FWIW, in the time I’ve been at the company, we had one team lunch which I attended and no one seemed to know each other well at all. [/quote]

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