Do you still participate in after-work Happy Hour with co-workers?
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Theres also lot of studies that show new generations are really the first to push back on alcohol in general, questioning if its really something that should just be "accepted" as part of daily life in the US.
I'd seen some of those studies about alcohol, but I didn't put 2 and 2 together with the readily available weed the young'uns have access to now.
I found that having happy Hour at work is more suitable then afterwards. So afterwards you can have your own happy Hour so you get 2 for 1.
Yeah I don’t know what happened other than $$$ since every generation starting with millennials is getting worse off financially than the previous because of some major economic disaster seemingly happening every 10 years now, but all the generations after the millennials are big on teetotaling.
And hell the $$$ excuse alone would be plenty excuse for many, I would think. I’ve always been a teetotaler so have never had much reason to watch the prices but even I know alcohol is expensive.
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It was a joke - although I wrote it poorly. My angle was that my team never invites me to anything they do together, but will attend things I set up provided that I’m paying.
When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago we’d do a lot of happy hours. It was very much a young consulting / finance crowd, so money was less of an issue when it comes to grabbing a beer after work. That said, I had a buddy who worked for this shady bus brokerage business. The crew he ran around with was more cost conscious, yet much more boozy. One of his buddies would just bring in a water bottle filled with vodka. Cracked the code!
I worked for a mom and pop IT consulting firm in the early 2000's.
At 3:00 on Friday afternoon, you could here beer caps popping at every cubicle. Every quartely meeting included a cooler full of beer and plenty of snacks.
Then, they hired an idiot who got loaded and took out a row of cars on his way home.
I am sure corporate liability now plays a huge role in the decline of company sponsored social events. You cant convince me we live in better times.
At 3:00 on Friday afternoon, you could here beer caps popping at every cubicle. Every quartely meeting included a cooler full of beer and plenty of snacks.
Then, they hired an idiot who got loaded and took out a row of cars on his way home.
I am sure corporate liability now plays a huge role in the decline of company sponsored social events. You cant convince me we live in better times.
When I lived in Lexington, I would always get a kick out of the "happy hour restaurant worker crowd" They'd be off at a corner table with a pitcher and/or shots. It'd be 5 or 6 20 somethings talking about how much they made and talking about patrons. Then you'd have your token middle age male who still waits tables acting like the leader of the group trying to be smooth to the young college aged co-workers. We could always pinpoint when a shift got cut as they'd roll in deep just as I explained.