Just don't go. They can't force you if you're not paid.

The best holiday party work could provide is to just let us go at lunch, instead of using the second half of the day as a "party"

You understand this meme completely.

Tell me you don't work close to the company higher-ups without telling me.

I'm paid by the hour.

forced? what? are you getting paid?

Me, thinking about how I'd get mixed up and pull the trigger when I tried snapping the photo.

“We’re hosting an Employee Appreciation Holiday Event in a city 2 hours from your home at 6pm on a Sunday. Don’t forget to share this with your teams. Can’t wait to see you all there!”

Lol, I might consider that lucky.

😒😒😒😒

Yes. I’m all for trying to build camaraderie and good will but forcing people together to “have fun” is counterproductive. If our personalities didn’t align at work what makes you think they will magically do so at a work “party” and we will be besties? My job sometimes forces us to go to multi-day events that force people to work together in team building exercises. Instead of that it actually just widened the gap by showing people exactly who can be trusted to be competent or not.

This makes too much sense. And literally no manager will ever find around to this way of thinking. Maybe when younger millennials take over? I'm furiously googling articles on dealing with appropriateness of these "holiday"events in a multicultural workplace.

Wait until I tell you that we have to pay the cost of participation in holiday company events and if you don’t come you are not a team player

Do you have this template I can’t find it but I love it