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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. It now costs a lot. I don't want to drop half my week's grocery bill on after work drinks and snacks.

2. I know a guy who said something to a woman at an after-work, off-site, voluntary happy hour and the next morning she went to HR to try to get him fired. [/quote]

It not just that. On business trips and conferences in 1990s my prior companies  paid for happy hours, drinks, going out type events and we used to all go out together. I recall I get nervous in 1999 I have $1,000 on my company card for beers and appetizers in a single night “after” we had dinner together at a conference and my boss would say just write down the names for t&e report. So at a conference or business trips and there is no child care or commute and staff not even paying.

I went to a conference last year in Vegas and everyone hid in their rooms. Not just my company, it was confusing to me as a networking type conference and we all had expense accounts and in Vegas. Meanwhile my 1999 Vegas conference my wife was pregnant first child, given time zone she was sound asleep by 7 pm Vegas time. Everyone dragged me out every night as last days of freedom, my bosses, co workers. I think we were out to 2 am every night. Was so much bonding. My mom sadly died not long later and from that trip several came to wake. They even sent my wife big bouquet of flowers when baby came shortly after trip. And I did same back as I know knew then better.

It is a shame we don’t know or want to know our co workers. I sat Shiver, been to funerals, weddings, baby showers of co workers. But that all stopped pretty much as I don’t know them outside of work anymore, their choice.

We can’t even do the birthday lunch anymore at work. We always bought lunch for everyone on a birthday, but people don’t even want to do birthday lunch with co workers even if company paying and on company time.

I think people are missing out. I talk more to my coworkers from 20-30 years ago then I do my current coworkers or my last two jobs.[/quote]

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