A couple of handy ones early and home for the Late Late is the way to go for me these days.
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Listened to some awful shite from the head of our section and managed to call him on any of it despite being well oiled. I’m proud of myself
Same as that.
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“I’m here to make money not friends.”
If you invited anyone from work to your wedding, you’re a gimp
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Not guilty.
No, different industry entirely
It’s all arrogance.
I have absolutely zero interest in any larger scale work “morale events”. I remember I had a Christmas Party in what was the Four Seasons about 6 or 7 years ago. I lived within walking distance and so I thought I should go. I was there for about half an hour and realised that it’s like Groundhog Day. The same people having the same conversations year on year. I left that night and haven’t been to anything like that again. The exceptions to that would be anything that happens in the work day that would be preferable to work. e.g. A golfing event on a nice summers day.
At some point you need to disassociate yourself from the people you work with on a social level. Especially in a corporate environment. They can preach about teamwork all day but you work in teams and get compensated individually. Until that is solved sooner or later it will become an issue.
I work with a bunch of people that I can take or leave.
Collegues? Yes.
Friends? 
There is a quote from Scott Hall which sums up my opinion on this completely.
It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, ‘In this business you can make friends or you can make money’. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I’d like the money.
At the end of the day if you want to progress in any meaningful manner you need to be able to throw people under the bus along the way. That is far easier if you couldn’t give a shit about them on a personal level. That might seem callous. It is what it is.
The reality of this is that you can be in a place for 10+ years and end up knowing less and less people as time goes on. There is always going to be a revolving door of people coming and going. I’ve worked in the same place over a decade and my very best friends from working in there don’t work there any more. They’re the people I put effort into meeting over Christmas. Them and my family, my friends from home and my college friends.
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Okay guys, some of you appear to be overthinking whether to go for a Christmas pint with a few colleagues or not.
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I don’t communicate with a single person from work outside of the work environment, but that doesn’t mean I won’t go to the party tonight and enjoy it. Some people seem to either have poor self control when faced with a free bar or else very poor social skills.
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Oh look someone who works in IT talking about social skills 
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Current work colleagues at the time I was referring to.
The cap-doffers love asking bosses to their weddings.
The last few days of posts on this thread confirm that tfk is the refuge of misanthropes any one of which could any moment climb a clock tower and start shooting.
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Sorry but it’s a bit more nuanced than disappearing after buying a few pints before natives get restless. . Employers can and more importantly have been done where incidents occurred with employees on unsanctioned work nights out … Like I said if the relationship is due to working together employer can be in trouble… Employer needs to lock down the company handbook with very strict anti bullying and anti harassment policies in anticipation of this…
You’re a bit out of touch pal. Have you tried to pay a brickie, plasterer, plumber, electrician lately? Those guys are not living in council houses.
theres fellas on 100k+ in the FAI in council houses shur