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I'm not a Team Player(tm)
Feb. 14th, 2006 12:47 pm*sigh* "So this Friday afternoon is our company's 'winter party'. It's being held at a resturant near here, so if ppl aren't attending they need to either stay and work or use their time off if they want to go home.
I'm not going. I don't particularly like the idea of being required to stay at the party for the entire four hours, nor am I much for socializing with my co-workers outside a work setting. They are all perfectly nice people, and I have no problem working with them, but I don't much want to hang out with them if I don't have to.
So unsurprisingly I'm getting hassled by said co-workers to attend (I fianlly had to tell one of them 'I don't want ot go, now please stop asking me.' to stop her saying aI should every five minutes). I'm getting told by my boss 'Its lots of fun, just ask [foo other co-worker who's in his 50s], he has all sorts of stories about the fun at these parties.' And sicne I am the only one in hte department who isn't going, he doesn't want me to stay in the office and work. But he can't just come out and say 'It'd be more hassle than it is worth for you to stay and work, so please either go to he party or take the time off.' So instead I get these claims that I should go to the party, or that it might not be good for me ot stay that I have to decipher to figure out what he actually wants.
Basicly it is working out to being pressured from all directions to go to this party with the whole office. And no one seems to grasp that I just am not one for being social outside the office. In fact some people seem to be almost taking it as a personal slight that I don't want to go to the party with them.
And for that matter, with how much I'm being pushed to attend, now there is just about no way I would ever consider it. There is nothing like a group of ppl trying to demand that something will be 'fun' and that I should do it to make me dig in my heels in and refuse.
Gah. I just want to do my job, get paid for my job, and go home and not have to think about my job. Why is this so hard to grasp?"
I'm not going. I don't particularly like the idea of being required to stay at the party for the entire four hours, nor am I much for socializing with my co-workers outside a work setting. They are all perfectly nice people, and I have no problem working with them, but I don't much want to hang out with them if I don't have to.
So unsurprisingly I'm getting hassled by said co-workers to attend (I fianlly had to tell one of them 'I don't want ot go, now please stop asking me.' to stop her saying aI should every five minutes). I'm getting told by my boss 'Its lots of fun, just ask [foo other co-worker who's in his 50s], he has all sorts of stories about the fun at these parties.' And sicne I am the only one in hte department who isn't going, he doesn't want me to stay in the office and work. But he can't just come out and say 'It'd be more hassle than it is worth for you to stay and work, so please either go to he party or take the time off.' So instead I get these claims that I should go to the party, or that it might not be good for me ot stay that I have to decipher to figure out what he actually wants.
Basicly it is working out to being pressured from all directions to go to this party with the whole office. And no one seems to grasp that I just am not one for being social outside the office. In fact some people seem to be almost taking it as a personal slight that I don't want to go to the party with them.
And for that matter, with how much I'm being pushed to attend, now there is just about no way I would ever consider it. There is nothing like a group of ppl trying to demand that something will be 'fun' and that I should do it to make me dig in my heels in and refuse.
Gah. I just want to do my job, get paid for my job, and go home and not have to think about my job. Why is this so hard to grasp?"
