His Coworkers Kept Trying To Give Him Cocktails At A Work Party Even Though He Told Them He Doesn’t Drink And Ragging On Him For Being A “Spoilsport”
In February, this 36-year-old man started working for a pretty small company that has about 40 employees.
A lot of the employees at the company are really close with one another and express the philosophy of “‘work family,'” which is something he’s not a fan of and does his best to stay away from.
Besides that, he has a blast at work and feels incredibly rewarded each day, which is what’s most important and meaningful for him.
Last Thursday, their company had a holiday party.
“I stopped drinking at the start of this year, just because,” he said.
It had nothing to do with his religion, health, or because of an alcohol addiction.
After doing some reflection, he realized that nothing positive was coming from his alcohol consumption, and he was way past his partying phase.
Plus, he has a 1-year-old child, so he assumes that that contributed on a psychological level to his decision to quit drinking.
During the party, everyone else was drinking and having fun.
Me studio – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual people
“I was mingling and talking to everyone, too, but got asked MULTIPLE times why I wasn’t drinking and got comments like, ‘Oh, c’mon, just one,’ and ‘Don’t be a spoilsport,'” he explained.
Since all of these co-workers were intoxicated, he brushed their remarks aside. Later, his manager walked over to him and gave him a drink that she explained was non-alcoholic.
Because she wasn’t as drunk as everyone else, he took her at her word and drank a couple of sips of the drink.
Almost immediately, he tasted the alcohol that was very obviously in the drink his manager had given him.
“They all laughed and said, ‘Haha, gotcha!’ and ‘See, it didn’t kill ya,’ and stuff like that,” he shared.
Understandably, he was furious, but he kept his composure as he questioned why they tricked him into consuming alcohol, with a serious look on his face in order to make it clear that this wasn’t a joke to him.
In response, his co-workers told him to “‘lighten up'” and “have some fun” and that he was overreacting. One of his co-workers even called him a jerk for expressing that he wasn’t impressed with their inappropriate “prank.”
After the party, he hasn’t discussed the incident at work, but looking back, he wonders if he had a right to be angry in the first place.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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