Anyone else feel sick to their stomach at required office gatherings and celebrations? I legit am sick to my stomach and my brain is trying to explain we gotta stay to pay rent.

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It gets worse with age

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Ummm... Why wouldn't you want to spend more time with the people you're already paid to spend time with for free, while most likely celebrating things that shouldn't or don't need to be celebrated?!?! Monster.

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Sounds like the Ogilvy refounding

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Sack up. It’s not that hard

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It’s so fake

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Yeah it totally sucks that you’ve got a job that requires you to occasionally sit around and eat free food and put up with an hour or two of having to spend time with your co-workers and stuff. I feel for you. Sick to my stomach. 😑

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For the past two years, we’ve had our annual “company bonding day” in the form of a boat cruise along the Hudson, I’m still trying to figure out what I did in my past life to deserve this torture!

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The promise of beer and snacks is supposed to make me giddy with excitement

See smelling beer breath and cheap wine breath makes me want to hurl...

Stay for a bit. Get some face time with different people. Try and get a somewhat funny story or anecode to tell the next day
Then leave early.
Easy.
I hate that shit too and this is what I do. It works

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/69142573/cake-is-a-powerful-food-it-can-actually-bring-people-together-hey-its-jims-birthday-party-in-the-con.jpg

Maybe some people are just not cut out for fake schmoozing.

Tell everyone youre in the Program.

No more questions/vibes about not showing up for functions and the only price you pay is not drinking during the work day.

@cd2 nice. Then I’ll ask them if they wanna talk about Jesus

I hate agency parties and skip them all.

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