Nobody's saying they should be obliged - but their complaints about how hard it is to hire people should now be taken with a larger grain of salt. It certainly

Nobody's saying they should be obliged - but their complaints about how hard it is to hire people should now be taken with a larger grain of salt. It certainly shows where on the spectrum they lie, between "wants to hire people to do a job" and "wants to hire people to hang out with". Personally, I've got plenty of friends I care deeply about and want to go drinking with, and while I'm not opposed to grabbing a beer with coworkers from time to time, my primary reason for showing up is to do good work, not play developmentally-delayed fraternity grabass. A company that places "drinkbuddyability" before "workability" is a place that's toxic to me. I feel that there is a growing disconnect in the industry, and a growing contingent of the industry that has reinterpreted tech's historical desire to be easy-going and not-uptight into some sort of frat-like organization.