Socializing at work

What does your company do together to be more socialize?


We have a thing called Friday-coffee. Every friday, we all gather in the mainhall, sit down, eat cake and drink coffee together. During this time, we also have a wine lottery. 4 bottles each time (3 red and 1 white).

Besides from this weekly gathering, we have annual parties and department parties.

What about your company?
Please say something about what kind of company and what you guys do.



It's interesting to see what other companies does.
(I forgot to write that we send email jokes to all employees once in awhile too).

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That's amazing and sounds fun as heck, man. Unfortunately, my work does NOTHING like that. I am the most insociable person in this office which is kind of funny considering all the bullshit I said in this thread.

There's no real social functions here but besides that I COULD hang out and talk to my co-workers. We have plenty of down time and I notice plenty of water cooler conversations taking place all over the building. The only problem is, I fucking HATE everyone I work with. Loathe them. Well, except the receptionist. She's nice. The rest of them though, jesus. Stab you in the back at any moment and fake. I don't like fake people. When I first started working here they really didn't like me either, now, for some strange reason, they're all really friendly and talkative with me... it's just too bad I would like them to leave me the fuck alone so I can get my work done and get out of there.

That's always a problem I've had with the work environment. I have no interest in conversing with ANY of my co-workers, mostly because I usually have nothing in common with them and we end up talking about the same pointless drivel. Also, I'm usually in a bad mood when I'm at work so I get annoyed very quickly.

Somehow, someway, I still always manage to make... "friends" at work. I never stay in contact with them after I leave the company. I could barely tolerate them while I'm there.

If people only knew the things I was thinking. =/

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We sometimes celebrate birthdays by grabbing some Little Caesar's and chowing down in the conference room. Over the summer we'd have Wii Fridays where I'd bring in my Wii and everyone would take turns attacking each other on Wii Sports during lunch breaks. I haven't had the time or energy to bring it in when school's in session and I'm in and out of the office, though.

One of the newer coworkers would complain that he felt left out of the loop before we started doing that sort of thing, but most of my other suggestions fell on deaf ears with the management.

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What is "Little Caesar's"?

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Even though we're not really supposed to socialize with our co-workers because upper management fears that we may end up sleeping with each other, most (if not all) of us end up hanging out in one way or another here at the school. Every Wednesday we order a pizza or a 6' sub and chow down during our staff meetings and most Fridays we go to Brewbakers for a pitcher or a few pints. Some days when we get out early enough, I gather the whole crew and we eat at my house with the grill running at full capacity. I think it's safe to say that, as a school site, we've become pretty close even if the people I work with are fundamentally far different than I am.

The one thing I still can't get anyone on my site to do is smoke shisha with me. One of them is still convinced that I'm getting high off this shit.

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What is "Little Caesar's"?

A pizza joint that's scattered throughout the West. To call their pizza "subpar" would be doing them a colossal favor but if you're fucking starving and you got $5 in your pocket, it's really your only choice.

I was speaking idiomatically.

When I'm home, I work in a small restaurant... so small in fact, that one person does the cooking and one person does the serving (this isnt to say its a boring job... in fact, the place is ridiculously popular... but its so small that more than one waitress would get in the way). We dont really do anything to socialize... granted, its a family business, so most everyone is related or knew each other in some way or another before working there.

As for when I'm up at school, I work in the student center at the information desk, answering student's questions and setting up rooms that need to be changed around for meetings or shows or whatnot. We have a monthly luncheon, with free, good food, some games, and just general updates on the building. Otherwise, setups themselves are social events. Numbers of the employees sign up for the setups, so at any given time we could have 3 to 10 employees behind the desk, waiting to start changing the rooms around.

We also used to go to Pizza Hut on Friday afternoons for their buffet (all you can eat pizza for $6!!!), but that seems to have died with the graduating class.

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In my current job, it's difficult to organize any sort of social activity. Working in downtown DC means that everyone has a ridiculously long commute from Maryland or Virginia, so no one wants to hang out after work. Since we're the federal government, and we've been plagued by scandals in the past, agencies are real tight-asses about social activities during work hours. We get a nice holiday party, of course, but anything else is considered wasting taxpayer dollars.

The first agency I worked for, in Columbia, MD, does a lot more socializing, and I still stay in touch with that group. Every month or two they do a happy hour at one of several local restaurants (preferably with a free buffet), and we've done several summer bowling leagues. They've done some other things as well, like going to comedy shows and big birthday parties, but I'm not social enough to go to that sort of thing.

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Our chemical company does some group events over the year like concerts, the zoo, sports..., but that's all.

In my process engineering department we have some problems going on. 2 years ago there were 6 people in it and now only one person remains. I just started working in this company and me and the remaining person are becoming good friends.

The thing is, that person is leaving the company next week too. So I'm the only person in a really big room, but that's ok as I'm not really a sociable person.

The reason of all this is that the upper management doesn't give enough money for our 24 hour supervision of the plant. Getting called up at 3 AM ten times a month isn't something you want to do for 100 euro a month.

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Working at a conservatory teaching piano, different teachers work on different days, with some overlaps for the teachers that work several days a a week. On the job, our socializing is therefore limited to every 30 minutes in between students if they're late or don't show up.

Outside of work though, we've had organized outings which are always on a signup basis. Moreso, just to know who's coming for space/ride issues, rather than to exclude anyone. So far we've went out to Canada's Wonderland (theme park) in the summer, Christmas parties with secret santa assignments at Kelsey's or any other restaurant, and open mic/band viewing nights.

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We do shit the good-old-fashion Japanese way: every and ANY excuse to go out and drink, we do (Visitors, farewell parties, promotion celebrations, etc etc etc). Which happens to be my favorite method, because where there is drinking involved with japanese business people, apparently Karaoke also ensues. Which by the way, if you haven't tried it, singing 80's songs + lots of booze + your bosses acting all sorts of silly due to too much shochu, is one helluva sight to see & enjoy (it's actually quite fun).

Then there's all sorts of activities I kinda-sorta started (like asking the managers if it's ok to do a surprise cake break for ppl in the department who have birthdays that week / month), and then there's the annual (?) departmental (?) bowling fest that I suggested two years ago that had also remained somewhat of a tradition as well (I'm planning it again for May 1st this year and we'll see if the 3rd time is really a charm).

There are company-wide events, but as our department's is more tight-nit together, we like to throw fun activities on our own sometimes (on the company credit card even, since the managers sign off on it--which is GREAT when you're the employee who suggested the idea but you're not responsible of managing the payment for it).

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Originally Posted by Shorty

We do shit the good-old-fashion Japanese way: every and ANY excuse to go out and drink, we do (Visitors, farewell parties, promotion celebrations, etc etc etc). Which happens to be my favorite method, because where there is drinking involved with japanese business people, apparently Karaoke also ensues. Which by the way, if you haven't tried it, singing 80's songs + lots of booze + your bosses acting all sorts of silly due to too much shochu, is one helluva sight to see & enjoy (it's actually quite fun).

We miss out on drinking parties in Utah. I would pay money to see my boss get drunk and sing karaoke. He even lived in Japan for a few years; he'd be able to do really bad Japanese karaoke as an overweight white guy. It would be pure hilarity. *sigh*

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Working at a BK theres not much freetime to organize outside of work, so while most of us are here we usually go out back, pack a bowl, and shoot the shit until we get an order.

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We often go to the pub on a friday lunchtime and regularly go out for meals and drinks in the evenings. Everyone in my office is about my age though so socialising is more natural I guess than if you have a bunch of different people. The firm as a whole has a big summer ball for all the offices too. All the others seemed a bit stiff and formal whereas all us Brighton lot were pissed witless and stole most of the furniture...

I was speaking idiomatically.

Do some of you carpool? I do.

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