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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home

Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin.

After an initial burst of postpandemic happy hours, rubber chicken dinners and mandatory office merriment, many employees are adopting a stricter 5:01-and-I’m-done attitude to their work schedules. More U.S. workers say they’re trying to draw thicker lines between work and the rest of life, and that often means clocking out and eschewing invites to socialize with co-workers. Corporate event planners say they’re already facing pushback for fall activities and any work-related functions that take place on weekends.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Lustre, not luster. But I digress, I wish I had a better social connection with office colleagues, but yeah, everyone has to travel long distances to get home and they all have families and other responsibilities, it's impossible to socialise unfortunately.

Even when it is possible, usually colleagues are a disparate bunch with wildly different interests and personalities, and probably wouldn't make great friends anyway, as nice and professional as they all are at the office.

It's very depressing and lonely, but yeah. It seems like the older you get, the more impossible it is to make a friend.

[-] Still@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

same difference lustre is British english and luster is regular english

[-] Ragerist@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

You mean British English and Simplified English?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If things were slightly different, everyone here would be typing in Scots English.

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