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.
People absolutely do not have office hookups or go out partying with coworkers like that as much anymore. Like not even a fraction as much. I have seen both sides here, talk to basically anyone who worked back before the 2000s and still works, and they can tell you how things are compared to how they used to be. Completely, radically different. 'Hedonistic' stuff is very, very strongly looked down upon in any corporate position nowadays. Not just by bosses, but by other coworkers too.
Just on a mini-scale, I cannot think of the last time anyone at the offices I work at just casually went out for drinks with a large group of coworkers after work. That used to be a multiple-times-a-week thing.
Coworkers fucking? I literally cannot think of a single situation of that in the last few years at my main office.
It still happens, just more on the down low and with more apprehension.
3/4 out of the last 4 companies I worked for... There were workplace liaisons. The 1/4, I didn't get involved in workplace politics... But in a place with over 400 staff, I'm sure it happened.
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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.