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Got to admit those Friday afternoon "pub lunches" were great for team-building though, right? :_)

babypuncher 3y ago
It's the thing I miss most about working in the office. We would take an extra long lunch almost every Friday at a local bar down the street, then come back to the office and mostly work on skunkworks projects. Some of our most creative stuff came from those Fridays. Now my Fridays are filled with the same monotony as the rest of the work week.
- lIIllIIllIIllII 3y ago
  People don't know how to work remotely. It's still kind of a new concept in the mainstream after all. You need to make social engagements during the day with friends. Otherwise it's lonely and isolating. as a nice plus, seeing your actual friends is much nicer than seeing your workplace "friends" who'd likely sell you out for half a dollar. Go grab lunch at a pub, coffee, do some exercise or whatever.
  - irrational 3y ago
    Between my wife and children and neighbors and friends, I am the opposite of lonely and isolated. Not every remote worker is a hermit.
- irrational 3y ago
  My company just gives us Friday afternoons off.
totallywrong 3y ago
As a younger engineer, I had very good times working in Central London and getting hammered with colleagues two nights a week on the regular. With tons of people from other companies at the pub too. I'm all in with remote work but that was pretty nice.
secretsatan 3y ago
When I started working in the 90s, pub lunch was still everyday, when I started doing consultancy, my mentor loved to take out customers for lunch on expenses. He knew which pub in every town had a lock in as well so it meant late nights too. I soon stopped drinking at lunch though, never do it anymore, never got much work done in the afternoon and made me a bit too aggressive..
Washuu 3y ago
Not really. Being the only woman around a bunch of drunk frat-like guys is not fun.
- ChoHag 3y ago
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- veave 3y ago
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  - neilalexander 3y ago
    That's what you took away from this?
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  - rhyswallace 3y ago
    ?
- jjgreen 3y ago
  Hen parties can get pretty obnoxious too.
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  - jjgreen 3y ago
    Ooh, it's all got a bit ill-humoured in this thread; perhaps I should expand. Hen parties (batchelorette parties for left-ponders) can and do get obnoxious, no-one that's been to a pub in the UK could deny that: screaming, splashing Prosecco around, hooting with laughter at giant inflatable penises, I'll discreetly move to a different part of the pub. Do I think them morally reprehensible? Absolutely not, any group of young people drinking will include some who don't drink very often, so don't know their limits. Everyone is obnoxious when they start drinking, but they have to learn somehow (or become teetotal). So while I dislike hen parties, I defend them, you go girl(s). If you feel that way (I think many do), then you really have to afford the same tolerance to groups of young men. That was my point.

It's the thing I miss most about working in the office. We would take an extra long lunch almost every Friday at a local bar down the street, then come back to the office and mostly work on skunkworks projects. Some of our most creative stuff came from those Fridays. Now my Fridays are filled with the same monotony as the rest of the work week.

lIIllIIllIIllII 3y ago
People don't know how to work remotely. It's still kind of a new concept in the mainstream after all. You need to make social engagements during the day with friends. Otherwise it's lonely and isolating. as a nice plus, seeing your actual friends is much nicer than seeing your workplace "friends" who'd likely sell you out for half a dollar. Go grab lunch at a pub, coffee, do some exercise or whatever.
- irrational 3y ago
  Between my wife and children and neighbors and friends, I am the opposite of lonely and isolated. Not every remote worker is a hermit.
irrational 3y ago
My company just gives us Friday afternoons off.

totallywrong 3y ago

As a younger engineer, I had very good times working in Central London and getting hammered with colleagues two nights a week on the regular. With tons of people from other companies at the pub too. I'm all in with remote work but that was pretty nice.

secretsatan 3y ago

When I started working in the 90s, pub lunch was still everyday, when I started doing consultancy, my mentor loved to take out customers for lunch on expenses. He knew which pub in every town had a lock in as well so it meant late nights too. I soon stopped drinking at lunch though, never do it anymore, never got much work done in the afternoon and made me a bit too aggressive..

Washuu 3y ago

Not really. Being the only woman around a bunch of drunk frat-like guys is not fun.

ChoHag 3y ago
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veave 3y ago
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- neilalexander 3y ago
  That's what you took away from this?
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- rhyswallace 3y ago
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jjgreen 3y ago
Hen parties can get pretty obnoxious too.
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- jjgreen 3y ago
  Ooh, it's all got a bit ill-humoured in this thread; perhaps I should expand. Hen parties (batchelorette parties for left-ponders) can and do get obnoxious, no-one that's been to a pub in the UK could deny that: screaming, splashing Prosecco around, hooting with laughter at giant inflatable penises, I'll discreetly move to a different part of the pub. Do I think them morally reprehensible? Absolutely not, any group of young people drinking will include some who don't drink very often, so don't know their limits. Everyone is obnoxious when they start drinking, but they have to learn somehow (or become teetotal). So while I dislike hen parties, I defend them, you go girl(s). If you feel that way (I think many do), then you really have to afford the same tolerance to groups of young men. That was my point.