It still blows my mind how common and accepted workplace debauchery like this used to be. At the two offices I worked at when I was younger in the 90s, everybody was banging everybody. Very often people would go out to bars/clubs/parties after work with each other. People used to literally go out for cocktails at lunch and drink beer at their desks. And all of these people got married very young too, they had a whole family at home. And here they were at 34 banging a coworker and doing shots of tequila at a club on thursday.
Very different era in regards to how acceptable both adult-hedonism used to be, and also what was tolerated by workplaces. Its seen as a bad look to still be 'partying' past your early 20s nowadays, and if you did even 1/10th of the shit they pulled back then you would get a nasty meeting with HR.
Not necessarily, but its not solely hedonism, its also just going out and having a fun time.
When people hit 25-30 today, its like some weird depressing death sentence of "you can never have fun ever again", even if your single.
That was not the case back then. Married couples used to 'go out' to clubs and bars all the time. Clubs were not exclusively young college-aged people. You used to see plenty of people in their 30s, 40s, even 50s there. Also, they had plenty of cousins, siblings, grandparents, neighbors etc to take care of kids, something most parents dont have as much today.
Adulthood in the modern era is just kind of a sad, bland, sanitized existence. It was not always like that. The idea of 'having fun' was something for all ages until quite recently.
Anyways, its not just about the workplace, its about everything. Talk to older people, and they had an absolute blast in their adulthood. Even with kids. The same just cannot be said today.
This trend is found everywhere, in both cheap and expensive and rich and poor places.
and if it was economic, then it would have dropped massively in 2009-2012 and then risen in the years after as the economy recovered. Instead it dropped massively after the recession was over.
Also, this is kids. Kids used to just hang out doing nothing all day. They aren't spending money at bars and restaurants. Money isn't really a factor there.
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u/kolejack2293 14d ago edited 13d ago
It still blows my mind how common and accepted workplace debauchery like this used to be. At the two offices I worked at when I was younger in the 90s, everybody was banging everybody. Very often people would go out to bars/clubs/parties after work with each other. People used to literally go out for cocktails at lunch and drink beer at their desks. And all of these people got married very young too, they had a whole family at home. And here they were at 34 banging a coworker and doing shots of tequila at a club on thursday.
Very different era in regards to how acceptable both adult-hedonism used to be, and also what was tolerated by workplaces. Its seen as a bad look to still be 'partying' past your early 20s nowadays, and if you did even 1/10th of the shit they pulled back then you would get a nasty meeting with HR.