Just had a company event and out of nowhere they all started talking about ma freeze peach and how China is “literally 1984” and how we can see that our main conflicts nowadays are between “evil autocracy” and “democracy with western values where it could never happen that the press is lying”. I had to bite my tongue so hard the entire time, which I think they noticed. In the end I just said that I don’t want to provoke the inevitable world war 3 even more, which killed the mood hard lol.
It’s so frustrating to be alone in a group of “intellectuals”… Especially if you need to stay civil to not get fired.
Intellectual brilliancy and the corporate world are mutually detrimental. Most people go on corporate outings to warm up to their boss, catch office gossip, or get a free lunch out of it; if profound discussions are what you seek then sit down in a university cafeteria
Can confirm. Only reason I went to the office Christmas parties was for free booze.
Free booze? Office Christmas parties where I’m at are bought and paid for by us lowly workers.
Oh, right. Forgot about that.
Damn I must be at the wrong university lmao