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Do you hang out with your work buddies

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Lifer
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every once in a while we'll go skydiving, rockclimbing or autocrossing together. then twice a year we go on scuba trips. we don't hang out after work much though
 
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Dave & Busters on Thursdays. College nights! Yay.

Most of the guys on the team are single and in their mid-late 20s so we usually can stay late too =) One of the guys takes the boat out to the lake sometimes for his family and once in a while the team goes out with him.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: loki8481
nope.

once the clock hits 6, I don't want to see mugs till I'm ready to go back to work the next day.
I didn't know he was that annoying :D

:laugh:

Wait...

:|

:p
 

Patt

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I play golf with one guy from work all the time, but beyond that, unless it is a random sighting, there aren't too many of close work colleagues that I see after hours.
 

hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: kranky
Used to, until I started to move up in the company. I decided it was best for me to not socialize with co-workers except for large events.

im stuck in the middle of that myself. the bacck "shop" guys i used to chill with see me as management now, so i dont get those lunch invites when they order out for chinese or pizza anymore, but the other managers are a tight group and havent really asked me to come along on their daily lunch trips either. as for after work, i dont drink so i dont get invites to go drinking with them. id probably go hang with them regardless of the drinking thing tho, i like hanging with friends in bars and playing pool, darts or just chatting.
 

Lamont Burns

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Originally posted by: kranky
Used to, until I started to move up in the company. I decided it was best for me to not socialize with co-workers except for large events.

This is good advice I wish I had taken about a year go. Awkward relations with some former "buddies" atm.
 

Kaspian

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I dont. It was a conflict of interest at my other job. I guess after so long I got used to it.
 

RichUK

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On occasions I go out for a few beers with my colleagues when working away, that?s about it.
 

Daishiki

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We've gone out a few times to have a pint. Usually we gather the alumns who were lucky enough to get out this wretched place.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: loki8481
nope.

once the clock hits 6, I don't want to see their mugs till I'm ready to go back to work the next day.

:thumbsup:

Damn, I couldn't be able to work at a place like that
 

Joemonkey

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i've been out w/ a few of them, some of us went to a bar to watch the colts/saints game last Thursday
 

potoba

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depends on the race of my coworkers. Chinese: nope, korean: maybe, japanese, vietnamese and american: definitely.
 

RichUK

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Originally posted by: potoba
depends on the race of my coworkers. Chinese: nope, korean: maybe, japanese, vietnamese and american: definitely.

Righto....
 

ggnl

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I do occasionally, but I never mix my work and non-work friends. My office can be quite prudish at times and I don't want any unfavorable stories getting out.
 

eleison

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All the time. Its usually very fun because we talk about other coworkers and decided who we should/want to back stab. Office politics FTW ;-P

 

TheUnk

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Yep. Having left my "home town" for a job, most of my friends are met at work.
 

imported_Imp

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Old place I worked for 3 years, kinda. Once in a while a group of us went out. I don't work there anymore, but sitll occasionally hang out with one person.

New place I just left, nope. Everyone else is older, have wifes/kids. That and I didn't really like most of them.
 

narcotic

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Hang out my coworkers quite a bit actually, mostly for cycling on weekends, and occasionally we would visit a pub after work too. It all really depends who you work with, I mean some people are really easy going, and fun to hang out with others are a little less I guess. I've been a couple of times to England to work with our associates where I practically knew no one before arriving there, and yet we went to get a drink on a daily basis.