(12-03-2019, 01:48 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-03-2019, 08:58 AM)Rico Wrote: Someone from work will see this but I don't give a [BLEEP].  A couple of years ago we were bought out by a Mexican company who proceeded to lay off numerous people during their implementation.  Several people have also quit because they got tired of dealing with them and my involvement with them, though minimal, has been unpleasant.  Now they're coming into town to hobnob with us for Christmas and I'm supposed to go to some [BLEEP] reception...on my time...on Thursday night so they can tell us how wonderful we are doing and their pie-in-the-sky ambitions for the company for next year.  Well [BLEEP] that.  I'm not going to spend four hours of my time to go to some [BLEEP] reception with a bunch of people that I don't want to see anyway.  If they want to schmooze with me, they can do it during work hours.  I guess I'll find out if I'm in trouble on Friday morning...when I don't show up on Thursday night.

/rant

This is my husband. He is an introvert to the nth degree and is one reason why he works nightshift. If he's not being paid he doesn't go. Sometimes he doesn't go to stuff even if he would get paid because of the 2 hour roundtrip commute. He can kind of get away with it because of his schedule because he's got to sleep in order to work the 12 hour shift with the commute making it 14 hours. He does get dinged on his yearly evals though. He doesn't care.

This is also me.

My line manager was saying how he was going to arrange a compulsory team building exercise as there was some divisions and cliques within the team. He said it was an activity that we would have to pay for ourselves, in our own time and we were unable to claim overtime for it. Needless to say, I didn't turn up. You can't enforce unpaid 'overtime', If I wanted to socialise with my colleagues, I'd do so under my own circumstances.

I'm also not going to the team Christmas party, I just don't enjoy the fakeness of it.. the only thing we have in common is the uniform, that's it.

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