our work do's are generally out of hours and really expensive (not to mention not local!) - so i don't go. i know a lot of people do go (or they wouldn't keep doing them) but when all the "selling" power is related to drunken exploits, it just puts me off big time (and i have better things i can spend $300 plus on that would be for ALL of us). at my last job, the number of "incidents" that came out of events was just appalling - pregnancies, people forced to resign - not my thing

when we have on-site, work hours things, then i'll go. but night times are my times for my family!