Socializing with one's coworkers is important, but why does it have to take up so much of one's personal time?
Sure, these events are typically not in the office. They might be at a bar, a restaurant, or the boss's home, which is ten times nicer than anything you could ever afford. The reality of the matter is that regardless of location, you're still networking with your coworkers. You're still on the job. It doesn't matter if food and drink are on the company because your time is actively being taken away from you. As one commenter on this Reddit thread states, our time is valuable! If it's so crucial for everyone to be at a weekend work event, perhaps everyone should be paid for that time. Or perhaps it should take place during work hours.
We know bosses get frustrated at this concept, as this boomer employer did, but they cannot have it both ways. They can't squeeze every minute of productivity out of folks during work hours and then expect a big chunk of that free time as well. That's not what work-life balance should be about.
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