Day 305 of writing every day.
After a grueling later half of the week, it’s finally Friday night. It hasn’t happened to my company much or before even, I don’t think, but my training assignment has several employees from my company as I mentioned before. Taking the rare opportunity to connect and bond while we’re still on the same assignment, we decided to get dinner this Friday evening.
It wasn’t part of the original plan, but it turns out that our company boss and the boss of the company that was kind enough to take us on as trainees in a real assignment were planning on getting dinner tonight as well with other company heads. I didn’t know until now but the company boss of our assignment and our own company’s boss used to work together back in the day in another industry.
Since he’s going to be in the area anyway, our boss decided to join us for a bit before the meeting of the bosses, and chatted about what’s going on and what the company could do to improve things. It was fun to see how the others interacted with the boss, who has so far been the chillest boss I’ve worked for and isn’t stingy about paying for meals but the fact that our salaries is pretty low means that he kinda needs to show he cares or risk workers becoming discontent and perhaps quitting.
Before he left to meet the other bosses, he left some money that pretty much covered the entire meal and drinks. I continued chatting with coworkers afterwards and we got going after about two hours together. One had to go home to his family but the other two decided to hit the town briefly and we wound up going to The Hub.
It was drunken inspiration and liquid courage that gave a coworker of mine the idea to go and show how he tries to pick up girls off the street. But it seemed chances would be better at a bar or something. We dropped by Blarney’s Stone but it was a live band night and we weren’t looking for something that exciting.
I didn’t end up chatting with strangers but a trio of strange women that were kinda hard on the eyes and not very elegant approached our group. I thought it weird they immediately changed the conversation to basically which one of them our group thinks is the sexist and would want to fuck the most. Any women at the pub that looked decent and seemed relatively normal were all being crowded and lavished with nonstop attention by men trying to get their contact info and maybe see if they can get a one night stand or more.
It’s not my type of scene but I did enjoy the change of pace and experiencing the Hub with a different perspective. I never tried going to a bar to hit on people, so I was inspired by watching my coworkers try and fail and just have fun with it. There’s no need to get depressed by rejection if you’re treating it as a game. I wasn’t interested in competing with other men who seemed to be there only to hit on women rather than just talk with strangers for a chance to converse in a crowded space where it’s also difficult to hear.
Maybe we’ll hangout again in the near future.
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