How important is company bonding shit
My firm has a lot of happy hours and they have weekly IM sports where a lot of guys come out for beers. I like socializing, but I have to be up at 6:30 and like to get in a workout.
I have a full time offer already because my boss loves me, but I won't be starting for over a year because I have one semester of college left, but I'm not attending the next semester because I'll be out of country after October.
I'm thinking maybe I'll pop in for IM league like once a month and then go to the important happy hours. But drinking instead of working out is something I'm trying to leave in my past.
Thoughts?
Yeah I think company bonding is very important. You can't succeed if people don't like you.
Read WallStreetPlayboy's article on politics. You have to gauge how important the happy hours are. Do people just sit there bored because they have nowhere else to be, or are there important/fun conversations going on? Does everyone show up? Do the senior guys show up? Do/did the guys who have been promoted recently? If they are once a month or less I would try to make most/all of them. More frequent than that and depending on your assesment of the above and other criteria you could skip some of them. If it's really an every weekend thing, it may make you seem cooler or more interesting to not show up, assuming you really do have somewhere else to be. But if you don't show up, and you don't have a good answer to "what did you do over the weekend", then people will assume you just don't like hanging out with them.
If your "other activity" that you prefer to these events is working out, I think you really ought to attend the IM events. You don't have to drink. Just tell them you get dehydrated really easily/sick/lose your balance when you drink and play sports if they really press you on it. Unless you're on some very strict periodized training program I really doubt playing IM sports is hampering your physique/fitness goals. Take it as a light day and build your training program around that.
I think happy hours and collegial atmospheres are crucial. My new office has a chunk of mid 20s to early 30s people and they don't ever really do happy hour. It blows
I can only speak to my personal experience as per which these social events are pretty important. Odds are, you will be spending more time with your colleagues than friends/family, so developing a good working relationship with your colleagues is a good idea, and this is most easily done outside the office. You don't have to drink, you can just order a juice or a tonic with a lemon wedge. You can pass these off as long drinks if the crowd isn't so tolerant of non-drinkers, and you don't have to go to each one of these things. Just try to get in 1-2 per month would be my advice, and stay for 1-2 hours if you need to work out the next morning.
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