Help me out here...

[mevshooter]

I admire guys like you who admittedly don't drink and don't try to preach the consequences to those that do... plus having guys like you around means I give you a $20 and I have a safe ride home! <-yours is O'Douls...

YES!!!! You get it! You understand, that guys like you, need guys like me. We make sure you get home safe, and don't take home any coyote dates, or tranny's.

Unless you're into that kind of thing... then the going rate is $50!

HA!

You can always get yourself a real job where you're not surrounded by a bunch of panty waist office types???

This is a blue collar delivery job. Unfortunately, they're EVERYWHERE!!!!! haha

Hmm, not sure how to react. If you like the people around you why not be friendly. If you don't like them, then 'your busy'. Sounds like we have some curmudgeons on this forum. Or did I miss the point?

I think you might have missed my intended point. It's not about being "friendly," I pride myself in my ability to be friendly to just about anyone. My company depends on my "every man" personality to be able to properly deal with and help solve or ease difficult situations and people. So with that, I can admit that it's probably partially my fault why people may assume I want to hang out with them on the weekends, being so "friendly" to them and what not.

This is more about the expectation that people have towards their coworkers in regards to EXPECTING them to come to the bars after work, or EXPECTING people to come to weekend or off time get togethers.

Honestly, "I'm busy", "I have plans," people are incredibly persistent, and often won't take no for an answer. That opens up the entirely new topic of "boundaries" that a lot of people just don't have, but that's a different topic for a different day.

Unfortunately in the overly sensitive, sugar coated society we live in, if I say "I don't spend personal time with coworkers, i don't mix business and personal life" people become incredibly offended, gossip about me, and now my job becomes more difficult as people either won't help me when I need them, or will intentionally make my life difficult.

If that makes me a curmudgeon, then I guess I'm a big nasty curmudgeon.


Is a curmudgeon what happens when Kermit the Frog... eats a McMuffin... in a Geo?

Because if it is... DAMN.