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!
I am in a very small office and generally anything we do is during work hours. My boss will have parties at his place that we are all invited to (including partners/kids), but they have other people there as well.
A couple of times a year there are larger functions which are generally incorporated with a training session or AGM during the day, followed by a work people only dinner. I tend to go to them because they are held in various areas and I am away from home anyway. There was one in our area last month which I didn't attend, although I was suffering from a 2 day headache so felt fairly justified. They are usually fairly tame, lots of older people at my work.
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