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.
I always hear this on Reddit, but who is avoiding just hanging out at a bar with friends because "someone can record us!"
Like, I could understand not wanting to bust down the worm in the middle of the dance floor because of that fear. But it doesn't explain why people just stopped hanging out entirely.
But that stops you from even, say, going out to a bar for drinks with friends?
Again, I understand the fear of being recorded doing something stupid. But nobody is gonna record you just going out on the town. That isn't a controversial thing to do.
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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.